Korean Language and Writing is regarded as the basic instrumental course in any scholarly field. With the ultimate course objective of broadening one's life, by way of logical language application skill, refinement of emotion, and organized thinking process, this course is composed of both reading and writing. The reading part concentrates on theory and practice of writing by examining the history and characteristics of Korean language and writings, and mastery of effective language usage in everyday life, and also by studying various writing styles such as expository writing, argumentative writing, and practical writing. Upon completion of the course, each student will be able to express her own opinion logically and creatively.

Modern man is too often defined by his function. However, a human being cannot be defined solely as a mere function in the service of a specific end. This course aims to view humanity, not in a particular social, political, or economical context, but at a more fundamental existential level. The spirit of this course, then, reflects the oriental tradition of studying literature, history, and philosophy together. The methods of study used in this course will be analysis, persuasion and appreciation. Themes for the course are: religion as the human will to transcend his mortality; history as a condition of human life; literature as man's self-creation and self-knowledge. These topics will be considered together with the intellectual history of the East and the West. The ultimate goal of this course is to enables to achieve a more comprehensive and constructive view of oneself and of life.

The goal of English I is to prepare students for college-level study in an English environment. Students will work on the reading, listening and study skills they need to understand textbooks and lectures in English. They will also work on their ability to express their ideas in English, orally and in writing. This class will also introduce students to the style of learning most common in English-speaking countries.

This course aims to improve students' basic ability to express themselves both in written and oral English. A variety of sentence constructions will be taught, with particular emphasis on vocabulary, syntax, and style.

The course in team-taught by a Korean and a French faculty member. By reading and interpreting simple texts with the professors, students not only learn the French language, but also the history, culture and literature of the French-speaking world as well as the thinking and living patterns of the French people.

The aim of this course is to provide a deeper understanding of French to students who have taken Freshman French. To this end, students start by reading easier texts as they begin to acquire a wide-ranging knowledge of French, culture and literature.

This course provides fundamental knowledge of German Language through training of basic speaking, hearing and reading in German. By reading and interpreting simple texts, students learn not only the German language, but also the history, culture, and literature of the German-speaking world as well as the thinking and living patterns of German people.

The aim of this course is to provide students who have taken Freshman German with the necessary skills for reading texts in German. To this end, students will start by reading easier texts as they begin to acquire a wide-ranging knowledge of German scholarship, culture, and literature.

This course introduces the theory and practice of fundamental Chinese language. Conversation practice can improve the students' fluency of elementary Chinese with the use of language laboratory.

Working with authentic Chinese materials both written and spoken, students will develop their ability to comprehend and speak everyday Chinese intelligibly.

This course introduces the theory and practice of fundamental Japanese language. By reading and interpreting simple texts with the professors, students not only learn the Japanese language, but also the history, culture and literature of Japan.

The course leads students who have studied elementary Japanese to improve their ability to read various simple texts about current events, culture, science and art, and to understand technical journals of various fields.

On the basic knowledge of the Spanish stored up in the first semester, you will learn imperative sentence for more natural conversations with a native, future tense of verbs, present perfect, and comparison and superlative.

This course introduces Spanish alphabets, basic vocabulary, grammar and sentence patterns. Students will get basic abilities to read easy books with a dictionary, and to communicate verbally by learning conversation from native speakers.

This course introduces Russian alphabets, basic vocabulary, grammar, and sentence patterns. Students will get basic abilities to read easy books and to communicate verbally by learning conversation from native speakers.

This course is designed to place the understanding on human and culture as a whole on a higher level and to cultivate diverse liberal perspectives, imagination, and expressing capability by learning the basic concept and history of literature and film, selecting and appreciating the classics in the history of literature and film and culturally influential works, and comparing and analyzing the tow media.

Designed to help students acquire a comprehensive insight into the areas of humanities which constitute the basis of learning. This course is intended to examine the community and difference of Eastern and Western civilizations and the process of their cultural exchange and its development. Emphasis will be placed on the various issues of nature, religion, man/woman, literature/art, science, and power for the exploration of the possibilities of cultural coexistence and invention of a new civilization.

How do the human consciousness of freedom and the experience of transcendence have gone through changes in the historical development? What are the cultural expressions of these consciousness and experience? Dealing with these questions, this course will focus on religion as a cultural phenomenon, and try to analyze different human being in diverse religious expressions. Furthermore, comparing eastern and western culture, this course aims to develop student's abilities to respond voluntarily and creatively to the cultural challenges of this post-modern society.

This course surveys the myths of the east and the west, and explores the ways the creative imagination underlying the myths influences various cultural activities such as literature, music, art, drama, and film. Myth is the inexhaustible reservoir of imagination informing classical philosophy, religion, art, and even the digital images of the 21st century. Through the study of the myths and the mythic imagination that deal with the fundamental experience shared by the humanity in its relationship with the universe, this course hopes to help students gain broad understanding of human culutre and to enrich cultural creativity by stimulating the creative intellect and cultivating the students' emotive domain hitherto slighted by the existing humanities education.

In this course we will be exploring the historical and cultural foundations of the time and space we call "Modernity". It is a space we continue to inhabit today, and the objective of the course is to help students understand their own relation to the social and cultural issues of the times we inhabit through a close reading of modernity. The themes we will be pursuing will be: individualism, industrialization/rationalization, the city and the crowed, alienation/reification, the shock of the new, the decline of grand narratives, representation, the unconscious, sexuality and gender, language, and the deconstruction of th subject.

This course will present the nature of globalization and its effects on global issues, based on the basic concepts of social science. What is globalization? How new is it? How do its economic, social, military and ecological dimensions differ? How does it affect nation-states, national identity, and international economy? How does it relate to "Americanization" or "Westernization"? Thinking about these issues, the future of Korea in the waves of globalization will be pictured.

This course is intended to promote students with a historico-genetical and social-scientific perspective in which they should be able to understand how myths as a form of primitive thinking and world-view evolve into systematic thoughts and philosophies. It will thereby help them not only comprehend the spiritual history of each nation as well as of the mankind as a whole but realize the existence of elements of myth in their own thinking and knowledge.

The course reviews the theoretical paradigms, concepts, and methodological tools in order to explain and to understand the dynamics of human action and social structure, The course tries to link the micro and the macro perspectives of social sciences to have the students more integrated and balanced perspectives. From the course, the students will learn such main concepts as personality, emotion, belief, culture, network, market, inequality structure, power, globalization, and future etc.

This course aims to train students to contemplate humanity, nature and society in comprehensive terms by analysing various social phenomena linked with the subject of "life". The concept of "Life" is historical in the sense that the meaning differs according to the socio-cultural context. The changing contemporary phenomena and discourses related to life such as abortion, in-vitro-fertilization, transplantation of body parts, as well as cyborgs are in fact social events produced by intricate intervention of social values, science and technology, and legal measures.

This course will aim at investigating: what issues and problems will individuals, groups, enterprises, and nations encounter in a globalization? how will they interact each other? how will they seek harmonization among themselves, tackle the issues and solve the problems? how will they adjust themselves to the new and changing situation? how should they prepare themselves in a globalization?

Science is examined in the picture of cultural phenomena. We study the cultural meaning of science and survey the influence of science in our consciousness and thinking. We also grope for a proper direction of science development reviewing the history of science.

This course provides insightful view of the nature. Main topics are relativity, quantum theory, and chaos which contain the most important ideas of modern physics. From these basic ideas we will try to oversee the origin of the universe, fundamental particles and forces, unification theories, and life.

This course will addresses methods and logic of scientific fact findings, effects of science and technology to our thinking and social changes, and inter-relationship between science/technology and other disciplines.

The lecture emphasizes the understanding of the nature of science and the relationship between science and the society. Integrative and comprehensive approach toward science and life is adopted for enhancing the ability to use scientific knowledge to solve current problems of our society.

The word 'design' is much used but little understood. Therefore, this course is an introduction for understanding of man and culture through design, and discoveries in the direct context of design are common in the history of 'Art and Science'. The second introduces the design value of an inner state of "The I - The We".

Studies on the musical sounds related human being and the musical techniques with aesthetic characteristics of various kind of Korean sound culture. Through this study each student develops her gradual improvement to the art including sound culture and real Korean identity herself.

What are the special characteristics of digital media? What kind of influence these characteristics have made on contemporary culture and art? This course explores the various characteristics of digital media, its applications on the appreciation of fine art, design, and sound as cultural contents of contemporary society.

The purpose of this subject is to illuminate the ideal beauty of human body with an art and scientific aspects. The viewpoints about the aesthetics of human body have been gradually changed according to socio-cultural background of the past century. In the 21 century, the human body will be more important matter to search for the human well-being. So, we need to examine the human body in the respects of the physio-anatomic, biomechanical, philosophical, and historical views. The main themes are follows; What is the aesthetics of the human body? What is the ideal state of the human body junction? What is the most important point for the woman's beauty?