Korea, South

This survey course focuses on the political dynamics of populism in contemporary European countries. The course begins by examining how social science researchers define and conceptualize populism, with a focus on identifying its boundaries - what is and is not considered populist.  Despite the widespread use of the term populism, disagreements over its definition and usage, as well as a general lack of clarity surrounding its meaning, hinder our understanding of populist politics and their causes and consequences. The course assesses competing academic definitions, explores subtypes of populism, and evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of existing categorizations. The course addresses a number of key political dynamics and how they relate to populism, including attitudinal change, organizational formation, voting patterns, electoral performance, and protest and riot behavior.  We explore theorized causes such as economic downturns, political competition, migration, inter-cultural group tensions, global trends, and international relations.  In addition to examining its causes, the course studies the effects of populism, including its impact on democratic institutions, inter-group relations, and international relations. 

Human immunity plays an important role in biological defense and the control of various diseases, and this course covers the specific role and function of immune cells. In addition, this course covers the application principles of vaccine development, cancer treatment, and organ transplantation using immunomodulation. In addition, various experimental techniques that are essential in immunology are introduced to promote a broad understanding of applied immunology. 

Topics include Immunological strategies against various infections, Infectious diseases: pathological response and therapeutic options, Vaccine development and practical applications, Immunodeficiency diseases, Hypersensitive responses/allergy, Atopic diseases and practical application, Transplantation and adaptive immunity, Technical advancement in transplantation, Tumor immunology, Immunotherapy for cancer, Autoimmunity and autoimmune diseases.  

This survey course covers the ever-changing historical characteristics of Western civilization by examining various cities from ancient Athens to modern New York. Students critically analyze the urban spaces we live in from a historical perspective. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that civilizations were born in cities. The history of cities vividly portrays how broad historical transformations were experienced in the daily lives of ordinary people. Closely paralleling social, economic, cultural, and political changes in Western civilization, cities have taken a wide variety of forms, emerging and disappearing over time. By looking at the historical dynamics involved in the development and decline of the major cities of each era, we can discern the driving forces of civilization and history.  

This course uses a human-centered lens to examine security and privacy, focusing on how design and research can create solutions that people can understand, trust, and use.  

Security and privacy are as much about people as they are about technology. Many failures arise not just from a lack of technical capability, but from mismatches with how people think, behave, and interact in their everyday contexts. 

Students engage with real-world topics ranging from authentication and security warnings to deceptive patterns, AI privacy, and privacy and security challenges in sensing environments, while learning foundational methods in user research and usable security and privacy evaluation. Through critical readings, class discussions, and hands-on projects, students develop skills to understand and design for human factors in security and privacy contexts. 

Key themes include: 1) Human-centered research methods for security and privacy, 2) Usable security tools, access control, and warnings 3) AI-enabled security and privacy challenges, 4) Sensing environments and security/privacy issues, and 5) Ethics and social implications in security and privacy 

This course covers marketing concepts, terms, theories, and tools necessary for the successful development of new products from idea generation to launch. 

Topics include the role of innovation and new product development in organizations and society, Success and failure for industrial and consumer innovations, the new product development process, Strategic planning, Product concepts, New product ideas: problem-based and dimensional approaches, Concept/product evaluation, Demand and forecasting estimation, Product protocol/design, Development.  

In addition to mid-term and final exams, students complete a class project including a presentation and report. 

This course explores five principal plays by William Shakespeare—Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V, King Lear, and The Tempest. It introduces students to Shakespeare’s language, poetic form (particularly the sonnet), and dramatic genres—including comedy, tragedy, history, and romance. Reading the plays in roughly chronological order, we situate them within the historical and social contexts of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. We also examine the enduring appeal of Shakespeare, considering him not only as a poet and dramatist, but also as a man of the theatre and a cultural icon whose influence has shaped literature, performance, and global imagination for centuries.

This course discusses the relationship between current social issues and dystopian imagination and focuses on evaluation and analysis by putting various Korean texts in dialog with other texts, including classics from around the world. The main goal of this course is to make the fictional horror-based world more culturally relevant to modern society and the world today.  

Topics include how literature is used to explore and comment on political and cultural issues, how classical literature is adapted and interpreted through contemporary cinema and mass media, and the idea of cinema as a literary art form. 

Discussion centers around several texts – films, poetry, music, and a novel - which we will analyze in detail. 

This course examines controversial issues related to educational policies in multicultural societies. Students explore global case studies, engage with theories of equality and justice, and critically analyze how these issues intersect with multicultural education policy. Topics include religious symbols in public schools, affirmative action, language rights, and many other issues central to multicultural education. Students debate, reflect, and develop their own policy proposals to address real-world equity challenges.  

This class studies the potential of graphic design in terms of productivity and usability while also questioning what value system we can convey through design. It explores the role of promoting through visual communication and adding value to digital products.  

This class researches what potential there is in graphic-driven product design when decoupled from productivity and usefulness. What happens when we consider the ideas of design and products as “useless machines” rather than productive tools. What do products look like that encourage formal experimentation, self-reflection, meaningful interpersonal communication, and logging off? What are the value systems embedded in our interfaces and goods, and how do they perpetuate ideologies? What sort of productive opportunities can be found in being adamantly unproductive?   

This course combines academic inquiry with practical hands-on experience. Students should be comfortable using design software and producing graphic outcomes (these can range from digital outcomes like webpages or videos, to physical materials such as books, posters, textiles, etc.) 

The following activities will take place in-person and online via several platforms: Reading discussion, Topic/lecture/discussion, Project critique/discussion, Group exercises, A weekend workshop, One-on-one meetings, Group meetings.  

Students should also be prepared to complete two individual projects and a group projects and be aware that these projects may comprise up to 70% of the final assessment. 

This course covers working principles and models of basic circuit components such as resistor, capacitor, inductor, diode, and transistor. Students learn to analyze the complex electric circuit problems composed of multiple circuit components using abstractions and various mathematical methods and gain an understanding of the working principles of various logic, memory, and amplifier circuits. The course provides students the ability to understand/modify/write LabView code that can be used to test electric circuits. Topics include Network analysis, Node voltage, Mesh current, Superposition, Impedance, RLC circuit, Diode, MOSFET, Amplifier, Logic and memory devices, Bipolar junction transistor (BJT), BJT small signal model, Lab work via LabView.