Seoul National University

This course provides a global perspective on the development of dress and fashion in Korea. It offers a look at Korean culture through the medium of Hanbok, one of the cultural symbols of Korea and an important medium and channel for understanding Korea. The course also covers how practices of dress/fashion embodied critical thoughts and ideas, such as the performance of identity in gender, race, and class. It acknowledges ‘dress/fashion’ as a powerful tool in shaping our future society with values such as individualism, inclusivity, diversity, and sustainability through industry and museum practices.
 

This course examines the central role that marketing plays in modern business and society. It studies the major phenomena underlying marketing strategy formation and component decisions of pricing, product planning, advertising, promotion, distribution, and personal selling. 

This course extends the concept "language" within a variety of perspectives, and applies the concept to human life and the universe. Thus, the course explores the universality of "information" and "communication" in many academic fields. It provides the basic understanding of human language - its structure in form and meaning, its nature, its way of existence, and its generative principles. It also explores the key concepts in more general contexts such as natural language vs. artificial language; symbolic systems and tools for encoding world information; [information structures in art/music and design; the patterns of communication in these "languages"; and the roles of human participants in the communication.

The course provides a study of health science, beginning with the historical implication and philosophy, as well as a look at the major emerging health issues.
 

This course provides an introduction to finance by examining the basic concepts, tools, and techniques of corporate financial management. It examines the structural and functional aspects of financing and investment decisions of a modern corporation. Topics include raising capital from capital and money markets; the cost of capital; analysis and evaluation of investment projects; capital budgeting; management of corporate liquidity; capital structure policy; dividend policy; financing forecasting; time value of money; interest rates; portfolio theory; the capital asset pricing model; and stock valuation.

This course introduces the concept of global public health program development and explains how Global Citizenship Education (GCED) can serve as a critical aspect in developing public health programs and the public health workforce.

This course provides an introduction to the various fields within English linguistics, including theoretical, interdisciplinary, and applied branches, and helps students understand what types of linguistic phenomena are of interest and how such phenomena are observed and analyzed in each of the fields. Topics include phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax/grammar, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, neurolinguistics, first/second language acquisition, dialectology/sociolinguistics, cultural linguistics, corpus linguistics, natural language processing/artificial intelligence, and other related topics. 

In this course, welfare economics, public choice theory, social justice, as well as socialism and market economies are examined using recent papers. It discusses political thoughts, social philosophy, and ethics through tools of neo-classical economic theories like public choice theory and game theory. More specifically, this course studies the economics of Network effects. It first examines the literature on direct network effects developed in the late 70s and 80s, followed by a look at the literature on indirect network effects developed in the early 2000 through what is known as platform economics, or two-sided markets. 

This is the first part in the introduction to Spanish series. The course helps students acquire a basic level of Spanish language ability while broadening their overall understanding of the Spanish language, culture, and society. The course begins with the Spanish alphabet, basic vocabulary, and grammar review. It also develops a basic level of reading and writing skills in Spanish. 

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic structures and pricing theories for financial derivatives, including an examination of futures, forwards, options, swaps, and credit derivatives. Topics include basic pricing theories for the derivatives, arbitrage vs. hedge transactions, bond pricing, duration, term structure of interest rates, interest rate derivatives, binomial option pricing model vs. Black-Scholes model, implied volatility, numerical analysis, exotic options, market risk vs. credit risk, and several cases of financial risk management.