Communication & Convergence (Learning to Live Together)

Course Name	Credit	Course Description
SOCIAL HISTORY OF LITERATURE AND ART	3Credit	From ancient Greek times leading up to today's digital age, literature and art are not only products of a creative act of individual existence, but also important cultural achievements of the era and society in which the artist exists as an individual. This course will take a good look at the main flows in literature, art and architecture from respective eras, focusing especially on European culture. In this way, the relationship between the arts and society can be better understood. At the same time, this course will supply basic knowledge about major literary works and art works. This lecture will be offered three hours per week
INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY	3Credit	Students will learn not only to understand basic concepts and principles of psychology, but also to promote their ability of independently evaluating and interpreting psychological research findings. Students will also learn how to apply psychological concepts and findings to everyday life, and will become more knowledgeable about individual and group differences while appreciating the richness of human diversity. Lectures, discussions for further studies, and weekly assignments to strengthen the understanding of basic concepts will be given.
UNDERSTANDING OF MODERN ARTS	3Credit	This course is designed to help students to broaden their general knowledge and understanding of modern art. Analysis and interpretation of artworks, especially paintings and sculptures that belong to the collection of leading art museums in Europe like the Louvre, Orsay and Tate Modern, form a regular part of the course. During the course students will learn how to understand and appreciate artworks in a socio-historical context. In order to provide students with a variety of ways of understanding art and the art world, the course also deals with recent critical debates and issues on art including star artists, art museums, art exhibitions and the art market. In the course, students will have a chance to choose a topic from a wide range of subjects about art and present their topic individually or in a group. In doing so, not only will they develop their critical thinking skills about art but will also improve their logical discussion skills and their presentation skills.
FUTURE SOCIETY AND MEDIA	3Credit	Digital era media is a key to understanding contemporary society. Without the ability to read media, it is difficult to adapt to changes surrounding our society. Throughout the course, students will understand how media is associated and connected with society and how the mechanisms of media operation create and guide public opinion. The course will help students to develop a critical interpretation of how various media affect our society and its formation of culture
PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSUASION	3Credit	Persuasion is very important in modern society. Consciously or unconsciously, we persuade others and also are persuaded by others. Persuasion occurs in our daily lives, such as in interpersonal relationships, politics, advertising, sales and public campaigns. Psychology of Persuation is a two-credit course designed to cultivate students' ability to cope with persuasion. The course consists of two hours of classroom study per week. In this course, psychological theories, principles, and tactics of persuasion will be introduced. Also, an overall understanding of effective persuasion will be provided by exploring factors that influence persuasion and attitude change such as source, message, situation, and audience.
UNDERSTANDING KOREAN CULTURAL HERITAGE	3Credit	This course is distinct from Korean History in that, while history is the footprints of humans, culture is an accumulation of a mode of living inherited from past generations of humans. Culture ranges across human life; by contrast, a way of living is a more specific concept that forms an identity of an ethnic group or society. As self-identity is significant to individuals, affirmation of an ethnic identity is also substantial to the educated. The course aims to affirm both personal and ethnic identity. To this end, it introduces the concepts of culture and tradition and investigates continuity and discontinuity in Korean culture and traditions from the past to the present.
FILM AESTHETICS AND APPRECIATION	3Credit	This class is about understanding basic principle of pleasure and unpleasant, result from movies. And based on knowledge, this class helps to understand movie in terms of aesthetic aspect through concentrated and open sensitivity experience. In modern sense, an appreciation is very sensible about the cultural relationship between knowledge and feeling. It offers an opportunity to get depth and width of culture, focused on various major movies among classic and modern movies
KEY ISSUES OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY	3Credit	This is an integrated, three-credit course designed to help students improve their understanding of the fundamental structure and mechanisms in modern society and to establish their own views of various social problems. The course consists of three hours of classroom study per week and requires five hours of self-study. In this course, students will express their opinions about disputable issues in various social areas and critically discuss various theoretical approaches since the advent of modern society. A variety of theoretical positions in the social sciences, including sociology, will be introduced, and their connotations with social issues will be traced for students’ in-depth understanding. Also, by actively participating in discussion on various topics, student will have a chance to enhance their logical and critical thinking skills and refine their points of view about important issues in modern society.
UNDERSTANDING ON THE GLOBALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY	3Credit	In the 21st Century, globalism has gained much attention in various fields and has been understood as "cosmopolitanism", "globalism", or "internationalism". As such, it is difficult to define globalism. This course focuses on globalism in the context of social science, especially from an international relations perspective. Students will gain knowledge about globalism through discussions from different perspectives of globalism. Students will have opportunities to reexamine Korean international relations through the course and gain a broader perspective in international issues of the 21st century.