Korea, South

This course first introduces the nature and concept of economic development as well as some stylized facts of development. It also introduces several important theories and models of economic development. The second part of the course focuses more on specific issues such as income distribution, population, human capital, development policy making, and international trade. For each subject, empirical analysis and case studies are provided to enhance the understanding of students. Basically, this course relies on lectures. However, students are encouraged to join discussions and debate for each subject. Also, students form several groups, and each group prepares for a presentation that is made in the end of the semester. When time is allowed, several special lectures are arranged with invited speakers. 

Prerequisites: Principles of Economics I and II

The course provides a critical understanding of the medium of film. It covers basic cinematic and literary terms and perspectives for film analysis and analyzes and discusses a variety of English-language films from diverse perspectives.

This course provides an introduction to contemporary approaches to the study of the varieties of the English language observed across nations, regions, social groups, and contexts. The two major goals of the course are to illustrate the concepts of sociolinguistics that are essential to studying the expansion and resulting diversity of English and to examine the social, cultural, and linguistic impact of English in countries where English is taught and used as a second or foreign language.

This course explores how Korean thinkers and reformers/activists have engaged religions and ideologies in the major political, social and cultural developments and movements during premodern Korea and beyond. Through this course, the students are expected to gain a deeper understanding of how ideologies and religious ideas have informed the major debates and collective activities that have made the Korean history progress. One further aim of this class is to enhance the students’ability to write readable essays and paper based on their knowledge and insight acquired through the lectures, readings, and discussions.

This course is designed to introduce students to the wide range of opportunities and threats that have opened up with the advent of the information age. Students will come to understand holistically how cybersecurity connects to a wide range of issue areas in international relations (military, political, economic, etc.), and how the digitization of information leads to new vulnerabilities that traditional IR has never faced before. This will give students a head start when they inevitably have to deal with cyber-related issues throughout their careers.

This course covers vegetables and herbs including tissue anatomy, physiology and biochemical responses, cultivation, health-promoting effects, and secondary metabolism. Current issues of postharvest techniques and production of vegetables and herbs are also discussed.

This course explores the dynamic and complex intersection of media, culture and the city in global metropolises. The course provides students with a comprehensive introduction to key theoretical issues on digital screen, media, spectacle, urban experience, popular culture, and globalization in global cities. It also critically discusses methodological issues on the analytical framework and knowledge-forms in media and cultural research for local contexts. Students are encouraged to engage with current debates on epistemological and methodological questions in the fields of media and communication studies as well as urban and visual cultural studies and to enrich their knowledge of urban culture and politics in a systematic way. In doing so, the course helps students to grasp the complexity of media culture and to analyze creatively and critically a broad range of media products and cultural materials.

This course explores contemporary Korean literature. The course looks at the social and cultural environment in which the texts were produced and to which they respond. Students gain a critical point of view concerning the past, present and the future narratives. Analyzing contemporary Korean literature and sharing your opinions and feelings with other students through various activities, they experience the immense power of Korean literature.

A literary and philosophical inquiry into such themes as selfhood, nothingness, name, namelessness, reality, Karma, yin-yang, and so forth through examination of great literary and philosophical writings in the East Asian tradition. All works are read in English translation. Topics covered include: Taoist thought and literature, Confucian thought and literature, Buddhist literature, the origins of East Asian thought, search for cultural archetypes, Confucian ideology in crisis, and modernity in modern Korean and Chinese fiction.