Yonsei University

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.

This course examines modern theories and empirical research findings on the structure and development of personality across a lifespan, using a combined perspective of developmental and personality psychology. This course provides an overview of the structure of human personality and its developmental milestones from early childhood to adulthood. It examines the big five factors of personality and various influences (e.g., genetics, temperament, parenting) that shape the development of personality over time. It also discusses correlates of different personality characteristics across multiple domains of development (e.g., self-esteem, achievement, morality).

This course covers the basic concepts and usages of data structures and algorithms used in electrical and/or computer engineering. The objectives are learning data structure types and usages - arrays, lists, queues, trees, graphs, etc.; learning algorithms - sorting, hashing, searching, etc.; improving C++ programming and debugging skills; and learn data structures and algorithms in C++. Students may choose any working environments, but class materials assume Linux by default. No prior experiences in Linux are necessary to enroll. 

This course aims to provide an in-depth exploration and analysis of various significant literary works devoted to such utopian agendas, with special focus on the ways in which the works intersect with the socio-economic, political, religious, and scientific thoughts of the times. By reading a variety of utopian writings (from ancient to modern), this course seeks to help students better to understand and reassess utopianism as an essential topic of literary studies.