Korea, South

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is responsible for, now on a global scale, the delivery of value-added goods/services in any organization – public or private, profit or non-profit. SCM costs in total typically exceed 25% of the cost of doing business, and logistics-related assets (including inventory) can represent as much as 50% of a company’s total assets. This course instructs and applies various key concepts of SCM and the related decision-making tools to solve practical supply/demand problems in the context of global supply chains.  The course discusses core SCM-related concepts including time-based inventory management, warehousing, transportation/distribution systems design, facility location decision process, and information handling in SC operations as competitive advantages in service-based emerging economies.

No specific prerequisite for this course, but an understanding of college-level algebra preferred.

This course is designed to familiarize students with the topic of English translation of Korean films through a selection of movies of the world-renowned Korean director and Yonsei alum Bong Joon-ho. Note that the course is based mainly on movie viewing, individual research, and class discussions in addition to the instructor's lectures. Thus, active participation on the students' part is crucial. This course allows enrolled students to think about the difficulties and sophisticated nature of Korean-English translation for movie subtitles through the examples of Korean films by Director Bong Joon-ho. The course helps observe various problems regarding translation from Korean into English and vice versa through Bong’s films such as 'A Higher Animal (2000)', 'The Host (2006)’, ‘Snowpiercer (2013)’, ‘Okja (2017)’, and ‘Parasite (2019)’. Students are also expected to understand the complicated nature of numerous variables in play when it comes to crossing from one language to another in the world of cinema such as one’s understanding of context, culture, history, and tradition on top of the basic linguistic competency. Through this course, students gain not only confidence in bridging different languages based on a solid control of languages and cultures but also a cosmopolitan outlook as world citizens incorporating diversity, flexibility, and open-mindedness which are indispensable in modern society.

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).