Korea, South

This course buildes competency in understanding and interpreting a range of different research methods and results. Through the analysis of various research papers, students will need to use critical thinking and logical reasoning to either agree, disagree, or seek further clarification of conclusions provided in the research discussion sections.

This course explores the significant achievements of behavioral economics, focusing on theoretical and empirical evidence. Unlike traditional economics, which assumes human rationality and standard preferences to understand decision-making and behavioral changes, behavioral economics expands human decision-making models based on new insights from psychology and other fields and introduces the concept of policy design and evaluation based upon insights into human behavioral change. Students will gain a thorough understanding of the fundamental concepts of behavioral economics; be able to critically evaluate the traditional economic theories on human rationality; and be able to compare and analyze the usefulness and policy implications of behavioral economics with those of traditional economics. 

Prerequisites: Microeconomics, Basic Calculus 

This course introduces theories in critical communication and technology studies and applies these theories to contemporary debates around big data and AI, examining multiple and situated contexts of technology within mediated environments. The course invites students to delve deeply into critical perspectives and explore where and how data systems re-arrange and re-organize existing human practices.  

This course explores the transformative role of new information technologies (IT) and artificial intelligence (AI) in reshaping businesses. Its goal is to equip students with an in-depth understanding of essential economic principles that are crucial for operating and excelling in IT-enabled and/or AI-driven enterprises, while also highlighting the economic ramifications of IT and AI at various levels - including individual firms, broader markets, and society as a whole.  

Students will delve into competitive market analysis and examine IT-specific economic challenges related to pricing, bundling, information asymmetry, and uncertainty. In addition, the module covers AI-centric topics such as automated decision-making and the broader economic effects of AI technologies. Key economic issues associated with IT (such as competitive markets, pricing strategies, and bundling) and foundational concepts like user lock-in, switching costs, and the network effect are discussed. Participants also gain insights into the workings of AI-enabled businesses and address AI-specific economic concerns, including automated decisions, algorithmic bias, and the influence of AI technologies on the job market. 

This course covers processes and theories of government taxation, examining two traditional roles of government in relation to market mechanisms: the provision of public goods and services, and the provision of social insurance and income redistribution. 

This course is not only about theoretical analysis of the abstract expenditure programs, but also about specific institutions and policy debates in Korean context. 

First and second year levels of microeconomics are prerequisite. It is also recommended that students are equipped with mathematical skills related to economics. 

Some of the supplementary materials are written in Korean, thus some Korean language familiarity is recommended; although the materials will be explained in English, some of the terminologies cannot be translated.  

This course provides an overview of contemporary popular culture in Korea, with a focus on the media’s role in expressing and shaping it. Students will learn theoretical concepts to analyze Korean popular culture from an academic perspective, covering topics such as gender, collective memory, music, Korean wave, film, broadcasting and more. The course includes group research projects and class discussions. 

This course examines linguistic phenomena relating to the structure of language and how those phenomena are formulated and explained under the framework of so-called Generative Grammar.  

Course objectives include: i) to understand what is meant by the structure of language, ii) to examine linguistic facts discerned to be structural, iii) to appreciate conceptual/theoretical necessities to account for them (e.g., diverse developments from Generative to Minimalism), iv) to have a grasp of the idea of universal grammar. 

Topics include linguistics and syntax, ingredients of structure: linearity and hierarchy, syntactic categories, words to phrases, two kinds of merge: substitution and adjunction (external or internal), introduction to P-markers, various structural relations (Binding Theory), complement vs. adjunct (and specifier), covert elements: trace vs. empty categories (PRO/pro), movement and interpretation: 1. grammatical functions 2. thematic roles 3. displacement (overt movement vs. covert movement like QR), and transformation: substitution and ellipsis. 

This class provides fundamental understanding of energy conversion by use of power electronic devices. Students are expected to perform analysis and synthesis of power electronic systems after this course. Expected outcome includes: 1. Demonstrate the ability to analyze switching power converters in steady state using circuit averaging and determine DC voltages and currents 2. Be able to sketch current and voltage waveforms in a converter in steady state 3. Demonstrate the ability to size passive filtering components in converters such as inductors and capacitors to obtain a desired ripple performance 4. Demonstrate the ability to derive small-signal linearized models for switching converters 5. Demonstrate an understanding of the effects of negative feedback on converter operation 6. Demonstrate the ability to simulate switching converter using both switching models and averaged models via PSCPICE. 

Prerequisite: EEE2010 (Basic Circuit Theory) 

This course covers 600 years of Seoul history, the Chosun (1394-1897), Taehan Empire (1897-1919), and the Japanese Colonial Period (1910-1945). As of 2020, Seoul has a population of 9.97 million and is considered one of the top ten metropolitan economies in the world. By exploring the history of Seoul, students gain an understanding of the history of one of the oldest cities in the world and also the dynamic history of modern Korea.  By the end of the course students should be able to understand early modern Korean history and its significant events. In addition, students will understand how modern-day Seoul was established via its 600 year history.

This course introduces concepts and theories of mathematical analysis. Topics include limits of continuous functions and differentiable series of functions, uniform convergence of series of functions, Arzela-Ascoli theorem, Weierstrass theorem, power series, analytic functions, trigonometric series, Fourier series, etc.