Korea University

Economics is divided into two major subfields, microeconomics and macroeconomics. This course provides an introduction to microeconomics, which attempts to understand the behavior of individual entities such as markets, firms, and households. Consistent with the idea of a “principles” class, the course focuses on a core set of fundamental concepts to understand various microeconomic issues such as scarcity; tradeoffs; opportunity cost; incentive; marginal thinking; exchange; efficiency; information, and so on.

This course is designed to help students understand the psychology of persuasion and consumer behavior as they relate to marketing communications. It provides an overview of the key psychological concepts and theories and how those apply to consumer behavior and advertising persuasion. 

This course is designed for students with no or very limited knowledge of Korean. It helps students acquire a basic level of communicative competence in Korean. By the end of this course, students will be able to write and read the Korean alphabet; understand basic grammatical elements, such as particles, endings, and present/past/future tense; greet each other and introduce themselves; carry out conversations about topics relating to everyday life; and understand simple texts and write about familiar things and experiences.

This course studies English morphology, focusing on basic concepts, internal structure of English words, and the nature of word-formation processes. It also examines strategies for and issues surrounding teaching vocabulary. Topics include vocabulary and speaking, vocabulary frequency and size, incidental vocabulary learning, and various learner strategies. The course also helps students develop some creative ideas on how to teach vocabulary based on cooperative learning-based teaching methods. 

This course provides an overview of selected topics within general areas of human resource (HR) management, thereby helping students to be successful leaders in organizations. The course revolves around how to apply theories, policies, and practices to the real-world challenges of managing people in different work settings and occupations. At the end of the semester, students are expected to recall key HR concepts; apply HR-related knowledge to resolve management-related problems, and know precisely where the responsibilities of the HR department and line managers overlap and where they diverge.

This course instructs students on the history and understanding of choral music and vocalization through appreciation of choral music masterpieces. 

This course provides an integrated approach to modern genetics, which includes molecular genetics; genomics; information science; molecular evolution, and classical genetics. This course covers current genetics and a new viewpoints on the molecular basis of life.

This course provides an introduction to the methods of inquiry that are appropriate to the study of politics. While the material introduces fundamental topics in research design and choice of methods that are relevant to both quantitative and qualitative research, this course emphasizes quantitative methods and provides an introduction to basic data analysis. 

This course examines some of the influential schools of thought which arose from pre-Han (before 206BC) China. Topics include pre-Confucian legal and political institutions of China; Confucian vision of law, ethics and human conduct; continuations and variations of the Confucian system; legalist ideas of law, human nature and statecraft; Daoist outlook on human-beings, nature, and Universe; ideas of Yin and Yang; creation of state orthodoxy in Han empire; and the limits of law, language and human understanding.

This course provides an introduction to basic concepts of artificial intelligence. The course addresses heuristic search algorithm and knowledge reasoning of symbolic AI (Artificial Intelligence), a traditional AI approach. In addition, the course addresses theories about computational AI, such as genetic algorithms, and neural network learning, and how they can be applied in each field. The course also studies the application fields of artificial intelligence technologies.