Yonsei University

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.

This course introduces key marketing concepts, theory, and practices. The course covers conceptual frameworks and develops skills in marketing analysis and planning through a combination of readings and case discussion. This course also develops the ability to apply marketing theory to actual situations and to build foundations for relevant academic disciplines. 

In this course students study basic form, improve balance, and nurture their sense of dance and musical rhythm. Each class consists of a lecture on theories, stretching and warm up, forms and movements, and the lecturer's critiques and corrections. 

Through an integrated curriculum of vocabulary, grammar, speaking, listening, writing, and reading, this course enables students to: 

1)To make complex sentences using various connective endings;

2)To have basic conversations in Korean on the range of topics including learning Korean, making a phone call, food, shopping, hobby, etc.; and,  

3)To have conversations using반말(informal style between friends) appropriately.