Seoul National University

Entrepreneurs who seize new business opportunities and launch startups have diverse backgrounds and motivations. This course consists of special lectures where senior entrepreneurs with various majors and active in various business fields are invited to interact with students. The entrepreneurs will talk about how their experiences in the university inspired them to start a business, what challenges and problems they faced during the startup process, and how they are solving them. It is not a formal entrepreneurial lecture, but a class where senior entrepreneurs who have studied in the same place as you and faced the same problems before you talk about how to seize and explore entrepreneurial opportunities. Through networking with senior entrepreneurs, students will be able to connect with the startup ecosystem. 

This course is designed to provide a basic scientific understanding of musical instruments. The first eight weeks of the course focuses on musical instruments and basic acoustics; the latter part of the course features world folk musical instruments and the professor's hand-made instruments. The course also gives the opportunity for groups of students to make their own musical instruments and demonstrate them to the class.  

This course focuses on the role religion plays in the modern states of East Asia (China, South Korea, Japan). In this case, “modern” is defined as the era starting with the Opium Wars, or the beginning of Western Imperialism in the region. This period redefined the religious landscape, challenging the existing traditions and introducing new ones, thereby having important implications in the formation of modern East Asian states.  

The main focus of the course will be on developments after 1945. Although religion is often relegated to a footnote when discussing modern societies of East Asia, religious values, myths, and practices remain a key part of the identity formation process. Since identity for most people remains an implicit factor, such factors often only come to the fore in crisis or conflict situations, which force people to take a position in terms of their identity. Since it is not possible to give a comprehensive picture of the whole history of religion in Modern East Asia, the course will be driven by case studies that will help the students understand the larger flow of change. 

This course for non-art major students introduces basic techniques of Asian brush and ink painting.  The course instructs on the basic theory of Sumukhua and the Sagunja; Four Gracious Plants (plum, orchid, chrysanthemum and bamboo) as well as painting in the literary artist style. This course also emphasizes a proper understanding of the relevant aesthetic concepts and practices to broaden students' perspective on traditional art. 

This course provides fundamental physical concepts and basic mathematical tools necessary for undergraduate students of the Department of Nuclear Engineering to take core courses offered in this department successfully. The course covers the most essential parts of classical mechanics; electricity and magnetism; thermodynamics and statistical physics, and fluid mechanics. A background in college-level freshman physics and mathematics is required. 

The objective of this course is to provide students with an overview of the role of chemistry in nanosciences. The course introduces some basic knowledge related to this field, and surveys the unique properties of nanoparticles and their applications, which includes bioconjugation methods, solution-based probes/sensors, in vitro and in vivo imaging, and nanoparticle therapeutics.  

Students should be able to 1) understand the general methods for fabricating nanomaterials; 2) understand the physical properties of nanomaterials; 3) apply the unique properties of some nanomaterials to create specific probes. Typical topics include supramolecular chemistry, basic photophysics, syntheses of nanoparticles, luminescent quantum dots, gold and silver nanoparticles, other inorganic nanoparticles, organic nanoparticles, bioconjugate chemistry, bioimaging, drug delivery and toxicity of nanoparticles. 

The goal of this course is to examine aesthetic topics and examine what kind of study aesthetics is. The course begins with an overview of the unique problems of aesthetics and how to approach them, followed by aesthetic judgment and aesthetic experience, the concept and essence of art, the ontology of works of art, imitation, expression, emotions, art and morality, and works of art. It deals with issues such as valuation. The latter half of the course focuses on the phenomenon of serious transformation in modern art and culture and examines the issues that arise when important themes of aesthetics meet modern art. 

This course provides an overview of cellular components, including their structure, function, and mechanism. Based on the knowledge of cell biology, the course looks at technologies used for cell culture, stem cell research, cancer research, and tissue engineering. The course also deals with the medical and industrial applications of cells. It provides a study of mammalian physiology and the engineering aspects of different physiological systems, focusing on a number of organ systems that may include cardiovascular, respiratory, and renal. Engineering principles that include biomechanical, bioelectrical, and biofluids are applied to physiological systems.
 

This course adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to examine Korean digital cultures. The course covers topics ranging from the local histories of the internet and digital media to its censorship in the South and the North; from online activism to mukbang micro-celebrities and Instagram influencers; from right-wing trolls of ilbe to K-pop virtual idols; from gamers subcultures to Seoul's experiments with the metaverse. 

This course provides a study of educational phenomena from the educational psychology perspective. It discusses research and implications in the areas of development, learning, and motivation.