Korea, South

This course aims to explore traditional and modern Korean philosophy at its introductory level. We are going to examine Korean tradition in comparison with western philosophical tradition. We will look at dominant philosophies and philosophers in the Korean tradition. One of aims of this class is to permit students to have opportunity to have cross-cultural understanding of Eastern and Western philosophies.This course is designed as a lecture class with presentation and free discussion of all participants.

This course examines the ecology and the socialization processes surrounding child development. Students review the ecological perspective and identify multiple layers of ecological systems including family, school, community, and media to explain their influences on child development. 

The course covers introductory linear algebra, focusing on the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a matrix, orthogonality, and properties of positive definite matrices. The eigenvalues and eigenvectors are considered from their definitions to their applications. Other topics include orthogonal projections, the Gram-Schmidt process, and the inner product space. 

This course introduces the basic concept of structure and function of biological molecules in the cell; proteins; carbohydrates; nucleic acids, and lipids. This course provides in-depth discussions of structure-function paradigm and complex macromolecular interactions. 

We live in times that seem increasingly apocalyptic. From our current pandemic, we look around us and see catastrophic climate change, systemic racism, food insecurity, and youth unemployment. Since the turn of the century, we have experienced 9/11, nuclear meltdowns, and financial crises. We live on a peninsula which is technically still at war, seven decades after a cease-fire armistice. In popular culture, we see these themes reflected in film and other media, ranging from the zombie apocalypse to AI cyborgs to futuristic interstellar journeys. In this course, we will explore the idea of the apocalypse/post-apocalypse in English literature through the ages. Our main reading will be a trio of powerful contemporary novels (Mitchell, Foer, Ozeki) that treat these topics within defining events of our generation. In between, we will take a step back into history, reading eighteenth and nineteenth century selections (Defoe, Malthus, Shelley, and Jefferies).