Sociology

This course employs a variety of teaching methods—including lectures, discussions, and visual material analysis—to guide students in understanding how social gender, as a social structure, is constructed, reproduced, and contested through images, media, the body, and everyday life. It introduces the foundational theories of gender, outlines key feminist theoretical traditions and methodologies, and draws on case studies from film, advertising, and embodied practices to explore how gender is encoded and represented in visual culture.

At the same time, the course emphasizes that gender equality is not only a theoretical stance, but also a practical skill and a social responsibility. Through critical analysis and reflection on gendered mechanisms, students will learn to identify and deconstruct hidden structures of inequality, enhance their capacity for empathy and understanding of difference, and critically reflect on the binary oppositions and labeling tendencies prevalent in the digital age. Ultimately, the course aims to foster a more inclusive and equitable cultural and social environment.

This course examines population health and well-being consequences of demographic changes from an interdisciplinary approach, including sociological, demographic, economic, and political science, particularly in developed countries.

This is an introductory course for students interested in doing volunteer work for the first time. The course includes the concepts and meaning of volunteering, information on various areas of volunteer work, characteristics of clients, basic attitude and ethics, and practice methods of volunteering. 

This course covers the conceptual frameworks and applied methodologies for user centered design and user experience research. Emphasis is placed on learning and practicing a variety of usability research methods/techniques such as scenario development, user profiling, tasks analysis, contextual inquiry, card sorting, usability tests, log data analysis, expert inspection and heuristic evaluation. This is a research and evaluation course on usability and user experience with the assumption that the results of user and usability research would feed directly into various stages of the interface design cycle. Assignments include learning to use Morae software suite to run tests, conducting literature review of usability research, performing a method and tool review of usability research approaches and a variety of emerging usability research software, and completing the term project in usability testing. The usability test project uses actual real time cases from organizations in the local area.