Seoul National University

Researchers protect their intellectual property in the form of property rights (patents), and capitalize the invention either by licensing out the rights to other enterprises or by starting up a company by themselves. This course covers intellectual property, how researchers’ inventions are protected, and what knowledge and skills are need to start a technology based company.

This course surveys American literature and literary history, examining how major American authors from the early colonial period to the present contributed the American literary tradition. Authors, including such canonical writers as Bradstreet, Franklin, Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Whitman, Frost, Williams, Faulkner, Lowell and Morrison, and their selected writings in various genres are read in relevant historical, social and cultural contexts so as to offer a broad understanding of American literary history.

This course examines several of the most important issues of international legal theory and the philosophical approaches to international law. 

This course provides an introduction to methods of operations research from an executive or managerial viewpoint, emphasizing formulation of business problems in quantitative terms. Topics include industrial applications of linear programming, dynamic programming, game theory, probability theory, queuing theory, and inventory theory. More specifically, this course is about learning how to structure, analyze, and solve business decision problems on Excel Spreadsheet, with emphasis on systematic, logical thinking, and problem solving. The course addresses problems involving data analytics (how to summarize the available data into useful information), optimal resource allocation (how to best utilize the available resources), decision tree (how to make decisions in a sequential manner), and risk analysis (how to incorporate uncertainty in business environment). In each area, specific problems in operations, finance, and marketing are considered and students build models to represent them on spreadsheets to analyze and solve them using the available Excel commands, tools, and add-ins. 

This course examines how South Korea has been enmeshed in transnational flows of peoples and cultures since the 1980s. It turns an ethnographic lens on global processes to analyze some of their meanings and implications for people's everyday lives and, in particular, explore Korea's specific experience of globalization. Topics include promises and pitfalls of in- and out-migration; national and transnational consumption; intersections of love and profit in marriage migration and in entertainment work; migrant labor; nationalism and transnationalism of Korean sports; politics of race, identity and multiculturalism in Korea itself and toward Koreans internationally; transnational adoption; and “Korean wave.” 

This course provides an examination of the modern theories upon which criminal punishments are based, and how such purposes are met in the criminal justice system. It also examines the major forms and structures of punishment and why we punish individuals, how we do so, and how the punishment process can be viewed in a wider social context. The first part of this course considers the justifications for punishment. The second part briefly reviews the historical development of punishment philosophies and techniques, including the emergence of the modern prison, the joining of medical and legal treatment, and rationales for alternative forms of punishment. The third part examines the work of major writers who have provided a theoretical critique of punishment and the role it plays.

This course provides a global perspective on the development of dress and fashion in Korea. It offers a look at Korean culture through the medium of Hanbok, one of the cultural symbols of Korea and an important medium and channel for understanding Korea. The course also covers how practices of dress/fashion embodied critical thoughts and ideas, such as the performance of identity in gender, race, and class. It acknowledges ‘dress/fashion’ as a powerful tool in shaping our future society with values such as individualism, inclusivity, diversity, and sustainability through industry and museum practices.
 

This course examines the central role that marketing plays in modern business and society. It studies the major phenomena underlying marketing strategy formation and component decisions of pricing, product planning, advertising, promotion, distribution, and personal selling. 

This course extends the concept "language" within a variety of perspectives, and applies the concept to human life and the universe. Thus, the course explores the universality of "information" and "communication" in many academic fields. It provides the basic understanding of human language - its structure in form and meaning, its nature, its way of existence, and its generative principles. It also explores the key concepts in more general contexts such as natural language vs. artificial language; symbolic systems and tools for encoding world information; [information structures in art/music and design; the patterns of communication in these "languages"; and the roles of human participants in the communication.

The course provides a study of health science, beginning with the historical implication and philosophy, as well as a look at the major emerging health issues.