Korea University

This course introduces the major authors and characteristics of British poetry in the Romantic (ca. 1785-1830) and Victorian (ca. 1830-1900) periods. By analyzing the assigned texts carefully and critically, the course recognizes how the poets experimented with traditional poetic forms and genres to suit their artistic and imaginative vision, and how they critically reflected the political and social realities of their time. The course aids in understanding the artistic and cultural perspectives presented in the poems of each period. Students are encouraged to offer their own interpretations of the works in both oral and written form.

Geophysics is one of main subjects in earth science using more contaminative and numerical approaches to estimate physical properties of the Earth. This course is designated to understand fundamental concepts in various subdisciplines of geophysics, including gravity, seismology, geomagnetism, geochronology, and geodynamics. With explanations for each field, relationships between the different geophysical approaches will be explored from examples of theoretical and real applications.

This course has no specific prerequisites, but a range of background knowledge and skills in calculus is expected.

This course is designed to lead students to understand Science and Technology Policy from the public value perspective. This course targets public administration students to explore concepts, theories and practices of science and technology policy into public administration and policy areas. The course provides an integrated and stimulating combination of reading, case analysis, discussion, and projects to introduce the production and communication of science and technology policy.

This course serves as an undergraduate-level seminar on international marketing (IM) for Korean firms.  The primary objective of the course is to provide a framework for managing marketing operations across borders.  Emphases is given to the analysis of international markets, their respective consumers and environments, and various marketing management issues required to meet the demands of true global markets. 

This course focuses on: (1) international marketing challenges from the perspective of Korean firms; (2) developing marketing strategy based on analysis of customers and markets in foreign countries, and (3) various marketing examples in the context of Asian markets as well as emerging markets, such as India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand.

This course is designed to help foster an understanding of the psychology of new media. New media are forms of media that are native to computers; they are computational and rely on computers (including smart devices) for distribution, such as social media, websites, mobile apps, virtual worlds, mobile games, human-computer interface, etc. This course seeks to illustrate the relevance of psychology theory and research in understanding cognitive, emotional, and social processes that people have in new media (e.g., motivation, self-presentation in SNSs, social interactions in virtual worlds). 

Students should have basic knowledge of key theories, concepts, and research methods to succeed in this course. By the end of the semester, students will demonstrate an understanding of the psychological mechanism underlying the processes of new media consumption and how new media impacts us.

This course teaches game rules and playing methods required in a game of golf, including swing characteristics, effective golf swings and techniques, and various types of training methods.  Participants will train with address, backswing, backswing top, downswing, impact, follow-through, finishing movements, and swing practice for each club (driver, iron, putter). 

This course establishes the foundation of a wide range of statistical learning methods. It aims to understand and utilize the fundamentals of various statistical learning models. 

The course covers:

• statistical learning;
• classical linear methods for regression and classification; 
• cross-validation;
• bootstrap; 
• modern linear methods;
• nonlinear methods; 
• tree-based methods;
• support vector machines;
• unsupervised learning;
• neural networks, and
• deep learning. 

These topics are the basics of statistical learning, but the core of machine learning. By the end of this course, students will have easier access to and understanding of deep learning and artificial intelligence.

The course requires the following prerequisites: 

• Python Basic – this course assumes a basic knowledge of Python
• STAT 241: Matrix Theory or Linear Algebra - provides a computational foundation for understanding statistical models.
• STAT 232: Mathematical Statistics- knowledge of probability theory and asymptotic evaluations. 

Ancient Greek is the original language of ancient Greek historians, writers, and philosophers such as Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, and Aristotle, as well as the language of the New Testament. This course studies the basics of ancient Greek.

To understand Greek thought and Christianity, the two roots of Western culture, it is essential to read the ancient Greek classics and the New Testament.  Understanding a language cannot be separated from understanding the social context in which it is used.  This course then studies ancient Greek while studying the basic framework of ancient Greek politics, economics, and philosophical thought. 

As many vocabulary words in modern Western languages ​​are derived from Greek, understanding Greek language equates to understanding modern Western languages, including English.

An introductory course providing students with a broad overview of political science as a social science discipline, this course seeks to cover the basic principles of political theory, comparative politics, and international relations over the course of the semester. The course covers a wide range of topics, from political theory, ideologies, nations and states, the government, interest groups and society, elections, political psychology, political violence, international relations, and global politics. The goal of the course is to introduce key concepts and ideas in political science, and to encourage students to explore these concepts further through other courses or by themselves.

Utilizing a multi-disciplinary approach based on infrastructural history, this course introduces students to modern and contemporary East Asia. While investigating the formations and transformations of empires and nations as sites of contests and tensions between different ethnicities, polities, and cultures, it also explores major cities in China, Japan, and Korea as the infrastructure of modernity rooted in the mobility of ideas, goods, capitals, and peoples. In doing so, it aims to gain an understanding of the dynamics of changes and continuities that shaped and are shaping the East Asian empires, nation-states, and societies. The major foci of attention are the intra-relations among the three East Asian nations, and the inter-relations between East Asian civilizations and Western civilizations from the late 19th century to now.