Korea, South

This course aims to provide an in-depth exploration and analysis of various significant literary works devoted to such utopian agendas, with special focus on the ways in which the works intersect with the socio-economic, political, religious, and scientific thoughts of the times. By reading a variety of utopian writings (from ancient to modern), this course seeks to help students better to understand and reassess utopianism as an essential topic of literary studies.

This course examines the various structures that make up Korean society and Korean studies in a global context. It explores particular themes relevant to understanding Korea such as (trans)national identity, family, modernization, industrialization, democratization, gender relations, cultural industry, human right, and environmental crisis. 

This is a reading and discussion-intensive course that examines the development of modern Korea in the context of modernity, imperialism, and capitalism. Using a combination of lecture and class discussion, the course examines the facts and arguments surrounding the transitions from Chosŏn Korea to colonial Korea to the postwar divisions of North and South Korea. Special attention is paid to the dominant arguments surrounding key moments in modern Korean history.

This course develops the ability to understand various physical properties of electronic materials (e.g., semiconductors). Topics include elementary materials science concepts, kinetic molecular theory, thermal process, defects, classical theory of conduction, hall effect and thermal conduction, quantum physics, Schrodinger equation, microscopic physics, modern theory of solid, electronic statistics, waves as a particle, semiconductor fundamentals, conductivity, diffusion and optical properties, and devices.

This course teaches data-based model inference and predictive model generation. It covers the core principles of the question structure, data collection and organization, statistical inference, predictive modeling, and decision-making process. The course also studies basic theories about intermediate-level data conversion, data refinement, model fit, model selection, model diagnosis, etc., and learn them by data practice.

This course examines defense systems in animals, higher plants, and microorganisms. Topics include Introduction to animal immune system; disruption of healthy tissue by the immune response: cancer and its interactions with human defense system; failures of the body`s defenses: autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases, evasion and subversion of the immune system by pathogens, introduction to microbes and microbial interactions; microbe-human/animal interactions: pathogens, microbiome, probiotics, metagenome. 

The course addresses the principles of biological databases; sequence analysis; data mining, and phylogeny. The course then demonstrates how to analyze data from shotgun sequencing project; EST project, and other high throughput biological methods used in present genomics and functional genomics.