Korea University

This course provides an overview of the field of clinical psychology. It focuses on the profession, science, and practice of clinical psychology through lectures, readings, and video clips. Lectures highlight major aspects of clinical psychology, including historical background and current controversies; professional activities of clinical psychologists, such as assessment, diagnosis, and intervention of mental illnesses, and  methods of clinical science.

Films evoke a variety of feelings and thoughts with the stories they tell and the way in which they tell those stories. How a film looks and shapes our aesthetic experience. This course provides a basic understanding of the form and content of a film and introduces its formal elements such as narrative, design, composition, camera movement and angle, editing, and the like.  It also shows us how to critically engage with these formal elements that construct our cinematic experiences. 

By looking at films more systematically and approaching them more analytically, one can arrive at a better understanding of film as an art form as well as a social, cultural, and political practice that informs, challenges, and interrogates our understanding of self, society, and the world. 

This class covers the physical mechanics and strategies for a successful game of bowling.

The objectives of this course are to: 

• Understand perfect gas law, kinetic theory and the first law of thermodynamics.

• Understand the 2nd and 3rd law of thermodynamics and phase transition.

• Understand simple mixtures and chemical reactions based on thermodynamics. 

This course studies the scientific aspects of Western (or European) music particularly focusing on its mathematical and physical aspects. The first half of the course reviews the history of European musical scales since Pythagoras, and thereby discusses how mathematics played important roles in their development. The course also covers the concept of harmony as it evolved through the intimate relations between science and music until the Renaissance. 

The second half of the course studies the physics of vibrational motions and sound waves using high-school level mathematics. Based on these, the course exposes how various musical instruments produce their characteristic sounds.  The course also provides opportunities to learn how scientific and technological advances have influenced European classical music.

This course is for beginners in music and focuses on the contents of musical notation such as notes, rests, time signatures, staff, key signatures, and temporary charts. It covers basic theory such as intervals and scales, fast words, musical symbols, notations, and classification of musical instruments. 

The course is taught in Korean; therefore, it is recommended that enrollees have the requisite Korean language proficiency (upper intermediate or higher). Exchange students majoring in music are not allowed to take the course. 

Due to the constantly increasing computational power and the rise of density functional theory (DFT) and artificial intelligence (AI), computational approaches to chemistry are booming. We are now able to simulate almost every chemical process at multiple times and size scales and discuss macroscopic thermodynamic and kinetic trends from a quantum chemical perspective. This course enters this exciting field by first introducing computational chemistry, then learning about DFT and how to use it to calculate reaction energies, MO diagrams, kinetic barriers, etc., run molecular dynamics simulations, and basic machine learning. 

Recommended Prerequisite: The lecture requires basic physical chemistry and mathematics lecture background. Quantum chemistry background will make things easier to understand, but it is not a prerequisite. The course teaches programming and revisits quantum chemistry. 

This course explores the relationship between technology and human labor, with a special interest in its socio-political implications. Technological change is one of the fundamental drives that has shaped the modern economy. From factories, railroads, telegraphs, electricity, and petrochemical Industrial Revolution to the contemporary bio-digital revolution, technological changes have had profound impact on how human labor is organized, mobilized, utilized, and exploited. Technological changes have affected humans-tools relationship; created new breeds of workers (e.g. “proletariat class,” “white-collars,” “knowledge-workers,” “clinical laborers or bio-surrogates,” “platform workers,” and many kinds of invisible workers (such as undocumented immigrants) and changed work-place environments. 

Though technological changes are often recognized as (and indeed they are) “progress,” they also interact with and exacerbate the existing social inequalities and injustices and undermine the hard-won labor rights. The course focuses on market labor but will also include relevant discussions on non-market labor (such as households). The course also discusses broader structural changes such as economic globalization and its work implications. 

This course focuses on the basic concepts and theorems of Ring Theory and Field Theory, which are about generalized and abstracted properties of the set of integers and the set of rational numbers with respect to the four elementary arithmetic operations. Recommended Prerequisite: MATH321.

The course covers the following topics:

• Homomorphisms and Factor Rings
• Prime and Maximal Ideals
• Introduction to Extension Fields, Vector Spaces
• Algebraic Extensions
• Geometric Constructions
• Finite Fields
• Unique Factorization Domains
• Euclidean Domains
• Isomorphism Theorems, Series of Groups
• Sylow Theorems and it applications
• Automorphism of Fields
• The Isomorphism Extension Theorem
• Splitting Fields, Separable Extensions
• Galois Theory
• Cyclotomic Extensions
• Insolvability of the Quintic 

The world has evolved into a “new normal” after COVID-19. In this rapidly changing environment, how do multinationals deal with the changes and how are they being sustainable? 

This course provides a tool to evaluate the core values of international business activities based on the various dimensions of factors, thereby fostering individual perspectives to analyze the implications of corporate internationalization activities in this changing environment. Further, the course explores the significance of sustainable management and discusses how firms should pursue sustainability in line with environmental changes. 

The first half of the course discusses theory and concepts related to international business, providing analytical background to enhance the understanding of the global business environment. The topics cover the external environment, including national differences, the global financial market, and governmental policy. This approach enables one to understand why multinational firms operate “differently” in the globally integrated world economy. 

The second half of the course studies the strategies of multinationals. Building upon the conceptual knowledge of the external environment, the course specifically focuses on how global firms plan and implement their firm-level and function-level international business strategy.