Korea University

This course explores the multidimensional definitions and meanings of globalization by examining various interconnections, from traditional cultures to modern ones, cultural diversity to homogenization of culture, from migration and immigration to ethnic diversity, and from population growths to urbanization and climate change. 

Students will examine how globalization impacts the culture, family, aging, international migration, popular culture, population, urbanization, environment, and economic development in societies all around the world, paying special attention to how these issues affect Korean culture and society, and will explore possible solutions to these issues. 

This course covers the functions and structures of the various elements that make up a machine, how to select components appropriately, and how components can affect and influence the machine design process. This course includes theoretical lectures on basic design theory, design cases, and various machine elements, as well as design and design practice of KIT for entering design competitions. 

This course examines the international and national platforms and contexts of South Korea’s cultural diplomacy as well as some of the unique characteristics of South Korea’s heritage industry. The course covers theories and cases of cooperation between countries through culture and connects various genres of Korea's traditional and modern culture with diplomatic activities at the bilateral and multilateral levels.  

Topics include the formation of the United Nations, the formation of UNESCO, the British Museum and museums around the world, South Korea’s world heritage, South Korea in relation to media and politics, global promotion of Hangul, and Korean studies abroad.  

This course explores the role of the citizen in contemporary democratic politics. As R. J. Dalton confesses, “If democracy was in crisis, it was one of institutions, not of the democratic spirit among citizens.” According to Dalton, understanding the values and choices of the citizens can tell us the quality of democracy. 

This course, based on two textbooks, R.J. Dalton’s Citizen Politics and R. Inglehart’s Cultural Evolution, explores values, behaviors, and political participation of the citizen in current democracy.  The first part of the course (Citizen Politics) aims to gain a deeper understanding of the nature of citizen politics through a systematic approach and the process it transfers into diverse political participation.  The second part (Cultural Evolution) discusses the changing values of the citizen such as feminization, happiness, new forms of political activism, and the effect of artificial intelligence on society. Changing values creates a new sphere of politics. 

In addition to these two textbooks, students need to read D. Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow for a team project answering the question, “How can we explain political participation of the citizen in a democracy?” 

For biomedical engineers, the basic concept of organic chemistry including bonding/isomerism, alkane/cycloalkane, and various chemical reactions will be discussed in this class 

The course covers the following topics: 

• Organic Chemistry and Cover Story 

• Bonding and Isomerism 

• Alkane and Cycloalkane 

• Alkenes and Alkynes  

• Aromatic Compounds  

• Stereoisomerism 

• Organic Halogen Compounds 

• Alcohols, Phenols, and Thiols  

• Ethers and Epoxides 

• Aldehydes and Ketones I 

• Carboxylic Acid and Their Derivatives 

This course is designed for those who are studying healthy aging and/or geriatric rehabilitation. It includes an overview of the physical and psycho-behavioral aspects of aging in adulthood. This course focuses on normal and pathological changes with aging and provides an overview of geriatric care (treatment issues relevant to the types of older clients), delivering a framework for understanding individuals who have movement dysfunction secondary to age-related disease. Current motor control and motor learning theories are applied to intervention strategies for the geriatric population and students are strongly encouraged to develop themselves to serve the needs of the elderly population.

This course explores the spatial manifestation of urban dynamics. Over half of the entire world population now live in cities and this proportion is estimated to rise further. This means urban space, as an intensified, technologically augmented, and rapidly changing space, is the basic setting of living for most human beings. Also, this “built-environment” not only has become our direct, first-hand environment in our everyday experiences but also has significant natural-environmental implications.

This course examines the nature of “urbanity” as it is spatially played out, and its economic, political, environmental, and human rights implications, specifically keeping in mind the possibility of more democratic control of urban space.

The subject of this class is the modern period of urban space, especially in relation to the changes in the human-material relationship since the 19th century. It is mainly related to technological changes in the 20th century, but it also deals with the spatial implications of recent innovations such as artificial intelligence and smart devices.

Operations management can be defined as the design, operation, and improvement of the systems that create and deliver the firm's primary products and services. This class provides an understanding of the operations management function and its relationship to other functional areas within the firm (both services and manufacturing). It develops frameworks to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of a firm's operations and to develop viable alternatives in pursuing its goals and objectives. 

The course also examines the tradeoffs that managers face in emphasizing one goal (such as high-capacity utilization) as compared to another goal (such as customer service); it compares the strengths and weaknesses of different strategies and techniques, as determined by industry and global operating environments.  

Operations management provides the tools, techniques, and strategies for making organizations work more effectively and efficiently; hence, making one a better manager, within any field of business. 

This course introduces the representative studies and core theories in the fields of behavioral economics and decision psychology. The lectures include topics such as prospect theory, heuristics and biases, self-control, and social decision making. This course teaches one how to analyze and solve various problems of choice in daily life, based on the psychological and economic theories of decision making.

Designed for advanced level undergraduate Psychology students, participants must have taken the introductory psychology courses (both I and II) or similar courses; students who do not meet this prerequisite must seek permission from the instructor on the first day of the course. To succeed in this course, it is highly recommended that participants are familiar with basic terms in elementary statistics.

This course covers fundamental principles of biological systems at the molecular level, exploring key biomolecules and their functions. It also delves into the history of molecular biology, highlighting pioneers and landmark discoveries. This course also aims to offer insights into molecular systems, including DNA, RNA, and proteins, and to explore recent trends and experimental techniques in the field.