Yonsei University

The course examines Seoul, deploying a palimpsest as a heuristic device, exploring the layering of buildings and paved roads and bridges, as well as the history of those who lived in the different urban spaces over time. Through accretion, these layers create both a complex and vibrant story that remains only visible in a contemporary form where the old still bleeds through the layers of traces that partially remain. Particular attention is given to a wide variety of digitally mediated narrative practices (e.g., Naver blogging, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, etc.) and the institutions that control these technologies. The course looks at the many facets of this diverse and dispersed digital ecosphere where just about anyone with access to a computer or mobile device can integrate digital images, social media, recorded audio narration, video clips, and music alongside a range of delivery channels with meta-information (e.g., hashtags, rankings, and comments by users) to reach a broad audience. This course illustrates how such sites are layered with many significations and complicated histories. It intends to offer a more compelling narrative of Seoul, not merely as a “republic of apartments,” but a place of crucial bearers of cultural memories and a vast archive of stories of a given group’s past.

This is an introductory and interdisciplinary survey course on modern Korean history. The course is designed to present a wide ranging written and visual materials and texts on the topic, with the goal of introducing students to various experiences, phases, and issues of modern Korean history. Our goal as a class is to both familiarize ourselves with the larger historical events that shaped the last century for Korea and its people, and to come to our individual, critical understanding of their significance and relevance for today.

This course explores the visual arts of Korea from the early 20th century to the present. It covers the period beginning with the Japanese colonial rule of Korea and continuing through the Korean War, Korea's division into North and South, industrialization, democratization, and globalization. The course discusses the historical trajectory of Korean visual art produced in South and North Korea and by the Korean diasporas, examining how it has shaped and reflected each period's political, cultural, and socio-economic changes and concerns. Artworks in diverse media, including painting, sculpture, and other alternative art forms, such as installation, video art, and performance, will be considered, with particular attention given to their place within the global art scene.

To develop creative future business leaders with global perspectives and integrity, this course provides students with a practical and comprehensive understanding of the management of the multinational corporations (MNCs). In this course, students will (1) learn about international business strategy and organization, and (2) develop the ability to deal with the various problems in managing business operations internationally. By taking this course, students will gain the fundamental knowledge of international management, and develop their global perspective to become a future ethical business leader in the global marketplace.

Democracy is a core concept of politics and we pretend to understand it. However, to be frank, do we really know democracy? The course focuses on some of the most important theories of democracy that have been present since the birth of the term. The goal of the course is to provide students with theoretical musculature to think further about democracy. Topics include democratic principles, right to vote, direct and formative democracy, accountability and representation, constitutionalism, and forms of democratic government.

An introduction to probability with a view toward applications. Topics include mathematical models for random phenomena, random variables, expectation, the common discrete and continuous distribution with applications, joint distributions, conditional distributions and expectation, independence, monent generating functions, laws of large numbers and the central limit theorem, sample and population, sample distributions, concept of estimation for population parameters, and linear regression and correlation.

Textbook: Thomas Haslwanter, "AN INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS WITH PYTHON"

This course enables students to understand the chemical behavior of organic molecules and the mechanisms of reactions.

Prerequisites: General Chemistry I, II. 

The course introduces fundamental issues including river morphology, streamflow measurements, open-channel hydraulics, water quality issues, and sediment transport. It covers advanced issues on water resources-related subjects. Students are required to use knowledge acquired in elementary fluid mechanics, hydraulics, and hydrology. Topics include foe engineering issues, investigation of rivers, planning, in-stream structures, and urban streams. Students learn general features of rivers, role of river engineering, and how to manage rivers for both nature and humans.

Prerequisite: Elementary Fluid Mechanics

This course examines the principles of waste treatment and resources recovery and introduces practices are related to social innovation and solving social problems. Topics include integrated solid waste management, municipal solid waste characteristics and quantities, processing of municipal solid waste, materials separation, combustion and energy recovery, life cycle analysis and management, processing and treatment of sludge, biosolids processing, resource recovery and beneficial use, and biogas purification and upgrading.