Seoul National University

This course covers research on judgment and decision making in various sub-fields of psychology and introduces ways in which judgment and decision making can be improved. 

Our lives are a series of judgments and decisions. In this class, we study the process of judging people in general and find out what kind of process is necessary to improve one’s judgment in real life.  

Students examine theories and research papers related to judgment and decision-making, envision an evaluation method for the judgment and decision-making process, and make a research plan to verify the judgment and decision-making process through a practical trial design. 

Topics include Introduction to Judgment and Decision Making, Characteristics and Analysis of Judgment, Probability and Frequency Judgment, Judgment Distortion, Foundation, Group Decision Making, Confirmation Bias/Belief Obsession, Making Decisions in Dangerous and Uncertain Situations, Preferences and Choices, Judgment and Choice over Time, Covariance, Causality, Anti-Factual Thinking. 

This course covers neurobiological systems in the brain that are responsible for drug and behavioral addiction, the diverse effects of drug abuse on the brain, and the cognitive neuroscience of addiction and how we can use cognitive neuroscience (including neuroimaging tools) to advance the assessment and/or treatment of addiction.  

Addiction is studied at many levels, from how drugs affect neurobiological systems to how psychosocial factors play a role in addictive behaviors. While some people argue that uncontrolled drug use or behavioral problems in addicts is a matter of choice, accumulating evidence suggests that we need to consider addiction as a brain disease like other medical conditions. To better understand addiction and resolve the conflicting views, we need to understand basic animal and human models proposed to account for diverse aspects of drug use, heritability, and basic cognitive neuroscience. Consequently, course readings include chapters and papers on these topics.  

Other topics include Neuropsychopharmacology, Animal models of addiction, Types of drugs, Decision-making framework, Neuroimaging & Neural circuits and brain abnormalities in drug addiction, Risk factors, Adolescence and Addiction, Neurocognitive predictors of drug addiction, Behavioral addition, Pharmacological and psychological treatment of addiction.  

Prerequisite: Introduction to Experimental Psychology and Experiments 

This course explores the origins and history of global citizenship and global citizenship education. We examine various approaches to global citizenship education and discuss theoretical frameworks for understanding its worldwide diffusion. The course critically investigates the Western-centered nature of global citizenship education through the concept of epistemic injustice and considers whether global citizenship education is a notion accessible only to the privileged few or whether it can function as a mechanism for equality. Finally, students review the current status and practices of global citizenship education in different countries, including South Korea. 

Emphasizing and incorporating students' needs and experiences, the course creates a critical space where they can share, debate, network, and construct viable curricula, practices, and pedagogies for the implementation of citizenship education inside and outside the school settings. 

Language Requirements: This course is taught in both Korean and English and the group discussion in both Korean and English. Group project needs to be delivered in English. Students are required to have upper intermediate and advanced levels of English fluency. 

This is the most advanced undergraduate course in the Astronomy program Department of Physics & Astronomy and is targeted to astronomy-major or physics-major senior (or junior) undergraduate students or first and secondar year graduate students. 

To retain the advanced level of this course, the enrollment is restricted only to those students who took the following classes in astronomy, physics and mathematics classes: Galaxies and the Universe, Introduction to Astrophysics 1, General physics, Classical Mechanics I & II (including the Special Relativity), Quantum Mechanics I & II, Thermal Physics, Electrodynamics I & II, General Mathematics, Calculus/Analysis, Linear Algebra. 

Students should not register for this class unless they have completed the above prerequisite courses. 

This course for advanced undergraduate students covers components and biochemical processes of terrestrial ecosystems. Human activities have altered more than half of the ice-free terrestrial ecosystems. Students learn the components of Earth system including atmosphere, ocean, soil, and biota, and understand how these components influence the cycles of elements, water, and energy. Students are expected to discuss temporal and spatial changes of the components and consider the integrated effects of these changes on soil functions at diverse scales ranging from plots, regions, and the globe. 

Topics include History of ecosystem ecology, Water and energy balance, Plant photosynthesis: carbon input to terrestrial system, Plant and ecosystem carbon budgets, Terrestrial carbon losses, Terrestrial nutrient cycling, Temporal and spatial dynamics, Anthropocene. 

This is a studio art course in which students create aesthetic works using various metals and methods. Based on each student’s individual research in the field of metalcraft, this course allows students to explore and deepen personal topics, and to creatively apply them to thesis work and research. Through this process, students develop their abilities as independent metalcraft artists and educators.  

Students are expected to propose a topic and conduct research on that topic and work on creating an art piece that aligns with their theoretical, conceptual, and contextual research.   

This course introduces feminist perspectives into established aesthetics by illuminating the systematic elimination of sex, sexuality, and the body from conceptual frameworks such as beauty, the sublime, pleasure, and reason. At the same time, the course analyzes and critiques artwork and practices from feminist perspectives, examining art produced or performed by women. 

The main concepts of modern aesthetics, such as 'beauty', 'hobbies', 'art', and 'genius', were surprisingly not evenly distributed to everyone. In other words, they were ideological, sometimes very gendered. As a result, there were people who questioned these aesthetic concepts, and these questions provided a place for a new view of new art. In this lecture, starting from the question of the gender ideologies hidden by the basic concepts of aesthetics, we examine the novelty opened up by feminist aesthetics with a focus on contemporary art, and furthermore, we will glimpse the future imagined by feminists' posthuman-centered thinking. 

Topics include body and mind, subject and object, the debate of nude representation, beauty and the sublime, theory of genius and romanticism, gender in modern aesthetics, art as other, woman as other, modernism, rethinking body, abject body, queering body and performativity, anti-human, non-human, and posthuman, and more. 

This special topics, seminar-style course selects one or more topics related to West Asian civilization and language and consists of in-depth coverage, analysis, and discussion of issues related to the topic. The topic of this course may change each time it is offered. For example, the Spring 2025 semester topic was Islam and Inequality: A Historical Perspective, focusing on socioeconomic inequality.  

This course surveys various abnormal behaviors and mental disorders. The first part of the course introduces the major psychological theories (Psychodynamic Theory, Learning Theory, Cognitive-Behavioral Theory) as well as the biological and socio-cultural theories which explain the phenomena, causes, and treatment of abnormal behaviors and mental disorders.  

In the second part, various phenomena and classification systems of mental disorders are presented. The focus is on psychological causes of various types of mental disorders: disorders related to anxiety, mood, and personality, somatoform disorders, dissociative disorders, schizophrenia, sex-related disorders, eating disorders, sleep disorders, alcoholism, mental disorders in childhood or adolescence.  

In addition, the course covers the proper treatments for mental disorders as well as how to improve mental health in general. 

This course introduces theories and practices on technology startup to students majoring in technology management or engineering. The course provides students with the basic knowledge needed to start a technology-oriented business or prepare career path related to the technology start-up ecosystem in the future. Topics include entrepreneurship, business planning, financing, and other related topics such as laws, finance & accounting strategy, and intellectual property rights.