Korea University

This course introduces the comparative study of civil wars and post-civil war politics. Of various forms of political conflict, it focuses on civil wars (or intra-state conflicts) as they account for over 95 percent of armed conflicts around the world since the end of the Cold War. Drawing on cutting-edge research, it covers six major topics in the field, such as the causes of civil war onset, United Nations peacebuilding operations, and institutional approaches to peacebuilding in civil war-torn countries. The course helps students develop solid understanding and critical thinking about how deadly conflict can be prevented and, if it occurs, what could be the effective ways of managing the violence and building a sustainable peace in the aftermath of conflict. 

This course cultivates a deep understanding of data augmentation techniques and robust machine learning principles and the ability to apply them to real-world problems.  

Students will implement various data augmentation techniques using programming languages and machine learning libraries and develop problem-solving skills to diagnose and address the performance degradation caused by noisy labels and imbalanced data. Additionally, students will master the use of cross-validation and performance metrics to effectively evaluate models, and learn methods to interpret and explain model predictions, ensuring the development of transparent and trustworthy machine learning applications. The course also emphasizes the ethical aspects of data augmentation and robust machine learning, fostering the ability to implement ethical practices that ensure responsible use of technology. Students will nurture a research-oriented mindset and enhance their collaboration skills through team projects and group discussions, promoting the exchange of ideas. 

This course examines the issue of human rights in relation the idea that multicultural coexistence is accepted as a political and social fact, and, through this process of examination, aims to design institutional conditions that can respect special cultural experiences on the one hand and secure universal humanity on the other. 

Course topics explore diverging opinions on human rights in theory and practice: universality and relativity of human rights; development of human rights toward social and cultural rights; freedom of expression and antidiscrimination law; abortion, euthanasia, and human rights of women; immigration, refugee and border control; humanitarian intervention and sovereignty. 

This course investigates how the cinematic medium represents, inspires, and shapes our understanding of the human condition. As breakthroughs in digital media and computer science reconfigure our physical and mental parameters, the question of what it means and what is involved to be human presses with increasing urgency. 

Students will watch, read about, and discuss select films across sub-topics that address a spectrum of human forms and conditions including robots, artificial intelligence, cyborgs, clones, etc., paired with critical texts that either offer theoretical conceptualizations of the human or explore the medium-specific qualities of cinema.  

Students will collaborate and present on at least one choice topic and conduct in-class research/discussion, building toward a final paper or creative project on a subject of their choice. 

This course is an introduction to international negotiation. Topics include the basics of negotiation, diplomatic and business negotiation, communication skills, understanding and navigating cultural differences in international negotiation settings, strategic approaches to negotiation, and the role of English as a lingua franca. 

The course also examines and analyzes diplomatic negotiation in relation to the current era of globalization and the importance of bilateral and multilateral international negotiations between companies or governments. 

This course provides a broad introduction to the history of Western classical music by representative composers, examining the styles and structures of this music and its relationships within historical contexts.  

Students will learn about the lives of and listen to major works by composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Debussy and others to be announced.  

This course is an introduction to the field of health economics, a rapidly growing field of applied economics. Economic concepts such as scarcity, incentives, marginal analysis, profit maximization, and cost-minimization will be used throughout this course. Students will analyze this important sector using economic analysis methods.  

Topics include the production of health capital; demand-and-supply analysis of health and medical care; the production of health; asymmetric information in insurance markets; the role of government in the provision of health care; economics of mental health and happiness; and health policy debates in developing countries. 

This course covers algorithm expression methods, functions and processing processes, analysis of difficulty, techniques for designing efficient algorithms, applications, and categorizes and utilizes previously developed algorithms by topic. 

This introductory course covers basic concepts and history of the press and mass media, the functions of mass media in modern society, and introduces basic research methods to equip students with skills to critically appraise media issues. Throughout this course, heavy emphasis will be placed on critical thinking and how to effectively interpret how media functions and its effects on society. 

This course introduces the principles and practices of public relations, focusing on strategic, digital, and socially responsible communication. 

Topics include the history of public relations; public relations communication practices in various organizations such as corporations, governments, public institutions, local governments, and educational institutions; ethics and public relations; research and theory in public relations; social media and emerging technologies; and career opportunities in the field.