Korea, South

Brain, Cognition, and Daily Life (BC&DL), formerly known as Culture and Cognition, provides students with an opportunity to learn human cognition and information processes operated in our daily life. The course covers a wide range of cognition such as perception, attention, memory, problem solving, and language and its applications to our daily life in the context of human neuroscience. In other words, students learn important concepts and issues regarding human cognition and brain and how they are operated in our living. The course focuses on how our cognition and brain are influenced by, changes in, or interacts with our living contexts. 

This course focuses on business modeling, data analytics, and the integration of accounting systems with other information systems in the organization. It emphasizes business risk as well as information technology risk and the controls. Students learn the basic skills for data analytics, relational database modeling skills using unified modeling language, SQL queries, pivot tables, elements of XBRL taxonomy, and data visualization tools.

This course covers three eighteenth-century texts that respectively occupy a significant place in the history of the English novel. The course begins by examining Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders (1722), in which the eponymous heroine purports to give a “true” account of her extraordinary life as an orphan, servant, wife, thief, felon, and penitent. It then moves on to Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling (1771), which recounts the sentimental hero Harley’s encounters with the less fortunate in a harsh and uncaring world. The course concludes with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764), a sensational text that is generally regarded as the first Gothic novel. In addition to studying the rise of the English novel and its various subgenres, the course examines the literary works within their cultural and socio-political contexts and thereby considers some of the important issues that dominated eighteenth-century English culture: self and identity, class, gender, eighteenth-century London, sentimentalism, morality, tradition, reason, the function of literature, and so on.

This course provides students with the following intermediate Korean language skills: ability to ask questions; answer questions and engage in discussion; ability to comprehend mass media; ability to conduct intermediate level everyday conversation; and ability to write an intermediate level document. Students learn a variety of useful expressions commonly used in questioning, answering, and discussing in a class, and practice how to use those expressions. They also study lots of useful expressions frequently used in mass media such as radio, TV and movies, and practice how to comprehend those mass media. 

This course provides an overview of the modern and contemporary history of Southeast Asian nation-states. The first part of the course focuses on the development of Southeast Asian studies from precolonial history to the arrival of European, American and later Japanese colonial powers in the region; the path to independence, and the impact of the Cold War. The second part of the course delves into the origins and dynamics of maritime trade in the South China Sea, including the current conflict between Vietnam and China. 

This course provides an overview of the biotechnology in diagnostics within the fields of invitro diagnostics, including various diagnostics and medical devices. Biotechnology in diagnostics is the study of the diagnostic assays of human diseases in clinical applications. The course examines the principles and assays (techniques) of various diagnostics in various clinical applications such communicable and non-communicable diseases.

Prerequisite: General biology

This course provides an overview of the nature of public opinion and mass political behaviors in democracies. In the first part of this course, we examine fundamental questions in public opinion research, including how to measure and interpret public opinion and how people’s beliefs and opinions formulate and change over time. Next, we study patterns of mass political behavior, ranging from voter turnout and vote choice to social movements. The final part of the course introduces recent academic debates about how media and political elites influence public opinion, and in turn, mass political behaviors and democratic accountability. While most readings draw on American politics, we will also learn about cross-national differences and similarities in public opinion and citizen behaviors. The primary goal of this course is to help students explain public opinion and its connection to political outcomes using academic concepts and theories and develop critical thinking and analytical skills.

This course explores the relation of Korean Christianity and Yonsei spirit, and their growing process in history. It provides students with the background of Korean Protestantism in relation to Yonsei history, and helps them to have a comprehensive understanding of religious, cultural and social aspects of Korea. Topics include key values of Christianity, world Christianity and its history, Christianities in our global communities, Korean history and religions, sustainable development goals and Yonsei spirit, the beginning of Korean Christianity and Yonsei, the development of Korean Christianity and Yonsei (Korean War-two Koreas, military dictatorship, industrialization, church growth, student movement), and democratization process and Yonsei spirit. 

Discussion and study of various fascinating and controversial cases involving the concept of “Law and Order.” The cases are mostly actual criminal cases, but some may be hypotheticals or actual civil cases as well. Drawing upon 32 years of experience as a judge and prosecutor, the instructor will portray a real exciting array of cases to study, and students will get to make actual arguments from both prosecutor and defense positions.