Korea University

This course examines issues surrounding the design, application and effective use of information systems in organizations. It covers the role of information systems in organizations, the technical foundations of information systems, communication networks that interconnect information systems components, and basic IT design, management and strategic issues for business.

This course is designed to equip prospective EFL teachers to teach writing successfully in their future classrooms. It reviews research on foreign language and EFL writing pedagogy and suggests new teaching methods based on the latest developments in this field.

This course offers an introduction to the study of Latin American poetry and literary analysis in general. It covers the tools and basic strategies for textual criticism and analyzes the historical, political, and cultural contexts from the body of Latin American literature studied in class.

This course provides a general introduction to the field of comparative politics. The purpose of this course is to increase the level of systematic perspective and understanding of dynamic modern politics through a review of various theories and issues of comparative politics. It focuses on academic study as well as practical application to the real political world. 

This course provides an overview America’s foreign policy including the history of modern American foreign policy, from World War II through the contemporary era, as well as learning about the various actors involved in decision-making. The course also reviews foreign policy challenges facing the US. and discusses current foreign policy issues and challenges US policymakers must address.

This course examines the concept of renewable energy and development of sustainable energy resources. It introduces the principles, features, and applications of various renewable energy resources.
 

The course provides a survey of human factors and ergonomics with particular reference to human functions in human-machine systems. The course considers basic human capabilities and the ways that these capabilities are taken into account in the design of human-machine systems and work environments.

This course examines major events in the long-twentieth century of the Western civilization with six themes: War and Revolution, interwar years, the postwar order, Bretton Woods, challenges against the state from left- and right-wing intellectuals, and globalization and de-globalization. Challenging the dichotomy of ‘West’ and ‘East’, it pays attention to the way in which different civilizations interconnected themselves. 

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.