Korea, South

This course examines advanced topics in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, as well as some recent issues in the fields of culture, arts, and engineering. 

This course deals with premodern, modern, and contemporary Korean history from a global and historical perspective. 

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 aims to allow exchange/foreign students studying at Yonsei University to learn about Korean food and culture by exploring, experiencing, and enjoying them either firsthand or indirectly through related lectures, discussions, and research in addition to personal food experiences when it comes to Korean cuisine. It takes enrolled students on an enjoyable but also serious journey encompassing the history of Korea from the past to the present related to its food and culture and cover a wide variety of contents to offer a comprehensive understanding of K-food and K-culture. Students are encouraged to conduct original individual research and actively participate in class discussions to share their knowledge and experience with their peers.

Understand & practice soccer skills. Learn How to teach soccer to your student. Topics include ball mastery, dribbling, passing & control, passing & combination play, individual defense, zone defense, dribbling & cross & shooting, and game formation.

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 examines how emotions interact with our thoughts, temperament, and contexts; the mechanisms involved in emotion-related psychopathology; and the ways to promote emotional well-being. The course draws on key advances from an integrative psychological and neurobiological perspective.

Topics include Hamilton`s variational principle, Lagrange equations of motion, principle of least action, generalized coordinates, equivalence of Lagrange`s and Newton`s equations, simple harmonic oscillator, Hamilton`s equations, Hamilton-Jacobi theory, particles and waves, atoms, quantization of light, quantization of atomic energy levels, Bohr model, matter waves, thermal physics, entropy, blackbody radiation, quantization of energy, uncertainty principle and wave packet, Schrodinger equation in one dimension, barriers and wells, tunneling through the potential barrier, electron microscopy (TEM, SEM), Scanning Probe Microscopy (STM, AFM),  three-dimensional Schrodinger equation, quantum well, quantum dots, nano wires, nano particles, electron spin, MRI, Pauli exclusion principle, fermions and bosons, Solids-Theory: the concept of energy bands, nanocrystals, Solids-Applications: conductors, semiconductors, insulators and superconductors, Solids-Applications: transistors, integrated circuits.         

Brain, Cognition, and Daily Life (BC&DL), formerly known as Culture and Cognition, provides students with an opportunity to learn human cognition and information processes operated in our daily life. The course covers a wide range of cognition such as perception, attention, memory, problem solving, and language and its applications to our daily life in the context of human neuroscience. In other words, students learn important concepts and issues regarding human cognition and brain and how they are operated in our living. The course focuses on how our cognition and brain are influenced by, changes in, or interacts with our living contexts. 

This course focuses on business modeling, data analytics, and the integration of accounting systems with other information systems in the organization. It emphasizes business risk as well as information technology risk and the controls. Students learn the basic skills for data analytics, relational database modeling skills using unified modeling language, SQL queries, pivot tables, elements of XBRL taxonomy, and data visualization tools.