Korea, South

This course covers key issues in energy and environmental economics from an economist’s perspective. Energy markets have become some of the most crucial and dynamic markets of the world economy, as they experienced a shift from heavy regulation to market-driven incentives. The course first looks at different energy sources such as crude oil, natural gas and coal. It then focuses on the crude oil market, highlighting how market power, optimal extraction, technological development and geopolitical risks are intertwined for price determination. The course also focuses on how changes in energy prices and uncertainties surrounding the price dynamics affect economic activity. Next, the course switches to environmental problems, and what types of policy tools can be employed to solve some of these problems. It discusses the economics for a broad range of possible policies: environmental taxes, subsidies, and cap-and-trade. In doing so, it discusses fundamental concepts in environmental economics, such as externalities and the challenge of designing multilateral agreements.

Prerequisite: Intermediate Macroeconomics Intermediate Microeconomics

The idea of imagination remains one of the most captivating and extensively discussed subjects throughout Western intellectual history and contemporary scholarship. It is an interdisciplinary topic interrogated in various disciplines such as phenomenology, politics, aesthetics, philosophy, psychology, theology, to name a few. The class examines imagination in its diverse applications and interpretations in how human beings in various cultural contexts encounter, experience, and conceive the world. It gives attention to distinctive ways non-Western cultures employ imagination in meaning-making, understanding and interaction with the world. It demonstrates imagination as a bedrock of cultural traditions, a resource for theological inquiries, social ethics, and transformations. The objectives are to explore the role of human imagination in the process of reality construction, interrogate how contextual understanding of ultimate reality shape imagination, gain in-depth knowledge about these debates on the theory of imagination in various disciplines, and develop imaginative skills to analyse and reflect theologically upon human reality.

This course offers a broad overview of important concepts, themes, and figures relevant to the progression of Indic civilization, from ancient times to the present. The course particularly focuses on food and physical culture; pleasure and entertainment, as well as gender and sexuality. 

This course provides an overview of selected topics within general areas of human resource (HR) management, thereby helping students to be successful leaders in organizations. The course revolves around how to apply theories, policies, and practices to the real-world challenges of managing people in different work settings and occupations. At the end of the semester, students are expected to recall key HR concepts; apply HR-related knowledge to resolve management-related problems, and know precisely where the responsibilities of the HR department and line managers overlap and where they diverge.

This course instructs students on the history and understanding of choral music and vocalization through appreciation of choral music masterpieces. 

This course provides an integrated approach to modern genetics, which includes molecular genetics; genomics; information science; molecular evolution, and classical genetics. This course covers current genetics and a new viewpoints on the molecular basis of life.

This course explores Middle Eastern and African politics and society, with special focus on energy; natural resources; Islamic civilizations; geopolitical situations, and terrorism. The course also delves into the domestic and foreign policies of each state in the region, as well as their relations with each other. 

This course introduces students to our current understanding of life processes at the molecular level. It covers various topics related to the structure and function of proteins, nucleic acids as the storage molecules of genetic information, the dynamic nature of cell membranes, and generation of biological energy. This course provides the foundation for students to learn more advanced subjects such as neuroscience, gene therapy, development of new crops, drug discovery, and protein engineering.