Yonsei University

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. 

This course provides a study of the culture, tradition and history of the Korean modern era by analyzing musical narratives with selected music examples from various angles. It looks at music through historical, cultural and political lenses; the contemporary Korea era with music examples in Korean and English; and Korean modern musical culture with different genres of music.

This course examines basic concepts and methods for estimating various quantities of interest in the analysis of survival data. A distinct feature of the type of data that is covered in this course is that the main response of interest, survival time, is subject to censoring, which leads to an incomplete observation. Topics include survival models, censoring and truncation, functions characterizing survival times, nonparametric estimation of survival function and other functions, comparison of survival functions for different groups, parametric and semiparametric regression models, mathematical and graphical methods for assessing goodness of fit, analysis of multivariate failure time data, competing risks analysis, cohort-sampling designs, and other advanced topics.  

This course provides an overview of the American political system and its electoral processes. It examines institutions and rules that structure electoral processes and discusses recent issues in U.S. elections. Topics include American political system, voting rights, congressional elections, presidency and presidential elections, political parties, campaign finance and interest groups, race and ethnicity in American elections, media and elections, and representation and accountability.