Seoul National University

This course offers a basic understanding of the judicial system, constitutional law, civil law and civil procedure, and criminal law and criminal procedure of the Republic of Korea. Three of the law school faculty members jointly teach their respective parts as a team during the semester. There is no requirement for the courses to be taken prior to this course or for the major of the students. Each week, some of the essential concepts of law, relevant law and legal system, cases, policies and practices are introduced and discussed. In further detail, the course proceeds along the following themes and topics: a general overview of the judicial system; in the area of constitutional law, a history of the Constitution, the separation of powers and the constitutional institutions, the fundamental rights and the constitutional adjudication; in the area of civil law, distinctive features of the Korean civil law, particularly focusing on contracts and torts, and the civil procedures in Korea; and, in the area of criminal law and criminal procedure, basic principles and core issues of the Korean criminal law, and the structure and recent changes of the Korean criminal procedure.

This course provides knowledge and skills to ascertain ways of improving the current state of human rights in Korea in accordance with the changing environment of the international community. It also covers and evaluates the validity of current human rights regulations and institutions. Finally, through assessment of theoretical debates about social movements it analyzes Korean civil society and social movements.

This course covers theories, research methods, and current issues related to child development. It specifically explores changes in biology; cognition; language; emotion; personality, and morality from birth throughout childhood.

The course provides an overview of Japanese civilization from ancient to modern times, delving into the eras of the Samurai, Shogun, Tenno, Kamikuni.

This course examines the readings of major American poets from the time of the colonial settlement to the present.

This course examines and analyzes the worth of representative poets and masterpiece in Modern Korean poetry from the 1920s to the 2000s. It also introduces concepts, basic principles of modern Korean poetry and students get the pleasure of reading poems once again. This process is a time of the reenacted experience about historical experience, philosophical experience, sensuous experience in the modern poetry. In this lecture, students read Korean modern poetry and study basic poetics and theory of poetry at same time. In addition, we widen the extent of the understand by studying about variety of a cultural experience that appeared on modern Korean poetry. We  study Korean poetry along with multiple genre of art, as well as ideology of history, politics, folk, and themes such as love, food, fashion . Students contemplate 'What is poetic thing?' While all students who like poetry can enjoy this course, appreciation of poems at the University-level is beyond the level of that reading comprehension. By reading poems, students can find the important poetic spirit that penetrate contemporary culture.

This course examines the impact of Buddhism on East Asia by examining some of the key visual legacies of this tradition, including Buddhist imaginings of the afterlife, the development of the stupa, and the art of Zen Buddhism. The main focus is on the pre-modern era, but the course also covers the current manifestations of Buddhism in China, Korea, and Japan.

This course introduces the field of ethnomusicology. In order to do this, it explores major concepts that have shaped the core of ethnomusicological studies. The course examines issues such as music and identity (ethnic, gender, racial), music and politics, music and ritual, musical roots, change and preservation, globalization, field research, transcription and musical instrument classification. In the course, students think, talk, and write about how and why people make music, as well as how and how ethnomusicologists go about their work. Students undertake a group fieldwork projects that contribute to a class-wide fieldwork project.

This course examines various philosophical issues related to empirical sciences. What are the goals of science? What methods do scientists use to achieve them? Does scientific activity help attain truths about the world? Does science progress? Is scientific activity rational as often suggested? Is science value-neutral? How can we draw the line between science and pseudo-science?

This course examines advanced topics in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, as well as some recent issues in the fields of culture, arts, and engineering.