Yonsei University

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. 

A compiler is a computer program that translates text written in a given language (called the source language) into another language (the target language). With most compilers the source language is a high-level programming language (e.g., C, C++, Java), and the target language is a lower-level representation such as assembly language or byte code. This course focus is on compiler techniques needed to implement programming languages on a virtual machine. The aims are to improve programming skills by learning how a compiler works; to apply the theoretical foundations of compilation techniques; to design and implement a compiler for a small programming language; to learn about virtual machines (the JVM in particular); and to practice software engineering design principles on a medium-sized project. This course covers both practical and theoretical aspects of a compiler. Our main emphasis is on the compiler frontend (i.e., scanning, parsing, semantic analysis) and on code-generation for the JVM. 

This course is teaches Korean vocabulary and grammar. Students engage in speaking, listening, writing, and reading activities to improve their communication skills in Korean. By the end of the course students should be able to read and write Hangul; understand the fundamental system of pronunciation and pronounce initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants correctly; understand the fundamental rules of sentence structure and syntax in Korean; and have basic conversations in Korean including greetings, self-introduction, ordering food, making friends, etc.