Yonsei University

This course addresses theoretical concepts of environmental issues and provides an introduction to key concepts and solutions in environmental policy and politics at local, national, and global levels. Topics include how to cope with environmental problems; impacts of globalization on the environment; the main actors in planning and implementing environmental policies; what approaches seem most likely to solve environmental issues such as air pollution, natural resource depletion, and climate change; using political institutions, regulations, market mechanisms, or voluntary schemes to form environmental policies; and the roles of environmental movements, firms, and bureaucrats in environmental politics and policies.

This class solves problems by implementing sensors, algorithms, and actions. The process of solving problems (system proposal, design, implementation, evaluation, discussion, issue derivation and correction, implementation of final results) is carried out in stages through the project, and the systematic problem-solving process is learned through communication between team members. 

This course discusses political issues in contemporary Korea. Topics include political polarization, politics of gender, politics of youth, population crisis and Korean politics, Korea as an immigration-accepting country, North Korean in South Korean society, populism, emergence of cast society, center-periphery in Korean politics, and China, Japan, and the United States in South Korean society. 

This course focuses on key texts of the European literary tradition between the 19th century and the present. It explores the philosophical, political, and ethical issues raised in these texts.

The course surveys the region’s history and contemporary developments from an interdisciplinary perspective, including geography, history, culture, religion, economics and politics. It pays particular attention to how historical, cultural, religious, and philosophical traditions have intersected with contemporary political, economic, and social developments in Asia. It also examines similarities and differences in sub-regions of Asia, namely Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Northeast Asia. 

This course discusses how ethical issues of design have impacted on Korean society, which has been rapidly transformed by adoption of foreign culture, Confucianism, Korean war, economic growth, and latest popularity of K-Pop, in comparison with Western society. 

This course provides a study of how to build Python programs using fundamental programming structures like variables, conditional logic, looping, and functions. It looks at how to process data using lists, tuples, and dictionaries in Python programs; and how to read and write files in Python for data analysis. It explores problem-solving procedures, data representations, and algorithms through computers, and teaches practical programming techniques that can express the problem-solving process in Python programming language.

This is a research methodology course that provides a basic understanding of how to conduct and evaluate qualitative and quantitative research for making effective advertising and PR decisions. It covers the scientific and conceptual foundations of behavioral research and the technical specifics in conducting research (e.g., measurement issues, sampling, data collection methods, and the use of statistics in data analysis). 

This course analyzes the costs and benefits of division and unification, considering the security and economic perspectives of major players like the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Indo-Pacific region as a whole. The course explores the North Korean nuclear issue, examining potential contingencies and exploring economic sanctions and assistance within the global context. Finally, it offers a comprehensive review of international influences on South Korea's foreign policy from historical to contemporary times.

This is an introductory course in macroeconomics. Topics include wealth and money; how a nation's income is measured; growth of wealth and how some countries have successfully achieved prosperity, while other countries have failed in achieving economic growth; and theories related to the business cycle, including the main topic of macroeconomics since John Maynard Keynes. This course also discusses the problem of lack of jobs available in this economy and explores the various economic theories from opposing schools.