Korea, South

This course explores key concepts in agricultural and food supply chain management such as forecasting, inventory management, sourcing and procurement, and logistics within the agrifood industry. The course provides an overview of agrifood supply chain management for students interested in the agrifood industry. 

Topics include understanding the supply chain, inventory management, cycle inventory, distribution networks, transportation, sourcing, sustainability, managing economies of scale, and case studies.  

This course is an introduction to the principles and mechanisms of epigenetics, exploring how heritable changes in gene expression occur without changes to the underlying DNA sequence. Topics include DNA methylation, histone modifications, chromatin remodeling, and non-coding RNAs. The course will also cover the role of epigenetics in development, disease, and evolution. 

This course is an integrated introduction to fruit, vegetable, cereal, dairy, and seafood and meat science and technology. It provides an overview of the traditional and innovative techniques that are used to protect the quality and assure the safety of these foods. 

The course introduces carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins, and minerals that are components of food, and examines basic science applied to food processing and storage (gelatinization, aging, denaturation, rancidity, flavor change, color change).  

This course provides a broad introduction to the linguistic analysis of Korean. Topics include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, as well as a small amount of orthography, history, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics.  

This course primarily focuses on Korean, but it will include examples from other languages to show how Korean compares and contrasts. 

The recommended prerequisite for this course is two years of college-level Korean. If a student has completed one year of college-level Korean, they must be prepared to put in extra time and effort. Students who have completed less than one year of college-level Korean are not encouraged to enroll in this course, unless they have already had some coursework in general linguistics (e.g., an introduction to linguistics, plus one or two additional courses in core topics such as phonetics, phonology, syntax, or semantics).  

This course introduces the foundations of intelligent systems, such as probabilistic modeling and inference, statistical machine learning, computer vision, and robotics, to undergraduate students. Topics include Bayesian networks, hidden Markov models, Kalman filters, Markov decision processes, linear regression, linear classification, and nonparametric models. Students will also learn about how these methods are applied to practical applications such as computer vision and robotics. 

This course covers fundamental concepts in various computer vision topics related to robotics, examining approaches and solutions in visual recognition problems for robots. Topics include 3D environment modeling/3D reconstruction, and object detection, recognition, and tracking using deep learning. 

All students must complete an individual project on a related topic. Suggested prerequisites: Linear algebra and probability theory, programming skills. 

This course approaches the Korean Constitution from normative and contextual perspectives and examines the framework of the Korean Constitution and political structure. Topics include the origin and historical development of the Korean Constitution, preamble and legitimacy issues of the Korean Constitution, the political structure and the mechanisms of a democratic constitutional order, the guarantees of fundamental right, and the specific features of Korean constitutionalism. The latter half of the course is dedicated to group presentations and discussions in the format of an academic conference. 

This course examines the primary responsibilities of Congress and its relationships with other political actors. Topics include the theoretical underpinnings of Congress, the rules and procedures that make Congress a unique form of national legislature, the behavior of members in Congress, and the course focuses both on academic study as well as practical applications to the real political world (for example, students will draft, submit, and present a bill proposal.) While this course centers upon Korean and American systems, conclusions drawn from discussion may apply to other systems and countries as well.

This course covers the human microbiome and the interactions these microorganisms have with the human body and with disease. Students explore the pathological mechanism of disease by learning about the morphological and functional changes in each organ tissue due to the cause, developmental mechanism, and progression of diseases occurring in the human body.  Topics include the microbe-human ecosystem, microbial interactions, host-microbe interactions, normal microbiota, the formation of the human microbiome, maternal microbes, gut microbes, digestive infection systems, pro- and prebiotics, etc. 

This course explores key concepts and principles of the techniques used to give textiles various colors. Dyeing is the process of imparting color to textiles using dyes or pigments, and it is the most efficient method for enhancing the marketability and aesthetic appeal of clothing products. Students will study the fundamentals of fiber science to understand the structure and characteristics of textiles and learn about the theory of dye chemistry to comprehend the properties and interactions of diverse chemical substances used in dyeing. Additionally, the course examines color theory to explore how textile dyeing can enhance product quality.