Korea, South

This course explores the application of economics principles to firms and firms' strategies. In the first part of the course, firms, their internal organization, and their horizontal and vertical boundaries are examined. In the second part, the course looks at firms' interactions competing against or cooperating with each other. This part includes such topics as strategic pricing, entry and exit, collusion, etc. Finally, it studies how to compare industries in terms of their competitiveness, how firms can position themselves within industry, and also take on questions of competitive advantage and its sustainability. 

This course introduces a variety of texts across disciplines-history, philosophy, cultural studies, literature etc.-in order to understand how American culture interacts with and shapes the world we live in. Many of the important social and cultural movements and trends since World War II, which have contributed to the reshaping of the contours of American culture-- American exceptionalism, consumerism, globalization and mass culture, muticulturalism, ecoculturalism--are examined from various perspectives, both synchronically and diachronically. 

This course examines East Asian Cinema in the framework of transnationality. With focus on inter/intra cultural junctures it probes thematics, stylistics, and socio-historical and political contexts of cinemas of South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. Throughout the course, notions of national cinema and nation-bound culture are questioned and issues of gender, ethnicity, national identity, and etc. that are presented in those cinemas are addressed. Through the practice of visual and theoretical analysis, this course enables students to explore East Asian cinemas on a shifting transnational scene of media.

This course looks at how social factors contribute to individual physical and mental health outcomes using multiple theoretical frameworks developed in the U.S. and Europe. It examines how micro-, meso-, and macro-level factors influence an individual's health. Particularly, the course evaluates the health disparities research from Western Societies and discusses how these findings apply to Korea. It also discusses the implications of these findings on social welfare policies and social work practice in Korea.

This course focuses on the fundamentals of modern numerical techniques for a wide range of linear and nonlinear elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic partial differential equations and integral equations central to a wide variety of applications in science, engineering, and other fields. Topics include Mathematical Formulations; Finite Difference Method, Finite Volume Method, Collocation Method, Finite Element Discretization.

This course has been specifically designed for students in the Department of Korean Language and Literature AND the University of California Education Abroad Program (UCEAP). It surveys modern Korean history through close readings of selected major literary works. Rather than offering a mere narrative of the peninsula’s history, it focuses on particular episodes, events, influences, and historical ruptures that have shaped how Korean writers have interpreted and understood their past. The course looks at the use of a form of writing (“the novel”) as a historical source. It examines the development of the long story form, the formalistic aspects of narrative, and its cultural impact. Major themes include the country’s opening to the West, its colonial experience and subsequent fratricidal war, and the divergent post-colonial paths of the two separate Koreas. Throughout, we address the tensions of Korean nationalism, authoritarianism, and industrialization in conjunction with the politics of gender and class. The latter half of the semester will focus primarily on the diaspora and migrant workers in South Korea.

This course examines the mission and philosophy of psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation, and key implementation issues related to the psychiatric rehabilitation and treatment process.

This course provides students with an opportunity to gain insights from the top experts of this era on various academic topics or research subjects. A total of 26 professors from Yonsei University and Korea University, the top experts in the field, give lectures on 13 humanities and sociology topics. 

This examines the technical aspects of artificial intelligence from an ethical point of view and the many social and economic issues related to it. 

This class focuses on the grammar, vocabulary and expressions that are commonly used in Japan, practicing both comprehension and production skills. Students become familiar with the language and cultural background of everyday life situations likely to be encountered in contemporary Japanese society. This course also helps students to read sentences mixed with Kanji, compose simple sentences, and write short essays.