Yonsei University

This course explores poems of 17th-century England, concentrating on the works of John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton. Based on these poems, the course covers Metaphysical Poets, Cavalier Poets and Religious Poets. 

This course investigates the political, strategic, and institutional dynamics shaping Northeast Asia—a region home to major powers, contested histories, nuclear tensions, and economic interdependence. It examines the evolving regional order through both theoretical lenses and case-based analysis. Topics include great power competition, alliance politics, nationalism and identity, historical memory, economic security, and digital sovereignty. Students analyze how state and non-state actors interact within shifting geopolitical conditions and regional governance structures. The course also explores how transnational challenges—such as the chip war, data governance, and human rights—intersect with traditional security and diplomatic agendas. Through engagement with readings, expert lectures, and structured debates, students develop a critical understanding of the region’s complexities and its global implications.

This course introduces various topics in macroeconomics such as measurements, business cycles, effects of policies, and long-run growth to first year undergraduate students.  In particular, this course develops basic but formal macroeconomic frameworks step by step. The ultimate goal of this course is to help students understand key macroeconomic questions such as “Why does an economy grow over time?” and “What happens and what should we do when the aggregate economy fluctuates?"

This course explores the ways the two Koreas, North and South, have coped with the dictate of international politics since the national division. It examines this question by highlighting and explaining the defining characteristics of the both systems in the context of their respective political change, economic development, national security, human rights and response to globalization as results of their respective choices of national survival, political development and economic prosperity.

Prerequisite: Introductory course on Korean politics

This course introduces students to the basic ideas and applications of game theory. This course begins with expected utility theory, and then introduces the fundamental ideas of game theory: strategic-form games, Nash equilibrium, games with incomplete information, extensive-form games, sequential equilibrium, repeated games, as well as games with communication.

Prerequisite: Microeconomics, Mathematics for Economics, Introduction to Statistics, Calculus

By the end of this course, students develop a deeper understanding of social, emotional, and moral development in childhood, and how social and emotional development contribute to moral development. Students also strengthen their ability to read and critically evaluate empirical research articles in developmental psychology and to articulate their ideas clearly in both written and spoken form. Topics include Early Moral Foundations: Infants and Toddlers, Fairness and Distributive Justice, Us and Them: Group Psychology, Social Influence: Reputation, Conformity, and Group Rituals, Moral Emotions, Current Issue in Developmental Science: Replicability, Moral Reasoning, Punishment and Norm Enforcement, Alternative Responses to Transgressions, Moral Learning, Legitimacy and Legal Socialization, Lying and Dishonesty, Technology, Media, and Modern Moral Issues, and Current Issue in Developmental Science: Generalizability.

Prerequisite: Introduction to Psychology and/or other courses in developmental psychology

Through an integrated curriculum of vocabulary, grammar, speaking, listening, writing, and reading, this course enables students to: 

1) Communicate in Korean at an intermediate level; 
2) Converse in Korean on the various range of topics including school life, health, hospital, making a reservation, etc.; and,

3) Have conversations using indirect speech appropriately.

This course explores a range of topics related to technologies of contemporary digital and social media, with particular attention to understanding technical, historical, ethical and legal issues. Students learn to express themselves effectively with digital media, and especially on the web. Topics include: digital media and communication; understanding SNS; the future of smart digital media; digital broadcasting; human computer interaction and trends of digital media.

This is a first course in linear algebra. The main objective of this course is to study the solution of systems of linear equations, vectors in Euclidean space, determinants and eigenvalues.