Yonsei University

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. 

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