Korea, South

This introduces Korean traditional music—genres, aesthetics, and performance styles. The course uses music as a medium through which we can better understand Korean culture, and makes use of audiovisual materials and live performance to enhance course content. The course is open to both Korean and International students who have an interest in Korean traditional and contemporary musical cultures.

This course focuses on the challenging task of organic growth and is intended to train future CEOs in specific skills to navigate and grow their enterprises into the future. Growth is the only thing that all types of firms -- start-ups, small, medium, large, family-businesses, non-profits -- have in common, but how they go about achieving growth could be very different. There are only two ways to grow an enterprise: M&A and Organic. Given a lot of resources and money, anyone can go buy another company. However, with organic growth—to create something from nothing and scale it—is much more difficult.

This course provides an introduction to cross-cultural psychology and the main challenges and advantages of the scientific study of culture. Topics include methods in cultural psychology; cultural conception of self and agency; motivation; emotion; and cognition and perception.

This course offers students an opportunity to think, speak, and write in English about diverse issues of modern and contemporary society, using readily accessible genres and forms of cultural and social texts, including popular literature, literature for children and adolescents, graphic novels, movies and TV dramas, music, art works, journalistic writings, internet postings, etc. The class may either be organized around a single overarching theme or cover a series of different yet preferably interrelated themes.

This course is a workshop-based class on the topic of culture in multimodal communication. Students explore tools for understanding and analyzing different modes of communication. Particularly, the class focuses on how meaning is made through the interaction of two modes (language and image) in an important modern cultural medium, graphic novels. However, students apply the knowledge gained from this class to other forms of multimodal communication in the world around them.

This is a survey course on operations management in manufacturing and service organizations. Operations management mainly deals with the processes of value creation and delivery for customer satisfaction, and plays a key role in sustaining competitive advantage in dynamic marketplaces. This course covers various strategic and tactical decisions in the field of operations management, and introduces basics of supply chain management. 

This course studies human society and introduces students to the field of sociology. Although the module provides theoretical perspectives of sociology, students are encouraged to explore a wide variety of empirical situations. Korean examples of relevant social issues are discussed. 

This course focuses on cultivating analytical insight on legal disputes as a social phenomena. Systemization of the legal theories with the assistance of social science, and the analysis of social phenomena with the established legal theories are the two major cores of this course.

This course examines Japanese political economy. It provides an overall understanding of political economy in Japan. The course covers diverse topics of contemporary Japan through the lens of political economy including the developmental state and Japan Inc., the politics of industrial policy, the bubble economy and lost decade, the Japanese financial Big Bang, the political economy of globalization and Japanese reform, types of economic recovery or recession after the 2008 global crash and 2011 quake, Abenomics and recent symptoms of recession, and Japanese foreign policy and new initiatives, etc. This course is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the developmental state of Japan; the second part covers the Japanese “lost decade” and the future of its economy; and the third part outlines Japan’s foreign policy. 

This course examines current discussions and evidence about the psychological significance of media. It encompasses analyses of the psychological impacts of media content and presentation; how individuals process media content as well as how the media affects individuals' knowledge, attitudes and behaviors. Topics include: psychological processing of media; media violence; media realism; sexual content; stereotyping; media effects on collective opinion, and the effects of new communication technologies.