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This course introduces the basic issues associated with contemporary globalization. While the focus is on contemporary issues, the course begins by examining challenges of development in the context of the history of the past two centuries. And while the course conceives globalization as a process driven by economic and technological forces, it recognizes distinct and significant social, political, and cultural manifestations and consequences. Thus, it analyzes the most important social, cultural, and political factors interacting with the dynamic forces of the world economy.
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This course prepares students to participate in university lectures taught in Japanese. By studying various topics, students will acquire the Japanese language proficiency (listening, reading, discussion, and writing) required for university lectures and autonomous learning skills to improve these skills further. The target level is CEFR B2.2. Prerequisite: “J6: Japanese” or equivalent. Three class hours/week.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Listen and comprehend long conversations, lectures, discussions, and media messages if an argument's structure and point are clear.
- Understand lengthy and abstract text in their familiar field, provided they can use a dictionary occasionally.
- Conduct discussion, presentation, etc., neither making mistakes that lead to misunderstanding nor causing strain or inconvenience to the listener.
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This course introduces the different schools of theories that enables one to understand any kind of narrative. Using a selection of prose extracts and poetry, the course teaches methods of reading and analyzing texts in class. By the end of the course, students are expected to reach a general conclusion about possible interpretations of the text, supported by concrete evidence.
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This course introduces the politics and international relations in Korea, including some of the major developments in Korea’s contemporary history. It covers the complicated ways in which domestic politics, national division, and international relations intersect with each other. The course also provides opportunities to critically discuss contemporary political issues so that students may identify major political forces affecting them and their implications for Korea and their neighbors. The course aims to equip students with political knowledge and intellectual tools with which they can better understand the politics and international relations in Korea and Northeast Asia in the past and the future.
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This course provides an overview of foreign policy cases on China, Japan, Canada, and ASEAN from comparative perspectives. It introduces the internal and external factors that shape foreign policies and discusses the contemporary debates on these foreign policies.
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This course introduces students to the foundations of macroeconomics with an emphasis on the tools used in economic analysis. The course instructs on how macroeconomic data is constructed and how to interpret it. Students will also use graphical tools to understand some basic macroeconomic theories and analyze how policy changes impact the macroeconomy. A final group project involves using the skills and tools learned in the class to analyze the macroeconomy of a selected country.
This course is a "Foundation" course required for all ICU Economics majors and is prerequisite for most 200-level and 300-level courses in Economics.
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The growth in computational power and availability of all sorts of data has led society to become bombarded with a variety of statistics. How much of this information is trustworthy, how much is noise - and how might it affect one’s decision-making?
This course looks at the mathematical foundations of probability and randomness, and how they inform our understanding of how real-world data may be generated. Next, the course discusses what statistics are; how they are generated; when they are meaningful and when they are not. In parallel with theoretical study, the class will utilize statistical software to get a practical understanding of data processing and statistical analysis.
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Database systems are the most widely used software systems in any area of life related to mainly information technology, management, business as well as web applications and services. This course first introduces the fundamental concepts of databases and their design. Then, it introduces database operations like updating and searching in database systems, as well as the newest database types and systems.
The course covers the following topics:
Introduction to databases and their types
Introducing the modeling of data and introducing database management systems
Introducing the relational model
Understanding the basics in database design
Learning the steps of normalization
Advanced normalization
Understanding relational algebra
Introducing the Standard Query Language (SQL)
Using SQL
Advanced database operations: transactions, triggers etc.
Using databases in Web applications or in Web services
Object-oriented databases
Introducing new database solutions and new systems for handling BigData
Understanding the concepts and usage of several NOSQL type database systems
NOSQL type Database systems
How to use these database systems for storing, searching and analyzing BigData
Programming with NOSQL databases to create new applications from web-services to data mining and handling BigData
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The persistence and exacerbation of social and economic inequality in the so-called post-colonial, globalized, or post-racial era has renewed scholarly and popular interest in the relationship between racism and capitalism. This course will examine key works of history, criticism, literature, and pop culture to understand this historical and structural relationship in the context of the United States.
Because this is a graduate course, students enrolled in this course should be prepared to spend several hours outside class time each week reading and watching the course material -- on average per week, 50-75 pages of historical/critical work + 150 pages of fiction.
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This course provides a comprehensive understanding of the theories that explain social movements. Despite their seemingly chaotic and elusive nature, scholars have developed various theoretical frameworks that can help understand them. This course focuses on examining classic and contemporary sociological theories in the context of historical social movements. By analyzing a diverse range of social movements and theories, the class is encouraged to develop innovative ideas that can be applied to uncover and address social issues.
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