Korea, South

This course analyzes the costs and benefits of division and unification, considering the security and economic perspectives of major players like the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Indo-Pacific region as a whole. The course explores the North Korean nuclear issue, examining potential contingencies and exploring economic sanctions and assistance within the global context. Finally, it offers a comprehensive review of international influences on South Korea's foreign policy from historical to contemporary times.

This is an introductory course in macroeconomics. Topics include wealth and money; how a nation's income is measured; growth of wealth and how some countries have successfully achieved prosperity, while other countries have failed in achieving economic growth; and theories related to the business cycle, including the main topic of macroeconomics since John Maynard Keynes. This course also discusses the problem of lack of jobs available in this economy and explores the various economic theories from opposing schools.

This course introduces the field of language acquisition, which involves the scientific study of human languages, and applied linguistics. It covers the different types of linguistic knowledge (words, sentence patterns, sound patterns), how linguistic knowledge is applied in different cultures, how people learn languages, and the different rates of acquisition and approaches (cognitive psychology, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics) to second language acquisition.

This course analyzes the political and economic development in East Asia. It focuses on South Korea as the main case, while using Japan and China as comparative cases. After reviewing key theoretical approaches to the successful state-led development of East Asian economies since the 1950s, this course narrows its focus down on Korea. It explores how Korea has achieved dramatic economic and political development since the 1970s, faced a serious economic crisis in the late 1990s, and attempted to overcome new challenges since then. Utilizing the Korean case, this course analyzes the changing relationship between the state and market, the proper role of the state in economic development, and the political and economic paths that the East Asian economies (especially China) might take in the future.

This course introduces students to tennis. The first part focuses on the basics, including forehand, backhand, serve, volley, overhead, and lob. The second part reviews all stroke mechanics and covers basic singles and doubles strategies. Students also learn the standard rules and policies for tennis matches.

This courses provides a foundation for statistical and probabilistic concepts based on mathematical tools. It explores how to apply statistical concepts to solve real-world problems. Topics include axioms of probability, random variables, the most important discrete and continuous probability distributions, expectation, moment generating functions, conditional probability and conditional expectations, multivariate distributions, some limit theorems.

This course examines the various individual and social values and ethics related to sex, looks at how various conflicts are expressed and resolved in the concrete reality of relationships and marriage from a psychological perspective, and considers how individuals with various values and ethics of love and marriage live together beyond the traditional concept of sex. It also examines how happiness in romantic relationships and marriages can be predicted by personality factors and situational (environmental) factors. 

This course examines the principal performance of textiles for clothing. It explores the morphology, properties, and end uses of each fiber.

This course is an introductory-level survey of the major scholarly traditions and debates in the field of international relations (IR). This course explores a sample of prominent thoughts and theories on international conflict and cooperation. It will also cover thematic issues such as nuclear weapons, terrorism, humanitarian intervention, economic statecraft, trade politics, and power shifts. 

Lab choir performs a variety of music from throughout history and around the world. Students demonstrate fundamentals of vocal technique and musicianship skills, expressive and communicative performance skills, ensemble listening skills and perform music from throughout history and around the world with appropriate differences in musical style and vocal timbre.