Korea University [Season 1, 2021-22] – APRU Virtual Student Exchange

Koreaa University
Seoul, South Korea

Founded in 1905, the Korea University (KU) campus covers over 182 acres and is home to more than 35,000 students from all over the nation and the world.

The university’s academic breadth is extensive with its 81 departments in 19 colleges and divisions, and 18 graduate schools and it has over 1,400 full-time faculty members with over 95% of them holding a Ph.D. or equivalent qualification in their field. KU has particularly strong Humanities and Asian Studies Departments along with the recently established Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS). KU is also renowned for its professional schools of Law, Medicine and Business Administration. In research, KU is an internationally recognized leader with over 100 research centers, including the East Asiatic Research Centre and the Korean Cultural Research Centre. Furthermore, Korea University Business School (KUBS) is the only and the first business school in the country to have acquired both European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) accreditation, in combination with the accreditation granted by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).

Website: www.korea.edu

VSE Season 1, 2021-22: Courses offered by Korea University

Application Deadline

APPLICATION CLOSED
Students must submit an application to the VSE Central Office before:
Jul 30 2021, 12:00 noon Hong Kong Time (UTC+8)

Course Information

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Number of Credits	3
Offering Department	Korea University Business School
Course Teacher	Tony Garrett
Language of Instruction	English
First Day of Class	Sep 2, 2021
Last Day of Class	Dec 21, 2021
Course Component	Lecture
Mode of Teaching	Synchronous/Asynchronous
Meeting Time	Tue, Thu 0900-1015
Time Zone	UTC+9
Course Description	Managing in the constantly changing environment of the 21st century for business success is a challenging job for marketing managers. The key challenges for managers include: understanding the market as a fundamental premise of formulating market-driven strategy; strategies for undertaking market analysis and identification of current and future competitive positions. This advanced level marketing course is designed to develop new skills and consolidate prior knowledge and skills learned in other marketing courses to develop a proactive strategic marketing management approach.
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Number of Credits	3
Offering Department	Korea University Business School
Course Teacher	Tony Garrett
Language of Instruction	English
First Day of Class	Sep 2, 2021
Last Day of Class	Dec 21, 2021
Course Component	Lecture
Mode of Teaching	Synchronous/Asynchronous
Meeting Time	Tue, Thu 1030-1145
Time Zone	UTC+9
Course Description	Marketing and new product development are recognized as being critical to the success of organizations and nations alike. Organizations are operating in increasingly dynamic environments such that being first to market with innovative goods or services is essential. The interplay between creative, market and technical requirements is an extremely complex process whether the innovation is new to the world or an incremental development of existing products. Keeping this in mind this paper has been designed to meet the following business needs: - to have an understanding of Marketing’s role in the NPD process - understand the relationship of science, technology and innovation to the market environment
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Number of Credits	3
Offering Department	Division of International Studies
Course Teacher	JinWon Lee
Language of Instruction	English
First Day of Class	Sep 1, 2021
Last Day of Class	Dec 20, 2021
Course Component	Lecture
Mode of Teaching	Synchronous/Asynchronous
Meeting Time	Mon, Wed 0900-1015
Time Zone	UTC+8
Restriction	N/A
Course Description	In this introductory course, students will be introduced to the key concepts and theoretical perspectives on globalization, which will then be used as analytical tools to understand different historical stages and substantive aspects of globalization. It is the aim of this course to discuss the major scholarly concepts and debates around globalization and encourage students to critically think about them and apply those frameworks to analyze specific cases of globalization.
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Number of Credits	3
Offering Department	Division of International Studies
Course Teacher	Robert Rudolf
Language of Instruction	English
First Day of Class	Sep 1, 2021
Last Day of Class	Dec 20, 2021
Course Component	Lecture
Mode of Teaching	Synchronous/Asynchronous
Meeting Time	Mon, Wed 1530-1645
Time Zone	UTC+9
Restriction	N/A
Points to Note for Students	N/A
Course Description	This course provides an introduction to both theory and empirical evidence on economic growth and development. We will discuss basic explanations for why countries differ in their levels of income, human development, and ultimately quality of life. These explanations include the roles of savings, demographics, education, technology, institutions, colonization, governments, culture, geography, inequality and gender. Economic growth will be studied as a core ingredient for countries in attaining higher states of human development and overcoming poverty. We will further discuss the dilemma of the economic growth paradigm in a world with limited resources and the question whether further economic growth is really necessary in high income countries. Students should be familiar with basic economic concepts; thus they are required to have taken an introductory economics course before taking this course.
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Number of Credits	3
Offering Department	Department of Economics
Course Teacher	Dirk Bathmann
Language of Instruction	English
First Day of Class	Sep 3, 2021
Last Day of Class	Dec 17, 2021
Course Component	Lecture
Mode of Teaching	Synchronous/Asynchronous
Meeting Time	Mon 0900-1145
Time Zone	UTC+9
Restriction	N/A
Points to Note for Students	N/A
Course Description	Economic theory consists of microeconomics and macroeconomics. Principles of Economics 2 introduces to you the field of macroeconomics which considers economies as a whole. Typical questions in macroeconomics include how can short-run fluctuations be minimized or how can long-run economic growth be sustained. During the course of the semester we will cover topics such as the measurement of national income, economic growth, unemployment, inflation, money, international trade and exchange rates, short-run fluctuations, the effectiveness of monetary and fiscal policy, and the Phillips curve. At the end of this course, we should have a general understanding of macroeconomic phenomena and theory. We should be able to have a general understanding of the unique perspective taken by macroeconomists in their study of society and human behavior. Also, we should be able to understand the methods used by macroeconomists and how they are applied to everyday decisions.
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Number of Credits	3
Offering Department	Korea University Department of Korean History
Course Teacher	Leighanne Yuh
Language of Instruction	English
First Day of Class	TBC
Last Day of Class	TBC
Course Component	TBA
Mode of Teaching	TBA
Meeting Time	TBA
Time Zone	UTC+9
Restriction	N/A
Points to Note for Students	N/A
Course Description	A general survey of the historical development of various aspects of Korean civilization, including politics, society and economy, thought and religion, and the arts. Half of the course will cover the main themes in Korean history and their historical interpretations, from prehistoric times to the modern period. It will also pay special attention to social systems, religion and culture, as well as the changing geopolitics of the region. The other half of the course will take a comparative approach by examining contemporaneous China, Japan, and northeast Asia, identifying similarities and differences between the regions. Through this course, students will have a better understanding of the challenges Korea faced in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the historical processes through which Korea, China, and Japan developed.
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Number of Credits	3
Offering Department	Korea University School of Media & Communication
Course Teacher	JiHoon Park
Language of Instruction	English
First Day of Class	Sep 2, 2021
Last Day of Class	Dec 16, 2021
Course Component	Lecture
Mode of Teaching	Synchronous/Asynchronous
Meeting Time	Thu 1700-2000
Time Zone	UTC+9
Restriction	N/A
Points to Note for Students	N/A
Course Description	This course helps students to become familiar with a number of critical issues about contemporary popular culture in Korea. A primary emphasis will be placed on the ways in which the media express and mediate Korean popular culture. Students will learn theoretical concepts and ideas that enable them to “read” Korean popular culture from academic perspectives. The topics to be examined include gender, collective memory, music, Korean wave, film, journalism, broadcasting, etc. Students will undertake group research projects and discuss their work in class.
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Number of Credits	3
Offering Department	Korea University School of Media & Communication
Course Teacher	Haerin Shin
Language of Instruction	English
First Day of Class	Sep 2, 2021
Last Day of Class	Dec 16, 2021
Course Component	Lecture
Mode of Teaching	Synchronous/Asynchronous
Meeting Time	Thu 1400-1630
Time Zone	UTC+9
Restriction	N/A
Points to Note for Students	N/A
Course Description	As technological breakthroughs expand our bodily and mental presence, the question of being presses us with an ever-greater urgency. How do we define and know who we are when augmentations, extensions, or even replacements of the body are realistic ventures, and the properties of the human mind subject to reproduction, preservation, and emulation in the form of digital code? If the human form and its internal mechanism could be compatible with that of machines, and algorithms could interact with or even replace us in their cognitive capacity, what IS being human? This course explores how the cinematic medium represents, reflects on, and inspires our understanding of presence. Key topics include AI; robots and cyborgs; XR; videogames; and other apparatuses/phenomena that instantiate digitally networked electronic presence. Students will watch/read and discuss select films and critical texts; offer group presentations; and engage in written critique both in and outside of class.
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Number of Credits	3
Offering Department	Korea University Department of Korean Language and Literature
Course Teacher	Jeffrey Holliday
Language of Instruction	English
First Day of Class	Sep 2, 2021
Last Day of Class	Dec 21, 2021
Course Component	Lecture
Mode of Teaching	Synchronous/Asynchronous
Meeting Time	Tue, Thu 0900-1015
Time Zone	UTC+9
Restriction	N/A
Points to Note for Students	N/A
Course Description	The purpose of this course is to provide a broad introduction to the linguistic analysis of Korean. We will cover a range of topics, focusing on phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, and also cover a bit of orthography, history, and pragmatics. This course will be conducted in English. The idea of teaching this course in English may seem interesting, special, or even funny to some people, but it is important to separate the object of study (the Korean language) from the language through which knowledge about it is conveyed (which could be Korean, English, or any other language). It should be uncontroversial to say that any subject can be studied in any language: It is strange to think that certain subjects could only be properly studied in certain languages, and I don’t believe there is any reason to think otherwise just because the object of study is a language itself. To claim otherwise is to claim that some languages are inherently incapable of conveying certain ideas. It is true, however, that the scholarly field of “Korean linguistics” – i.e. the (scientific) study of the Korean language – is approached differently in Korea and elsewhere (in fact even that very definition of the field might differ). Although this course is taught in English, it is not merely a translation of the Korean version of the course: Please be aware that we will mainly approach the subject from a non-Korean perspective. We will see exactly what that means as we proceed throughout the semester. Our discussions will also include some discussion of other languages, in attempt to show how Korean is (and is not) different from them.
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