Korea, South

This course is designed to provide a basic scientific understanding of musical instruments. The first eight weeks of the course focuses on musical instruments and basic acoustics; the latter part of the course features world folk musical instruments and the professor's hand-made instruments. The course also gives the opportunity for groups of students to make their own musical instruments and demonstrate them to the class.  

This course focuses on the role religion plays in the modern states of East Asia (China, South Korea, Japan). In this case, “modern” is defined as the era starting with the Opium Wars, or the beginning of Western Imperialism in the region. This period redefined the religious landscape, challenging the existing traditions and introducing new ones, thereby having important implications in the formation of modern East Asian states.  

The main focus of the course will be on developments after 1945. Although religion is often relegated to a footnote when discussing modern societies of East Asia, religious values, myths, and practices remain a key part of the identity formation process. Since identity for most people remains an implicit factor, such factors often only come to the fore in crisis or conflict situations, which force people to take a position in terms of their identity. Since it is not possible to give a comprehensive picture of the whole history of religion in Modern East Asia, the course will be driven by case studies that will help the students understand the larger flow of change. 

This course for non-art major students introduces basic techniques of Asian brush and ink painting.  The course instructs on the basic theory of Sumukhua and the Sagunja; Four Gracious Plants (plum, orchid, chrysanthemum and bamboo) as well as painting in the literary artist style. This course also emphasizes a proper understanding of the relevant aesthetic concepts and practices to broaden students' perspective on traditional art. 

This class covers the physical mechanics and strategies for a successful game of bowling.

This course provides fundamental physical concepts and basic mathematical tools necessary for undergraduate students of the Department of Nuclear Engineering to take core courses offered in this department successfully. The course covers the most essential parts of classical mechanics; electricity and magnetism; thermodynamics and statistical physics, and fluid mechanics. A background in college-level freshman physics and mathematics is required. 

The objectives of this course are to: 

• Understand perfect gas law, kinetic theory and the first law of thermodynamics.

• Understand the 2nd and 3rd law of thermodynamics and phase transition.

• Understand simple mixtures and chemical reactions based on thermodynamics. 

This course studies the scientific aspects of Western (or European) music particularly focusing on its mathematical and physical aspects. The first half of the course reviews the history of European musical scales since Pythagoras, and thereby discusses how mathematics played important roles in their development. The course also covers the concept of harmony as it evolved through the intimate relations between science and music until the Renaissance. 

The second half of the course studies the physics of vibrational motions and sound waves using high-school level mathematics. Based on these, the course exposes how various musical instruments produce their characteristic sounds.  The course also provides opportunities to learn how scientific and technological advances have influenced European classical music.

This course is for beginners in music and focuses on the contents of musical notation such as notes, rests, time signatures, staff, key signatures, and temporary charts. It covers basic theory such as intervals and scales, fast words, musical symbols, notations, and classification of musical instruments. 

The course is taught in Korean; therefore, it is recommended that enrollees have the requisite Korean language proficiency (upper intermediate or higher). Exchange students majoring in music are not allowed to take the course. 

The objective of this course is to provide students with an overview of the role of chemistry in nanosciences. The course introduces some basic knowledge related to this field, and surveys the unique properties of nanoparticles and their applications, which includes bioconjugation methods, solution-based probes/sensors, in vitro and in vivo imaging, and nanoparticle therapeutics.  

Students should be able to 1) understand the general methods for fabricating nanomaterials; 2) understand the physical properties of nanomaterials; 3) apply the unique properties of some nanomaterials to create specific probes. Typical topics include supramolecular chemistry, basic photophysics, syntheses of nanoparticles, luminescent quantum dots, gold and silver nanoparticles, other inorganic nanoparticles, organic nanoparticles, bioconjugate chemistry, bioimaging, drug delivery and toxicity of nanoparticles. 

The goal of this course is to examine aesthetic topics and examine what kind of study aesthetics is. The course begins with an overview of the unique problems of aesthetics and how to approach them, followed by aesthetic judgment and aesthetic experience, the concept and essence of art, the ontology of works of art, imitation, expression, emotions, art and morality, and works of art. It deals with issues such as valuation. The latter half of the course focuses on the phenomenon of serious transformation in modern art and culture and examines the issues that arise when important themes of aesthetics meet modern art.