Yonsei University

This course examines the rapidly changing notions of gender and family against the historical and cultural transformations of East Asian societies. It focuses on the changing forms of families in East Asia and how families and relationships are portrayed in films and dramas.

This course examines East Asian Cinema in the framework of transnationality. With focus on inter/intra cultural junctures it probes thematics, stylistics, and socio-historical and political contexts of cinemas of South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. Throughout the course, notions of national cinema and nation-bound culture are questioned and issues of gender, ethnicity, national identity, and etc. that are presented in those cinemas are addressed. Through the practice of visual and theoretical analysis, this course enables students to explore East Asian cinemas on a shifting transnational scene of media.

This course focuses on the fundamentals of modern numerical techniques for a wide range of linear and nonlinear elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic partial differential equations and integral equations central to a wide variety of applications in science, engineering, and other fields. Topics include Mathematical Formulations; Finite Difference Method, Finite Volume Method, Collocation Method, Finite Element Discretization.

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.