Korea, South

This module is designed to help foreign students with their understating of Persian culture to improve their fluency, their comprehensibility, and their overall confidence. It helps students develop a competency in comprehending and producing Persian, as well as sociocultural competency in communicating with the people who speak or use it in meaningful ways. This module presents a basic understanding of the Persian language covering five skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and culture. It teaches students the Persian alphabet, basic sentence constructions in Persian, basics of Persian grammar, and vocabulary to be able to read basic texts and conduct basic everyday conversation.

Introduction to the classification, structure, reactions, and reaction mechanisms of carbon compounds. The general outcome goals are that students will understand the classification, structure, nomenclature, reactions, reaction mechanisms, and synthesis of carbon compounds including halocarbons, alkenes, and alcohols. Thereby, this course can provide a solid foundation in the fundamentals of organic chemistry essential for the rational study of biochemistry, molecular biology, and materials applications of polymers.

Prerequisite: General Chemistry course

This course introduces students to the cultures and literatures of the Portuguese-speaking world, specifically Portugal, Brazil, and Mozambique. While it explores the fascinating history of each of these countries through cultural products that range from film, literature and music, colonialism has played a crucial part in this history and its journey to modernity.  The course offers a glimpse into societies whose people have continually dealt with the aftermath of imperialism, racism, and economic exploitation, and that have also shown enormous creativity and resilience.

This course covers statistical and mathematical methods to analyze economic data. It emphasizes both the theory behind different statistical methods and estimators and their practical applications. The two main goals of the class are to prepare students for graduate work in economics or other social sciences and to teach data analysis skills to students who intend to work in industry or government. 

This course offers an introduction to the anthropological study of science and technology. We examine how science and technology come to matter in our daily lives. Rather than considering scientific facts and technical objects as products of human progress, independent of social and cultural contexts, we ask how specific facts and objects are produced (while not others) and how those facts and objects shape the ways we understand ourselves, live our lives, and relate to one another.

The course addresses intermediate-level reading and comprehension of Korean language surrounding the following topics: festivals, pop culture, health, leisure, transportation, occupation, and interpersonal relations. 

This course introduces business communication skills. It looks at the standard practices for communicating within and across business sectors. It covers the fundamentals of business writing, including memoranda, email, business letters, and discuss how to be persuasive and engaging in these writings. Additionally, we explore oral presentation as it exists in different professional contexts and settings.

This course covers major criminological theories, which are primarily based on sociology and social psychology, as well as definitions, extents, trends, and typologies of crime and delinquency. It discusses how each theory views crime, how they explain individual criminal behavior or aggregate crime rates, and how they are relevant to contemporary criminal justice policies and practices.