Seoul National University

Computational social science is a new paradigm in social science that actively utilizes the methodologies of computer science and statistics for collecting, producing, and analyzing large-scale data sets. This class introduces a set of methodologies used in computational social science and how they change social science research designs and practices. It also discusses institutional and ethical issues that arise as a result of the widespread use of automated algorithms for managing massive data sets in the private and public sectors.

This course discusses current environmental problems and their solutions. In addition, the course deals with related pedagogy and teaching materials.

This course introduces the basic elements of economic geography, such as the location, spatial pattern of economic activities, the distribution and exploitation of resources, and land use. It also examines the case of regional development, focusing on the features, problems, and alternatives of human land use.

Economic Geography is the study of the unequal distribution of the world’s resources and economic activity in the global space economy. While the geographic scale of analysis can vary - from a firm, to a cluster or community, to a city, to a country or a region, there is also an emphasis on the relationships between activities taking place within and across these various scales and ‘the global’. Economic factors exert an important influence, yet other factors such as cultural and political should not be ignored. This course highlights the geographic logic of economic activities in space, and relies on other relevant explanations when necessary to understand contemporary economic geographies. This course places particular emphasis on historical and contemporary economic events that have shaped East Asia. Also, there is an educational component to this course, particularly when it comes to energy, the environment, and the role of education as a tool to help foment positive changes for tomorrow’s society

This is an introductory course for students interested in doing volunteer work for the first time. The course includes the concepts and meaning of volunteering, information on various areas of volunteer work, characteristics of clients, basic attitude and ethics, and practice methods of volunteering. 

This course reviews electric, magnetic, optic, and thermal properties of materials from a view point of classic mechanics and quantum mechanics.

The course provides a critical understanding of the medium of film. It covers basic cinematic and literary terms and perspectives for film analysis and analyzes and discusses a variety of English-language films from diverse perspectives.

This course provides an introduction to contemporary approaches to the study of the varieties of the English language observed across nations, regions, social groups, and contexts. The two major goals of the course are to illustrate the concepts of sociolinguistics that are essential to studying the expansion and resulting diversity of English and to examine the social, cultural, and linguistic impact of English in countries where English is taught and used as a second or foreign language.

This course explores the dynamic and complex intersection of media, culture and the city in global metropolises. The course provides students with a comprehensive introduction to key theoretical issues on digital screen, media, spectacle, urban experience, popular culture, and globalization in global cities. It also critically discusses methodological issues on the analytical framework and knowledge-forms in media and cultural research for local contexts. Students are encouraged to engage with current debates on epistemological and methodological questions in the fields of media and communication studies as well as urban and visual cultural studies and to enrich their knowledge of urban culture and politics in a systematic way. In doing so, the course helps students to grasp the complexity of media culture and to analyze creatively and critically a broad range of media products and cultural materials.

This course explores contemporary Korean literature. The course looks at the social and cultural environment in which the texts were produced and to which they respond. Students gain a critical point of view concerning the past, present and the future narratives. Analyzing contemporary Korean literature and sharing your opinions and feelings with other students through various activities, they experience the immense power of Korean literature.

This course introduces Korean literature in English translation and explores the relationship between Korean literature and world literature. The first half of the semester is devoted to pre-modern texts, including prose fiction, essays, and poems with an emphasis on Buddhism and Confucianism. The second half of the course examines short stories and poems of the 1920's through the 1980's against the backdrop of the Japanese colonization and the Korean War.