Korea University

This course cultivates beginner-level Chinese communication skills for those who are new to the language. Through the study and mastery of basic Chinese vocabulary, sentence patterns, and grammar, students develop basic conversation, pronunciation, listening, writing, and reading comprehension skills.

This course provides an introduction to scientific research based on statistical methods. It covers basic techniques of probability and statistics for scientific research. The course requires knowledge of calculus (intermediate-level mathematics).

This course examines psychopathology theories, research, and clinical implications of abnormal psychology. It also explores the multicultural, sociocultural, and diversity aspects of abnormal psychology. Topics include major ethical issues, impact of mental health stigma, and using the Multipath Model of Mental Disorders to explain how four essential factors-biological, psychological, social, and sociocultural-interact to cause mental disorders.
 

This course covers the fundamentals of finite element analysis of solids, structures, and dynamics. This includes the theoretical foundations, physical insights of them, and appropriate use of finite element methods. The course also covers how to write a simple MATLAB code for basic finite element analysis.

This course looks at emotion and life from a psychological perspective. 

This course is designed to improve critical thinking skills in English that will further enhance problem solving and overall communication ability. It covers argument structures, analysis, definitions and fallacies and provides application of these components in oral forms of debate and negotiation along with writing.

This course explores genre fiction, often defined as formulaic popular fiction such as mystery, detective stories, horror, romance, Western, science fiction, fantasy, and historical fiction. It examines the thematic and stylistic conventions of gothic fiction and those of detective fiction. The course looks at how genres are divided into subgenres and how they are combined into cross genres as well as the establishment of new genres. The primary goal of this course is to learn about gothic fiction—its history, its generic characteristics, and its significance in English literature—while also improving close reading skills and independent interpretation of literary texts seen in their socio-historical context. 

This course covers basic finance concepts and their applications including time value of money, risk and return tradeoff, security valuation, and capital budgeting. Other topics include how to manage risks associated with the projects, how capital markets function, how companies and capital markets interact with each other, and social responsibilities of corporations. 

This course provides an introduction to group counseling as well the basic concepts of clinical and ethical issues in group counseling. Students are required to participate in a group presentation outlining a group counseling proposal.

This course demonstrates how religious culture is related to contemporary Korean society, focusing on their doctrines, social attitudes, growth, and decline. In addition, the course addresses different sociological perspectives on Korean religious culture and applies them to Korean religious market theoretically and empirically.