Korea, South

This course provides an introduction to smart city planning. It covers the history and concept of smart cities, future city trends, diverse smart technologies, and smart city policies. Topics include a comparison of European smart cities, technology and urban planning, smart city projects in economic development planning, smart mobility solutions, autonomous vehicles, smart mobility projects in Korea, smart energy transitions, and smart city projects in participatory planning. 

This course provides a broad understanding of linguistics by examining the historical changes in the objects and methodology of its research. Following a historical path, the course explores the theoretical background and characteristics of each school, up to European and American structuralism and modern transformational grammar.

Researchers protect their intellectual property in the form of property rights (patents), and capitalize the invention either by licensing out the rights to other enterprises or by starting up a company by themselves. This course covers intellectual property, how researchers’ inventions are protected, and what knowledge and skills are need to start a technology based company.

This course surveys American literature and literary history, examining how major American authors from the early colonial period to the present contributed the American literary tradition. Authors, including such canonical writers as Bradstreet, Franklin, Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Whitman, Frost, Williams, Faulkner, Lowell and Morrison, and their selected writings in various genres are read in relevant historical, social and cultural contexts so as to offer a broad understanding of American literary history.

This course examines several of the most important issues of international legal theory and the philosophical approaches to international law. 

This course provides an introduction to methods of operations research from an executive or managerial viewpoint, emphasizing formulation of business problems in quantitative terms. Topics include industrial applications of linear programming, dynamic programming, game theory, probability theory, queuing theory, and inventory theory. More specifically, this course is about learning how to structure, analyze, and solve business decision problems on Excel Spreadsheet, with emphasis on systematic, logical thinking, and problem solving. The course addresses problems involving data analytics (how to summarize the available data into useful information), optimal resource allocation (how to best utilize the available resources), decision tree (how to make decisions in a sequential manner), and risk analysis (how to incorporate uncertainty in business environment). In each area, specific problems in operations, finance, and marketing are considered and students build models to represent them on spreadsheets to analyze and solve them using the available Excel commands, tools, and add-ins. 

This course is for students who have completed level one or approximately 150 hours of Korean language study. This course teaches to read and write Korean in accordance with phonetic rules. Students can correctly construct complex and compound sentences and partially understand the organization of the Korean language and be able to speak informally using "banmal" (informal speech) in basic daily life conversation. Texts: YONSEI KOREAN 2, YONSEI KOREAN READING 2, YONSEI KOREAN WORKBOOK 2. 

This course provides a study of the concept of '3D (solid)' and the structure of the product. It covers modeling software including Fusion 360 and Keyshot, and techniques that can be used for prototyping. 

Looking at the trends and status of post-war Japanese foreign policy and applying the analysis of foreign policy from a comparative foreign policy perspective, this course pursues a historical and theoretical understanding and deepening of Japanese foreign policy. Topics include the nature and peculiarities of Japanese politics; aspects of continuity and discontinuity; how political power is controlled; Japanese politics in the 1990s (Japan in crisis); and the future of Japanese politics.

This intermediate Korean language course is for students who have completed beginning Korean language or approximately 300 hours of Korean language study. Students learn to fluently read Korean dialogues and understand Korean pronunciation rules. This course teaches to correctly use various tenses and suffixes including causative and passive verbs. Students communicate with little difficulty in daily life and freely present opinions in sentences and words in both daily and formal situations. Texts: YONSEI KOREAN 3, YONSEI KOREAN READING 3, YONSEI KOREAN WORKBOOK 3.