Korea University

This course will cover electrochemical/material engineering and recent energy applications such as batteries, fuel cells, electrodepositions, and corrosions. The course builds on electrochemistry and its application to energy devices. Emphasis is placed on the fundamental concepts related to electrochemistry, understanding electrochemical cells, corrosion and prevention, and various energy storage/conversion devices.

This course provides an introduction to cross-cultural psychology and the main challenges and advantages of the scientific study of culture. Topics include methods in cultural psychology; cultural conception of self and agency; motivation; emotion; and cognition and perception.

This course introduces the subject of calculus, including the study of limits and derivatives, and their applications, which is essential and crucial for advanced statistic courses, such as probability theory, mathematical statistics. Specific topics include the limits of functions, derivatives of algebraic, trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions and their inverses and the definite integral and its application to area problems. Also, included are applications of the derivative including maximum and minimum problems, and curve sketching using calculus, techniques of integration, indeterminate forms and infinite series.

This course explores the ways in which the usage and perception of Korean varies both within and across individuals including factors such as regional origin; age; gender; race, and native status.

This course familiarizes students with an intellectual history of feminist approaches to media studies, while dealing with a range of theories and methods for the study of popular/media culture. Discussions revolve around gendered representation; audience analysis; post-feminism; media production and gender, and the implications of globalization and technological development for the construction of gender(s). The course also traces the key changes in feminist theory, which are closely associated with the major changes in broader philosophical and sociological thinking. 

This course covers the basic principles of biochemistry. Topics include amino acids, primary structures of proteins, properties of enzymes, carbohydrates, and lipids and membranes. 

This course is designed for those who have basic knowledge of Korean. The objective of this course is to give students knowledge of Korean language and to help students acquire communicative competence in Korean. 

This course focuses on the theory and application of Human Behavior in Organization (HBO). 

This course examines international affairs in Northeast Asia through a range of theoretical perspectives in international relations. The course is divided into three parts. The first part discusses how major international relations theories can help us better understand international politics of Northeast Asia and how the regional order has been shaped since the World War II and throughout the Cold War. It then moves on to assessing contemporary foreign policy of individual countries, including China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Taiwan. Finally, it explores key regional issues, such as territorial disputes, alliance management, and nuclear proliferation.

Using literature from sociology, urban planning, and geography, this course explores how cities have been employed to foster economic development and how they have reshaped social relations. Though the role of cities in development are explored primarily through an examination of Korea’s development history, examples are also drawn from throughout Asia and in some cases from the West.