Korea, South

This course provides in-depth understandings about human development within diverse layers of environment including family, school, work and community. In particular, this course provides comparative perspective by offering information about Korean socio-cultural, and family contexts and their relationship with human development. For this purpose, this course first gives knowledge about developmental and family theories explaining human development within contexts. Second, the course explores human development through prenatal period to adulthood. Lastly, diverse environmental contexts around developing human beings is discussed. 

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.