Seoul National University

This graduate course offers a series of introductory lectures, taught by professors in the convergence major group, on research topics relevant to the core technologies of smart cities. Topics include smart city engineering, technology management, economics, policy analysis on the industrial economy, smart city environment and landscape architecture, city planning and design studies, data science and computer-based information systems, robotics and autonomous vehicle engineering technologies, and administrative governance and global issues.

This course provides an examination of the structure and dynamics of culture, focusing on how they have created, maintained, and changed religions.

This course provides a study of the basic concepts in occupational biomechanics and design methods for enhancing workers’ occupational health and work productivity. Topics include the human musculoskeletal system, anthropometry, bioinstrumentation, occupational biomechanical models, postural stress, and manual materials handling.

This course examines music focusing on its social, cultural, economical, and commercial aspects. It surveys major genres of Western classical music including opera, mass, concerto, chamber music, sonatas, as well as a variety of popular music genres such as jazz, blues, country, musical, rock, pop, folk, disco, soul, hip-hop, and trot. By analyzing different music repertoires based on their historical and social background, this course develops an understanding of music elements such as musical form, harmony, chords, scale, rhythm, and performance practice, as well as social and economic mechanism of music such as production, distribution, and consumption.

This course examines the ways in which writers in different parts of the world have used ideas around food to express and communicate the fundamental human experience. Focusing on the recurring images of cooking, eating, feasting, and fasting in a range of literary works and cultural productions, the course explores how food is imagined to convey the innermost feelings and desires of individuals, evoke cultural memory, and form a sense of community.

This course provides an overview of the fundamental principles and important applications of computer vision. Topics include image processing, segmentation, feature extraction, photometric vision, motion and tracking, camera models, scene reconstruction, and human/scene/object recognition and detection.

This introductory course addresses basic concepts and linguistic processing methods regarding natural language comprehension and machine translation. It discusses fundamental concepts in information retrieval, text processing, and natural language understanding. Specific topics include morphological analysis, syntactic parsing, semantic analysis, pragmatics, and language generation.

This course addresses philosophical and methodological questions relevant to criticism of the arts, especially the question of value and evaluation. It discusses the issues regarding interpretation of artworks, examining theories of interpretation with examples of actual artworks. It also examines various aspects of art's value including aesthetic value, cognitive value, moral value, etc. It then moves on to the issue of applying standards of evaluation to some controversial cases found in the area such as erotic art, public art and popular art. Finally, some meta-critical issues are addressed.

This course analyzes how social problems can be approached through social policy and welfare organizations. It focuses on problems that are endemic to Korea and explores possible solutions.

This course focuses on enhancing advanced Korean language skills through newspaper and magazine articles, and texts on the society, culture, and history of Korea. During the first half of the course, it covers topics related to Korean orthography and grammar. In the second half of the course, focus is on academic writing in Korean. Students practice analyzing, summarizing, and orally presenting their responses to a variety of Korean texts including newspaper articles, and practice writing diverse texts related to college life such as study/research plans, self-introductions, and academic papers.