Korea University

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.

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.