Yonsei University

This course aims at providing strategic framework and practical knowledge for future entrepreneurs who explore new business opportunities through creating a venture or acquiring a job position at existing firms. By the end of the course, students should be able to have a clear understanding of how to develop raw ideas to product, service, or business concepts through the process of identifying, refining, and screening opportunities, and should be well poised to take the next steps to designing and successfully launching a new product, service, or business. To shed light on entrepreneurship from the perspective of ideation, project management, and valuation, this course incorporates both top-down theories of resources to bottom-up simulations.  

Microeconomics explores human behavior within society, delving into the reasons behind our actions and their societal implications. This course provides a comprehensive framework to understand these behaviors and their outcomes. The course covers key topics such as Comparative Advantage; Demand and Supply; Market Equilibrium; the Impact of Public Policy on Market Outcomes; Perfectly Competitive Markets; Monopoly, Externalities, and Public Goods.  The course also discusses the relevance and application of these concepts in everyday life.

The course covers essential parts of Human Resources Management, including leadership and culture, recruitment, learning, performance management, rewards, and employee engagement. In addition, it includes latest Human Resources Management trends such as Technology in HR, Employee Experience, DE&I (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion), and ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance). Future of Work is also discussed in depth. 

This course explores issues pertaining to inter-Korean relations through the diverse representations of Korea's national division and the Korean War within film and literature from the mid-1940s to the present. It considers how changes in geo-cultural politics at the local and transnational levels have influenced the cinematic and literary imagination of national division and the Korean War in the South, while also exploring the representation of the divided Korea in North Korea. Through the close reading of selected film and literary texts, it investigates a range of perspectives on inter-Korean relations, and study how hegemonic visions of the two Koreas are reproduced, negotiated, and challenged in these texts. Informed by secondary sources, including critical essays in such fields as film and literary criticism, cultural studies, social science, and history, the course critically interprets the discursive construction of a divided Korea in our primary sources from the perspective of political, social, and cultural history.

The course reviews the major competing theories of international organizations over time and examines the history and current operations of a wide range of international institutions and organizations. Special attention is focused on developing a generalized understanding of the forces contributing to or inhibiting the effectiveness of international institutions and organizations and of the forces shaping the preferences and behavior of states in the world politics. 

The objective of the course is to equip students with communicative skills in speaking, reading, and writing at the intermediate level in Korean, such as expanding simple ideas into imposing various kinds of the speaker's stance. e.g. judgement, inference, and evaluation or subjective assessment of the ideas entertained, and expressing more complex relations between events, such as cause, reason, purpose, condition, concession, intention, background, etc. 

Through this course, we explore Korea’s premodern and modern belief systems according to the peninsula’s interactions with other parts of the world—particularly East Asia and the West. Topics include the rise of transnational Jesuit spirituality, catholic Christianity, and Korean Confucianism: accommodation and conflict, the rise of Protestantism in Korea and the emergence of an “ethically Confucianized Christianity”, bible women, the early modern evolution of home care, and the Seoul evangelistic center, protestant Christianity in the northern regions of Korea: Jerusalem of the east (to 1945), and exilic north Korean Christianity (1990~present). 

This course examines the rapidly changing notions of gender and family against the historical and cultural transformations of East Asian societies. It focuses on the changing forms of families in East Asia and how families and relationships are portrayed in films and dramas.

This course examines East Asian Cinema in the framework of transnationality. With focus on inter/intra cultural junctures it probes thematics, stylistics, and socio-historical and political contexts of cinemas of South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. Throughout the course, notions of national cinema and nation-bound culture are questioned and issues of gender, ethnicity, national identity, and etc. that are presented in those cinemas are addressed. Through the practice of visual and theoretical analysis, this course enables students to explore East Asian cinemas on a shifting transnational scene of media.

This course focuses on the fundamentals of modern numerical techniques for a wide range of linear and nonlinear elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic partial differential equations and integral equations central to a wide variety of applications in science, engineering, and other fields. Topics include Mathematical Formulations; Finite Difference Method, Finite Volume Method, Collocation Method, Finite Element Discretization.