Yonsei University

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.  

This course aims to: 

• Understand the genesis of Big Data Systems 

• Understand practical knowledge of Big Data Analysis using Hive, Sqoop, Linux Shell  

• Provide the student with a detailed understanding of effective behavioral and technical techniques in Cloud Computing on Big Data  

• Demonstrate knowledge of Big Data in industry and its Architecture   

• Learn data analysis, modeling and visualization in Big Data systems 

Prerequisites: 

• Mastery over Microsoft Windows and its File Management (Windows Explorer) facilities  

• Basic knowledge of any programming language (SQL, Python, Java)  

• Basic knowledge of BI tools such as Excel, Tableau, Power BI, Google Spread Sheet 

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.