Yonsei University

This course examines the details of fiber structures, its properties, and the origin of major textile fibers. It covers the chemical and physical behaviors of fibers, including their optical, mechanical, and thermal properties. Students also learn terminologies, classification, and processing methods of important classes of textile materials: yarns, woven, knit, and nonwoven fabrics. This course defines terminology related to common textiles and fibers, analyzes the influence of fiber chemistry on fiber morphology and physical properties, and covers how to apply simple mathematical models, quantify, and analyze the physical properties of textile fibers.

This course provides an overview of the main aspects of biochemistry by relating molecular interactions to their effects on the organism as a whole. Topics include metabolism, glycolysis and gluconeogenesis, the citric acid cycle, oxidative phosphorylation, the light reactions of photosynthesis, the Calvin cycle and the pentose phosphate pathway, glycogen metabolism, fatty acid metabolism, protein turnover and amino acid catabolism, biosynthesis of amino acids, nucleotide biosynthesis, the biosynthesis of membrane lipids and steroids, and integration of metabolism.

This course systematically examines factors that influence happiness, such as objective conditions (money, marriage, etc.), happiness-related personality traits, and cultural variables that have been identified by recent scientific studies. It then re-evaluates happiness from an evolutionary perspective. 

This course examines the history of East Asia`s international relations and East Asia`s diplomacy towards the United States and the world at large from the 19th century to the advent of the Cold War. More specifically, this course is devoted to answering the question, "How did Korea charter her own path towards establishing a modern conception of national sovereignty throughout the long 19th and 20th centuries?" Topics include a comparison between a Confucian tributary system and a Westphalian system, Japan`s modernization and competing Chinese and Korean responses, Japanese imperialism and the coming of the First and Second World Wars, Japan`s surrender to the Allies and lingering post-colonial questions such as territorial sovereignty over Dokdo, the Korean War and the first two Indochina Wars as the opening "hot wars" of the Cold War, and finally, the future of the Northeast Asian international order after the Cold War.

There are three main objectives in this course. First, it examines how to prepare a theoretical basis to analyze East Asian international relations from the 19th century to the advent of the Cold War and paying special attention to how Korea encountered changes and vicissitudes of fortune as it chartered its own course in the world. Second, it identifies factors which stabilized and disrupted the East Asian international order and how interactions between such factors affected Korea’s responses. Finally, it explores what the future of East Asia’s international order will look like and how Korea’s diplomacy should act as a pivot between East Asia and the United States.

The class explores various ideas from humanities and social sciences and engages scholars around the world. Topics include public religion, economics, and politics; religion and state; religion and political parties; religion and democratization; religion and civil society; religion, peace and politics; religion, politics, and conflict; the interplay between science, philosophy, and the world religions and implications for the flourishing of life in the post-covid19 era; and religion and foreign policy.     

This course examines core managerial accounting concepts for planning, control, and decision-making. The course presents the concepts of cost and managerial accounting; analyzes accounting information for decision making purposes; and discusses contemporary managerial accounting techniques. 

Stylistics aims to render literary judgments about literary texts comprehensible by focusing attention on the linguistic choices embodied in literary texts. The course introduces some of the most exciting stylistic analyses and applies it to a variety of literary and filmic texts.