Korea, South

This course is designed for high-intermediate students who wish to strengthen their writing skills in Korean. It aims to help students achieve advance levels of writing skills. At the end of the course, students will be able to create their own templates, distinguish between spoken and written Korean, and distinguish between informal and formal style.

Prerequisite: Intermediate Korean (2) or the equivalent.

In this course students will study the aesthetic and political aims of South Korean cinema since 1960. By analyzing individual films, considering historical contexts, and reading texts in film theory, we will attempt to understand how cinema proposes new ways of being and relating to others within the context of a rapidly globalizing Korea. Filmmakers to be discussed may include Kim Ki-young, Im Kwon-taek, Park Kwang-su, Hong Sang-soo, Bong Joon-ho, Jeong Jae-eun, Park Chan-wook, and others. Issues to be covered include: the ethics of neoliberal capitalism, the spectacle of cinematic violence, morality and film genre, and the critique of melodrama. Assessment: Quiz(20%), Midterm (30%), Final(50%)

Through an integrated curriculum of vocabulary, grammar, speaking, listening, writing, and reading, this course enables students to: 

1) To make complex sentences using basic connective endings;

2) To have basic conversations in Korean including transportation, shopping, food, weather, weekly activities etc.; and,

3) To use honorific and formal style endings according to the appropriate social situation. 

This course fosters students' understanding of the fast-emerging trans-national English-speaking culture by exploring such socio-linguistic themes as language and gender, language and race as well as cultural diversity. It provides students with skills needed to make them into international citizens and leaders in today's global society. This course introduces how English has become a global language, what changes and variations English has come through, and what issues such changes have generated. The English language is playing a pivotal role as an important tool to communicate in today’s globalized world. As it spreads out throughout the world, linguistic changes have appeared in different varieties of English and the new varieties are received differently in different parts of the world. Students learn about linguistic descriptions of the new varieties of English, attitudes towards New Englishes, and issues related to learning and teaching of the English language. In addition, students take a peek at what
is happening to languages whose speakers are decreasing in numbers (as opposed to English whose number of speakers is increasing).

This course explores the psychological aspects of fashion. Topics include the history of fashion cycles spread of fashion; rapidly changing fashion media environment; fashion market; fashion system and the alternatives; and fashion ideas and inspirations being constructed, elaborated, and conveyed in detailed elements of fashion images and narratives. Psychological theories and approaches are introduced and applied to various aspects and dimensions of fashion systems.

This course introduces construction methods for civil engineering and the impact of emerging technologies on the traditional construction process. Such subjects as bridge construction, tunnel construction, earth moving, construction equipment, automation and sensing technologies are covered. This course provides the convergence ability to devise tools, equipment, system and process to improve productivity, safety and efficiency in the construction field; an ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering; and an ability to communicate effectively in teamwork.