Korea, South

This course provides a study of how Korean culture works in the global context, focusing on sociology of religion. 

This course examines East Asia cinemas in the framework of transnationality. It focuses on inter/intra-cultural junctures, stylistics, thematics, and socio-political and historical contexts of cinemas of South & North Korea, China, Hong Kong, and Japan. It also discusses the issues of gender, ethnic, and national identity that are raised and contested in these cinemas, questioning the notions of national cinema and nation-bound culture. 

This course offers a critical overview of anthropological approaches to the environment. It introduces a set of contemporary and now classic literature on nature produced by anthropologists and social scientists more broadly, while critically engaging with contemporary environmental issues. This course examines key anthropological approaches organized into three key themes of community, capitalism, and multispecies entanglements. 

This class explores the meaning and necessity of interpersonal relationships, major psychological variables that affect human interpersonal relationships; and the meaning and characteristics of human relationships between family members, peers, and colleagues.

This course focuses on 'mobility' in the global era, reviews the various landscapes of migration, and explores ways to improve multicultural sensitivity. It examines theories related to globalization and migration and provides a study of capital, migrants, citizenship, and multiculturalism through specific examples. In the first half of the class, the theoretical concepts and aspects related to migration are identified, and the experiences of migrants are listened to. The second half analyzes what drives the migration of young people and how the desire and identity of mobile/imobile youth are structured through migration. 

This course provides an overview of the fundamental principles and important applications of computer vision. Topics include image processing, segmentation, feature extraction, photometric vision, motion and tracking, camera models, scene reconstruction, and human/scene/object recognition and detection.

This introductory course addresses basic concepts and linguistic processing methods regarding natural language comprehension and machine translation. It discusses fundamental concepts in information retrieval, text processing, and natural language understanding. Specific topics include morphological analysis, syntactic parsing, semantic analysis, pragmatics, and language generation.

This liberal arts course provides a study of and appreciation for classical music. 

This course addresses philosophical and methodological questions relevant to criticism of the arts, especially the question of value and evaluation. It discusses the issues regarding interpretation of artworks, examining theories of interpretation with examples of actual artworks. It also examines various aspects of art's value including aesthetic value, cognitive value, moral value, etc. It then moves on to the issue of applying standards of evaluation to some controversial cases found in the area such as erotic art, public art and popular art. Finally, some meta-critical issues are addressed.

This course covers the care and maintenance of clothing. Topics include the principle of adhesion of contaminants and textile fibers; critical factors in removing contaminants (surfactants, mechanical removal, solvent, chemical degradation, etc.); care and maintenance of protective textiles; and environmental impact during the clothing maintenance process.