Yonsei University

This course is an intensive examination of the importance of multicultural competence for the 21st century. It focuses on increasing students' cross-cultural awareness, knowledge, and skills to respond appropriately to the problems and opportunities of both domestic and international demographic changes and globalization. The role of professional education is to engage students in a redefinition of their professional and cultural identity to include civic responsibility for themselves and their profession, with a personal commitment to a deeper engagement with the world society. This engagement requires cross cultural and global understanding. This course provides appreciation of the complexity and dynamics involved in globalization, enhances self-reflection of culture in relation to other cultures, and develops a cross-cultural understanding of other societies. Additionally, the multidisciplinary nature of this course provides opportunity for multilevel discussions and interventions (individual, group, organizational, and institutional) as students investigate cross cultural dilemmas and challenges.

The study of politics includes not only how the political world operates, but also how it ought to operate. This course focuses on some of the most important contemporary political thoughts that have been presented within the last few decades. Topics include democratic ideal, liberalism, conservatism, socialism and communism, fascism, politics of identity, green politics, and populism.

This course provides a study of French culture and society. The course starts with the modern French characteristics and its way of thinking, then moves on to French cultural, educational, and political policies. Lastly, the course covers architectural culture and the history of France through art and films.

This is the first semester of advanced Korean, and is designed to advance students to greater strengths in oral communication competences and linguistic knowledge of Korean. Students read selected texts related to daily life, society, culture, nature and other common topics. It aims to help students achieve high levels of proficiency not only in interpersonal but also in presentational communication.

Assessment: Attendance & Participation (20%), Assignments (30%), Speaking Assessment (30%), Take-home Achievement Assessment (20%)

Prerequisite: Intermediate Korean (2) or equivalent

The course begins with a study of the rebuilding of Europe and the stark division of the continent following the Second World War. It compares how countries across Western Europe embraced varying combinations of liberalism and socialism while the 'Iron Curtain' sealed Eastern Europe within Communism until that system's stunningly peaceful collapse that climaxed in November 1989 with the dismantling of the Berlin Wall. It also traces the evolution of the European Union, despite references to the 'United States of Europe', dating back to the earliest visions of European integration. The course analyzes how the European Union has been developing on a fundamentally different path from the United States of America and any other political system.

Between the early seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, along with the Peace of Westphalia, Major European political thinkers first began to look outside their national borders and envisage a world of competitive, equal sovereign states inhabiting an international sphere that ultimately encompassed the whole globe. This course focuses on some of the most significant (British) thinkers on modern international relations and international laws that have been present since the birth of the term. The goal of the course is to provide students with theoretical musculature to think further about "international."