Yonsei University

This course provides a study of the concept of '3D (solid)' and the structure of the product. It covers modeling software including Fusion 360 and Keyshot, and techniques that can be used for prototyping. 

Looking at the trends and status of post-war Japanese foreign policy and applying the analysis of foreign policy from a comparative foreign policy perspective, this course pursues a historical and theoretical understanding and deepening of Japanese foreign policy. Topics include the nature and peculiarities of Japanese politics; aspects of continuity and discontinuity; how political power is controlled; Japanese politics in the 1990s (Japan in crisis); and the future of Japanese politics.

This intermediate Korean language course is for students who have completed beginning Korean language or approximately 300 hours of Korean language study. Students learn to fluently read Korean dialogues and understand Korean pronunciation rules. This course teaches to correctly use various tenses and suffixes including causative and passive verbs. Students communicate with little difficulty in daily life and freely present opinions in sentences and words in both daily and formal situations. Texts: YONSEI KOREAN 3, YONSEI KOREAN READING 3, YONSEI KOREAN WORKBOOK 3.

This course is for students with swimming skills. Students also practice starting and turning methods in preparation for competitions. 

This reading-intensive course explores the meaning of the Age of Extremes by examining how violence, the state, and society interacted with one another to create a turbulent 20th century. This course addresses crucial questions by reading canonical texts on violence, civil disobedience, and decolonization, including writings by Thoreau, Arendt, Gandhi, Fanon, and King, among others. 

This course offers a comparative study and close reading of the major heroic epics of ancient Greece and Rome: Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey (Greece), and Virgil’s Aeneid (Rome). Topics include the warrior ethic, the distinction between kleos (glory) and time (honor), heroic friendship, of nostos (homecoming), fate and the gods, oral vs. written poetry, the social function of epic, myth and epic, and the changing nature of heroism. It also explores more closely the themes of retribution and justice, as they are very starkly presented in Aeschylus's Agamemnon, and of human and divine concepts of justice in Sophocles's Antigone.

This course provides an introduction to key concepts in global environmental policy and politics and their relation to globalization. It addresses the theoretical concepts surrounding environmental problems and globalization and examines their application to pertinent environmental issues, such as air pollution, natural resource depletion, and climate change.

This course provides some insight into most of the major themes and issues on China and the Korean Peninsula. Topics include Nationalism and Political Cultures in China, The Korean War, China-DPRK Relations, ROK-China Relations: From Normalization to 2020, Korea between Ally and Partner: Trump, Xi, and Moon, US-China Rivalry and Sino-Korean Relations, THAAD and a New Normal in Relations between Seoul and Beijing, Implications of and Responses to the "Rise of China", and The Future of “The Rise of China” and the Korean Peninsula.

This course examines Korean development and capitalism from the political economy perspective, exploring how Korean capitalism emerged, what pathway it has taken, and how it will continue to evolve. This course covers various topics in the international and domestic political economy such as economic growth, culture and network, international investment and trade, democratization, globalization, the currency crisis in 1997 and the economic crash of 2008, institutional change and economic reform, restoring democracy in 2016-2017, global pandemic, social justice, and fairness. The main focus is on the roles and interests of governments, businesses, civil society, and foreign investors.

This course covers basic concepts of information theory, and discusses how these concepts are used in machine learning and data science. The first part of the course introduces various information-theoretic quantities including Entropy, Mutual Information, KL-divergence, and provides two main components of information theory: source coding and channel coding. The second part covers how information theory is used in machine learning and data science. Topics include various applications including recommendation systems, supervised learning, generative models, neural network compression, and distributed machine learning.