Seoul National University

This course traces the historical development of Buddhism on the Korean peninsula, and explores how it changed over time. Topics include popular beliefs and practices, Buddhism’s place in society, and its organization and functioning.

This course provides a general introduction to intellectual property law. It focuses on copyright law, one of the intellectual property laws, which is most pertinent to the diverse laws and regulations derived from the most current information and communication technology. Relevant intellectual property legal system, which has changed dramatically with the advent of Internet technology, will be introduced as well. 

This course is intended to expose students to recent strategic issues around branding and brand management, such as brand experience and engagement, digital and social strategies, disruptive innovations, internal branding, and cultural strategy. It provides managerial insight into some trendy topics about branding. The course primarily uses case discussions as well as lectures.

This course offers a broad overview of important concepts, themes, and figures relevant to the progression of Indic civilization, from ancient times to the present. The course particularly focuses on food and physical culture; pleasure and entertainment, as well as gender and sexuality. 

This course explores Middle Eastern and African politics and society, with special focus on energy; natural resources; Islamic civilizations; geopolitical situations, and terrorism. The course also delves into the domestic and foreign policies of each state in the region, as well as their relations with each other. 

This course introduces students to our current understanding of life processes at the molecular level. It covers various topics related to the structure and function of proteins, nucleic acids as the storage molecules of genetic information, the dynamic nature of cell membranes, and generation of biological energy. This course provides the foundation for students to learn more advanced subjects such as neuroscience, gene therapy, development of new crops, drug discovery, and protein engineering.

This course covers twenty-first century Korean popular culture - from the Hallyu (Korean Wave) phenomenon to cultures of popular protest, including the Minjung movement; culture industry and mass culture; consumption cultures; fandom cultures; globalization of Korean food, as well as emerging cybercultures. Utilizing an anthropological perspective, the course situates these phenomena within issues of class, gender and ethnicity in South Korea.

This course examines the diversity and specificity of contemporary popular arts using aesthetic perspectives. We analyze popular arts as a everyday experience as well as a collective experience using the main concepts of aesthetics such as art, aesthetic experience, and aesthetic sensitivity, and thereby cultivate liberal humanity that connects cultural experiences with critical theories. Through classes that look back on popular arts as easy, familiar, and entertaining, from critical and reflective approaches, we seek to gain a new perspective on the popular 'art'. To this end, we survey previous studies, debates, and perspectives on "popular art". We also look at representative examples which show the transformations of genres and medium, and examine how they have forces the aesthetics to adjust its methodologies and perspectives. Popular art is not only for the masses, but also an art given to the masses. And it is often created by the masses themselves. Through the multifaceted analysis and understanding of the stereoscopic aspect of these popular arts, we gain a new dimension of public, culture, art, and sensitivity.

This course cultivates, through theoretical study, the necessary skills for working in child welfare. It covers fundamental concepts and values, history, policies, organizations, services and skills required in the field of child welfare. The course also provides the foundational knowledge of child and youth development, critical perspectives for analyzing child and youth related social problems, and the understanding of key issues related to child welfare policy and programs. It uses a comparative framework to evaluate the current state of major child and youth development problems and the policies and programs aimed to address them.

This course is an introduction to English Semantics, focusing on the meaning of English words and sentences. It examines the key notions and tools required for semantic research, and explores representative theoretical approaches to natural language meaning, including Formal Semantics and Cognitive Semantics.