Seoul National University

This course provides an overview of cellular components, including their structure, function, and mechanism. Based on the knowledge of cell biology, the course looks at technologies used for cell culture, stem cell research, cancer research, and tissue engineering. The course also deals with the medical and industrial applications of cells. It provides a study of mammalian physiology and the engineering aspects of different physiological systems, focusing on a number of organ systems that may include cardiovascular, respiratory, and renal. Engineering principles that include biomechanical, bioelectrical, and biofluids are applied to physiological systems.
 

This course adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to examine Korean digital cultures. The course covers topics ranging from the local histories of the internet and digital media to its censorship in the South and the North; from online activism to mukbang micro-celebrities and Instagram influencers; from right-wing trolls of ilbe to K-pop virtual idols; from gamers subcultures to Seoul's experiments with the metaverse. 

This course provides a study of educational phenomena from the educational psychology perspective. It discusses research and implications in the areas of development, learning, and motivation.

This course looks at human nature and society and examines the lives and philosophies of Eastern thinkers. It discusses topics that are central to the design of a well-ordered society. Particular attention is given to the ways in which they contribute to a broader conversation about freedom, justice, virtue, democracy, citizenship, and so on. 

This course reviews algorithms and machine learning techniques such string pattern matching algorithms, PCA, decision tree, artificial neural networks, support vector machines, and frequent pattern mining techniques. It also reviews computational tools for algorithms and machine learning (mostly with Tensorflow, PyTorch), and surveys how these techniques are used for practical applications.

This course explores the application of economics principles to firms and firms' strategies. In the first part of the course, firms, their internal organization, and their horizontal and vertical boundaries are examined. In the second part, the course looks at firms' interactions competing against or cooperating with each other. This part includes such topics as strategic pricing, entry and exit, collusion, etc. Finally, it studies how to compare industries in terms of their competitiveness, how firms can position themselves within industry, and also take on questions of competitive advantage and its sustainability. 

This course introduces a variety of texts across disciplines-history, philosophy, cultural studies, literature etc.-in order to understand how American culture interacts with and shapes the world we live in. Many of the important social and cultural movements and trends since World War II, which have contributed to the reshaping of the contours of American culture-- American exceptionalism, consumerism, globalization and mass culture, muticulturalism, ecoculturalism--are examined from various perspectives, both synchronically and diachronically. 

This course looks at how social factors contribute to individual physical and mental health outcomes using multiple theoretical frameworks developed in the U.S. and Europe. It examines how micro-, meso-, and macro-level factors influence an individual's health. Particularly, the course evaluates the health disparities research from Western Societies and discusses how these findings apply to Korea. It also discusses the implications of these findings on social welfare policies and social work practice in Korea.

This course examines Korean politics and political system from diverse perspectives. It studies theories of international politics and political institutions, and the Korean culture and economy and their related processes..

This course develops basic Korean language skills and is intended for students without any prior knowledge of the Korean language. This course covers the Korean alphabet, first level vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and sentence structure.