Yonsei University

This course is designed to introduce students to the wide range of opportunities and threats that have opened up with the advent of the information age. Students will come to understand holistically how cybersecurity connects to a wide range of issue areas in international relations (military, political, economic, etc.), and how the digitization of information leads to new vulnerabilities that traditional IR has never faced before. This will give students a head start when they inevitably have to deal with cyber-related issues throughout their careers.

A literary and philosophical inquiry into such themes as selfhood, nothingness, name, namelessness, reality, Karma, yin-yang, and so forth through examination of great literary and philosophical writings in the East Asian tradition. All works are read in English translation. Topics covered include: Taoist thought and literature, Confucian thought and literature, Buddhist literature, the origins of East Asian thought, search for cultural archetypes, Confucian ideology in crisis, and modernity in modern Korean and Chinese fiction.

Lecture of fundamental theories and practice of Scuba Diving skills. There are two options: Option A) Obtain 1 credit (class lecture and pool practice, 5m pool practice), and Option B) Obtain 1 credit+ Scuba Diver certificate (class lecture and pool practice, 5m pool practice, 3 days of open water training). Topics include equipment selection and repairing, underwater physics, underwater physiology, SEABAG, underwater environment, diving plan, dive table, diving safety, defensive diving, emergency ascending. Pool practices include skin dive, equipment setting, snorkel clearing, mask clearing, neutral bouyancy, ascending, decending, equipment and exchange underwater.

Prerequisite: The following swim abilities: 50m swim with any style 20m underwater swim without breathing.

This course focuses on following areas: (1) Improving comprehension of Chinese (2) Expanding one’s knowledge in grammatical usage (3) Expanding one’s knowledge in vocabulary.

Assessment: Midterm (30%), Final (30%), Attendance & participation (15%), Assignments (25%)

Prerequisite: Chinese (1), Chinese (2), Fundamental Mandarin Chinese (1)

Strategic Management deals with the organization, management, and strategic positioning of the firm so as to gain long-term competitive advantage. This course examines how firms gain and sustain competitive advantage; analyzes strategic business situations and strategy formation; and how to implement strategy and organize the firm for strategic success. 

The goal of this course is to provide rigorous theories and frameworks for understanding modern macroeconomic issues, debates, policies, and solutions. The course also aims to develop data analysis skills using macroeconomic data and MS Excel. 

Prerequisites: Principles of Microeconomics, Principles of Macroeconomics and Calculus I.