Korea, South

This course examines various ethical issues involving the Internet. Its unique architecture creates various legal and policy conflicts in freedom of speech (e.g., right to be forgotten), privacy (e.g., mass surveillance), anonymity, common carrier rules (e.g., net neutrality), intermediary liability, data protection, hate speech, domain name disputes, spam regulation, online copyright infringement, pornography and jurisdictional issues. In these debates, what is the role of law or the rule of law? Canvassing the laws of selected countries and international and regional law such as GDPR, e-Commerce Directive, UN Human Rights Committee recommendations, the course attempts to identify a globally consistent set of theories and arguments that have gained normative and prescriptive traction in the relevant regional or international debates.

The purpose of this class is to provide students with an opportunity to learn accurate batting methods, combine basic strokes, and use badminton as a lifelong leisure sport through step-by-step guidance on badminton`s underlying grips, footwork, and basic strokes.

This course offers a broad overview of the psychological challenges of finding a partner and creating a family system. We start out by building a theoretical understanding of family systems from a variety of different perspectives, but then move on to a more in-depth empirical understanding of the different psychological processes underlying intimate relationships. Then we use the empirical knowledge to build a deeper understanding of our own lives and relationships. 

This course covers the changing concept of health and discusses comprehensive information about health and exercise (physical fitness, adult diseases, nutrients, stress, smoking, drinking and fatigue). Topics include personal well-being for a healthy life; nutrition and health; cardiovascular fitness and health; metabolic fitness and health; muscles, nerves, skeletal physical strength and health; exercise and healthy aging; muscle strength; and muscular endurance. 

The course explores the basic concepts of global health, trends and indicators, determinants, and interventions to improve health. The world has moved from the era of International Health to Global Health with the understanding that the matters regarding health is inseparable in accordance to the national boundaries. Global Health refers to the idea of approaching health issues together as a global citizen and this brings efforts from various actors including state governments, international organizations, private foundations and non-governmental organizations to more. Recently, more non-health related actors are increasingly getting involved with the issues of global health with the rise of new infectious disease in addition to accelerating burden of non-communicable diseases. Today, the issues of Health is reaching major areas that used to be dealt in the realms that were considered irrelevant to health including economy, politics, and international relations. 

This course presents a practical approach (based on Excel examples) to understand the principles of management science and to apply them to business decision problems. Developing models of practical decision-making problems and solving them using Excel Solver, one learns how important and useful the scientific decision making process based on management science is for solving problems in real-world business applications. Focusing on management science modeling skills, this course covers linear programming, simplex method, sensitivity analysis, transportation models, integer programming, and others (if time permitted). Students learn the fundamental knowledge and analytical skills in management science. Management science (also called Operations research) combines the three broad disciplines of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Business Applications. This course aims to develop the ideas of developing, analyzing, and validating mathematical models for decision problems, and their systematic solution. The course involves modeling and mathematical analysis. 

Surveying is fundamental in civil and environmental engineering. This course covers geo-spatial measurements of common civil and environmental engineering projects; the types of instruments, techniques and detailed procedures used for making geospatial measurements in a field environment; the techniques involved in collecting, processing and plotting the types of geospatial data necessary for constructing engineering-scale maps; spatial reference frameworks; and effective approaches to setting up and presenting solutions of positioning/location problems.

This course introduces Korean literature in English translation and explores the relationship between Korean literature and world literature. The first half of the semester is devoted to pre-modern texts, including prose fiction, essays, and poems with an emphasis on Buddhism and Confucianism. The second half of the course examines short stories and poems of the 1920's through the 1980's against the backdrop of the Japanese colonization and the Korean War.