Yonsei University

The course focuses on the Korean Perspective in regards to globalization and regional dominance of the international market. There is a strong lecture focus on understanding how GDP trends/transnational governance in Korea shift with direct association to Korea's market movements. Topics include economic and political movements in Korea; Korean market and Korean power; international competitiveness; regional economic integration; and global value chain and strategic alliance.  

The first half of the course takes an historical as well as analytical approach to international political economy. The second half of the class deals with current issues of international political economy in the post-cold war era--issues such as globalization, economic development, trade and protectionism, MNCs and global production, and international monetary relations. The course encompasses both political and economic aspects of international political economy. Major themes to be discussed in the class include theories of international political economy, state and market, economic development, economic crisis, globalization and regionalism, international finance and monetary order, and international trade.

This course introduces students to basic concepts, characteristics and purposes of diverse play therapy models and explores recent issues in the field of play therapy. Topics include the fundamentals, characteristics, misconceptions, history and development, treatment rooms, and tools of play therapy; play therapists and related certificates; and psychoanalytic play therapy.

As one of fundamental courses of Interior Architecture Design majors, this course provides the theoretical background of fundamental CAD systems and digital design technologies in order that students can reach the next phase of advanced design computing studies and practices. This includes architectural planning, design, drafting procedures, practices, symbols and preparation of advanced working drawings for architectural and interior design. Moreover, this course tackles how digital design and design computing technologies interact with design per se using quantitative and scientific processes, so that students can comprehend the main features of digital design. 

This course provides in-depth understandings about human development within diverse layers of environment including family, school, work and community. In particular, this course provides comparative perspective by offering information about Korean socio-cultural, and family contexts and their relationship with human development. For this purpose, this course first gives knowledge about developmental and family theories explaining human development within contexts. Second, the course explores human development through prenatal period to adulthood. Lastly, diverse environmental contexts around developing human beings is discussed. 

This course examines the strategic partnership between high growth start-ups and venture capital. It investigates how venture capitalists perceive the worthiness of an idea, and covers some of the best ideas from the top early-stage investment practices. The first part of the course covers analytic frameworks on the underlying logics in the startup and venture capital ecosystem. The second part is a series of thought experiments, wherein ideas are crafted and evaluated across different business possibilities. The course demystifies the real-world startup and venture capital practices, by thinking analytically on some of its key features. As an outcome, such frameworks are geared to help enable students to make insightful conversations with practitioners from startups or venture capital firms in the future.