Seoul National University

This course examines the ways in which writers in different parts of the world have used ideas around food to express and communicate the fundamental human experience. Focusing on the recurring images of cooking, eating, feasting, and fasting in a range of literary works and cultural productions, the course explores how food is imagined to convey the innermost feelings and desires of individuals, evoke cultural memory, and form a sense of community.

This course provides an overview of the fundamental principles and important applications of computer vision. Topics include image processing, segmentation, feature extraction, photometric vision, motion and tracking, camera models, scene reconstruction, and human/scene/object recognition and detection.

This introductory course addresses basic concepts and linguistic processing methods regarding natural language comprehension and machine translation. It discusses fundamental concepts in information retrieval, text processing, and natural language understanding. Specific topics include morphological analysis, syntactic parsing, semantic analysis, pragmatics, and language generation.

This course addresses philosophical and methodological questions relevant to criticism of the arts, especially the question of value and evaluation. It discusses the issues regarding interpretation of artworks, examining theories of interpretation with examples of actual artworks. It also examines various aspects of art's value including aesthetic value, cognitive value, moral value, etc. It then moves on to the issue of applying standards of evaluation to some controversial cases found in the area such as erotic art, public art and popular art. Finally, some meta-critical issues are addressed.

This course analyzes how social problems can be approached through social policy and welfare organizations. It focuses on problems that are endemic to Korea and explores possible solutions.

This course focuses on enhancing advanced Korean language skills through newspaper and magazine articles, and texts on the society, culture, and history of Korea. During the first half of the course, it covers topics related to Korean orthography and grammar. In the second half of the course, focus is on academic writing in Korean. Students practice analyzing, summarizing, and orally presenting their responses to a variety of Korean texts including newspaper articles, and practice writing diverse texts related to college life such as study/research plans, self-introductions, and academic papers.

This course is designed for students at the advanced Chinese language level seeking to enhance their oral communication skills in Chinese.

This course studies the psychology and behavior of consumers in the context of the global market. Topics include consumer behaviors, retail environment, marketing strategies, and consumer laws and policies. 

This course introduces the principles of human factors psychology and examines how they are applied to entrepreneurship. It explores how perceptual and cognitive theories can be applied to diverse systems, from personal computers to complex systems such as air-traffic control, aircraft cockpits, and nuclear power plants. It also covers theories and findings on human performance and their implications for efficient and safe designs.

This course applies concepts and theories of social psychology to explain human behavior related to clothing. Major concepts examined include psychological factors such as personal characteristics, desire, and self-concept, as well as social factors such as sex, age, role, status, symbolic communication, and impression formation.