Yonsei University

This course is designed to familiarize students with the topic of English translation of Korean films through a selection of movies of the world-renowned Korean director and Yonsei alum Bong Joon-ho. Note that the course is based mainly on movie viewing, individual research, and class discussions in addition to the instructor's lectures. Thus, active participation on the students' part is crucial. This course allows enrolled students to think about the difficulties and sophisticated nature of Korean-English translation for movie subtitles through the examples of Korean films by Director Bong Joon-ho. The course helps observe various problems regarding translation from Korean into English and vice versa through Bong’s films such as 'A Higher Animal (2000)', 'The Host (2006)’, ‘Snowpiercer (2013)’, ‘Okja (2017)’, and ‘Parasite (2019)’. Students are also expected to understand the complicated nature of numerous variables in play when it comes to crossing from one language to another in the world of cinema such as one’s understanding of context, culture, history, and tradition on top of the basic linguistic competency. Through this course, students gain not only confidence in bridging different languages based on a solid control of languages and cultures but also a cosmopolitan outlook as world citizens incorporating diversity, flexibility, and open-mindedness which are indispensable in modern society.

This course aims to explore traditional and modern Korean philosophy at its introductory level. We are going to examine Korean tradition in comparison with western philosophical tradition. We will look at dominant philosophies and philosophers in the Korean tradition. One of aims of this class is to permit students to have opportunity to have cross-cultural understanding of Eastern and Western philosophies.This course is designed as a lecture class with presentation and free discussion of all participants.

This course examines the ecology and the socialization processes surrounding child development. Students review the ecological perspective and identify multiple layers of ecological systems including family, school, community, and media to explain their influences on child development. 

We live in times that seem increasingly apocalyptic. From our current pandemic, we look around us and see catastrophic climate change, systemic racism, food insecurity, and youth unemployment. Since the turn of the century, we have experienced 9/11, nuclear meltdowns, and financial crises. We live on a peninsula which is technically still at war, seven decades after a cease-fire armistice. In popular culture, we see these themes reflected in film and other media, ranging from the zombie apocalypse to AI cyborgs to futuristic interstellar journeys. In this course, we will explore the idea of the apocalypse/post-apocalypse in English literature through the ages. Our main reading will be a trio of powerful contemporary novels (Mitchell, Foer, Ozeki) that treat these topics within defining events of our generation. In between, we will take a step back into history, reading eighteenth and nineteenth century selections (Defoe, Malthus, Shelley, and Jefferies).

This course examines some major topics on the contemporary Anglo-American philosophy It focuses on the philosophy of the most important and influential Anglo-American thinker, Ludwig Wittgenstein. The topics include inference and behavior, agreement, the nature of mathematical and empirical language, concept formation and compulsion, convention and rule following, etc.