Yonsei University

This course has been specifically designed for students in the Department of Korean Language and Literature AND the University of California Education Abroad Program (UCEAP). It surveys modern Korean history through close readings of selected major literary works. Rather than offering a mere narrative of the peninsula’s history, it focuses on particular episodes, events, influences, and historical ruptures that have shaped how Korean writers have interpreted and understood their past. The course looks at the use of a form of writing (“the novel”) as a historical source. It examines the development of the long story form, the formalistic aspects of narrative, and its cultural impact. Major themes include the country’s opening to the West, its colonial experience and subsequent fratricidal war, and the divergent post-colonial paths of the two separate Koreas. Throughout, we address the tensions of Korean nationalism, authoritarianism, and industrialization in conjunction with the politics of gender and class. The latter half of the semester will focus primarily on the diaspora and migrant workers in South Korea.

This course provides students with an opportunity to gain insights from the top experts of this era on various academic topics or research subjects. A total of 26 professors from Yonsei University and Korea University, the top experts in the field, give lectures on 13 humanities and sociology topics. 

This class focuses on the grammar, vocabulary and expressions that are commonly used in Japan, practicing both comprehension and production skills. Students become familiar with the language and cultural background of everyday life situations likely to be encountered in contemporary Japanese society. This course also helps students to read sentences mixed with Kanji, compose simple sentences, and write short essays.

This course studies the compositional characteristics of Chinese text. It develops skills in writing appropriate Chinese sentences, paragraphs, and texts, and logical compositions with correct Chinese sentences. 

This course analyzes how cyber issues are changing the world of politics and security. It covers particular trends in the field, such as attempts to integrate cyber attacks into traditional militaries, the role of the internet in information warfare and propaganda, and the emergence of internet governance as a new topic for international negotiation and perhaps even arms control. Topics include cyber and society, cyber and war, nonstate actors, and cyber governance. 

This course deals with signals, systems, and transforms, from their theoretical mathematical foundations to practical implementation in EE applications. This course covers the mathematics and practical issues of signals in continuous and discrete time, linear time invariant systems, convolution, and signal transforms. 

This course studies South Korea’s remarkable transformation since 1960. The course concentrates on three critical turning points: Park Chung Hee’s creation of the development state beginning in the early 1960s, democratization in 1987, and the genesis of and reaction to the 1997 economic crisis. This course offers a new view of how Korea was able to maintain a pro-development state with sustained growth by resolving repeated crises in favor of rebalancing and greater political and economic openness. 

This course provides the essential skills and strategies required to communicate effectively in the business world. It examines the established conventions for communication by exploring the fundamentals of business writing, encompassing memoranda, emails, and business letters. In addition to written communication, the course explores oral presentations in diverse professional contexts and settings.

This course covers basic mathematical logic such as propositional logic and first order (predicate) logic by studying the notions of truth, satisfaction, model, proof and Turing machine. Goedel's completeness theorem is presented and his incompleteness theorems are introduced. The course studies the completeness theorem for the first-order logic using Henkin's construction method. As a consequence compactness theorem is presented and Lowenheim-Skolem theorem as an application is studied. Turing machine, the theoretical background of the contemporary digital computer design, is introduced and compared with Goedel’s incompleteness theorems.

This course covers the basic skills needed to create, examine, appreciate, and understand computational art. It covers basic programming skills in Python, experience using tools for live coding music, creating animations, and hands-on experience using generative AI technologies. Topics include strings, programs as files, semantics, functions; conditionals, Iteration, functions vs methods; lists, dictionaries, sets, reading and writing to files; audio programming, sequencing events in time, randomness, signal processing; animations, graphics, user interaction, performance considerations; and introduction to generative AI, stable Diffusion, and text processing.