Korea, South

This course analyzes the international behaviors of China and their economic, diplomatic, military and cultural stances. The course reviews the implications of the rise of China, the contrasting evaluations of the international community on it and the Chinese responses to them. The course examines China's involvement in international settings, including Sino-American relations, Sino-Korean relations and China's relations with Asia. This is a discussion oriented seminar course. Active participation in required. Assessment: midterm exam (30%), final exam (30%), presentations (30%), attendance and participation (10%).

This course introduces life processes at the molecular level, which is the basic concept of chemical biology. This course covers various topics related to the structure and function of proteins, nucleic acids as the storage molecules of genetic information, the functions of biopolymers, 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.

This course focuses on the science of matter, its physical properties and composition, as well as how it changes. The topic are organized into three parts: basic concepts, atoms and molecules, and states of matter. Topics include The Tools of Quantitative Chemistry,  Atoms, Molecules, and Ions, Chemical Reactions, Stoichiometry: Quantitative Information from Chemical Reactions, Principles of Chemical Reactivity: Energy and Chemical Reactions, The Structure of Atoms and Periodic Trends, Covalent Bonding and Molecular Structure, Gases and Their Properties, Intermolecular Forces and Liquids, Solutions and Their Behavior. 

This course explores literary representations of the Other in nineteenth century Britain. By “Other” we consider the intersecting categories of Asia, Africa, and the Americas, with our examples including specific locations such as Antigua, Barbados, China, etc. We begin with Jane Austen, consider Mary Shelley and George Eliot, and end with Charles Dickens, and primarily focus on canonical texts and/or writers and how they represent or reflect the changes in Britain’s relationship with the Other and with its Empire. From Austen’s Antiguan underpinnings of British society to Shelley’s racialized monstrosity and Eliot’s sojourner to the West Indies, as well as Dickens’s engagement with opium use, we investigate the way in which Empire informs and shapes the (early) nineteenth-century British novel. In the process, we attempt to take the lessons of post-colonial studies and use them to deconstruct Western literary conceptions of the Other.

This course focuses on the evolution and diversity of organisms from prokaryotes to eukaryotes.

This course focuses on the molecular biology of cancer. We discuss in detail topics such as biology and genetics of cells and organisms, nature of cancer, tumor viruses, cellular oncogenes, growth factors, receptors and cancer, cytoplasmic signaling circuitry programs, tumor suppressor genes, pRb and control of the cell cycle clock, p53 and apoptosis, cell immortalization, maintenance of genomic integrity. Experimental approaches are also introduced in the context of primary research articles. Cell biology and molecular biology at undergraduate levels are essential prerequisites. Topics include Biology and genetics of cells and organisms, Nature of cancer, Tumor viruses, Cellular oncogenes, Growth factors, receptors and cancer, Cytoplasmic signaling circuitry programs, Tumor suppressor genes, etc.

Climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic are asking us to find new ways of knowing, caring for, and relating to the world. Anthropologists are increasingly paying attention to the human-nonhuman relations that constitute the more-than-human anthropocene, and different forms of knowledge to tackle the crisis of the imagination. This course introduces the interdisciplinary endeavors to find alternative ways of knowing the world that goes beyond the apocalyptic discourse of crisis. Readings include, but are not limited to materials from anthropology of science, environmental anthropology, and science and technology studies.