Yonsei University

This is an introductory course in international relations. It introduces the core concepts and theories of international relations. It covers the most pressing political problems and challenges of the current international system and various topics in international relations, such as wars and other conflicts, globalization and economic crisis, humanitarian interventions, and climate change. The course is organized under the four broad themes: theoretical foundations, international security, international political economy, and politics of global commons. Under each theme, most lectures focus on a substantially important question in international relations, such as why wars occur, what the effects of international trade and finances are on the welfare of citizens, and why it is hard to achieve cooperation in solving global environmental problems. 

This research internship program offers selected students the opportunity to participate in research projects or work as an intern in research centers or organizations at Yonsei University. Students are expected to participate in research projects for approximately 20 hours per week throughout the program. Projects will vary depending on placement. Graded Pass/No pass only.

To convey the element of global marketing management as well as marketing in Asia. Topics include globalization and global marketing, global business environment, global segmentation targeting and positioning (STP), and various global strategies on marketing, entry, product, price, promotion, place.

The purpose of this course is to explore how interpersonal relationships during childhood and adolescence and the brain interact to shape individuals’ psychosocial adjustment. Key concepts of brain development related to interpersonal relationships and brain plasticity will be discussed. Students will be able to understand the close link between individuals’ interpersonal relationships and our brain development. Topics include social brain structures, social and emotional self-regulation, brain plasticity, neurobiology of love, power of relationships, impact of early adversity, impact of interpersonal trauma, social phobia, psychopathy, and autism.

This introductory course examines the unsustainable culture of contemporary society, and explores the roles of design for more sustainable ones. The course provides a systemic overview of the environmental and social challenges that we face today, a series of dialog on our unsustainable culture and behavior, ongoing efforts to change them particularly through design interventions, and a hands-on experience to design products, services, and systems that influence and shape sustainable production and consumption.

This is an introductory finance course that examines the foundations of financial decision making for a firm and an investor. The fundamental economic concepts, financial theory and other major topics covered in the course include: arbitrage and the law of one price, the time value of money, discounted cash flow valuation, the NPV approach to capital budgeting, valuation of bonds and stocks, the risk-return trade-off, portfolio theory, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, and M&M Propositions on capital structure and firm value.

This course is designed to give students the basic knowledge on the alphabet, the vocabulary, and the basic grammar of Korean Language. Students will learn how to read and write Korean alphabet. Then, they will engage in a variety of activities in basic speaking, listening, writing, and reading to improve their basic communication skills in Korean.

This course introduces various fundamental algorithms to numerically solve and analyze engineering problems (root finding for non-linear equations, set of linear/non-linear equations, curve fitting, interpolation, Fourier methods, numerical differentiation, numerical integration, ordinary/partial differential equations) using digital computers.

Prerequisite: Students are expected to be familiar with MATLAB.