Korea, South

This course examines major events in the long-twentieth century of the Western civilization with six themes: War and Revolution, interwar years, the postwar order, Bretton Woods, challenges against the state from left- and right-wing intellectuals, and globalization and de-globalization. Challenging the dichotomy of ‘West’ and ‘East’, it pays attention to the way in which different civilizations interconnected themselves. 

This course covers foundational concepts of machine learning for beginners with limited programming experience. Students use elementary machine learning algorithms with programming languages, such as Python to solve real-life problems with data sets. In addition, this course develops the mathematical basis for students to understand how basic machine learning techniques such as singular-value decomposition, principal component analysis, and linear least squares for linear regression work.

The course is to introduces the basic concepts of Homological Algebra including modules, diagrams, functors, homology of complexes, tensor products, group homology, and cohomology. 

This course will cover electrochemical/material engineering and recent energy applications such as batteries, fuel cells, electrodepositions, and corrosions. The course builds on electrochemistry and its application to energy devices. Emphasis is placed on the fundamental concepts related to electrochemistry, understanding electrochemical cells, corrosion and prevention, and various energy storage/conversion devices.

The course develops a sufficient understanding of fundamental financial accounting concepts, terminology, and techniques in order to comprehend typical corporate financial statements provided in annual reports and apply accounting knowledge to business decision-making. 

The course offers a global perspective on US foreign policy from the early period to the present. The class focuses on major episodes of US foreign policy-making rather than individual US administrations. Topics include general knowledge about the history of US foreign policy; detailed knowledge of at least one major episode (case study) or historical period of US foreign policy-making; the ability to apply theoretical perspectives in the analysis of US foreign policy.