Korea, South

This course analyzes how social problems can be approached through social policy and welfare organizations. It focuses on problems that are endemic to Korea and explores possible solutions.

This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to international development discourses with a focus on water and development issues. Attention is given to outlining conceptual frameworks addressing the relevant underlying ecological, political, economic, and sociological principles in evaluating and managing water issues. 

This course provides a study of the culture, tradition and history of the Korean modern era by analyzing musical narratives with selected music examples from various angles. It looks at music through historical, cultural and political lenses; the contemporary Korea era with music examples in Korean and English; and Korean modern musical culture with different genres of music.

This course examines basic concepts and methods for estimating various quantities of interest in the analysis of survival data. A distinct feature of the type of data that is covered in this course is that the main response of interest, survival time, is subject to censoring, which leads to an incomplete observation. Topics include survival models, censoring and truncation, functions characterizing survival times, nonparametric estimation of survival function and other functions, comparison of survival functions for different groups, parametric and semiparametric regression models, mathematical and graphical methods for assessing goodness of fit, analysis of multivariate failure time data, competing risks analysis, cohort-sampling designs, and other advanced topics.  

This course provides an overview of the American political system and its electoral processes. It examines institutions and rules that structure electoral processes and discusses recent issues in U.S. elections. Topics include American political system, voting rights, congressional elections, presidency and presidential elections, political parties, campaign finance and interest groups, race and ethnicity in American elections, media and elections, and representation and accountability. 

This course focuses on the philosophy and core concepts of experimental design, and provides an introduction to analyzing experiments. It discusses (in)famous experiments in science, psychology, and neuroscience and analyzes their impact on today’s worldview – including theoretical, practical, and ethical implications.

This course studies various sport, health, and cultural issues in Korea. It also explores possible solutions to solve the problems and issues for others in society.

This course addresses theoretical concepts of environmental issues and provides an introduction to key concepts and solutions in environmental policy and politics at local, national, and global levels. Topics include how to cope with environmental problems; impacts of globalization on the environment; the main actors in planning and implementing environmental policies; what approaches seem most likely to solve environmental issues such as air pollution, natural resource depletion, and climate change; using political institutions, regulations, market mechanisms, or voluntary schemes to form environmental policies; and the roles of environmental movements, firms, and bureaucrats in environmental politics and policies.

This is an introductory course in psycholinguistics, which explores the cognitive processes underlying language production, comprehension, and acquisition. It covers the major concepts and issues of the discipline which encompass theoretical claims, research methodology and findings.

This course provides theoretical foundations and empirical methods to evaluate healthcare interventions from an economics perspective (also known as economic evaluation in health and medicine). It covers the principles and methods of economic evaluation, including how to define and measure costs and effectiveness and how to design an economic evaluation study.