Yonsei University

The field of psychology aims to examine the scientific basis of human behavior, including sensation and perception, learning and thinking, motivation, and emotion. Psychology encompasses a broad range of topics that can be applied to diverse fields, with the ultimate goal of better understanding what determines and drives human behavior such that we may contribute to better the lives of individuals across age, gender, and culture. This course provides a general survey of topics in psychology and discusses fascinating research findings that impact our everyday behavior and functioning. 

This course introduces a basic understanding of what philosophy is and further provokes interest in the deeper and particular subjects of philosophy. The course covers some of the most important questions being debated in the study of philosophy based on essential topics of the study and how argumentative they are. With these questions that will be discussed, the course teaches how to approach them philosophically in addition to letting students brainstorm them independently.

This course covers actuarial mathematics for life insurance. Students learn how to price standard life insurance and annuity products. The course is highly mathematical with quite a few actuarial formulas used in both academia and industry. 

This course provides a mathematical background essential for understanding the theory behind various machine learning techniques. After this course, students are able to design and execute machine learning algorithms such as regression analysis, classification with support vector machine, feedforward neural network, principal component analysis, k-means clustering, etc. without relying on pre-programmed packages. Topics of this course include (1) linear algebra (basic and advanced), (2) probability and information theory, (3) analytical geometry, (4) calculus (basic and advanced), (5) optimization, (6) machine learning applications: distance-based classifiers, Naive Bayes classifier, linear & logistic regression, neural network, SVM, PCA, k-means clustering, etc.

This class reviews various styles of vocal works. Singing is a core component of the course. 

This is an intermediate level Chinese language course, focusing on reading comprehension. This course strengthens modern Chinese reading ability through different texts in a variety of topics that include advanced Chinese vocabulary and expression. It examines newspapers and Chinese literature in order to have a better understanding of sentence structure, different types of expressions, and comprehension ability. 

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the basic concepts and theories of human behavior in an organization. This course deals with how people in an organization perceive, feel, and behave as individuals, and in the process of interacting with others in the organization. Lectures are largely divided into three parts: individual level, group level, and organizational level. (1) At the individual level, it deals with personality, values, attitudes, perceptions, and motivations; (2) at the group level, it deals with groups, teams, communications, conflicts, and leadership, which are collective behaviors formed by the interactions of individuals in the organization. (3) At the organizational level, we will examine organizational structure, organizational culture, etc.