Korea, South

This course examines contemporary Korean society, with special focus on social issues across various fields including sociology of religion. 

This course studies the compositional characteristics of Chinese text. It develops skills in writing appropriate Chinese sentences, paragraphs, and texts, and logical compositions with correct Chinese sentences. 

This course covers the theory and applications/empirical analyses of labor economics. It examines economic tools for analyzing the behavior of employers and employees and the inter-relationship of the major forces at work shaping demand and supply in labor markets. 

This course analyzes how cyber issues are changing the world of politics and security. It covers particular trends in the field, such as attempts to integrate cyber attacks into traditional militaries, the role of the internet in information warfare and propaganda, and the emergence of internet governance as a new topic for international negotiation and perhaps even arms control. Topics include cyber and society, cyber and war, nonstate actors, and cyber governance. 

This course deals with signals, systems, and transforms, from their theoretical mathematical foundations to practical implementation in EE applications. This course covers the mathematics and practical issues of signals in continuous and discrete time, linear time invariant systems, convolution, and signal transforms. 

This course studies South Korea’s remarkable transformation since 1960. The course concentrates on three critical turning points: Park Chung Hee’s creation of the development state beginning in the early 1960s, democratization in 1987, and the genesis of and reaction to the 1997 economic crisis. This course offers a new view of how Korea was able to maintain a pro-development state with sustained growth by resolving repeated crises in favor of rebalancing and greater political and economic openness. 

This course utilizes The Great Gatsby not only to understand the complex desires of the characters and the gilded age of 1920s America, but also to compare them with those here and now in Korea. The course begins by reading The Great Gatsby, and then reading select critical perspectives on the story, along with an introduction to such critical perspectives.

This course examines Korean politics and political system from diverse perspectives. It studies theories of international politics and political institutions, and the Korean culture and economy and their related processes..

This course develops basic Korean language skills and is intended for students without any prior knowledge of the Korean language. This course covers the Korean alphabet, first level vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and sentence structure. 
 

This course provides the essential skills and strategies required to communicate effectively in the business world. It examines the established conventions for communication by exploring the fundamentals of business writing, encompassing memoranda, emails, and business letters. In addition to written communication, the course explores oral presentations in diverse professional contexts and settings.