Yonsei University

This course examines the different ways in which contemporary writers in Japan and South Korea respond to the challenges of capitalist developme nt and ecological precarity. Topics include The Buzz of Everyday Life, Narrating Disaster, Trauma and Cultural Memory (novella), Self-Renunciations and Transformations (novel), and Exilic Imagination (short stories). 

Applied Microbiology course covers bacterial genetics, microbial diversity and systematics, eukaryotic cell biology and eukaryotic microorganisms, metabolic diversity, basic immunology, host-pathogen interactions, industrial microbiology, and practical application of genetic engineering. This course is designed mainly for 2nd year students majoring life sciences and biotechnology and requires a solid background in general microbiology and biology. Prerequisite: General Microbiology, Organic Chemistry, and Biology.

This course is aimed to allow students to learn about Korean society and culture through digital media. Particular attention is given to the sociocultural impact of new digital technologies, such as KakaoTalk, Instagram, Tiktok, Generative AI, YouTube, webtoons, RPG/MMORPG games, blogs, data visualizations, and the companies that control these technologies. Throughout the semester, we are discussing and reading 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 tell a story to a broad audience.

This course offers an introduction to marketing. The course aims to introduce key concepts in marketing; enable students to become conversational in marketing and foster an understanding of how firms employ various marketing strategies. It educates on the tools/methods to make decisions in complex marketing situations.

Ranging broadly from Ireland before World War I to America of the Roaring Twenties and England during the upheaval of the 60s, this course examines the dreams and spiritual aspirations that drive some of the most compelling works of English and American fiction and drama in the past century. The course examines how the works depict challenges related to gender, race, religion and class. The readings include: two short stories by James Joyce and some poems by W.B Yeats that capture the anxiety and upheaval of pre-WWI Ireland; The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale about the American Dream and romantic fantasy; Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun, which looks at Black American family life in the inner city; Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing's novella The Fifth Child, a chilling story of an ideal family in England during the 60s that gets disrupted by the birth of a monstrous child; England's finest playwright Tom Stoppard's comic masterpiece Arcadia, which spans two centuries while examining fundamental existential questions; the feminist poet Adrienne Rich's poems of love and protest.

Emerging markets (EMs) have been the growth engine for the global economy in the past 20 years. Recently, however, they have shown signs of fatigue and been hit hard by the C-19. In addition, new markets in terms of new emerging industries are also considered as EMs in this class. The primary goal of this course is to analyze EMs in various way to come up with winning strategies there. Another goal is making students a better communicator as they present Harvard Business Review(HBR) articles and term-project; and they’ll become effective global managers as a result. Understanding EMs - both in terms of geography and industry - is the primary assignment of the course. The framework to understand, analyze, and develop EMs, risk management tool, various strategic guidelines suggested mainly by HBR articles, etc. are covered in the class.