Seoul National University

This course covers the techniques and theories of motion graphics. Motion graphics in a broad sense refers to the entire visual media that encompasses both live-action films and animations. However, in a general context, motion graphics can be defined as a video that has a short running time, conveys a message effectively, and emphasizes visual style rather than narrative. 

Students will learn various theories and skills needed to create a motion graphic; critique various motion graphic videos; and create animation using movie clips, images, text and special effects then learn how to add sound and master it for the final media project. 

This course introduces students to English poetry of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Poetry written during this period tends to be formal and stylized as well as public and political in content. Students will learn how to analyze the formal elements of poetry and to identify various poetic genres including the sonnet, epic/mock-epic, pastoral/georgic, and the elegy. The course will address the following questions: How does poetic form communicate meaning? Why do certain poetic forms prevail over others in given historical periods? What kinds of changes do we see in poetic authorship and readership in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? How do poets engage in conversations with one another? We will begin with shorter poems, progress to longer selections from Milton and Pope, and end with abolition poetry and poems about animals. 

This course examines pedagogical theories, strategies, and applications related to blended learning in formal and informal science learning environments. Students will engage in a blended learning science practicum, developing and implementing a blended learning science module for upper elementary school students.  

This course introduces exciting new developments in advanced mathematics. The barriers between fields are being broken, many new unexpected applications are continually found, and out of this cross-fertilization, new kinds of mathematics are born. Topics are subject to change but may include various new advances of pure mathematics and logic, computational science and numerical analysis, fluid mechanics and geophysics, wavelets and signal processing, cryptology, quantum computation, mathematical biology (including bioinformatics, proteomics and neuroscience), intelligence science, financial mathematics and mathematical economics, and probability theory with various applications.  

This course introduces theories in critical communication and technology studies and applies these theories to contemporary debates around big data and AI, examining multiple and situated contexts of technology within mediated environments. The course invites students to delve deeply into critical perspectives and explore where and how data systems re-arrange and re-organize existing human practices.  

This course introduces concepts and theories of mathematical analysis. Topics include limits of continuous functions and differentiable series of functions, uniform convergence of series of functions, Arzela-Ascoli theorem, Weierstrass theorem, power series, analytic functions, trigonometric series, Fourier series, etc. 

This course fosters creative and critical thinking through the diversification of reading texts and modes of expression (writing, performance, artwork). Students practice various communication skills centered on a specific topic and cultivate creative thinking processes. The course explores various historical forms of communities and examines works related to these themes to reflect on what a truly just community and its leadership should be like. While engaging with the texts through discussions and writing, the course emphasizes creative thinking rather than purely academic understanding. 

Topics include: reading texts without relying on fixed interpretation; seeking answers actively rather than passively accepting traditional responses; how to independently gather materials on a given topic, reconstruct various types of texts (literature, film, art) from one’s perspective, and derive new interpretations; how to organize and express independently interpreted materials from a unique viewpoint; and how to develop a capacity to move beyond exclusive thinking that holds one's own ideas as the only truth. 

This course aims to develop students' English language skills at an advanced level via reading, performing, and writing about various types of drama. Students will read and perform selections ranging from comedy through tragedy to a contemporary play to examine the differences between the English language in drama and English language in other types of written text.

In this introductory course students will experiment with the efficiency and creativity of the design process based on an understanding of data and artificial intelligence. Students will explore methodologies for utilizing AI in the design process, including generative design based on AI. 

This course provides an introduction to and examples of AI applied design, overviews of various AI topics in design, opportunities to talk with designers in AI and data science/tech professionals, an examination of how design and AI with emerging data technologies affect each other, future directions and impacts of the field, and more. Open to any undergraduate student interested in design. First-year students and non-design majors are also particularly welcomed. No prerequisites required. 

This course, intended for students who are not majoring in medicine, covers the scientific understanding of death, and analyzes the historical/philosophical implications that form the basis of this knowledge, thereby enhancing student abilities to analyze various social phenomena caused by death in modern society.  

The course presents scientific data related to death, fostering a rational way of thinking through ethical/philosophical considerations of this phenomenon that are necessary in modern society. Topics include mankind’s historical awareness of death; social consensus and philosophical implications related to death; scientific analyses in the fields of pathophysiology, toxicology, and socio-medical science; and scientific approaches to complex social phenomena related to death in modern society.