For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSD5121 | Seminar on International Relations | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-5 | - | No | |
| Understanding the current state of North Korean politics and economy is crucial for the discussion of the reunification process and for the making of the desirable unified Korea. Surprisingly, however, college students as well as the citizens show much less understanding and concern about North Korean society than properly expected. This class is designed to provide the students with a basic but systematic knowledge of what is going on in North Korea. | |||||||||
| PSD5122 | Public Diplomacy and Soft Power | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-8 | - | No | |
| This graduate-level seminar course introduces functions and cases of public diplomacy. The roles of civilian diplomacy are expanding as much as those of government-led public diplomacy. This course vividly introduces various aspects of public diplomacy covering both theory and reality. Working-level experts including scholars and diplomats, who worked at the site of public diplomacy, will participate in the operation of the omnibus special lecture. | |||||||||
| PSD5123 | Seminar on Russian Foreign Policy | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-8 | - | No | |
| This course studies Russian foreign and military policy changes from 1992 to the late 2010s, about 30 years of the post-cold war era. Students will examine the changes in Russian foreign policy and its backgrounds related to significant political and economic variables such as the characteristics of the leaders, military power, and economic situation. Also, the foreign and military policy of NATO and the US and its influence on Russia will be will be examined. The impact of Russia’s change on Europe and the Korean peninsula also will be discussed. Discussion on the key issues will be made through students’ presentations and lectures on major academic literature. | |||||||||
| PSD5124 | Experimental Methods and Causal Inference in Political Science | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-8 | - | No | |
| In this course, students will learn the logic of experimentation, its strengths and weaknesses, and the ways in which experimentation has been applied to political science research. Hence, this course will introduce and discuss modern quantitative research methods used in political science to investigate causal relationships, including instrumental variables, natural experiment, and regression discontinuity designs. The course will also consider the challenges of drawing causal inferences in political science research. | |||||||||
| PSD5125 | Energy and International Security | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course is a graduate colloquium on energy security. It focuses on the key issues in energy security and the political economy of energy and the environment such as global energy trends and projections, an energy trilemma (i.e. the need to navigate difficult trade-offs between energy security, energy equity, and environmental sustainability), the key domestic/international institutions and regimes affecting energy policy, and competition and cooperation between states. The purpose of the course is to prepare graduate students for original, rigorous, and scientific research in the field. The course emphasizes recent empirical and theoretical research across issue areas. The class is conducted predominantly in a discussion format, although lectures are given on various topics as needed to introduce additional context beyond the immediate readings assigned. | |||||||||
| PSD5126 | International Security in East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| A study of the historical development of the international security among East Asian countries. Focus is given to factors of stability and instability in the international system in East Asia, and to the role of the major countries in the quest for a stable order for this region. The roles of diplomacy and management in dealing with the challenging issues are also discussed. | |||||||||
| PSD5127 | International Security Seminar | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| This course introduces main theoretical debates and contemporary issues in international security. It begins by examining why wars occur, participants’ military strategy and performance, and why wars end the way they do. The following sections cover selected traditional topics in security studies, ranging from alliances, sanctions, nuclear proliferation, technology to energy security. Students will be introduced key texts of each topic and encouraged to critically engage on how, why, when, and to whom these issue-areas affect international security. | |||||||||
| PSD6010 | Theories of Comparative Walfare State | 3 | 6 | Major | Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| After 1945, "political settlements" in the industrial democracies involved the construction of welfare states. Governments used policy instruments to promote full employment and to guarantee to all citizens a certain standard of housing, health care, education, and financial security. However, since the 1970s, the democratic welfare state in its varied forms has come under challenge. In this class, students will look both at theoretical texts justifying or criticizing the welfare state and at empirical cases, comparing politics and policy in democratic welfare states such as the United States, Britain, France, Swiss, Sweden and Germany. | |||||||||
| PSD6011 | Party Politics in Korea | 3 | 6 | Major | Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The course reviews political parties and party systems in Korean politics, including party functions and organization, party platforms, finance, leadership, factions, and the relationship with political development. | |||||||||
| PSD6027 | Seminar on Korean Foregin Policy | 3 | 6 | Major | Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course is to study Korean foreign policy in past-present regimes and issues since the national independence of 1945. Today, foreign policy is one of the most important instruments to maximize national interests. Students will search methodologies to understand Korean foreign policy in Korean perspective over great power-oriented perspective. For this, students will sturdy critically various methodologies and diplomatic behaviors withinestablished theories. Finally, Students will discuss some directions for new pattern of foreign policy in the post-Cold war era | |||||||||
| PSD6034 | Advanced Seminar on Government | 3 | 6 | Major | Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Advanced study on Korean government. Major topics include analysis of government institutions and political process, and issues involving who governs and how major policy decisions are made. | |||||||||
| PSD6042 | Advanced Seminar on Korean Unification | 3 | 6 | Major | Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| An advanced seminar course discussing students individual research design on selected topics of Korean unification. Each class consists of presentations and discussion. One research paper is required. | |||||||||
| PSD7001 | online preparatory course on political science | 1 | 2 | Major | Bachelor/Master/Doctor | 1 | Korean | Yes | |
| This is a compulsory online study guide provided to new M.A. and Ph.D. students in the department of political science at Sungkyunkwan University. Because new graduate students’ nationality and academic background are various, the faculty of the department introduces their respective courses and guides them on how to study political science in advanced level. After taking the online course, students must submit a summary and appreciation of it to the chairman of the department. | |||||||||
| PSD7001 | online preparatory course on political science | 1 | 2 | Major | Bachelor/Master/Doctor | 1 | Political Science | Korean | Yes |
| This is a compulsory online study guide provided to new M.A. and Ph.D. students in the department of political science at Sungkyunkwan University. Because new graduate students’ nationality and academic background are various, the faculty of the department introduces their respective courses and guides them on how to study political science in advanced level. After taking the online course, students must submit a summary and appreciation of it to the chairman of the department. | |||||||||
| PSY4007 | Multivariate analysis and statistical learning | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | Psychology | - | No | |
| This course covers principles and practice of multivariate data analysis in psychology and related fields. Applications of multiple regression, logistic regression, principal component analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis and other multivariate techniques for psychological research will be illustrated. In addition, supervised learning and unsupervised learning will be discussed in relation to the multivariate techniques. This course is designed for graduate students or 3rd- or 4th-year undergraduate students in psychology. | |||||||||