Korea, South

This course focuses on key texts of the European literary tradition between the 19th century and the present. It explores the philosophical, political, and ethical issues raised in these texts.

The course surveys the region’s history and contemporary developments from an interdisciplinary perspective, including geography, history, culture, religion, economics and politics. It pays particular attention to how historical, cultural, religious, and philosophical traditions have intersected with contemporary political, economic, and social developments in Asia. It also examines similarities and differences in sub-regions of Asia, namely Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Northeast Asia. 

This course discusses how ethical issues of design have impacted on Korean society, which has been rapidly transformed by adoption of foreign culture, Confucianism, Korean war, economic growth, and latest popularity of K-Pop, in comparison with Western society. 

This course introduces the principles of human factors psychology and examines how they are applied to entrepreneurship. It explores how perceptual and cognitive theories can be applied to diverse systems, from personal computers to complex systems such as air-traffic control, aircraft cockpits, and nuclear power plants. It also covers theories and findings on human performance and their implications for efficient and safe designs.

This course critically examines the technology of energy systems that will be acceptable in a world faced with global warming, local pollution, and declining supplies of oil. It covers conventional fossil fuel energy systems, renewable energy systems (wind, solar, ocean), and non-carbon emitting energy systems.

This course develops intermediate-level Chinese communication skills. In this course, students practice for correct pronunciation and tone, learn intermediate level vocabulary and expressions and advanced grammar, practice reading and writing skills, and develop free listening and speaking skills through repeated conversation practice.

This course provides a study of how to build Python programs using fundamental programming structures like variables, conditional logic, looping, and functions. It looks at how to process data using lists, tuples, and dictionaries in Python programs; and how to read and write files in Python for data analysis. It explores problem-solving procedures, data representations, and algorithms through computers, and teaches practical programming techniques that can express the problem-solving process in Python programming language.

This is a research methodology course that provides a basic understanding of how to conduct and evaluate qualitative and quantitative research for making effective advertising and PR decisions. It covers the scientific and conceptual foundations of behavioral research and the technical specifics in conducting research (e.g., measurement issues, sampling, data collection methods, and the use of statistics in data analysis). 

This course applies concepts and theories of social psychology to explain human behavior related to clothing. Major concepts examined include psychological factors such as personal characteristics, desire, and self-concept, as well as social factors such as sex, age, role, status, symbolic communication, and impression formation. 

This course provides a study of advanced financial management. This course looks at market efficiency hypothesis, capital structure, dividend policy, and working capital management, which are based on fundamental financial theories including the present value model, capital budgeting, portfolio theory, CAPM and cost of capital. It also provides an introduction to corporate financial analysis, financial planning, and derivatives.