Yonsei University

This course introduces visual and material culture and built environments from the Ancient Near East through 1650. It traces developments in cultural and visual production at the center and periphery of the great empires of the pre-modern world with a focus on Asia, Europe, Africa, the Near East, and the Americas, with a consideration of political and religious institutions that regulated the production and use of images, objects, buildings and space. Focus is also on the impact of technological innovation and cultural exchange on art and architecture, including changes brought about by commercial expansion, cross-cultural contact, religious conversion, and pilgrimage. 

This class, geared towards first year students, deals with general and holistic fundamentals about the variety of interior architecture and built environments for understanding and creating spaces. This course aims to encourage freshmen students growing multidisciplinary perspectives, theories, and practical knowledge necessary to design spaces, and to promote creative and analytic approaches for further works. Course topics include organizing thoughts for space, making a close observation of the spatial environment we live in, understanding what space is and how it is organized, widening our view of the spatial environment we are experiencing, empowering the ability of analyzing the spaces, understanding the creative design process, experiencing the actual construction process, and forming philosophical grounds to create a good space. The is an introductory lecture for learning residential environment and interior architecture and provides the foundation for further university study.

This course explores a cultural history of Korea through tangible and intangible heritages registered with UNESCO. Special emphasis is placed on the interplay between performance and tangible texts, trans-national interactions with neighboring states, and the construction of the cultural identity of Korea.

Students learn to teach basic volleyball skills to middle and high school students. The course covers volleyball rules and basic strategies. Topics include volleyball configuration and basic rules, how to warm up, underhand and overhand, types of serves, defense, attack, and referee hand signals. 

As today's social climate makes many demands on business, business leaders are required to be as skilled in managing their companies' social relations as the more traditional economic ones. The study of the interactions between business and "the world beyond company gate" is the subject of this course. Throughout the course, students are exposed to diverse theories, research findings and relevant business cases that help them to attain the basic framework of the ever-changing relationship between business and society. Major topics of the course are changing social expectations, growing emphasis on ethical reasoning and actions, globalization, evolving government regulations and business response, dynamic natural environment, explosion of new technology and innovation, and creating value in a dynamic environment. 

This course studies geometric properties of curves and surfaces in the 3-dimensional Euclidean space, applying tools of multivariable, and vector calculus.Topics include covariant derivatives, frame fields, connection forms, structural equations, normal curvaure, gaussian curvature, computational techniques, special curves in a surface, form computation, isometries and local isometries, intrinsic geometry, orthogonal coordinates, integration and orientation, total curvature, geodesics, the gauss-bonnet, application of gauss-bonnet theorem.

Viruses are responsible for numerous human illnesses and millions of deaths annually. Some of the most feared, widespread and devastating human diseases such as influenza, measles and AIDS are caused by viruses. Similarly, viruses cause a number of recently emerging diseases, including Ebola hemorrhagic fever, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Zika virus infection and influenza pandemics. This course explores the complex biology of viruses, their multiplication cycle and pathogenesis, how they are structured, what strategies they use to enter their host cells, how they express and replicate their genomes, how they produce new virions, how they have evolved, and how host cells respond to viral infection.

This course is designed to help students establish a solid understanding of how cells and nutrients contribute to health and body functions by interacting with each other. The students are provided with an introduction to key concepts relevant to molecular and cell biology and cellular nutrient metabolism, and have the opportunity to learn and discuss how cells handle nutrients and how nutrients contribute to cellular health and functioning. Nutritional science is highly interdisciplinary. This class concerns a part of the broad array of topics relevant to nutrition, particularly with focuses on the molecular and cellular aspects of food components essential to the body.

Prerequisite: General biology

This course surveys the main developments in education from ancient Greece up until present day, emphasizing in particular the cultural and philosophical milieu of each place and period. Participants develop a critical understanding of the historical dynamics through which educational theory and practice evolved in the west and the influence of these on contemporary education. This course is implemented as a colloquium: open-ended, participant-directed discussions on the weekly topic. 

This course provides a study of Korean classical literature for cultural contents on the basis of storytelling for movies, exhibitions, and performance arts. It examines how Korean classic literature transforms into media and its methodology.