Seoul National University

This course deals with the philosophical issues surrounding abortion, euthanasia and organ transplants. Through investigating the moral and ethical grounds on which decisions are made, students objectively and critically examine ethical problems.

This course provides a broad introduction to the major themes and trends in Korean and English-language historiography of Korean history from antiquity to the modern era. Students examine various issues, events, and individuals in Korea's political, social, economic and diplomatic history. 

The key objective of this course is to provide the students with a comprehensive overview of digital marketing and to discuss its main vehicles such as online banner advertising, search marketing, social media marketing, mobile marketing and emerging topics from both theoretical and pragmatic perspectives. As a team project for the course, students recruit a real business, run search or social media advertising, and submit a final written report.

This course addresses politics in the Middle East and North Africa with a focus on relations between states. Questions that guide the course include: When do countries engage in costly conflict against each other? What is the relationship between domestic politics and international relations? Do transnational ideologies impact politics? If so, how? In line with these overarching questions, the course addresses topics such as international involvement in the region, the role of resources, authoritarianism and democratization, sectarianism and ethnicity, terrorism, and protests.

Why did some Middle Eastern countries experience uprisings and others did not? Why do we observe Iran and Saudi Arabic supporting some non-state actors but ignore others? Why have some actors changed their religious rhetoric? Does oil impact politics in Saudi Arabia? This seminar examines these questions and contemporary politics in the Middle East. Students familiarize themselves with major political science debates on issues relevant to the region, and develop understanding of concepts and theory that are useful for analyzing Middle East regional politics Themes addressed include: war and international involvement in the region; authoritarianism and the Arab Spring, religion and sect; and, energy resources. The course examines a number of events, including, but not limited to, the 2003 Iraq War, the Arab Spring and the Syrian Civil War, and the Iranian nuclear deal. This course is designed as a broad survey of Middle East politics; given the time constraints; it is not possible to cover every country and issue. 

This course focuses on theoretical and empirical explanations for political phenomena in the Middle East. As such, we pay close attention to how to theoretically and empirically address social and behavioral science research questions relevant to the Middle East.

This course offers an introduction to the Haegeum (the 2-string Korean fiddle). While learning to play this instrument, students deepen their understanding of Korean traditional music.

This course provides the philosophical and psychological basis of the discipline of Nursing from conception to death in terms of a human being's physical, psychological, social and spiritual spheres. The course also introduces the meta-paradigms of nursing: human beings, environment, and nursing practice. 

This course introduces the general principles and mechanisms of drug actions including those that influence the absorption, distribution, biotransformation (metabolism), and excretion of drugs. Course topics include: clinical applications, adverse effects, drug toxicity, and structure-activity relationship. The course focuses on the pharmacology of the autonomic nervous system, central nervous system, and autacoids.

The course discusses the significance of interpersonal relationships and introduces several theories which systematically explain the psychological factors in human relationships. The course focuses on the relationships between family members; friends; colleagues, and persons of the opposite sex.

This course takes an anthropological approach to the questions of why and how media matter. More specifically, the anthropology of media explores media as cultural practices and investigates how people navigate and create media worlds. It draws ethnographic attention to the socio-cultural contexts of media and poses questions about how media fit into societies at large.

This course introduces the major concerns, methods and ongoing debates of this new and vibrant field. Drawing on case studies from around the world (but mostly from East Asia), we explore how media practices are defined not only by available technologies but also by societal infrastructures and cultural needs; how the actual circulation of media escapes the desires and intentions of media producers; how media audiences appropriate mass media to their own ends; how old and new media are implicated in social and political change; how media shape national, ethnic and gender identities; and what challenges these complexities present to researchers of media.

This course introduces basic fluid dynamic concepts including fluid mechanics and their practical applications to several flow systems. Course topics include the characteristics of fluid, hydrostatics, mass and momentum conservation laws, dimensional analysis, and internal flows.