Korea, South

This course examines the way in which we concentrate on one source of information and ignore the other sources of information in a given environment. The course begins with an introduction of the attentional processes and the common approaches that are used to study attention, followed by a presentation of visual and auditory attention; inhibition phenomena, and multiple-task performance. 

The field of psychology aims to examine the scientific basis of human behavior, including sensation and perception, learning and thinking, motivation, and emotion. Psychology encompasses a broad range of topics that can be applied to diverse fields, with the ultimate goal of better understanding what determines and drives human behavior such that we may contribute to better the lives of individuals across age, gender, and culture. This course provides a general survey of topics in psychology and discusses fascinating research findings that impact our everyday behavior and functioning. 

This course introduces a basic understanding of what philosophy is and further provokes interest in the deeper and particular subjects of philosophy. The course covers some of the most important questions being debated in the study of philosophy based on essential topics of the study and how argumentative they are. With these questions that will be discussed, the course teaches how to approach them philosophically in addition to letting students brainstorm them independently.

This course covers actuarial mathematics for life insurance. Students learn how to price standard life insurance and annuity products. The course is highly mathematical with quite a few actuarial formulas used in both academia and industry. 

This course provides a mathematical background essential for understanding the theory behind various machine learning techniques. After this course, students are able to design and execute machine learning algorithms such as regression analysis, classification with support vector machine, feedforward neural network, principal component analysis, k-means clustering, etc. without relying on pre-programmed packages. Topics of this course include (1) linear algebra (basic and advanced), (2) probability and information theory, (3) analytical geometry, (4) calculus (basic and advanced), (5) optimization, (6) machine learning applications: distance-based classifiers, Naive Bayes classifier, linear & logistic regression, neural network, SVM, PCA, k-means clustering, etc.

This class reviews various styles of vocal works. Singing is a core component of the course. 

This course introduces the field of communication through the study of its basic concepts, theories, history, and specific, relevant issues. Furthermore, it acquaintsstudents to various forms of communication including journalism, visual communication, interpersonal, and telecommunication.

This course focuses on the history of Buddhist philosophy, which spreads out over 2,500 years in India and East Asia. It covers the central themes of Buddhist philosophy, such as the Four Noble Truths and dependent origination. The course also includes aspects of the historical influence of Indian Buddhism on East Asian culture. 

This is an intermediate level Chinese language course, focusing on reading comprehension. This course strengthens modern Chinese reading ability through different texts in a variety of topics that include advanced Chinese vocabulary and expression. It examines newspapers and Chinese literature in order to have a better understanding of sentence structure, different types of expressions, and comprehension ability.