Yonsei University

Political parties and elections are key elements of political representation that profoundly shape whose voices get heard and ultimately translated into public policy. This course explores democratic representation through political parties around the world and the effects of electoral systems on party system development. It critically examines the role of political parties in the representation of societal interests, party system evolution, the consequences of electoral law, and challenges facing modern political parties today. Students develop both contextual knowledge of political party and electoral systems around the world as well as theoretical knowledge on the evolution, functioning, and purpose of party representation. 

This course provides an introduction to probability and statistics with a view toward applications. It includes topics on mathematical models for random phenomena, random variables, expectation, and discrete & continuous distributions. This course also covers laws of large numbers, central limit theorem, and basic techniques of inferential statistics. Students are expected to be familiar with statistical thinking and the basic concepts of descriptive statistics, probability distribution, and inferential statistics through this course.

This course explores how Korean thinkers and activists have engaged religions and ideologies in the major political, social, and cultural movements and activism during colonial and contemporary Korea. The course discusses how ideologies and religious ideas have informed the major debates and collective activities that have made the Korean history progress further. 

This is a comprehensive and in-depth financial management course, combining theory and applications. The course examines investment and finance decisions, and their interrelatedness. The major topics include financial analysis and planning, valuation, capital budgeting (NPV, IRR), capital structure policy, dividend policy, capital management, mergers and acquisition, agency theory, corporate governance, and risk and return analysis. An added topic entails a discussion on Business Ethics as related to Corporate Finance. The course looks at some of the greatest failings in Corporate Governance and examines how companies are attempting to place safeguards in their governance structure which will prevent past failings from occurring again.

This course covers theories and research that guide public communication campaigns with a particular attention to message design principles. It also familiarizes students with areas of communication research including health communication (environmental and technological), risk communication, social marketing, and political campaigns. The course provides the opportunity to apply the concepts and theories learned in class in practical settings and examines the following questions: What are the theories often used in developing campaign messages? Do public service announcements communicated via the mass media really work? If not, how can we improve them? Other topics include how theories can be used to design effective campaign messages; how to critically assess and address barriers to communicating important social issues and induce social change; how to utilize relevant communication theories in designing real-life campaign messages; and how to utilize materials learned to design a real-life campaign message on a social issue.

This course provides a general introduction to social psychology. It also covers research methods and classical theories to recent research findings and practical applications of social psychological principles.