Korea, South

This course provides a study of educational phenomena from the educational psychology perspective. It discusses research and implications in the areas of development, learning, and motivation.

This course covers fundamental concepts and basic tools of financial economics focusing mainly on investment and partially on financial markets, international finance, and monetary policy. Specific topics include valuing stocks and bonds, risk and return, international financial arbitrage, parity conditions in international finance, financial system, and central banking policy.

The objective of the course is to equip students with communicative skills in speaking, reading, and writing at the intermediate level in Korean, such as expanding simple ideas into imposing various kinds of the speaker's stance. e.g. judgement, inference, and evaluation or subjective assessment of the ideas entertained, and expressing more complex relations between events, such as cause, reason, purpose, condition, concession, intention, background, etc. 

The goals of this course include improving listening comprehension, enhancing leadership capabilities, summarizing and connecting ideas, building vocabulary and expressions, addressing cultural topics, and sharing views/ideas with others. 

This course looks at human nature and society and examines the lives and philosophies of Eastern thinkers. It discusses topics that are central to the design of a well-ordered society. Particular attention is given to the ways in which they contribute to a broader conversation about freedom, justice, virtue, democracy, citizenship, and so on. 

Through this course, we explore Korea’s premodern and modern belief systems according to the peninsula’s interactions with other parts of the world—particularly East Asia and the West. Topics include the rise of transnational Jesuit spirituality, catholic Christianity, and Korean Confucianism: accommodation and conflict, the rise of Protestantism in Korea and the emergence of an “ethically Confucianized Christianity”, bible women, the early modern evolution of home care, and the Seoul evangelistic center, protestant Christianity in the northern regions of Korea: Jerusalem of the east (to 1945), and exilic north Korean Christianity (1990~present). 

This course examines the rapidly changing notions of gender and family against the historical and cultural transformations of East Asian societies. It focuses on the changing forms of families in East Asia and how families and relationships are portrayed in films and dramas.

This course reviews algorithms and machine learning techniques such string pattern matching algorithms, PCA, decision tree, artificial neural networks, support vector machines, and frequent pattern mining techniques. It also reviews computational tools for algorithms and machine learning (mostly with Tensorflow, PyTorch), and surveys how these techniques are used for practical applications.

This course introduces factors that affect the Earth's climate system, oceans, landforms, and living things. The primary emphasis is on earth’s paleoenvironment, geomorphology, and the study of landforms and processes in different environments. The key landscape characteristics of Asia are covered, along with crucial environmental challenges.

This course investigates digital trade and related issues, and covers digital trade rules in trade agreements, countries’ digital trade policies, and sharing economy. In addition, it discusses digital platforms such as Google and Netflix and digital divide with its impact on developing countries.