Korea, South

This course provides an overview of food preservation by thermal processing, drying, freezing, and fermentation. The principles of preservation by controlling microbial and enzyme activity will also be studied. Topics include causes of spoilage of stored foods, such as the action of microorganisms; the action of enzymes; the oxidation reactions of food components; and the principles and techniques of food storage through refrigeration, freezing, drying, canning, and irradiation. The course emphasizes the manufacturing principles of fermented foods as well as characteristics of food packaging materials and the principles of food packaging. 

This course examines the issue of human rights in relation the idea that multicultural coexistence is accepted as a political and social fact, and, through this process of examination, aims to design institutional conditions that can respect special cultural experiences on the one hand and secure universal humanity on the other. 

Course topics explore diverging opinions on human rights in theory and practice: universality and relativity of human rights; development of human rights toward social and cultural rights; freedom of expression and antidiscrimination law; abortion, euthanasia, and human rights of women; immigration, refugee and border control; humanitarian intervention and sovereignty. 

This course provides an introduction to the world of Fantasy Sports, covering developmental history, cultural impact, fundamentals of participation, and success strategies. 

Through lecture, discussion, and practical experience (draft and Fantasy Football league play) students gain a comprehensive understanding of Fantasy Sports and the multiple roles that fantasy sports play within the sports industry, including data and information processing, promotion, marketing, and team managing tactics among many other practical applications.

Students are required to create an account at Sleeper to participate in the league and to present an idea for fantasy sports to be used in a Korean sports league (KBO, K-League, V-League, etc.). Students will be required to work in groups and to present their ideas (e.g., point system, graphics, sponsorship, etc.) at the end of the semester.

This course examines some of the main themes and issues of Korean history and cultures since the late 1980s. We often use literature and media, including short stories, feature films, documentaries, TV, and popular music, as a vehicle for understanding contemporary Korean history, culture, and society. Among the major issues we are exploring are democratization, the legacy of national division, new generation, culture industries and hallyu, cinematic re-writing of history, IMF crisis and neoliberal culture, family and gender, narratives of women, multiculturalism, and hallyu in the digital, multi-platform era. Topics include Postwar Development of South Korea, Democratization, Minjung and Democratization Movement and New Wave Cinema, New Generation and Individualism, Sunshine Policy, The Development of Culture Industries and the Korean Wave, Discourses on the Korean Wave, Asian Financial Crisis and Its Impact on Korean Society Family and Gender Relations, Gender and Sexuality in Popular Culture, Narratives of Women, Re-writing Colonial History in Film, Multiculturalism, and Hallyu 2.0 and the Korean Wave in a Digital, Multiplatform Era.

This course investigates how the cinematic medium represents, inspires, and shapes our understanding of the human condition. As breakthroughs in digital media and computer science reconfigure our physical and mental parameters, the question of what it means and what is involved to be human presses with increasing urgency. 

Students will watch, read about, and discuss select films across sub-topics that address a spectrum of human forms and conditions including robots, artificial intelligence, cyborgs, clones, etc., paired with critical texts that either offer theoretical conceptualizations of the human or explore the medium-specific qualities of cinema.  

Students will collaborate and present on at least one choice topic and conduct in-class research/discussion, building toward a final paper or creative project on a subject of their choice. 

This course introduces the basic theories of geophysics, such as the shape of the Earth, the Earth's gravitational field, the Earth's magnetic field, plate tectonic geodynamics, propagation of seismic waves, and the process of earthquake epicenters. Physical phenomena and conditions occurring inside the Earth from the surface to the center of the Earth are analyzed using physical methods and interpretations such as gravity, wave propagation, electricity and magnetism, and heat transfer. 

This course is an introduction to international negotiation. Topics include the basics of negotiation, diplomatic and business negotiation, communication skills, understanding and navigating cultural differences in international negotiation settings, strategic approaches to negotiation, and the role of English as a lingua franca. 

The course also examines and analyzes diplomatic negotiation in relation to the current era of globalization and the importance of bilateral and multilateral international negotiations between companies or governments. 

This is a comprehensive language skill training course that focuses on practical and functional Chinese, including speaking, writing, and listening. The oral training is arranged step by step from easy to difficult levels with well-designed exercises in vivid and interactive forms. Students who take this course are expected to achieve the following goals by the end of this semester: (1) Learn a vocabulary of 250 words. (2) Achieve 26 grammar points. (3) Be able to communicate with 33 useful expressions.

This course provides a broad introduction to the history of Western classical music by representative composers, examining the styles and structures of this music and its relationships within historical contexts.  

Students will learn about the lives of and listen to major works by composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Debussy and others to be announced.  

Industrial organization is a branch of microeconomics that studies markets of imperfect competition. When the number of competitors is small and competition is imperfect, each individual firm faces situations of strategic interaction among the market participants (consumers, competitors, or suppliers). Using game theoretic tools, this course studies various market structures and the competitive and cooperative strategies used by profit-maximizing firms as well as their implications for market outcomes and regulation policies. Topics include Markets and strategies, Static oligopoly competition, Dynamic oligopoly competition, Source of market power, Price discrimination, Impact of asymmetric information, Cartels and collusion, Horizontal mergers, and Vertically-related markets.

Prerequisite: Game Theory