Yonsei University

This course examines the history and culture of East Asia with a focus on Korea, China, and Japan. Specifically, it pays attention to the cultural elements shared by the so-called 'East Asian culture' before modern times. In other words, we examine how cultures such as Chinese characters, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Islam were formed and developed, how they spread throughout East Asia, and how they affected and how they have been transformed to this day. Rather than simply comparing the three countries of Korea, China, and Japan, we set East Asia as a unit and pay attention to how cultural elements are circulated and related therein. Topics include Literacy Life in East Asia; Buddhism in East Asia; Confucian Culture and Confucian Society in East Asia: East Asia and its Complexity as a Confucian Cultural Sphere; Islam in East Asia; and East Asian Countries from a Comparative Historical Perspective.

This course offers an overview of how American legal institutions defined and enforced public rules based on race and racial categories. It begins with a discussion of the American constitution, then proceeds to the law of slavery, Native American removal, restrictions against Chinese and Asian immigrants, and race-based segregation. The course delves into the American Civil Rights Movement, followed by studies of desegregation and notions of “colorblindness.”   

This course examines problem solving in the community and society from social welfare perspective. This course develops capacity of social entrepreneurship in the social welfare context that offer solutions to social problems in an innovative way. It reviews concept of community, theoretical frameworks for understanding community, definitions of community welfare and community practice, and community practice models (locality development, social planning, social action etc.) for promoting community welfare, typical problem solving phases to strengthen community welfare, and new approaches and tasks in promoting community welfare. 

This course examines national treasures, historical artifacts, particularly preserved at Yonsei, and heritage entries registered with UNESCO as a window to understand the history, culture, and people’s lives of Korea. Special emphasis is placed on the trans-national interactions with neighboring states, and the construction of the cultural identity of Korea. 

Students will learn the basic concepts and analytical tools of finance in both corporate finance and investments. Topics include time value of money, risk and return, financial institutions, efficient markets, valuation theory, capital budgeting, portfolio theory, and cost of capital. The goal of this course is to equip students with the essential tools to make solid financial decisions in business.

The goals and contents of this course can be summarized as; to identify the academic differences between the study of foreign policy analysis (FPA) and that of international relations (IR); to enhance the academic knowledge of the decision-making process of foreign policy and the roles of main actors who participate in it; to understand the changed or continued environmental situations in Korean foreign policy; to analyze the domestic and international political meanings of Korean foreign policies; and to understand the historical backgrounds of Korean foreign policies. 

Assessment: Midterm (35%), Final (30%), Presentation and Final Report (15%), Assignments (10%), Attendance (10%)

The course introduces and discusses basic building blocks of International Relations theories and major analytical frameworks. It discusses ways to explain and interpret international political events. The unique aspect of this course is to blend theories with international security issues in depth. This is a graduate reading seminar that requires students’ active participation in verbal and written forms. The objectives of this course are (a) to understand mainstream theories of International Relations; (b) to examine the explanatory power of these theories; (c) discuss how to apply them to the study of international politics; and (c) to demonstrate how these theories can be used to analyze issues in international security.

The course covers the organization and contents of pedagogical grammar of Korean as a Foreign Language. It also identifies the issues of teaching Korean grammar and helps identify effective teaching methods.