Seoul National University

This course focuses on developing students’ abilities for speaking, listening, reading, and writing. This is a follow up course to Intermediate Chinese 1. Students enhance their language capabilities required for communication with native speakers and interpretation of intermediate level texts written in Chinese.  

This clinical course provides practical aspects of lawyering, including interviewing clients, identifying and summarizing legal issues and evidentiary matters, conducting research, writing papers on legal problem solutions, and preparing legal memoranda. These tasks are undertaken under close supervision of instructors or practicing lawyers. Students gain the capability to handle cases independently and effectively. Legal Clinic 2 provides clinical case studies of criminal and administrative law. Through this course, case study of criminal and administrative law is explored, and appropriate research, practices, papers, etc., are provided for students. 

This course introduces the study of meaning. With the rapid rise in practical applications of artificial intelligence systems, it is now more crucial than ever for us to define what it means to be human, and there is nothing more humanistic than studying the concept of meaning itself. 

Students engage with some of the most influential scientific, literary, and philosophical texts that have shaped the world today with the objective to move beyond a passive understanding. Students are challenged to think critically and actively about how the ideas put forth in these texts have come to be rejected, revised, and/or replaced, and how this very process of the shifting dominant narrative of meaning (i.e., not just the works by themselves in isolation) continues to influence the society and culture that they currently live in. 

Topics include Writing systems, Rhetoric, Similes, metaphors, and meaning, Creating new knowledge via logic, What is knowledge, Are signs arbitrary, Meaning as behavior, Language and thought Sarcasm, Mathematical meaning (axiomatic system), Mathematical meaning (axiomatic system), Can computers and AI understand meaning, Society and language use, How might aliens define meaning. 

This physical activity course covers the fundamentals of baseball as a team sport. Students learn catching, throwing, hitting, defense strategy, and offense strategy. Fundamental skills (catching, throwing, hitting form), complex skills (catching and throwing of the hit ball, the skill for each position, hitting a pitched ball), strategy skills (hit and run, bunt and run, tag up play, double play, relay play), and actual games (played with other teams) will be covered. 

This course covers international economics in general, including international trade theory, international trade policy, international finance, and international organizations. This course introduces the economic principles of international trade of goods and capital movement in the global economy. 

Topics include Ricardian trade model, Heckscher-Ohlin trade model, Specific factors model, External economies of scale and trade, Firms in the global economy, Instruments of trade policy, Political economy of trade policy, Exchange and interest rates, Financial globalization and more. 

It is recommended that students take microeconomic theory and macroeconomic theory first before taking this course. 

This topical course surveys specific areas, genres, or authors of modern European literature. The readings focus on the literary discussions and representations of the encounter between the East and the West. In addition, the historical events that ushered in the new era, shaping and developing modern European literature are examined. 

Under the premise that the West was constructed through encounters with non-Western and that its aspects appear in Western modern literature, the first half of the lecture examines how the discovery of the 'New World' is analyzed, discussed, and embodied in literary works, among the various events that determined the character of Western modernity, and the second half of the lecture points the point of contact between Western imperialist expansion and modern literature.  

The particular literature or genre selections may change from term to term. 

This advanced course builds on prerequisite courses in business administration and economics, such as financial accounting, intermediate accounting, financial management, statistics, and economics. This course strengthens an in-depth and balanced view of the usefulness and limitations of financial statement analysis and corporate valuation concepts.  

Topics include Capital raising priorities and investment decisions, Expected shareholder return and performance evaluation, Weighted average cost of capital and return on invested capital, Growth strategy and financial debt, Importance of working capital management, financial liabilities and operating liabilities, New capital securities and investment decisions, Performance evaluation and income statement, Operating cash flow and EBITDA, Strategies and valuation for improving intrinsic value, Utilization of PBR and PER concepts, Diversification and concentration strategies.  

This course enhances students' understanding of international dispute settlement and the achievement of global justice. Following a comparison of various methods and means of dispute settlement, the course focuses on the role of international law and international legal proceedings in settling international disputes and promoting global justice. This course looks specifically at important cases at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), and the International Criminal Court (ICC). Students are asked to define and assess the role, potential, and limitations of international law and its institutions in international relations throughout the course. Students present a case study and produce a final paper. 

This course examines the major achievements of behavioral economics focusing on theory and empirical evidence, and introduces policy design and evaluation based on insights into human behavior changes.  

Unlike traditional economics, which understands human decision-making and behavioral changes based on the assumption of human rationality and standard preferences, behavioral economics has broadened its scope to expand human decision-making models and develop new policy tools to induce behavioral changes based on the incorporation of recent studies and contributions of psychology and other fields.  

Students explore these new interpretations and learn about recent applications and newly defined understanding of human beings and their economic behavior. 

Students who wish to take this course are required to have an appropriate level of knowledge of microeconomics and economic statistics. 

This advanced topics course covers international trade institutions, trade law, and trade policy. Students explore trade policies, how they are implemented by the United States and other countries, and how their use is constrained by international trade agreements.  

The Fall 2025 offering of this course covers fundamental principles of international trade rules established by the World Trade Organization (WTO), including the principles of non-discrimination, trade remedy measures, SPS, TBT, and exceptions to trade obligations. 

In addition, students examine newly emerging issues in trade, such as environmental concerns, digital trade and e-commerce, intellectual property rights, and trade in services, and delve into the most frequently used methods of dispute resolution: mediation, arbitration, and litigation. Through lectures, simulations, and student presentations, students learn the procedures and actual workings of these three methods at various settings such as WTO, WIPO, and LCIA, inter alia. 

Students should expect to present a substantial case study and produce a final paper.