Spring Semester

Course Description

Faculty

Global Economic Issues

This course is designed to provide students with global economic issues need to be discussed and to keep up to date with current events.

Wendy Worthington

Asian/Korean Business Environment and Practice

This course provides conceptual frameworks for evaluating the dynamics of Asian business systems embedded in distinctive national settings. In the institutional context of Asian businesses, it explains the distinctive natures of competitiveness of businesses in their regions.

Jaehoon Lee

In Jun

International Relations of East Asia

The purpose of this course is to enhance students\' understanding of East Asia, which is increasingly gaining prominence in world politics.  Moreover, the course seeks to improve students\' portable English skills: reading comprehension, critical and analytical thinking, and verbal and written communication.

Junpyo Jung

Yusin Lee

Korean Monetary Policy and Financial System  

This course is designed to provide students with a basic introduction to monetary policy and financial system in Korea.  Discussions will include topics such as money supply mechanism, tools of monetary policy and the actual conduct of monetary policy.  Attention will also be paid to foreign exchange market and exchange rate policy as well as financial supervisory system.

Byungwan Lee

Current Korean

This course examines a variety of Korean current events in relation to political, economic, social, and cultural events from recent Korean newspapers, media articles, radio news, and television news. Students may gain valuable insights into Korean society and culture through the readings. This course includes reading selected passages of Korean society and culture, making oral presentations, and writing a paper. This course is conducted in English.

Jihyun Jun

Understanding Korean and Leading Capital Market

The current environment of the global financial markets is characterized by fluctuation and change. With globalization, securitization, and digitization progressing at a dramatic pace, today’s financial industry is vastly different from that of the past. Recognizing that a strictly segregated business scope in the financial industry will no longer be able to meet the growing needs of investors. Many economies in the world have been actively pursuing the integration of their financial business scopes and the restructuring of their capital market.

Thus, the objective of this course is to provide the development of Korean capital market and the trend of Korean stock market\'s financial innovations.

Jongcook Byun

Contemporary Korean Economy

To understand the process of economic growth and development and to show the current economic achievement of the Korea with historical analysis.

Chuwan Park

Korean History and Culture

This course will provide a broad outline of Korean history from primitive proto-Korean society to the fall of the Yi dynasty in the early 20th century. A critical analysis of trends in pre-modern Korea, including political, social and economic developments, will help students understand the internal and external forces which shaped and colored Korean society and polity.

Thomas Duvermay

Korean in East Asia

This course explores the dynamic relationship Korea has shared over its long history with China and Japan. Through a thematic and chronological approach, we examine interactions and connections between global, regional and local developments, while emphasizing the cross-cultural and transnational aspects of Korean history, which will be the focal point.

Thomas Duvermay

Global Sportology

This course will study global sportology that includes overall understanding of sports, exercise, physical training and fitness.

Junyoung Han

International Communication in English I

This course will introduce the students to the format, organization, and grammatical structure of a paragraph. The goal of the course is to prepare students to write in a thought-provoking and original manner where strong, well-organized, well-supported paragraphs in a variety of rhetorical modes form the basis for longer essays.

American Studies I

This course will provide a broad overview of American history, culture and society.  Students will gain an understanding of how the country was first formed, how it developed itself despite of so many obstacles, how it transformed itself from the British colony to the superpower to influence the world affairs, etc.  Throughout the semester, students will explore America from a different angle and examine fundamental principles which have shaped America as it is today.  By the end of this semester, students will become familiarized with the issues related to America and understand democratic processes of decision-making and principles such as freedom, justice, equality and difference.

Julie Lee

Oben Zinger

International Relations and Diplomacy

This course is an introductory guide to international relations and diplomacy. It examines how foreign governments respond to the challenges of globalization and a rapidly changing international environment. Over the course of the semester, students will discuss the practice of modern diplomacy and examine past as well as several contemporary issues including the ongoing conflict between North and South Korea, the Palestine and Israel and the human rights issues that constantly raise themselves in Darfur and Myanmar. Classes will be held twice a week, with one class devoted to lectures and the other to group discussions. The session will conclude with a simulation exercise involving a “global incident”.

Lectures will be taught entirely in English. Therefore, a reasonable level of English conversational ability is recommended.

Wendy Worthington

International Business Strategy

This course is subject to acquire the fundamental strategy and managerial knowledge which is required for international management. This course deals with investment analysis, international management strategy the relation between home country and subsidiary.

Robert McClure