Korea, South

This course examines central concepts and theoretical perspectives of sociology and provides and introduction to sociological perspectives. Topics include culture, socialization, and self-formation; deviant behavior and crime; social performance, gender roles, and family; social inequality and class; power, politics, government, and state; labor and social division of labor; and religion and society.

Modern dance arose as a contradiction to ballet, where free expression takes precedence over structure. This course aims to maintain students' proper body alignment and improve expression through modern dance. 

This course examines the history of Asian immigrants in America and their literary and visual representation in American popular culture. It covers the early Asian immigration and discusses the cultural representation of Asians through watching several historical documentaries and reading literary texts. The course analyzes Asian American plays in order to see how each playwright uses different strategies and styles in order to communicate his or her political messages and ideologies to the audience. Considerable attention is given to understanding how diasporic experience and diasporic sensibility may be differ in terms of gender, ethnicity, and generation. For the first few weeks, the course provides an overview of the history of Asian American immigrants and European/American representation of Asians on stage, starting from the late nineteenth century. Next the course examines first generation of Asian American writers' major plays, essays, and critical writings in theatre and drama since the 1960s to 1980s, together with critical issues in Asian American communities. And finally, the course explores various themes, dramatic strategies, and aesthetics of contemporary Asian American playwrights including Korean American writers.

This course introduces students to the methods and practices by which they can use data to answer questions in political science. It focuses on learning how to collect, manage, and analyze data using computer software and how to effectively communicate results to others. The goal is to understand the core concepts in statistical procedures and causal inference; to learn how to explore and manage data and conduct statistical analysis; and to understand core programming concepts in the R language and apply these concepts to complete in-class activities and problem sets. Topics include Introduction to R and R Studio, Basics of Data Management (Finding and opening data, Understanding data structure; Subsetting), Summarizing Data (Measures of central tendency and dispersion), Data Visualization, Research Design, Probability and Sampling, Confidence Intervals; Hypothesis Testing, Causality and Experimental Analysis, Bivariate Regression, and Multivariate Regression.

This course teaches the principles of software development for medium to large software design and implementation. Students apply these principles to software systems in practice by working on group projects. Through this experience, students learn how to build correct and high-performance software.

Since Aristotle’s Poetics, plot has occupied a central place in the investigation of dramatic and narrative story structure. This course looks at some of the major writing on plot and investigates its importance in the making of successful fiction and film. The course begins with a reading of Aristotle, before considering such important theorists of the plot as Gustav Freytag, Vladimir Propp and Gerard Genette. Then it turns to a consideration of contemporary narrative stylisticians, running from Roger Fowler to Michael Toolan. Representative drama includes Oedipus Rex and The Importance of Being Earnest; representative fiction, James Joyce and James Lasdun; representative films, Psycho, The Talented Mr Ripley, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange and Swimming Pool. 

Through an integrated curriculum of vocabulary, grammar, speaking, listening, writing, and reading, this course enables students to: 

1) Communicate in Korean at an advanced level in formal discourse;  

2) Understand newspaper and newspaper articles on politics, economics, society, and culture and provide one’s opinion on given topics; and,  

3) Understand Korean culture through idioms, proverbs, etc.