Yonsei University

This course examines globalization and regional transformation in East Asia especially from the joint and distance lectures of the three Universities in Korea, China and Japan. (Yonsei, Fudan, and Keio). Topics include general information and history of globalization, globalization theory, anti-globalization, regionalism, global politics of regionalism, regional transformation, politics and security, economics and society, and culture, consciousness and identity. 

This course examines the concept of psychological health and diverse biopsychosocial factors that may be indicative of psychological distress. It looks at the integration of internal (e.g., personality) and interpersonal (e.g., conflict) factors that may contribute to our psychological and physical health. Topics include body and emotion, self-identity, family and interpersonal relationships, and academic and professional performance.

This course explores the phenomenon of K-Wave and its impact on international consumer insight. It discusses how K-Wave has been initiated, developed, and proliferated and how it has earned business and marketing power on the other industries, cultures, and countries. 

This course explores the basic concepts of artificial intelligence principles and programming. It practices theories on machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning through simple examples and solves various (social) problems using artificial intelligence as a tool. Topics include Python Basics, NumPy, and Matplotlib.

This course discusses social and affective psychology, with a heavy focus on brain mechanisms. It provides a look at emerging areas of study including social neuroscience, affective neuroscience, and neuroeconomics. More specifically, it covers social and emotional aspects of the human mind and behavior (e.g., social intelligence, helping behavior, social influence, anger and aggression). 

This course examines East Asia cinemas in the framework of transnationality. It focuses on inter/intra-cultural junctures, stylistics, thematics, and socio-political and historical contexts of cinemas of South & North Korea, China, Hong Kong, and Japan. It also discusses the issues of gender, ethnic, and national identity that are raised and contested in these cinemas, questioning the notions of national cinema and nation-bound culture. 

This course offers a critical overview of anthropological approaches to the environment. It introduces a set of contemporary and now classic literature on nature produced by anthropologists and social scientists more broadly, while critically engaging with contemporary environmental issues. This course examines key anthropological approaches organized into three key themes of community, capitalism, and multispecies entanglements. 

This class explores the meaning and necessity of interpersonal relationships, major psychological variables that affect human interpersonal relationships; and the meaning and characteristics of human relationships between family members, peers, and colleagues.

This course focuses on 'mobility' in the global era, reviews the various landscapes of migration, and explores ways to improve multicultural sensitivity. It examines theories related to globalization and migration and provides a study of capital, migrants, citizenship, and multiculturalism through specific examples. In the first half of the class, the theoretical concepts and aspects related to migration are identified, and the experiences of migrants are listened to. The second half analyzes what drives the migration of young people and how the desire and identity of mobile/imobile youth are structured through migration. 

This course covers the care and maintenance of clothing. Topics include the principle of adhesion of contaminants and textile fibers; critical factors in removing contaminants (surfactants, mechanical removal, solvent, chemical degradation, etc.); care and maintenance of protective textiles; and environmental impact during the clothing maintenance process.