Seoul National University

This course introduces the basic concepts and principles of sports marketing. The objective of this course is to recognize the importance of sport marketing and become capable of analyzing sports marketing phenomena.

The course covers the basic principles of drug mechanism at the molecular level and overall understanding of drug discovery and development. This course topics include: structure analysis of drug targets, physicochemical properties of drug, drug-receptor interaction, quantitative structure activity relationship, drug design, molecular modeling, pharmacokinetics, drug metabolism, prodrug, and, new drug development process.

This course provides a study of corporate strategies in global industries. In the first part, it provides basic concepts and knowledge about the internationalization of corporations and the international business environment. Next, it gives students opportunities to analyze the mode of entry into foreign markets and the stages of globalization. It examines the relationship between industry environment and globalization. In the last part, it deals with issues about functional decision-making in global industries.

The course offers a global perspective on US foreign policy from the early period to the present. The class focuses on major episodes of US foreign policy-making rather than individual US administrations. Topics include general knowledge about the history of US foreign policy; detailed knowledge of at least one major episode (case study) or historical period of US foreign policy-making; the ability to apply theoretical perspectives in the analysis of US foreign policy.

This introduces Korean traditional music—genres, aesthetics, and performance styles. The course uses music as a medium through which we can better understand Korean culture, and makes use of audiovisual materials and live performance to enhance course content. The course is open to both Korean and International students who have an interest in Korean traditional and contemporary musical cultures.

This course offers students an opportunity to think, speak, and write in English about diverse issues of modern and contemporary society, using readily accessible genres and forms of cultural and social texts, including popular literature, literature for children and adolescents, graphic novels, movies and TV dramas, music, art works, journalistic writings, internet postings, etc. The class may either be organized around a single overarching theme or cover a series of different yet preferably interrelated themes.

This course is a workshop-based class on the topic of culture in multimodal communication. Students explore tools for understanding and analyzing different modes of communication. Particularly, the class focuses on how meaning is made through the interaction of two modes (language and image) in an important modern cultural medium, graphic novels. However, students apply the knowledge gained from this class to other forms of multimodal communication in the world around them.

This course focuses on cultivating analytical insight on legal disputes as a social phenomena. Systemization of the legal theories with the assistance of social science, and the analysis of social phenomena with the established legal theories are the two major cores of this course.

The course provides a survey of the modern Korean novel from its beginnings to 1945 but focuses on major works of fiction written after 1960. The course also demonstrates why and how Korean writers have tried to achieve "national literature" while trying to dispense with the limitations of nationalist discourse, which often suppresses the issues of gender and minorities, and even democracy itself. The course also provides a brief mapping of the contemporary literature of North Korea. 

This course consists mainly of the translation from classical Chinese into English, and hence students must have at least a working knowledge of both these languages. The secondary focus of this course is to develop academic writing skills, knowledge of translation theory and practice, and enhancing students’ knowledge of the historical and cultural background of the texts read in class. This course introduces the characteristic features of traditional culture of China, and investigates their significance on the contemporary Chinese society. Specifically, the course focuses on the relationship between the traditional cultural heritage and the contemporary China. Besides, it covers general ideas of the main texts on Chinese literary, history, and philosophy. In addition, some archeological and anthropological research are introduced for relevant issues. This course also introduces students to key ideas in translation theory and practice, which are relevant to anyone working in a multi-lingual environment. Students are encouraged to consider the problems of both the source text and the target language, and guided in strategies towards overcoming these difficulties. This course also introduces English language academic writing, aimed at students of Chinese language and literature.

The texts read in class consist of selected chapters of the Ming dynasty classic historical novel, the Dongzhou lieguo zhi 東周列國志 (Romance of the Kingdoms and States of the Eastern Zhou) by Feng Menglong 馮夢龍 (1574-1645). The period in history covered by this novel (771-221 BCE) is crucial in the history and culture of East Asia, and it provides a highly readable, interesting and historically accurate portrayal of the era. This novel is also important in that it consistently stresses the cultural importance of these events, and their ongoing significance for later Chinese history right up to modern times. In addition to translation, students will be expected to discuss issues raised in the text, and to defend their ideas in discussion in class.

This course is offered to non-science majors. This course explores the universe and its relationship to man from the viewpoint of ancient people to that of modern astronomers on space satellite. It emphasizes relevance of astronomy in natural sciences, engineering, humanism, and art.

This class presents a modern overview on the cosmos, as well as the multiple interrelations between humans and the universe. Topics include the basics of astronomy, planets and solar system, the sun, stars, galaxies, tools of astronomy (telescopes, satellites, etc.), spaceflight, life on earth, extreme objects (white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes), and cosmology.