Seoul National University

This course provides the philosophical and psychological basis of the discipline of Nursing from conception to death in terms of a human being's physical, psychological, social and spiritual spheres. The course also introduces the meta-paradigms of nursing: human beings, environment, and nursing practice. 

This course introduces the general principles and mechanisms of drug actions including those that influence the absorption, distribution, biotransformation (metabolism), and excretion of drugs. Course topics include: clinical applications, adverse effects, drug toxicity, and structure-activity relationship. The course focuses on the pharmacology of the autonomic nervous system, central nervous system, and autacoids.

The course discusses the significance of interpersonal relationships and introduces several theories which systematically explain the psychological factors in human relationships. The course focuses on the relationships between family members; friends; colleagues, and persons of the opposite sex.

This course takes an anthropological approach to the questions of why and how media matter. More specifically, the anthropology of media explores media as cultural practices and investigates how people navigate and create media worlds. It draws ethnographic attention to the socio-cultural contexts of media and poses questions about how media fit into societies at large.

This course introduces the major concerns, methods and ongoing debates of this new and vibrant field. Drawing on case studies from around the world (but mostly from East Asia), we explore how media practices are defined not only by available technologies but also by societal infrastructures and cultural needs; how the actual circulation of media escapes the desires and intentions of media producers; how media audiences appropriate mass media to their own ends; how old and new media are implicated in social and political change; how media shape national, ethnic and gender identities; and what challenges these complexities present to researchers of media.

This course introduces basic fluid dynamic concepts including fluid mechanics and their practical applications to several flow systems. Course topics include the characteristics of fluid, hydrostatics, mass and momentum conservation laws, dimensional analysis, and internal flows.

This course offers a examination of Korean culture through Eastern philosophy and understanding Eastern philosophy through Korean popular culture. It covers the cultures and thoughts of various Asian traditions as well as a wide range of topics, ranging from Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism to Korean folk beliefs. The areas surveyed in this class include South and Southeast Asia (India, Ceylon, Myanmar, Thailand) as well as East Asia (Korea, China, Japan). 

The course explores music, performance, and ideas—familiar and not so familiar—from around the world. We explore musical forms and cultures, using examples of different types of music and case studies from different parts of the world. The course is based on recognition of human and musical diversity, of the diversity of ideas about music and its functions in society. Therefore, one of the primary goals of the class is to learn concepts and methods for listening to and watching musical performance, and understanding musical culture generally.

This course introduces different world music of each continent with their cultural backgrounds. Each civilization in its personal background has developed its personal culture and made diverse color from it. Between all those culture circumstances, music is the one which shows clearly this nature. To understand a specific music, we have to know all about the civilization of this music but understanding the music first, gives the occasion to know more easily the different civilization. Audio visual materials will be used to have a large view of the world and to understand the universality and the difference of several civilizations. A tour from Africa, West Indies, Oceania, America, Southern Europe, Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, Arab, Central Asia, Southern Asia, Southeast Asia, Japan·China of the Far East Asia and to Korea completes the term. 

In this beginning course on tennis, students study the history, special characteristics, effects, game methods, etiquette, equipment, terms, international games, and background of tennis. They also learn the basic skills through individual lessons and explore scientific principles related to tennis. Topics cover basic skills such as grip, stroke (forehand and backhand), serve, receive, volley, smash, and rove. The rules for single and double matches, different positions, practice methods, and refereeing are also covered.

This course examines the political, economic, cultural factors that create the context in which mass media operate and affect ideological processes in society. It studies the history and structure of the mass media and take a close look at mass media in our society in many forms. 

Unlike other major courses for Economics, this course equips students who are not majoring in economics with a deep, systematic understanding of current economic issues. Hence we deal with the current economic issues in the class. Throughout the course, students engage in a series of discussions on economic issues from economic articles in newspapers, periodicals or economic stories in novels.