Yonsei University

This course explores and enjoys how film makers across the globe have adapted short stories into remarkable and compelling films that stand apart from the sources as works of art themselves. We will start with the stories but look at how the films go beyond fidelity to the original to create works with their own aesthetics and integrity. Films will include Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast, the Iranian film-maker Abbas Kiarostami's heart-warming Where is the Friend's House?, the sci-fi thriller Total Recall, and the Korean hit film Burning. All films will be viewed during class, so attendance is mandatory. 

What is the sound of Korea? This course explores Korean diasporic music and sound from Korean traditional folk songs (minyo) to BTS (K-Pop). This interdisciplinary course looks at Korean music, sound, and culture through historical, political, and cultural lenses, exploring them as visual and sonic narratives without boundaries. The course provides fresh perspectives by utilizing performances, music videos, archives, urtext music scores and bilingual text (Korean and English). Furthermore, students engage broadly not only with music and sound but also with Korean visual arts, philosophies, film, and literature.  

This course provides a comprehensive exploitation of analyzing and utilizing accounting information. It equips students with literacy in accounting information, fostering the development of strategic business decision-making skills and practices.  

The course delves into the role of accounting information in business for students to gain a fundamental understanding of decision models and tools and engage in the study of various strategic decision-making cases. Classes will be conducted through a combination of lectures, discussions, and practical case analyses, facilitating students’ in-depth understanding. By the end of this course, students are expected to have established a robust foundation in accounting principles and their practical applications in decision-making and control.  

Prerequisite: Principles of Accounting (any basic accounting course)  

This course introduces the study of human development through the life-course. It considers biological, psychological, and social domains of concern, viewing development as a product of genetic maturational, self-directed, and social factors. A psychosocial perspective provides the orienting framework for the course, emphasizing the continuous interaction of person and social environment. The framework helps students identify essential tasks, concerns, and sources of vulnerability and resilience in development and functioning through the life course.  

The course encompasses a range of perspectives, drawing on recent lines of inquiry in neuroscience and neuropsychology; psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and social learning theories; ecological models; stress and coping studies; and concepts of culture, race, and ethnicity related to growth and behavior. Lecture and discussion seek to bridge theoretical perspectives, social policy considerations, and direct practice issues with particular attention to diverse and vulnerable populations. 

This course is designed to provide participants with a practical and an experiential forum for developing cross-cultural competencies necessary for international managers.  This course exposes participants to critical issues of managing diversity in the context of understanding international business. It focuses on highlighting examples from Korean culture, society and business to draw insights to the impact of culture in business. 

The course considers the following questions:  

• What is global leadership?  How do I develop a global mindset? 

• What are the common challenges and pitfalls faced by global managers?   

• What are the PRACTICAL skills necessary for working with a global workforce? 

• How can I adjust my DOMINANT CULTURAL style to INTERACT WELL across cultures? What is Korean culture? 

The motivation behind this course ensures that students, regardless of their background, can comprehend economic knowledge through real-life examples they have directly experienced or encountered in the media. Additionally, the course aids students in formulating rigorous logic and enhancing communication skills through the analysis of various case studies, both individually and in groups. The opportunity to share thoughts with peers further contributes to their development. Overall, the course provides principles and frameworks that assist in making better decisions in various aspects of life.  

When external stressors happen to individuals, their coping occurs with their family involved as a unit. This course covers diverse types of stressors, including immigration and health condition, and investigates how families cope with the stressors. Contemporarily, whereas diverse forms of families exist, the cultural expectations towards families do not seem to have changed accordingly. Thus, the discussions in this course will cover the context of diversity and the diversity of contexts.  

ESG, which stands for Environment, Social and Governance, is a globally popular issue not only for corporations but also among various social and economic profit and nonprofit organizations. It is broadly introduced as a concept and index to improve long-term growth of corporations and society under the concept of sustainability or sustainable society. It is an actively discussed issue aimed not only at enhancing corporate value but also innovating society and putting environmental and social movement into practice.  

This course teaches the general meaning and contents of ESG and studies ESG practices and cases through group work. Furthermore, the course challenges students to generate innovative ideas that can improve social values through practical applications of ESG for corporations and other organizations. 

This course covers most of the issues related to important concepts, theory, and practices of modern management. A key focus is on the modern management function, including issues of 1) delivering strategic value (for planning); 2) building a dynamic organization (for organizing); 3) mobilizing people (for leading), and 4) learning and changing (for controlling) in turbulent and competitive markets. Along the way, the course looks at the importance of managing people, resources, and organizational and leadership agility. The course also emphasizes themes of good management processes and practices, such as collaboration, leadership, strategic value, and adaptive action. 

Game theory is the study of strategic interactions among rational agents. Game theory provides techniques for analyzing situations in which two or more individuals make decisions that will influence one another’s welfare. It has applications in many fields of social science, used extensively in economics, business, political science, and international relations.  

This course introduces Game Theory, with a strong emphasis on applications in economics and business. The objective of the course is to give students an understanding of the core concepts of Game Theory and how to use them to understand economic, social, and political phenomena.