Yonsei University

This course covers basic concepts in investments including time value of money, bonds, duration, and equities. It also examines the risks and returns that are applied to Markowitz’ modern portfolio theory and the capital asset pricing model. The derivative securities such as forwards and options are also introduced. Real world examples and computational problems are provided and discussed. Topics include Rates of Return, Interest Rates, and Time Value of Money, Bond Pricing, Replication and Arbitrage, Bond Portfolio Management: Duration and Convexity, Equity Valuation, Markowitz’ Mean-Variance Framework (1952), Sharpe’s Capital Asset Pricing Model (1963), Forwards and Options, Efficient Market Hypothesis, Value at Risk (VaR), and Indices. 

This course examines major intellectual, aesthetic, and philosophical trends in East Asian history. By reading translations of original source material, students will be able to see the principal modes of East Asian cultural and literary thought from their origins to the modern period. Cross-cultural issues will also be discussed. 

In this class, students acquire systematic knowledge of weight training and learn scientific and safe resistance exercise skills. Various types of exercise methods, equipment use, related muscle use (anatomical approach), a variety of skills, and exercise analysis are covered.

The goals of this course are 1) Basic understanding of immune responses in human and mouse. 2) Immunological tools to analyze immune cells and immunological responses against pathogens in animal and human models 3) Basic and clinical analysis of immunological diseases and inhibitory roles of viruses and cancer in induction of immune responses, 4) Development of novel immunotherapeutic reagents to modulate in vivo immune responses or immunological diseases.

Prerequisite: Taking Biochemistry, Cell Biology or Molecular Biology course is recommended.

This course examines basic philosophical and theoretical problems about law in constitutional democracies—its origins, its nature, its grounds for legitimacy, and its scope and force. The course introduces theories of law from the natural rights tradition, social contract theory, legal positivism, and legal realism. It concludes by examining theories of law influenced by interpretive theories (hermeneutics), by various schools of critical theory, including critical race theory and feminist theory, and by scholars working in law and society. The course examines several influential theorists and philosophers from the Western legal tradition, although it pays some attention to contemporary Korean legal theorists and philosophers. Students read important works by Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, H.L.A. Hart, John Rawls, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Hannah Arendt, Brian Tamahana, Jurgen Habermas, Jeremy Waldron, Roberto Unger, Mari Matsuda, Derrick Bell, and Mark Tushnet. 

This course introduces key concepts used by anthropologists in understanding human variation, and makes these concepts our own by applying them to the societies and cultures in which we ourselves live. It specifically looks at how education plays a role in constructing and perpetuating culture. Through relevant readings and visual material, it explores how social and cultural interactions are enabled by a broad range of culture- specific reasoning, social rituals, and the role of education. The course also discusses social practices within various cultural contexts in order to acquire an understanding of culture that can accommodate inquiry at local and global levels.

This course is intended to introduce fundamental concepts and frameworks for understanding how recent changes in state governance affect democracy, and vice versa. It examines the theoretical and empirical implications of various types of ‘old’ and ‘new’ governance with special attention to Korean cases. A series of lectures offers a survey of major institutions, actors, and decision-making processes of multiple governance systems.