Seoul National University

This course provides an introduction to finance by examining the basic concepts, tools, and techniques of corporate financial management. It examines the structural and functional aspects of financing and investment decisions of a modern corporation. Topics include raising capital from capital and money markets; the cost of capital; analysis and evaluation of investment projects; capital budgeting; management of corporate liquidity; capital structure policy; dividend policy; financing forecasting; time value of money; interest rates; portfolio theory; the capital asset pricing model; and stock valuation.

This course introduces the concept of global public health program development and explains how Global Citizenship Education (GCED) can serve as a critical aspect in developing public health programs and the public health workforce.

This course provides an introduction to the various fields within English linguistics, including theoretical, interdisciplinary, and applied branches, and helps students understand what types of linguistic phenomena are of interest and how such phenomena are observed and analyzed in each of the fields. Topics include phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax/grammar, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, neurolinguistics, first/second language acquisition, dialectology/sociolinguistics, cultural linguistics, corpus linguistics, natural language processing/artificial intelligence, and other related topics. 

In this course, welfare economics, public choice theory, social justice, as well as socialism and market economies are examined using recent papers. It discusses political thoughts, social philosophy, and ethics through tools of neo-classical economic theories like public choice theory and game theory. More specifically, this course studies the economics of Network effects. It first examines the literature on direct network effects developed in the late 70s and 80s, followed by a look at the literature on indirect network effects developed in the early 2000 through what is known as platform economics, or two-sided markets. 

This is the first part in the introduction to Spanish series. The course helps students acquire a basic level of Spanish language ability while broadening their overall understanding of the Spanish language, culture, and society. The course begins with the Spanish alphabet, basic vocabulary, and grammar review. It also develops a basic level of reading and writing skills in Spanish. 

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic structures and pricing theories for financial derivatives, including an examination of futures, forwards, options, swaps, and credit derivatives. Topics include basic pricing theories for the derivatives, arbitrage vs. hedge transactions, bond pricing, duration, term structure of interest rates, interest rate derivatives, binomial option pricing model vs. Black-Scholes model, implied volatility, numerical analysis, exotic options, market risk vs. credit risk, and several cases of financial risk management.

Computational social science is a new paradigm in social science that actively utilizes the methodologies of computer science and statistics for collecting, producing, and analyzing large-scale data sets. This class introduces a set of methodologies used in computational social science and how they change social science research designs and practices. It also discusses institutional and ethical issues that arise as a result of the widespread use of automated algorithms for managing massive data sets in the private and public sectors.

This course discusses current environmental problems and their solutions. In addition, the course deals with related pedagogy and teaching materials.

This course introduces the basic elements of economic geography, such as the location, spatial pattern of economic activities, the distribution and exploitation of resources, and land use. It also examines the case of regional development, focusing on the features, problems, and alternatives of human land use.

Economic Geography is the study of the unequal distribution of the world’s resources and economic activity in the global space economy. While the geographic scale of analysis can vary - from a firm, to a cluster or community, to a city, to a country or a region, there is also an emphasis on the relationships between activities taking place within and across these various scales and ‘the global’. Economic factors exert an important influence, yet other factors such as cultural and political should not be ignored. This course highlights the geographic logic of economic activities in space, and relies on other relevant explanations when necessary to understand contemporary economic geographies. This course places particular emphasis on historical and contemporary economic events that have shaped East Asia. Also, there is an educational component to this course, particularly when it comes to energy, the environment, and the role of education as a tool to help foment positive changes for tomorrow’s society

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.