Yonsei University

This beginner's course introduces the basics of drama, performance, and acting based on various methodologies using acting exercises, character development, scene studies, analysis of films about performance, and group discussions. The course examines the definition of drama, why it is important to the public, and how writers and actors express themselves through fictional characters and stories. Texts: Constantin Stanislavsky, AN ACTOR PREPARES; Esther K. Chae, SO THE ARROW FLIES.

This course looks at key examples of the Anglo-American short story, from the beginning of the twentieth century until the present time. It introduces the short story as one of the most significant and richest of our literary forms, a form that allows for a compressed exploration of the central aspects of human nature, including sexuality, betrayal, regret, temptation, fear, and death. The course examines works such as James Joyce, "The Dead" (1914); F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Babylon Revisited" (1931); Mary McCarthy, "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt" (1943); Mavis Gallant, "The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street" (1963); Raymond Carver, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" (1981); James Lasdun, "An Anxious Man" (2007); Nathan Englander, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank" (2011); Kristen Roupenian, "Cat Person" (2017); Sadia Shepard, "Foreign-Returned" (2018). Assessment: First Assignment (30%), Second Assignment (30%), Final Exam (30%), Participation (10%).

this course covers various service management issues such as formulating service strategy, developing new services, designing and improving service delivery system, and managing service quality. While considering important service management disciplines such as services marketing and service human behaviors, this course places its emphasis on service operations issues such as managing supply and demand, determining service facility design, managing service process improvement, and managing customer waiting lines.