Yonsei University

This course introduces students to the study of world politics from both theoretical and historical perspectives. First, it critically examines major theoretical approaches in the field of International Relations and applies them to a wide range of past and present world events. The central aim of the course is to help students think critically about international politics. Key topics include wars, ethnic conflicts, international trade and finance, globalization, nuclear proliferation, climate change, terrorism, pandemic, and other issues of global significance.  

As of now, Korea is amid most complex situation surrounding the nuclear development in North Korea posing as an existential threat to not only South Korea but also the U.S. and the rest of the world. Security for Pyeongchang Olympic was barely assured by South Korea`s efforts towards the participation of North Korea. With the change of administration comes changes in policies towards North Korea when the world is in crisis over the fast developing nuclear and ICBM missiles of North Korea. The students will learn legal concepts through current events in Korea at the front lines of a changing society, politics and regional security. Because we are in Korea, political consciousness will be raised through analysis of major events i such as the Cheonan incident, mad cow propaganda, Taean oil spill, politization of sinking of Sewol, militant labor unions, etc. In the first half of the course, the student is trained to read and interpret codified law as well as common law, and apply them to factual situations. The second half of the course will be oriented towards seminars by individual presentations and class participation on determining justice behind various legislations and policies. As an application of contracts law, initial public offering and employee options will be covered as an introduction to high tech businesses, prevalent in Asia`s connection with the Silicon Valley.

This class focuses on the process of creating a TV program. By creating an actual TV program in the studio, students learn and practice everything about TV program production. 

This class explores the decline and collapse of civilizations in the West. The twenty-first century finds that technology has reshaped life across the industrialized world and that prosperity has increased across the globe, yet there is also widespread pessimism about the future and grave concern that institutions are breaking down. This course examines some of the most influential and compelling accounts of the fall of civilization, such as those of Edward Gibbon and Oswald Spengler. It also looks at literary and cinematic efforts to imagine the collapse and its aftermath.

This course takes a holistic approach in defining the critical issues facing a firm by thinking critically, strategically and creatively. In doing so, students assume the role of a CEO through individual and team assignments, and learn to identify and critically analyze complex managerial challenges and opportunities and solve business problems in novel ways. The overarching theme of strategy literature is: Why are some firms more successful than others? In doing so, this course considers the following three fundamental questions: (1) Where do firms compete?; (2) What unique values do they bring to the markets?, and (3) What determines sustainable profitability? This course discusses these questions in the context of organization, its strategy, and its external environment. 

This course responds to the need of the Korean society to campaign for education reform in order to address social issues that result from the increasing multi cultural characterization of Korea. In particular, this course is aimed at: helping recognize and challenge biases and notions of race, culture, language, social justice, and multi cultural education; increasing the awareness levels on the problems and opportunities that multiculturalism brings to the society; and building the capacity to exercise affirmative action and leadership in theoretical and practical ways. The theoretical approach is done by immersing into schools of thought that help explain the multicultural state of Korea, while the practical is done by conducting a community project, which deals with a social issue or phenomenon that relates to both multicuturalism and education or multicultural education in Korea. The project prompts the students to investigate a problem, project, or program in the community and analyze it extensively using a rubric that is proposed and agreed upon in class.