Seoul National University

This course reviews electric, magnetic, optic, and thermal properties of materials from a view point of classic mechanics and quantum mechanics.

The course provides a critical understanding of the medium of film. It covers basic cinematic and literary terms and perspectives for film analysis and analyzes and discusses a variety of English-language films from diverse perspectives.

This course provides an introduction to contemporary approaches to the study of the varieties of the English language observed across nations, regions, social groups, and contexts. The two major goals of the course are to illustrate the concepts of sociolinguistics that are essential to studying the expansion and resulting diversity of English and to examine the social, cultural, and linguistic impact of English in countries where English is taught and used as a second or foreign language.

This course explores the dynamic and complex intersection of media, culture and the city in global metropolises. The course provides students with a comprehensive introduction to key theoretical issues on digital screen, media, spectacle, urban experience, popular culture, and globalization in global cities. It also critically discusses methodological issues on the analytical framework and knowledge-forms in media and cultural research for local contexts. Students are encouraged to engage with current debates on epistemological and methodological questions in the fields of media and communication studies as well as urban and visual cultural studies and to enrich their knowledge of urban culture and politics in a systematic way. In doing so, the course helps students to grasp the complexity of media culture and to analyze creatively and critically a broad range of media products and cultural materials.

This course explores contemporary Korean literature. The course looks at the social and cultural environment in which the texts were produced and to which they respond. Students gain a critical point of view concerning the past, present and the future narratives. Analyzing contemporary Korean literature and sharing your opinions and feelings with other students through various activities, they experience the immense power of Korean literature.

This course introduces Korean literature in English translation and explores the relationship between Korean literature and world literature. The first half of the semester is devoted to pre-modern texts, including prose fiction, essays, and poems with an emphasis on Buddhism and Confucianism. The second half of the course examines short stories and poems of the 1920's through the 1980's against the backdrop of the Japanese colonization and the Korean War.

This course deals with the philosophical issues surrounding abortion, euthanasia and organ transplants. Through investigating the moral and ethical grounds on which decisions are made, students objectively and critically examine ethical problems.

This course provides a broad introduction to the major themes and trends in Korean and English-language historiography of Korean history from antiquity to the modern era. Students examine various issues, events, and individuals in Korea's political, social, economic and diplomatic history. 

The key objective of this course is to provide the students with a comprehensive overview of digital marketing and to discuss its main vehicles such as online banner advertising, search marketing, social media marketing, mobile marketing and emerging topics from both theoretical and pragmatic perspectives. As a team project for the course, students recruit a real business, run search or social media advertising, and submit a final written report.

This course addresses politics in the Middle East and North Africa with a focus on relations between states. Questions that guide the course include: When do countries engage in costly conflict against each other? What is the relationship between domestic politics and international relations? Do transnational ideologies impact politics? If so, how? In line with these overarching questions, the course addresses topics such as international involvement in the region, the role of resources, authoritarianism and democratization, sectarianism and ethnicity, terrorism, and protests.

Why did some Middle Eastern countries experience uprisings and others did not? Why do we observe Iran and Saudi Arabic supporting some non-state actors but ignore others? Why have some actors changed their religious rhetoric? Does oil impact politics in Saudi Arabia? This seminar examines these questions and contemporary politics in the Middle East. Students familiarize themselves with major political science debates on issues relevant to the region, and develop understanding of concepts and theory that are useful for analyzing Middle East regional politics Themes addressed include: war and international involvement in the region; authoritarianism and the Arab Spring, religion and sect; and, energy resources. The course examines a number of events, including, but not limited to, the 2003 Iraq War, the Arab Spring and the Syrian Civil War, and the Iranian nuclear deal. This course is designed as a broad survey of Middle East politics; given the time constraints; it is not possible to cover every country and issue. 

This course focuses on theoretical and empirical explanations for political phenomena in the Middle East. As such, we pay close attention to how to theoretically and empirically address social and behavioral science research questions relevant to the Middle East.