For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GFP5037 | AI and Social Science Study | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The importance of digital technologies, especially AI and big data, in social science continues to increase. AI as an automated analysis technique is becoming an essential tool for efficiently analyzing the explosively increasing amount and complexity of data. In particular, developments in the field of natural language processing are causing not only scholars but also the general public to predict the huge wave that AI will bring. It has been a mission of current social science study to appropriately accommodate the social changes and the development of digital technology in the right direction. Even in the public policy sector, the integration of digital technology is not a concern limited to related organizations or researchers, but also enables the general public to review the necessity, adequacy, and feasibility of public policy. We are at a stage where AI and big data cannot be discussed without mentioning how they are being used in the field of social science and how they are being used to explore social scientific research. This course provides an overview of emerging AI and big data to explore recent social science research questions and looks at the need for convergence research. In social science study using digital technology, issues that undermine the main purpose of the study, which is the scientific accumulation of knowledge, are also emerging as challenges, so complex research is needed to overcome the risk of arbitrary interpretation caused by these issues. | |||||||||
| GFP5038 | Cost-Benefit Analysis | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course will address evaluating a policy or project by expressing its total costs and benefits in monetary terms. • Considering the basic mechanics of performing a CBA, including methods for valuing costs and benefits, aggregating over time, and analyzing uncertainties. • Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of different CBAs and propose strategies to address any shortcomings. • Debating the advantages and limitations of CBA for policy analysis and compare it to other approaches. • Creating a CBA for a real-world client from start to finish, including scoping, background research, valuation of costs and benefits, uncertainty analysis, and interpretation. | |||||||||
| GFP5039 | Aging and public policy | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course will address major social insurance programs as well as trends and policies related to a variety of topics, including health and work at older ages, living arrangements and intergenerational transfers, and the demography of aging. Throughout this study, students will understand public policies covering older-age populations and will gain skills in analyzing these policies of the social, demographic, economic, and political contexts. Critical thinking skills will be exhibited and strengthened throughout the course in a research paper and presentation, through regular written and oral discussion of class readings, and leading portions of class discus | |||||||||
| GFP5040 | Trade Norms, Present and Future | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Economy and trade are closely connected topics. The main subject of this course is development of the international trade order after GATT in 1947. In particular, the formation and integrated application of trade norms, WTO legal practices will be the main topics of this course. Regional trade agreements, CPTPP and RCEP will be addressed. Digital trade agreements and changes in the trade environment surrounding big tech are also reviewed. | |||||||||
| GFP5041 | War, Power and Morality: Divisive Debates and Contentious Conflicts | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-2 | - | No | |
| This course introduces students to leading debates on the origins of war and the ethical dilemmas violent conflict creates. Drawing on political theory and real-world case studies, students will engage with enduring questions: Why do states go to war? What makes a war just? What motivates rebellion? When, if ever, is it permissible to target civilians? Does democracy foster peace? When is external intervention to prevent atrocities justified? Students will examine the ideas of major political thinkers including Hobbes, Machiavelli, Kant, and Arendt, as well as non-Western voices such as Ibn Taymiyyah, Frantz Fanon, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Sayyid Qutb. These theoretical foundations will be applied to key conflicts such as anti-colonial liberation struggles, the rise of militant Islam and the War on Terror, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the Rwandan genocide. The goal is to equip students with critical tools to analyze the causes and conduct of political violence. | |||||||||
| GFP5042 | Gender, Culture and Policy | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-2 | - | No | |
| What makes policymaking a queer and feminist issue? This course investigates how gender-blind policies fail to address real societal needs and how a deeper understanding of gendered and sexualized cultural life can transform them. It examines the politics of policy through feminist and queer lenses, grounded in the cultural discourses of contemporary society. Students will explore how gender and sexuality intersect with race, class, and other structures of power within local, national, and international policy contexts. Drawing on innovative work in gender and sexuality studies, the course considers how lived experiences shape—and are shaped by—policy. Through lectures and discussions with scholars and practitioners, and a field trip to meet Members of Parliament, regional mayors, cultural workers, and trade union representatives, students will gain both theoretical insight and practical engagement with the policymaking process. | |||||||||
| GFP5043 | Inequality in Contemporary Society | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course aims to cultivate the ability to understand and interpret the various forms of social inequality found in modern society by acquiring concepts and theories of social inequality. In this course, we will examine various areas where social inequality is revealed, such as asset/income inequality, labor market inequality, educational inequality, generational inequality, gender inequality, cultural capital inequality, leisure inequality, environmental inequality, health inequality, and social psychological approaches to inequality. This seminar will explore the various structural factors that contribute to social inequality and examine policy measures to alleviate this inequality. | |||||||||
| GSP4001 | Policy Science: Theory & Korean Smart Policy Framework | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | Public Administration | English | Yes | |
| As the 21st century unfolds, we are living in a chaotic and turbulent society. Speed of thought becomes very important as information and knowledge is the most critical factor of national competitiveness. To achieve national competitiveness, thereby building a great and strong nation, effective policymaking is crucial to achieve government innovation and national transformation. How these kinds of enormous change and innovation, swirling from the high-technological environmental changes such as the SMART revolution and the INDUSTRIAL revolution, will impact the academic discipline of policy science, effective policy-making specifically? What should be the new theoretical principle and philosophy of policy science to break-away the so-called criticism of the ‘impoverished professionalism’ facing the science of public administration? And how could we then academically link the theoretical principles of the knowledge-created Smart e-Government with the traditional Policy Science? This lecture concentrates on the attempt to answer these kinds of academic as well as practical questions, searching for a new paradigm of the policy framework to presenting the most appropriate strategy facing the developing countries in this 21st century. | |||||||||
| GSP5196 | Capstone for Social Problem Solving and Policy Research | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Public Administration | - | No | |
| The course aims to conduct a capstone project in the area of public policy and problem solving. An individual student or team conducts the project of a given or explored topic. Students apply what they learned from various courses in the area of public policy and problem solving to research of recent cases. | |||||||||
| GSP5226 | Seminar on Policy Evaluation | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Public Administration | - | No | |
| The main purpose of this seminar is to provide substantive knowledge and methods for the evaluation of public policy. We discuss not only analytical evaluation as scientific research activities but also institutionalized evaluation as an administrative control mechanism of the Korean government. | |||||||||
| LAW5291 | Data Protection Law | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Law | - | No |
| This course examines the theme related to protection of data including state intelligence, trade secret, and personal information by exploring legislative system and legal issues about data protection. | |||||||||
| LAW5484 | Korea and International Law | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Law | - | No | |
| It is a course of conducting research that can legally resolve the complexity of international relations through examination and analysis of international law issues related to Korea. In particular, this course will examine the Korea's application of international law by domestic courts, and review the 1948 UN General Assembly Resolution and its meaning of international law. Furthermore, this course examines the legal issues of unification of Korean and relevant issues that arise in Korean Peninsula in terms of international law. | |||||||||
| PSD5035 | Introduction to Comparative Politics | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Political Science | - | No |
| Introduction to the study of western capitalist democracies, communist regimes, and authoritarian states. How do these types of state differ? What factors enhance the emergence of one type of state versus another? What factors explain the rise and collapse of democracies? What is the relationship between political development and economic development? These questions will be addressed through theoretical readings and case studies. | |||||||||
| PSD5089 | History of International Relations | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Political Science | - | No |
| Primary purpose of this graduate course is to analyze diplomatic relations among nations based upon historical facts from the Vienna system of 1815 to the present. The history of East Asian international relations will be also studied across the ancient, modern, and contemporary era. Students will be able to grasp the essence and characteristic of Korean diplomacy, reviewing the historical contexts of international relations unfolded so far. | |||||||||
| PSD5099 | Seminar on Domestic Politics and International Relations | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Political Science | - | No |
| This course offers a focused view on how domestic politics affect international relations, and how international relations affect domestic politics. We analyze how the political, economic, and social conditions within states affect foreign policy and international relations. We also examine how international politics affects domestic political leadership, policies, cleavages, and even institutions. To this end, we focus on several distinct substantive areas, including the use of force, international trade, and participations in international organizations. The primary assignment will be a piece of original research, which you will develop over the course of the semester with substantial input from both the class and me. | |||||||||