Korea, South

This course provides an introduction to Buddhism. It explores the commonalities within the Buddhist tradition as well as the wide variety of practices across Buddhist communities. The course also provides a basis for further study of Buddhism and different approaches in the study of religion. 

This course provides logic and tools that can be utilized to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of public policies and programs. The most important logic behind the policy and program evaluation is the causal relationship, a process of evaluating whether the proposed policy or program is the real cause of the observed effects. This process requires basic knowledge of causality, evaluation design, and statistical testing. The objectives of this course are 1) to learn the basic concept of causality to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of policies and programs, 2) to learn how to apply the logic of causality for the evaluation design, 3) to learn statistical tools for the causal analysis in policy and program evaluations.

This class covers asana and hatha yoga, breathing techniques, and alignment of the body.

This course is the second course in a two semester sequence for the sophomore/junior level undergraduate linear algebra. It helps students understand the abstraction of linear algebra. Linear Algebra is a basic language in mathematics and has many applications in every branch of mathematics. The course covers all the topics such as vector spaces and linear transformations, matrix algebra and analysis, inner product and normed spaces in linear algebra commonly used by analysts, combinatorists, computer scientists, geometers, logicians, number theorists, or topologists. The major goals are: to develop a systematic knowledge of the elements of linear algebra, and the ability to apply the concepts covered in classes; Fields and Vector Spaces, Linear Operators, Determinants and Eigenvalues, The Jordan Canonical Form, Orthogonality, Spectral Theory, Singular Value Decomposition, Matrix Factorization, and Infinite Dimensional Vector Spaces; to understand the elements of linear algebra with an emphasis on concepts, methods of proof, and the communication of mathematical ideas; to see how all these play a key role in many practical applications in today's technological society; Various applications of linear algebra show how linear algebra is essential not only in solving problems involving algebra, geometry, differential equations, optimization, approximation, combinatorics, but also in the fields such as biology, economics, computer graphics, electrical engineering, cryptography, political science as well as sciences; to broaden students' horizons by learning connections of one subject to other areas of linear algebra and mathematics and by mentioning results at the forefront of research.

Textbook: Mark S. Gockenbach, "FINITE-DIMENSIONAL LINEAR ALGEBRA"

Assessment: Midterm (30%), Final (50%), Attendance & Presentations (10%), Homework, Assignments, Quizzes & Class Activity (10%)  

Prerequisite:  Calculus, Linear Algebra I

This course examines the psychology of persuasion and consumer behavior theories as they relate to marketing communications. It provides an overview of the key psychological concepts and theories and how those apply to marketing communications.

This course introduces the fundamentals of English syntactic ideas and theories through close readings and discussions of assigned passages in the textbook. It addresses the core theories of contemporary linguistics. 

This course provides critical viewpoints on innovation at three different levels. On the individual level, information technology developments enable super-large firms (e.g., Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook) to provide service to their paying customers. At the societal level, the course shows that information technology platforms (such as Uber, Airbnb, TaskRabbit) allow for evading taxes, laws, and stakeholder protections and could erode the societal achievements of the past 150 years. At the global level, the course demonstrates that technological innovation in industrialized countries impacts the economy in developing countries. 

This course is a general introduction to Psycholinguistics, the study of how humans acquire, comprehend, and produce language. The course explores the fundamental questions in the field such as, What does it mean to know a language? How does an individual access and use that knowledge when producing or understanding language? How did we come to use language as we do now?