Korea, South

This course examines the strategic partnership between high growth start-ups and venture capital. It investigates how venture capitalists perceive the worthiness of an idea, and covers some of the best ideas from the top early-stage investment practices. The first part of the course covers analytic frameworks on the underlying logics in the startup and venture capital ecosystem. The second part is a series of thought experiments, wherein ideas are crafted and evaluated across different business possibilities. The course demystifies the real-world startup and venture capital practices, by thinking analytically on some of its key features. As an outcome, such frameworks are geared to help enable students to make insightful conversations with practitioners from startups or venture capital firms in the future.

Biopsychology is an interdisciplinary science which investigates biological mechanisms underlying human and animal behavior. This course addresses neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological aspects of brain function as they relate to various behavioral processes, both normal and pathological. 

Korea began to adopt Western culture in the nineteenth century and developed their own hybridized music culture into the twentieth-first century. This class examines contemporary Korean musical culture alongside the history of Korea and explores Korean music culture as a global phenomenon. The course covers Korean aesthetic and sensibility in Korean musical culture with select examples from Korean traditional music, Korean’s children music, Korean arts songs of the Colonial Korea period, popular music (K-pop), Korean drama music, Korean film music, and K-classical music.

This course examines physiology, focusing how the major organ systems work in the human body. Topics include cellular, neural, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal physiology, and provides a study of the basic and essential mechanisms to maintain life from cell to human.

This is an advanced Korean language course. Students can communicate fluently using Korean grammar and expressions in various contexts; understand Korean way of thinking through various types of Korean materials containing various sources of Korean society and culture. This course is to achieve academic Korean language ability. Upon completion of the courses, students should be able to take university courses taught in Korean. 

The course examines popular music, not as isolated artistic texts, but situated within a wider context. The course is organized around the historical survey of popular music in modern Korea. It looks at and listens to a variety of musical genres and styles that emerged and developed in modern Korea from yuhaengga in the colonial era up until k-pop today, by situating them within a wider socio-cultural, political-economic context, as well as in relation to global musical trends.

Visions of the end of the world have become common in the for the past decades both in literature and in popular culture. This course examines the narratives dealing with the collapse of civilization and the rebirth of a new society. How have novels and films in the post-World War Two era confronted the fears of social disintegration, ecological disaster, and technological cataclysms? What might these narratives tell us about the world in which we are currently living, which appears perched on the edge of drastic and possibly calamitous changes? The course analyzes novels by George Stewart, Kurt Vonnegut, and Lionel Shriver and views classic and recent films dealing with the end of the world, of humankind, or even of culture itself. Students analyze speculative fiction and develop their own ideas about the future by extrapolating from the narratives studied in the course.