Korea, South

This course introduces basic fluid dynamic concepts including fluid mechanics and their practical applications to several flow systems. Course topics include the characteristics of fluid, hydrostatics, mass and momentum conservation laws, dimensional analysis, and internal flows.

This course examines the basic concepts of how organisms, organs, cells and biomolecules carry out the chemical or physical functions that they have in a living system. In this semester, the class introduces basic cellular physiology, neural, muscle, cardiovascular respiratory, gastrointestinal, renal and endocrine system in the animals. Topics include Cellular Physiology, The Nervous system, Muscle, The Cardiovascular system, The Respiratory System, Gastrointestinal Physiology, The Renal system, and Endocrine systems.

It aims to teach students who seek interest in a broader understanding of artistic cultural space by using examples of architecture and painting. Composed of a total of 4 well-known countries and their major cities in the world that will be studied, the course will investigate the arts of Egypt, Italy, France, and the United States. Finally, the course will attempt to provide the ability in appreciating and understanding famous art pieces of work.

This course explores poems of 17th-century England, concentrating on the works of John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton. Based on these poems, the course covers Metaphysical Poets, Cavalier Poets and Religious Poets. 

This course explores genre fiction, often defined as formulaic popular fiction such as mystery, detective stories, horror, romance, Western, science fiction, fantasy, and historical fiction. It examines the thematic and stylistic conventions of gothic fiction and those of detective fiction. The course looks at how genres are divided into subgenres and how they are combined into cross genres as well as the establishment of new genres. The primary goal of this course is to learn about gothic fiction—its history, its generic characteristics, and its significance in English literature—while also improving close reading skills and independent interpretation of literary texts seen in their socio-historical context. 

This course covers basic finance concepts and their applications including time value of money, risk and return tradeoff, security valuation, and capital budgeting. Other topics include how to manage risks associated with the projects, how capital markets function, how companies and capital markets interact with each other, and social responsibilities of corporations. 

This course introduces various topics in macroeconomics such as measurements, business cycles, effects of policies, and long-run growth to first year undergraduate students.  In particular, this course develops basic but formal macroeconomic frameworks step by step. The ultimate goal of this course is to help students understand key macroeconomic questions such as “Why does an economy grow over time?” and “What happens and what should we do when the aggregate economy fluctuates?"

This course offers a examination of Korean culture through Eastern philosophy and understanding Eastern philosophy through Korean popular culture. It covers the cultures and thoughts of various Asian traditions as well as a wide range of topics, ranging from Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism to Korean folk beliefs. The areas surveyed in this class include South and Southeast Asia (India, Ceylon, Myanmar, Thailand) as well as East Asia (Korea, China, Japan). 

This course explores the ways the two Koreas, North and South, have coped with the dictate of international politics since the national division. It examines this question by highlighting and explaining the defining characteristics of the both systems in the context of their respective political change, economic development, national security, human rights and response to globalization as results of their respective choices of national survival, political development and economic prosperity.

Prerequisite: Introductory course on Korean politics