Seoul National University

This course examines the principles of genetics from a classical and modern view. Topics include cutting-edge genetic engineering techniques, structure and function of genes/chromosomes, genetic mapping and screening, reverse and forward genetics, model organisms in genetics, biotechnology in genetics, and quantitative genetics.

In this course, students learn the characteristics, effects, and basic skills of golf and develop the ability to play a real game on the golf range. The course covers basic positions and swings, such as the back swing, down swing, and follow-through. 

This seminar studies the law of property focusing on several sub-areas, such as changes in real estates rights, registration of rights in real estates, ownership, easements, and other proprietary rights. 

This course provides a broad understanding of linguistics by examining the historical changes in the objects and methodology of its research. Following a historical path, the course explores the theoretical background and characteristics of each school, up to European and American structuralism and modern transformational grammar.

Researchers protect their intellectual property in the form of property rights (patents), and capitalize the invention either by licensing out the rights to other enterprises or by starting up a company by themselves. This course covers intellectual property, how researchers’ inventions are protected, and what knowledge and skills are need to start a technology based company.

This course surveys American literature and literary history, examining how major American authors from the early colonial period to the present contributed the American literary tradition. Authors, including such canonical writers as Bradstreet, Franklin, Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Whitman, Frost, Williams, Faulkner, Lowell and Morrison, and their selected writings in various genres are read in relevant historical, social and cultural contexts so as to offer a broad understanding of American literary history.

This course examines several of the most important issues of international legal theory and the philosophical approaches to international law. 

This course provides an introduction to methods of operations research from an executive or managerial viewpoint, emphasizing formulation of business problems in quantitative terms. Topics include industrial applications of linear programming, dynamic programming, game theory, probability theory, queuing theory, and inventory theory. More specifically, this course is about learning how to structure, analyze, and solve business decision problems on Excel Spreadsheet, with emphasis on systematic, logical thinking, and problem solving. The course addresses problems involving data analytics (how to summarize the available data into useful information), optimal resource allocation (how to best utilize the available resources), decision tree (how to make decisions in a sequential manner), and risk analysis (how to incorporate uncertainty in business environment). In each area, specific problems in operations, finance, and marketing are considered and students build models to represent them on spreadsheets to analyze and solve them using the available Excel commands, tools, and add-ins. 

This course examines how South Korea has been enmeshed in transnational flows of peoples and cultures since the 1980s. It turns an ethnographic lens on global processes to analyze some of their meanings and implications for people's everyday lives and, in particular, explore Korea's specific experience of globalization. Topics include promises and pitfalls of in- and out-migration; national and transnational consumption; intersections of love and profit in marriage migration and in entertainment work; migrant labor; nationalism and transnationalism of Korean sports; politics of race, identity and multiculturalism in Korea itself and toward Koreans internationally; transnational adoption; and “Korean wave.” 

This course provides an examination of the modern theories upon which criminal punishments are based, and how such purposes are met in the criminal justice system. It also examines the major forms and structures of punishment and why we punish individuals, how we do so, and how the punishment process can be viewed in a wider social context. The first part of this course considers the justifications for punishment. The second part briefly reviews the historical development of punishment philosophies and techniques, including the emergence of the modern prison, the joining of medical and legal treatment, and rationales for alternative forms of punishment. The third part examines the work of major writers who have provided a theoretical critique of punishment and the role it plays.