Study Abroad | Seoul
Fall 2024: Academics

Course Code: BIO1102

Instruction Language: English

This course serves as the second sequel to the general biology series and provides an introduction to the functioning of biological systems, as well as the interactions between organisms and their environment. It encompasses three main topics: 1. Animals Physiology 2/3 of class 2. Plant Physiology 1/6 of class 3. Ecology & Environment 1/6 of class

Course Code: BIO4351

Instruction Language: English

Immunology is the study of defense mechanism against infection. The purpose of this class is to understand the basic concept of immunology which includes the overall aspects of immune system and the specific functions of its components. The course covers the innate immunity, the recognition of antigen, the adaptive immune response, and diseases related to immune responses.

Course Code: BIO4721

Instruction Language: English

Cancer is one of the leading causes of human death . Cancer research has been developing effective cancer therapies but advancement in technology is still required because of drug toxicity and tumor recurrence. In the Molecular and Cellular Oncology class, causative mechanisms of human cancers will be reviewed and current therapeutic strategies to treat this life threatening disease will be introduced. In addition, new methodology and technology to enhance the efficacy of current cancer treatment will be discussed.

Course Code: BIO3331

Instruction Language: English

Neuroscience is a rapidly growing field within biological sciences. This course focuses on the foundations of molecular and cellular neurobiology, covering key aspects such as the structure of the nervous system, electrical and chemical communication, synaptic plasticity, and general neuroanatomy. Additional topics include neuronal circuit formation regeneration, the visual system, and complex behaviors like cognition and memory. Note that not all textbook chapters will be covered, as the curriculum is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding within the given timeframe.

Course Code: MGT4401

Instruction Language: English

This course is the first part of financial reporting courses at a professional level (Intermediate Accounting). This course designed to develop and expand a comprehensive understanding of the principles and practices of external financial reporting with particular emphasis on balance sheet valuations and their relationship to income determination. In particular, this course focuses on various accounting issues related to the assets side of the balance sheet.

Course Code: MGT4402

Instruction Language: English

This course provides the necessary foundation to continue advanced study for financial reporting. We will specifically review the accounting principles underlying equity, stocks, income taxes, earnings per share, investments, accounting changes, and preparation of the statement of cash flows.

Course Code: MGT2002

Instruction Language: English

This course is an introduction to the use and limitation of mathematical and statistical techniques in management contexts. Several statistical techniques are covered and examined for application in quantitative decision-making. The main purpose of the course is to provide useful information and insights for the basic statistical data analysis.

Course Code: MGT3007

Instruction Language: English

This course focuses on the global business environment in which Multinational Corporations (MNCs) operate. The economic, social-cultural, political and regulatory dimensions of the international business environment are analysed. International trade & Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), regional economic integration, global money market, and globalisation of business and markets are examined.

Course Code: MGT4301

Instruction Language: English

This course will present the theories, principles and practices necessary for the formation, management and evaluation of investment portfolios. We will spend most of our time acquiring the basic understanding, concepts and tools necessary to evaluate the usefulness of constantly changing investment strategies and securities. The main teaching method is through lectures based on the main textbook and supplementary materials, including real world examples and cases. This course will be focused on the understanding and application of important concepts and theories in the investment area. This course is targeting those students who have exposure to basic finance and want to major in finance. This course is designed to accomplish the mission of the school, which educates the students as competent global business leaders equipped with global minds and ethical standards as well as good understanding of investment principles. Specially, throughout the course, we strongly emphasize both the global investment strategy of investors and the importance of ethics in finance, especially, investment area.

Course Code: MGT3005

Instruction Language: English

Managerial accounting aims to provide accounting information for managers within organizations and helps corporate/organization managers to make informed business decisions by equipping them with better management and control functions. This course aims to provide students with basic knowledge of managerial accounting for a career in business as well as being a foundation for advanced managerial/cost accounting courses (e.g., MGT4004). Basic managerial accounting knowledge includes: technical knowledge in identifying, evaluating, and computing costs by applying various tools of management and product costing systems for strategic decision-making; preparing reports and analyzing strategic planning and management performance in order to enhance decision making.

Course Code: MGT2003

Instruction Language: English

This course is designed to help students to be equipped with concepts of accounting principles to record and report business transactions. Emphasis is given to how to measure, record, and report economic activities for corporations using accounting principles. The course will cover the topics: accounting cycle, accounting for assets, liabilities, and shareholders’ equity, and financial statement analysis.

Course Code: MGT3003

Instruction Language: English

This course is designed to help students 1) familiarize with the general problem areas of operations management as well as how they relate to each other and to the other functional areas of an organization, 2) develop approaches to or methods for solving complex operations problems, and 3) correctly apply the appropriate analytical techniques to solve operations problems.

Course Code: AAT4005

Instruction Language: English

This course will teach you how to make educational activities more effective through the use of gamification. That is, the inclusion of elements of game designs in other areas or activities. It will cover topics like traditional games, role-playing games, tabletop games, digital and videogames. There will be a specific focus on social and interactive games. It will introduce participants to concepts and models of game design, providing them with the full experience of designing a game (phases of concept, design, prototype) using the Unity 3D game engine.

Course Code: ECO3011

Instruction Language: English

This course deals with the macroeconomics of open economies. Topics covered by this course include: exchange rates, foreign exchange markets, theories of exchange rate determination, national and international income accounts, balance of payments, gains from participating in international financial markets, monetary and fiscal policy in open economies, international macroeconomic interdependence, exchange rate regimes, and currency crises. This class will provide you with a framework for thinking about the important issues and controversies surrounding the global economy.

Course Code: ECO2006

Instruction Language: English

This course introduces the principles of microeconomics at an intermediate level. Microeconomics deals with the issues related to the decision making of rational economic agents and to their interaction in a market. Students in this course will learn the principles on which the economic decision making by rational consumers and firms is based and the ways by which scarce resources are allocated in a market. Specifically, this course deals with various topics including optimization by consumers and firms, the comparative statics of optimized results, the concept of a partial market equilibrium, and allocation of resources in various types of market organizations.

Course Code: ECO2001

Instruction Language: English

The course introduces basic microeconomic theory and its applications. The course covers topics on demand and supply, public sectors, firm and industrial organization, and labor markets.

Course Code: ENG2004

Instruction Language: English

This course investigates British and American literature from (roughly) the second half of the twentieth century—a period typically characterized as Postmodernism. In particular, we will be examining texts (novels, short stories, and poetry) that consider social, communal, and personal ethics of mid-20th-century life in America and Great Britain. We will consider the way these texts introduce various forms of ethical approaches and judgments to address a range of concerns: imperialism, gender, sexuality, race, technology, consumerism, and class. This course will interrogate the complicated realities of ethics, which are often differently applied to and justified by individuals, communities, and societies, depending on their cultural, and socio-historical contexts.

Course Code: ENG3009

Instruction Language: English

The reign of Queen Victoria spanned sixty-four years (1837-1901) and witnessed vast changes in British society and the Empire. If literature of the first half of this period chiefly addressed the rise of the middle-class hegemony and the celebration of bourgeois values, the second half of the period increasingly rejected these values and became consumed with fears of the decline and decay of British culture and the Empire. This course will examine four of the most iconic figures from the late-Victorian period (Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde; Wilde’s Dorian Gray; Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes; Stoker’s Dracula) and analyze these texts within their historical, cultural and political contexts. The course will be organized around four key concerns of the period: Decadence (fears of social, sexual, racial, and cultural decay), Aestheticism (the notion of “art for art’s sake” and dedication of life to the pursuit of beauty), Empire (forms of economic, cultural, and ecological exploitation), and the New Woman (a woman who began to defy patriarchal restrictions and sought new forms of autonomy). The course’s broader objective is to analyze what the mixture of terrifying fantasies and aesthetic ideals at the end of the century (often referred to as the “fin de siècle”) reveal about British culture as it began to transition from Victorian to Modern cultural and literary values and styles.

Course Code: GKS3030

Instruction Language: Korean

Advanced Korean Language course semester.

Course Code: LCU4119

Instruction Language: English

This course is designed to help international exchange students improve their Korean communicative competence by learning Korean language and culture. Specifically, the course covers the Korean alphabet (Hangul), essential vocabulary, basic grammar, listening, reading, and speaking at the beginner level. M aterials will be used to help students understand the Korean cultural context that will enable them to better communicate with others in Korean.

Course Code: GKS3024

Instruction Language: Korean

Intermediate Korean Language class semester.

Course Code: AAT4006

Instruction Language: English

This course is the study of animation itself using 3D software, Maya. The students will learn “the 12 animation principles”, which is the basic analysis of movements, with the other great animated shorts from the past times and the assignments.

Course Code: HIS4001

Instruction Language: English

This course will examine the process through which the political ideology of the Choson state was constructed and its social practices were set. Reading both primary sources and important academic articles related to competing ideas among Choson people, students will learn how Korean cultures and practices developed in relation to contemporary political and social contexts. Also, the class readings will introduce students to significant historical issues and various views in Korean historiography. By analyzing the validity of existing historical views among scholars in the field, this course will help students to not only broaden their knowledge, but provide their own interpretations on Korean history and their understandings of Korean society.

Course Code: LCU4118

Instruction Language: English

This course is designed to help students understand South Korea through K-pop and Korean popular culture. The modern forms of Korean popular music, which fascinate people around the globe, did not spring into existence out of nowhere. Instead, they emerged and have constantly co-evolved within the political, the economic, and the technological spheres in historical contexts. This course explores how Korean popular music has come to take on its current forms, corresponding with the national and international contexts. In doing so, this course focuses on Korean modern history, popular culture, and cultural studies theories for deep understandings of K-pop and Korean pop culture.

Course Code: MGT4102

Instruction Language: English

This course is about understanding why some firms outperform others in the global economy. We will examine how to formulate and implement effective organizational strategies that incorporate analytical, behavioral and creative aspects of business simultaneously. Recognizing that most real business problems are inherently multi-functional in nature, this course strives to integrate learning from students’ prior studies of functional areas, while adding new approaches that explicitly deal with business-wide strategic and competitive issues

Course Code: MGT3006

Instruction Language: English

The objective of this course is to introduce students to the basic principles and concepts of marketing. Students will learn and apply basic concepts and practices of marketing as used in a variety of setting.

Course Code: SPM3012

Instruction Language: English

Sports are by far one of the most common passions among college students and adults (Wrzesniewski, Rozin, & Bennett, 2003). For some, sports give pleasure, meaning, and a sense of purpose in life. Sports provide ample opportunities for psychologists to test and validate positive interventions. Long before Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi (2000) called for psychologists to go beyond the disease model (Maddux, 2002), scholars and practitioners in the field of sport psychology have worked to enhance the performance of already great athletes and coaches by understanding the psychological factors critical to their peak performances (e.g., Gould, Eklund, & Jackson, 1992; Jackson & Roberts, 1992; Orlick, 1986, 1990; Ravizza, 1977). The purpose of this course is to explore possible intersections between the two fields and promote future collaborations to provide integrated training and professional development. Specifically, this course examines psychological theories and research related to sport and exercise behavior within the lens of positive psychology. Furthermore, we will be discussing topics stemmed from positive psychology as it relates to athletic excellence. Ultimately, our focus will be placed on bridging how to achieve peak performance (i.e., athletic excellence) and how to excel in life (i.e., human flourishing).