Yonsei University

This course covers Social Psychology, which is the scientific study of behavior and cognition in social situations and the examination of causation factors. Hence, the course psychologically explores major social phenomena in contemporary society, and reviews relevant studies on psychological undertones of such phenomena.   

The course examines human characteristics in the context of Social Psychology in order to understand contemporary social issues. Topics include the influence of others, relations with others, evaluation of others and social phenomenon, social phenomenon happening in social groups, and more. Students will gain an enhanced understanding of themselves, others, and society at large by exploring how social phenomena, social issues, and daily experiences can be interpreted through theories of social psychology. The course goal is to increase understanding of how people perceive others and the social environments around them, how people respond to these social stimuli, and how they are affected by these factors. 

This course introduces contemporary media and popular culture in South Korea along with relevant issues. A primary emphasis will be placed on the ways in which the media express and mediate Korean popular culture. Students learn theoretical concepts and ideas that enable them to understand Korean media and “read” Korean popular culture from academic perspectives. The topics include ownership, diversity, economics, policy, globalization, multiculturalism, Korean Wave, K-pop, film, journalism, broadcasting, among others. Students undertake group research projects and discuss their work in class. 

This course examines the role that money and capital markets play in the business and global environment. We first review the structure of financial markets and discuss basic concepts such as money demand and interest rates. We then develop equilibrium theories to understand the behavior of key financial variables such as interest rate, stock price, and exchange rate, and their interactions in global financial markets.  

Students gain enhanced understanding of international financial markets and capital markets and systematically learn the fundamental concepts and determining factors of key elements such as money, interest rates, and term premiums, and study the framework and transmission mechanism of central bank monetary policy.  

The course includes a detailed examination of the key objectives of monetary policy, intermediate targets, and both conventional and unconventional tools used in monetary policy. We explore international financial markets and the global transmission channels of monetary policy, focus on studying the foreign exchange market and exchange rates in detail, and study the experiences and recovery processes of historical financial crises, such as the Asian Financial Crisis and the Global Financial Crisis. Additionally, the course examines the impact of the recent pandemic crisis and inflation shocks, as well as the strategies used to address them. 

This course investigates the relationship between business and government and the role and influence of corporations as political actors in a globalized world. Corporations have emerged as political actors deeply involved in domestic and international policy-making processes, beyond being mere economic entities. This shifting role of the corporate requires the ability to theoretically and empirically analyze the dynamics of business-government relations, and a critical understanding of corporate status and responsibility in global governance is essential.  

Particularly in the current reality where corporate political influence is increasing in various aspects such as lobbying activities, social responsibility, and tax policy responses, systematically analyzing and understanding these phenomena is an important task in modern political science research.  

This course fosters in-depth understanding of corporate roles and influence in the global era; cultivation of analytical perspectives and research capabilities on corporate-government relations; developing critical and practical insights into corporate political activities; acquiring cutting-edge research methodologies and data analysis techniques; and application of useful theoretical and methodological foundations for students interested in corporate politics and global governance, thereby offering practical assistance for future research and practice in related fields.   

This course provides a theoretical examination of government regulations exploring their necessity in the context of market and government failures. It delves into the various types of regulations, how they function, and their impact across different sectors. Additionally, the course discusses the role of government-market interactions in national development. 

Students will gain insight into the foundations of regulatory frameworks and the government's function within them; comprehend the economic principles and theories that underpin government regulations; recognize various forms of market and government failures along with appropriate remedial actions; explore different categories of economic and social regulations, examining real-life cases both domestically and internationally; conduct in-depth analyses of regulatory instances, discerning their impacts and challenges based on these evaluations. 

This course covers recent statistical techniques in high dimensions and applies them to the analysis of real data. Students gain a broad understanding of various (non-convex) penalization techniques, dimensionality reduction, and more, with the goal of learning how to effectively summarize and interpret high-dimensional data and to systematically understand the challenges of analyzing data where the dimensionality of the data is comparable to or greater than the sample size.  

Topics include introduction to high-dimensional data, regression in high-dimensions, (non-convex) penalization methods in high-dimensions, regression in high-dimensional with real-data applications, matrix estimation with rank constraints, graphical models for high-dimensional data, spectral clustering in high-dimensions, principal component analysis in high-dimensions, and quantile regression in high-dimensions.