Communication

This course examines the psychology of persuasion and consumer behavior theories as they relate to marketing communications. It provides an overview of the key psychological concepts and theories and how those apply to marketing communications.

This course provides an introductory primer to the field of international law. It then navigates through a series of case studies exemplifying the subversion of legal conflicts by mass media, including Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, and even climate change. Finally, it tests the limits of this approach by considering the involvement of social media as an emerging Fifth Estate.

The teaching purpose of this course is to let students understand the current mobile Internet ecology, train new ways of thinking, use comprehensive audio-visual media technology and communication methods, and let students master new ideas and new skills from different communication levels, adapt to Internet content quickly Iterative development needs.

The teaching arrangement of this course is a combination of theory and practice, technology and creativity, relying on finding and solving problems. In terms of teaching form, it is divided into four parts: course teaching, research and review, skill practice, and communication and discussion. The main content includes the development of Internet content under technological iteration, the technology and application of new media development, and the production of short video.

This course teaches a technical mastery of photography, the journalistic narrative through images, and the critical reading of photojournalism published in the press. It studies fundamental technical concepts (focal lengths, diaphragm, speed, sensitivity), the narrative structure of a photojournalistic story, the deontological discussion of the photo taking, the critical reading of image making, and the basics of digital image processing. The course provides the skills to create, develop, and tell critical journalistic stories using photography as a means of expression.

This course engages students in discussions on multiculturalism as portrayed in the media and how this has been vital to shaping and reshaping the discourse on identity within Korean society. The following are addressed in the course: race; racism; representation; stereotype; identity; assimilation; nationalism; tolerance; citizenship, and right.

This course examines the complex interactions between gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, age, and species difference in the contemporary world. Through a critical inquiry into various topical cases as well as major theoretical texts within contemporary gender and diversity studies, the course traces the multiple ways in which identity and difference, inclusion and exclusion, equality and inequality are produced and reproduced in ongoing flows of negotiation and transformation. The course is rooted in intersectional feminism, critical race theory, queer and trans studies, decolonial theory, and other critical frameworks that link together academic scholarship and grassroots activism. The emergence of various social movements during the 1960s and 1970s – including the women’s movement, the civil rights movement, the free speech movement, and LGBT+ activism – serves as a historical and conceptual starting point of the course. Special attention is directed to how intersectional feminisms and queer activisms have challenged the identity politics of mainstream social justice movements, and to the implications of these interventions for academic knowledge production. Subsequently, the course looks into the entangled workings of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, religion, and other ‘crucial differences’ through a variety of current case studies. From the ‘headscarf debates' and anti-Muslim racism in France to the medicalization of intersex bodies, from the rise of Dutch homonationalism to queer and anti-racist environmental movements, the course critically examines the manifold dynamics of difference, power, and inequality in the twenty-first century. Simultaneously, the course traces a future landscape of possibility for minoritarian subjects – including women, queer and trans people, persons of color and indigenous people, as well as a range of nonhuman ‘others’ – by mapping critical strategies of resistance, resilience, and social justice. Prerequisites HUM2003 The Making of Crucial Differences (strongly recommended!) or another relevant 2000-level course in the Humanities or Social Sciences.