Yonsei University

This course focuses on not-for-profit arts organizations and related bodies in cultural creative industries. Topics covered include the evolution of the field, economic impact, value creation, the intrinsic and effectual structure, marketing, fundraising, and others. Students are introduced to a wide range of arts organizations and its projects, working as arts managers through lectures, readings and project research. In addition to understanding the organizational structures and functions of an arts organization, students have begun to develop a philosophy of management in the arts, a theoretical model for general management, and practical tools of its practice.

This course covers key issues in energy and environmental economics from an economist’s perspective. Energy markets have become some of the most crucial and dynamic markets of the world economy, as they experienced a shift from heavy regulation to market-driven incentives. The course first looks at different energy sources such as crude oil, natural gas and coal. It then focuses on the crude oil market, highlighting how market power, optimal extraction, technological development and geopolitical risks are intertwined for price determination. The course also focuses on how changes in energy prices and uncertainties surrounding the price dynamics affect economic activity. Next, the course switches to environmental problems, and what types of policy tools can be employed to solve some of these problems. It discusses the economics for a broad range of possible policies: environmental taxes, subsidies, and cap-and-trade. In doing so, it discusses fundamental concepts in environmental economics, such as externalities and the challenge of designing multilateral agreements.

Prerequisite: Intermediate Macroeconomics Intermediate Microeconomics

The idea of imagination remains one of the most captivating and extensively discussed subjects throughout Western intellectual history and contemporary scholarship. It is an interdisciplinary topic interrogated in various disciplines such as phenomenology, politics, aesthetics, philosophy, psychology, theology, to name a few. The class examines imagination in its diverse applications and interpretations in how human beings in various cultural contexts encounter, experience, and conceive the world. It gives attention to distinctive ways non-Western cultures employ imagination in meaning-making, understanding and interaction with the world. It demonstrates imagination as a bedrock of cultural traditions, a resource for theological inquiries, social ethics, and transformations. The objectives are to explore the role of human imagination in the process of reality construction, interrogate how contextual understanding of ultimate reality shape imagination, gain in-depth knowledge about these debates on the theory of imagination in various disciplines, and develop imaginative skills to analyse and reflect theologically upon human reality.

This is an introductory and interdisciplinary survey course on Korean culture and society. The course provides a comprehensive understanding of Korean culture and society and its larger attendant issues, such as class and gender in traditional Korea, its history of colonialism, Korean War, and their aftermaths, the politics of national division, economic growth and modernization of South Korea, its contemporary cultural expressions, to name a few, in their proper context. Through examination of cultural, historical, anthropological, literary, and cinematic texts the course develops a more inclusive, yet heterogeneous and wide-ranging, view of Korean culture and society. 

This course examines contemporary literary works, phenomena, and 'events'. Topics include Why do we read Literacy?, How to read Poetry, How to read a Novel?, what is poetic, Korean Literature as World Literature, Adventure and Survival Epic, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Literature in the Age of Climate Change, Disaster, Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Inside and Outside literature. 

Operations and Production are the resources and the processes, respectively, by which an organization transforms inputs (e.g., labor, material, and knowledge) into outputs (products and/or services). Operations/production managers are responsible for designing, running, and improving the related systems to efficiently deliver on the production/service goals. This course focuses on the basic concepts and tools employed by operations/production managers to provide their organizations with competitive advantages in terms of operations strategy, process design, quality, supply chain management, and resource planning and utilization.

This course examines the world through works of short fiction. Each work provides a distinct and exhilarating experience, but all the works share their concern with forms of alienation, protest, and redemption. The course begins with Franz Kafka's classic tale of grotesque individual alienation, The Metamorphosis, but quickly turns to Nobel Laureate Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, which tells the tragic story of cultural crisis in the context of colonial conquest. Isak Dinesen's beautiful short story of redemption, "Babette's Feast," provides an interlude before moving onto chilling gothic short stories by two recent masters of the genre, Mariana Enriquez and Yoko Ogawa. Finally, the course concludes with the Korean novelist Han Kang's lyrical meditation on conflict, defiance and suffering, The Vegetarian.