Seoul National University

This course surveys the formation and development of Islam and its position and characteristics in the modern world. Divided into five thematic units, the course will cover:  

1) Origins of Islam and the figure of the Prophet Muḥammad;  

2) Islamic authoritative texts – the Qur’ān and the Sunnah of the Prophet Muḥammad;  

3) Various dimensions of classical Islam, including law and ritual practices;  

4) Alternative visions of Islam, in particular the Shī‘ite and the Ṣūfi interpretations of Islam, and  

5) Modern developments in Islam. 

Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science that studies computational models for various mental facilities of human intelligence and cognition. Recent AI deals with an extremely wide range of topics including machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, to name a few. This course focuses on fundamental and traditional topics, including problem definition and solving, various search strategies, logic representation and inference, probabilistic models, reinforcement learning, game theory and mechanism design. 

This course deals with political, economic, intellectual and cultural events that occurred in the history of Asia from 1945-1989. The course covers the following topics: 

• The First Indochina War (1945-1954): the Cold War comes to Vietnam 

• The two Vietnams (1954-1964): The Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Republic of Vietnam 

• The Second Indochina War (1964-1975): Vietnam in the Center of the Cold War  

• Cambodia and Laos (1945-1979): Decolonization and Cold War 

• Indochina at Peace? (1975-1989): Cambodia and Laos 

• Indochina at Peace? (1975-1989): Vietnam 

• Thailand and Myanmar (1945-1989) 

• The Philippines (1945-1989) 

• Indonesia (1945-1989) 

• The Cold War in Southeast Asia as an Intelligence War 

• Southeast Asia after the end of the Cold War 

This course provides the basic concepts of organic chemistry, the geometric structure and the methods of manufacturing chemical compounds and their reactivities. The course covers: (1) the structure and the methods of manufacturing of hydrocarbons such as alkane, alkene and alkyne; (2) the nucleophilic substitution and elimination reaction of halogen compounds; (3) stereochemistry; (4) ethers and epoxy compounds, and (5) characteristics and manufacturing methods of alcoholic compounds. 

This course addresses how to translate original Japanese historical sources and academic literature written after the Meiji period into Korean. Students will understand the exact meaning of the original Japanese text and discuss how to express it in fluent Korean.  

This course introduces students to the history, archaeology, art, and texts of Ancient Egypt, from the Paleolithic age to the end of the New Kingdom. It covers the development of low-level food producing communities living in the eastern Sahara, to the emergence and growth of the complex society responsible for the construction of some of the world’s most spectacular and (now) famous monuments such as the pyramids of Giza, and the temples of Karnak and Abu Simbel. The course includes studies of many diverse sources for the history and culture of Egypt, including art and sculpture, administrative, monumental, personal, and religious texts, settlements, temples, and tombs, and material culture such as ceramics, stone tools, wooden artefacts, plants, and animal remains. Additionally, the course introduces students to the history of Egyptology, and archaeology in Egypt. 
 

This course aims to support participants in establishing a general overview of qualitative educational research, enabling them to critically read and review qualitative academic writings. Participants will also use qualitative research methods to understand the complex and multifaceted nature of educational phenomena based on their own experiences. This course provides the essential foundation for participants to develop as educators (and educational researchers).

This course presents the analytical tools, financial theories and empirical evidence necessary for making good investment decisions. It focuses on equity investing and covers the following topics: stock returns in historical perspective, expected returns, stock price and macro news, asset allocation problem, international investment, investor's horizon, capital asset pricing model (CAPM), multi-factor model and trading strategies. The course contrasts the traditional view and the behavioral view on portfolio management. Excel (including Excel solver) will be used throughout the course (no prior knowledge is required). 

This course offers a broad introduction to the most relevant features of human geography in Asia. The first part of this course offers insights into main themes that are relevant across this diverse continent. As Asia is huge and the semester is short, this course focuses on Southeast Asia in the second part of the semester. On one hand Southeast Asia includes successful and developed countries like Singapore, Brunei, and Malaysia, while it also includes countries where poverty is still widespread and difficult to reduce. Also, Southeast Asian countries both look at the USA and China for economic and political cooperation.  

This course discusses a range of prominent issues such as colonial legacies; nation-building projects amidst ethnic and religious diversity; natural disasters and climate change; economic geographical patterns; poverty; socioeconomic inequality; spatial disparities; land governance, and the South China Sea dispute.  

This course does not include in-depth studies of the Republic of Korea, China, and Japan. 

This course instructs on how to perform using Gayageum, a 12-string Korean traditional instrument and aims to deepen an understanding of Korean traditional music.