Korea University

This course cultivates the ability to automate, enhance, and put into practice the startup process using generative AI and Agentic AI.  Even for students who have not decided on entrepreneurship as their career path, this course allows students to explore entrepreneurship as a career option through theory and case studies.  

As a startup accelerator, the course shares know-how and various techniques on how to nurture and invest in startups in actual practice, and provides practical solutions on how to reduce risks at all stages of entrepreneurship and execute more easily and quickly using more than 10 specialized AI solutions to overcome the vagueness and constraints of entrepreneurship itself. This course is designed for students who want to explore careers in the startup ecosystem, such as direct entrepreneurship, startup incubation, or venture capital, or who want to learn how small companies are created, survive, and grow, regardless of their future career path, and apply this knowledge to various fields. 

Nutritional Pathology and Metabolism introduces nutrition-related diseases in terms of pathophysiology and treatment, emphasizing macronutrients (carbohydrate, fat, and protein). It provides a basic understanding of the principles of the metabolic pathway in human bodies as a core pathogenesis of human diseases. Students develop a nutrition care plan as a component of health care for individuals.   

Suggested prerequisites: Human Physiology, Basic Nutrition, Nutritional Biochemistry 

This course introduces the field of international development cooperation, with a focus on understanding its historical evolution, key actors, and policy frameworks. Students explore how global development agendas have changed over time and examine the roles played by bilateral donors, multilateral organizations, and civil society in shaping development practices. Special attention will be given to the case of South Korea, which has undergone a unique transition from aid recipient to donor. Through this lens, the course will analyze Korea’s development cooperation policies, its institutional actors such as KOICA and EDCF, and the country’s strategic priorities in the global development arena. 

This course covers systematizing organic reactions, examining the relationship between reaction mechanisms, molecular structure, reactivity, and chemical properties.  

Topics include Structure, reactivity, and mechanism, Energetics, Kinetics and investigation of mechanism, Strengths of acids and bases, Nucleophilic Substitution at a saturated carbon atom, Carbocations, electron-deficient N and O atoms and their reactions, Electrophilic and nucleophilic substitution in aromatic systems, Electrophilic and nucleophilic addition to C=C, Nucleophilic addition to C=O,  Elimination reactions, Carbanions and their reactions, Symmetry controlled reactions. 

This course introduces the basic concepts of statistics to systematically analyze the essential characteristics and interrelationships of economic data. 

The main goal of this course is to understand statistical analysis of data and to apply to various issues using Excel. The topics include the basic concept of probability and statistics with the application of practical cases 

Several Excel homework assignments will be assigned during the semester that will involve qualitative discussions and working through quantitative analyses and computations.  Please be aware that to complete the homework, you will need to learn some Excel functions by yourself. 

This course covers Seismology, one of the main geophysical methods for studying the Earth.  The course introduces fundamental concepts and basic theory of seismic waves, and then applies them to earthquakes, Earth structure, and plate tectonics. Practical exercises are provided in class labs and take-home assignments. Students build both physical intuition and basic skills for reading and using seismological data. 

There are no formal prerequisites. However, students should be comfortable with basic calculus and introductory physics (e.g., derivatives and simple differential equations). 

This course covers historical and thematic aspects of the ‘media technologies and culture’, by raising some significant questions along with three modules: (1) media ontology; (2) media epistemology; and (3) media axiology.  

Module 1 : Media ontology (Lecture 1-3) The first three lectures on the existential forms of the media technologies in history will cover : the days of printing technology and mass media inaugurated by Johannes Gutenberg since the 15th century ; those of the second media age suggested by Mark Poster in the late 20th century ; the recent interpretations of World Wide Web and A4AI(Alliance for Affordable Internet) initiated by Tim Berners-Lee.  

Module 2 : Media epistemology (Lecture 4-6) The following lectures are about how the media technologies could be comprehended and interpreted in conjunction with the societal and cultural transformations : how the new media technologies enact the human digital networks ; enable the digital technology-based knowledge system to solidate the social rules and cultural norms ; and empower the diverse, digitally-networked institutions and groups of the society.  

Module 3: Media axiology (Lecture 7-12) The focus of the next six lectures is upon what should and could be done with the present and future media technologies for sustainable human society and culture.  Discussions on the traditions of dominant political philosophies in the age of media and social communication technologies, which are  liberalism and communitarianism, are followed by specific case studies on the  location of human agency besieged by social and institutional structure, geopolitics of transnational media and communication industries, intersectional convergence of news and data industries, and by the society’s post-truth and post-human transformations. 

This course covers research methods that evaluate the effectiveness of not only traditional persuasion strategies but also new forms of strategic communication using entertainment such as narratives and games. Through subsequent projects, students develop research planning and execution skills that can be applied to commercial campaigns or public campaign realities. 

Topics include Strategic communication in contemporary organizations, Concepts of strategy, Planning, Research and measurement, Stakeholder management and engagement, Media, Branding, Identity, Crises communications, Ethics and CSR. 

This course explores the historical development of Korean popular music and Hallyu culture, from the early formation of modern Korean popular music to the global rise of K-pop. It examines how Korean popular music, television dramas, and films have evolved in relation to social, cultural, and media changes in Korea, and how these cultural forms collectively contributed to the emergence of the Korean Wave Hallyu. Through case studies of major artists, cultural texts, and media platforms, students analyze the characteristics of K-pop as well as key Hallyu content such as K-dramas and Korean films, focusing on their production systems and global circulation.  The course provides international students with a comprehensive understanding of Korean popular culture as both a cultural expression and a global phenomenon. 

Evaluation: Attendance 20%, Assignments 15%, Midterms 30%, Final Exam 35%. 

This course introduces basic metabolic knowledge at the cellular level to understand the organic metabolic physiology of the human body and focuses on changes in metabolic pathways in various physiological situations. In addition, the course introduces the latest research trends and related analysis techniques for various pathological metabolic pathway imbalances that are pointed out as the core pathogenesis of modern chronic diseases. 

Topics include Introduction to metabolism, Glycolysis, Mitochondria, NADPH-The forgotten reducing equivalent, Carbohydrates, Lipids, Amino acids, Nucleotides, Signaling and metabolism, Metabolism of proliferating cells, Future pathways of metabolism research, Analyzing metabolism in biological systems.