Korea, South

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.

Lecture of fundamental theories and practice of Scuba Diving skills. There are two options: Option A) Obtain 1 credit (class lecture and pool practice, 5m pool practice), and Option B) Obtain 1 credit+ Scuba Diver certificate (class lecture and pool practice, 5m pool practice, 3 days of open water training). Topics include equipment selection and repairing, underwater physics, underwater physiology, SEABAG, underwater environment, diving plan, dive table, diving safety, defensive diving, emergency ascending. Pool practices include skin dive, equipment setting, snorkel clearing, mask clearing, neutral bouyancy, ascending, decending, equipment and exchange underwater.

Prerequisite: The following swim abilities: 50m swim with any style 20m underwater swim without breathing.

This course focuses on following areas: (1) Improving comprehension of Chinese (2) Expanding one’s knowledge in grammatical usage (3) Expanding one’s knowledge in vocabulary.

Assessment: Midterm (30%), Final (30%), Attendance & participation (15%), Assignments (25%)

Prerequisite: Chinese (1), Chinese (2), Fundamental Mandarin Chinese (1)

This course introduces different approaches to learning and memory including behavioral, computational, and cognitive. It analyzes recent findings in neuroscience, qualitative and quantitative models of learning, real-world examples, and clinical cases.

Strategic Management deals with the organization, management, and strategic positioning of the firm so as to gain long-term competitive advantage. This course examines how firms gain and sustain competitive advantage; analyzes strategic business situations and strategy formation; and how to implement strategy and organize the firm for strategic success. 

The goal of this course is to provide rigorous theories and frameworks for understanding modern macroeconomic issues, debates, policies, and solutions. The course also aims to develop data analysis skills using macroeconomic data and MS Excel. 

Prerequisites: Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics and Calculus I.