Korea, South

Our intrapsychic lives are dominated by two sorts of phenomena: thoughts (cognition) and feelings (emotion). Cognition and emotion closely interact; the way we think has significant implication in regulation of our emotions. This course 1) reviews theoretical and empirical work on the relationship between cognition and emotion regulation, as well as the mechanisms underlying the problems of emotion regulation that span different mental disorders; 2) introduces evidenced-based intervention techniques with broad clinical utility such as cognitive restructuring and mindfulness-based interventions; and 3) discusses ways to apply these skills to diverse contexts of everyday life.

Prerequisite: Intro to Psychology

Film has the complex characteristics of art, entertainment, industry, and science, and is a total medium of expression that conveys ideas and emotions at the same time. In order to properly understand the artificial product of film beyond the level of simple entertainment, it is necessary to learn the basics of film language, film aesthetics, film history, film production, and the film industry. This course introduces a systematic understanding of film media, focusing on how film can give people the kind of aesthetic experience offered by art such as music, art, theater, etc.

This course provides an introduction to microeconomics and macroeconomics together at the beginner level, which attempt to understand the behavior of individual entities such as markets, firms, households, and the economy as a whole. It focuses on a core set of fundamental concepts that help understand a broad range of macroeconomic and macroeconomic issues: scarcity, trade-offs, opportunity cost, incentive, marginal thinking, exchange, efficiency, information, etc. (microeconomics), the determination of output, employment, unemployment, interest rates, and inflation, monetary and fiscal policies, etc. (macroeconomics).

This class offers lectures and presentations on Korean history and culture for foreign students without a Korean educational background. The first half of the course emphasizes modern Korean culture and how it relates to Korean identity and “Korean-ness.” The second half covers major periods in Korean history in chronological order, giving emphasis to specific events and incidents as necessary.

The course provides an overview of Japanese civilization from ancient to modern times, delving into the eras of the Samurai, Shogun, Tenno, Kamikuni.

This course examines the readings of major American poets from the time of the colonial settlement to the present.

The goal of the course is to teach basic table tennis skills and how to play a table tennis game.