Korea University

This course suggests three objectives for understanding pandemics from a sociological standpoint. First, it explains the pandemic's history as well as the sociological theory surrounding it. Second, it looks at health disparities, class inequality, platform labor, information-seeking behavior, fake news, education, caring, gender, hate, stigma, and social capital in relation to the pandemic. Third, it investigates the policy implications of these fields as well as the meaning of sociology in the post-pandemic era.

This course exposes students to the theoretical frameworks from sociology that are used to examine how the law shapes society and how society shapes the law. The course also applies these theoretical perspectives to current legal issues and policies and emphasizes the social, political, cultural, and historical aspects of the law rather than through legal doctrines, statues or judicial opinions (though these aspects are discussed). 

This course covers three eighteenth-century texts that respectively occupy a significant place in the history of the English novel. The course begins by examining Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders (1722), in which the eponymous heroine purports to give a “true” account of her extraordinary life as an orphan, servant, wife, thief, felon, and penitent. It then moves on to Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling (1771), which recounts the sentimental hero Harley’s encounters with the less fortunate in a harsh and uncaring world. The course concludes with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764), a sensational text that is generally regarded as the first Gothic novel. In addition to studying the rise of the English novel and its various subgenres, the course examines the literary works within their cultural and socio-political contexts and thereby considers some of the important issues that dominated eighteenth-century English culture: self and identity, class, gender, eighteenth-century London, sentimentalism, morality, tradition, reason, the function of literature, and so on.

This course covers theory and application of basic crystallography, structure of materials, and X-ray diffraction. 

This course provides a study of research methods in communication and media studies.It surveys various methods from content analysis to social network analysis. 

This course provides an introduction to financial accounting. It develops the technical skills to record basic business transactions through accounting systems. Specific attention is given to the way in which the accounting information can be used to undertake financial management and analysis.

This course explores human-environment relations, especially how those relations are mediated through various social institutions, economic conditions, and political power. It also covers theoretical-conceptual tools in sociology (and other social sciences) such as externalization, environmental justice, mechanisms of valuation/devaluation, classification/categorization, social facts, normal risk, etc. and how to apply those conceptual tools for a sociological understanding of various environmental issues such as concentration of hazard/risk, increase in disposability, mass waste crisis, climate change and other global-scale environmental problems, trade-offs between growth and environment, international waste trade, risks from new materials, etc.

This course addresses the principle, understanding, and application of cancer treatment and prevention. 

The course covers the nature, scope, and role of the marketing in business practice. It includes a study of marketing concepts, as well as developing and implementing effective marketing plans.

This course instructs on intermediate-level Korean language vocabulary, grammar and expressions in all skill areas including reading, writing, listening, and speaking.