Yonsei University

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.

This class introduces Korean contemporary films and relevant societal discourses. The course covers the role of film/moving images in contemporary society, the rhetoric of visual media in broader context, and lastly, Korean contemporary films in a more concrete realm. By writing critiques on each subject as well as sharing during class, students challenge their personal feelings and thoughts, broaden their knowledge, and deepen their insights on film media.

Basic understanding of fundamental concepts and tools of general physics. Topics include Units, Physical Quantities, and Vectors, Motion Along a Straight Line, Motion in Two or Three Dimensions, Newton’s Law of Motion, Application of Newton’s Laws, Work and Kinetic Energy, Potential Energy and Energy, Conservation, Momentum, Impulse, and Collisions, Rotation of Rigid Bodies, Dynamics of Rotational Motion, Equilibrium and Elasticity, Fluid Mechanics, Gravitation, Periodic Motion, Mechanical Waves, and Sound and Hearing.

The course analyzes Korea’s perspective on today’s China. It focuses on a few main incidents that have affected Chinese modern history.

In this course, students learn fundamental theories, basic principles and basic skills of yacht in lectures and practice techniques such as sail trim, tracking, jibbing, etc.