Korea, South

This course consists of lectures on the overall system and practice using Siemens NX and ProEngineer, which are commercial programs. 2D drawing is practiced with AutoCAD, and 3D shape modeling is practiced using UGS NX and ProEngineer.

This course examines contemporary South Korea through cultural production and political change, from a historical perspective. The first half of the course explores the vicissitudes of Korean history and social change with a focus on the critical junctures that laid the groundwork for Korea’s national identity. The second half of the course considers the relationships of power at work between communities around the world that create the new cultural forms and affective identities that constitute global Korean culture and examine the mechanisms that drive popular culture in the 21st century through literature, film, and television. Through this dual approach, students will gain a deeper understanding of contemporary Korean culture and society through global cultural exchange and local political transformations.

Take a cursory glance at recent critical work on Asian American Studies, and you'll notice immediately how often the term “Asian America” appears, as if such a formation actually exists. Less a claim to take actual territory from the United States than a broad appeal to grant Asians a place at the American table of citizenship and national belonging, the literature of Asian Americans can be productively read alongside persistent yet often divergent, even contested, visions of Asian America. This course is designed to trace one such trajectory in the creation and recreation of Asian America through literature. Paying special attention to the political, economic, and social constraints during the time of their production and reception, we will examine how Asian American literary work both reflected and transformed the social protocols of their day, and in doing so helped to reimagine what it means to be “Asian,” or “American,” and everything else in between. 

This course examines issues surrounding the design, application and effective use of information systems in organizations. It covers the role of information systems in organizations, the technical foundations of information systems, communication networks that interconnect information systems components, and basic IT design, management and strategic issues for business.

This course is designed for students with basic knowledge in Korean, and expands their vocabulary and grammar for everyday conversation. Students engage in a variety of activities in speaking, listening, writing, and reading to improve their communication skills in Korean. By the end of the course students should be able to understand the fundamental rules of sentence structure and syntax in Korean; have basic conversations in Korean on various topics including jobs, transportation, weather, food, sports, etc.; and use past and future tense, honorific forms according to the appropriate social situation.

This course examines the history and culture of East Asia with a focus on Korea, China, and Japan. Specifically, it pays attention to the cultural elements shared by the so-called 'East Asian culture' before modern times. In other words, we examine how cultures such as Chinese characters, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Islam were formed and developed, how they spread throughout East Asia, and how they affected and how they have been transformed to this day. Rather than simply comparing the three countries of Korea, China, and Japan, we set East Asia as a unit and pay attention to how cultural elements are circulated and related therein. Topics include Literacy Life in East Asia; Buddhism in East Asia; Confucian Culture and Confucian Society in East Asia: East Asia and its Complexity as a Confucian Cultural Sphere; Islam in East Asia; and East Asian Countries from a Comparative Historical Perspective.

This course offers an overview of how American legal institutions defined and enforced public rules based on race and racial categories. It begins with a discussion of the American constitution, then proceeds to the law of slavery, Native American removal, restrictions against Chinese and Asian immigrants, and race-based segregation. The course delves into the American Civil Rights Movement, followed by studies of desegregation and notions of “colorblindness.”