For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOC3017 | Civil Society | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | - | No | |
| Scholars in social science have explored sociological and political implications of civil society which consists of such components as voluntary associations, social networks, social capital, and trust. Why and how do ordinary citizens participate in politics? Do civic groups really improve the quality of representative democracy? How much useful the concept of "social capital" is in studying the relationship between civil society and democracy? Is the concept still valid in different cultural settings? How do NGOs or NPOs change political environment? What are the effects of globalization on civil society? This course is designed to familiarize students with the existing theoretical literature and empirical research on civil society. Students will trace the historical evolution of related concepts and examine their application in different cultural contexts. | |||||||||
| SOC3020 | Seminar on Korean Society | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| Some major structural, institutional and cultural aspects of Korean society are to be examined from historical and sociological perspectives and in comparison with those western society. | |||||||||
| SOC3021 | Writing in Sociology | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | - | No | |
| Special topics of sociology will be selected and discussed intensively beyond the level of introductory courses. | |||||||||
| SOC3022 | Sociology of Aging | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| This course is designed to give students insight into the social construction of the aging process and being "old" by exploring the social dimensions of aging. The question is, how do social factors influence the ways our bodies age and grow old? How do they shape the consequences of this? As we explore these thematic questions, you will come to appreciate the wide diversity among individuals whom we term "elderly persons,” and how this diversity is social in nature. To help instill the social character of aging, and to further your understanding of the aging process, cross-cultural comparisons will be made where possible. | |||||||||
| SOC3025 | History and Social Change | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | - | No | |
| What are the origins of contemporary political and social systems? This course traces the emergence of capitalism, capitalist world economy, modern states, social revolutions, and democracy and dictatorship, and welfare regime. It explains what led to the rise of these macro-social institutions by examining the state-society relation, class coalition, political competition, and cultural shifts. It also traces the rise of modern institutions in South Korea during late Choson period, Japanese occupation period, and early modern era. | |||||||||
| SOC3026 | Sociology of Sexuality and Gender | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | - | No | |
| How are sexuality and gender constructed? What are the boundaries between sexuality and gender? What are the impacts sexuality and gender have on social and institutional life? This course begins with a sociological understanding of sexuality and gender and differentiates it with other accounts prevalent in psychology and biology. The core topics include sexual identity, gender power and inequality, feminism, and LGBTQ. The course intends to shed light on the utility of sexuality and gender frameworks in better understanding contemporary society and the perpetuation of gender inequality. | |||||||||
| SOC3027 | Special Topics in Sociology Ⅰ | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | - | No | |
| Selected topics of special interest or current issues will be examined in this seminar by means of class lectures and student presentation. The purpose of this seminar is to make student acquainted with recent research findings, current trends, and major issues of the topic in question. | |||||||||
| SOC3028 | Local Societies and Inclusive Development | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | - | No | |
| The main topics of this course are the development of local societies, stratification and political structure, participation in community, neighborhood, regional problems, regionalism, regional policy and planning, etc. This course highlights the functions of regional and local societies from the perspective of an inclusive society. | |||||||||
| SOC3029 | Environment and Sustainable Development | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | English | Yes | |
| This course explores various sociological approaches to the study of society-environment interactions. Some of the topics to be covered include: the interaction of social and natural systems; the growth of environmental ideology; environmental movements; the globalization of environmental crisis; issues regarding population, technology, economy and politics as they are related to the environment. | |||||||||
| SOC3030 | Technological and Social Change | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| How does scientific and technological development facilitate social change? This course deals with industrialization, digital revolution, and the fourth industrial revolution facilitated by the rise of AI and IoT. The sociology of science is a subfield of sociology dealing with specifically with social bases of science. Issues to be covered in this course include scientists' ethos, social role and scientific activities, the structure and dynamics of scientific community, and social origins of scientific knowledge. | |||||||||
| SOC3032 | Global and Transnational Sociology | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | - | No | |
| This course examines the origins, processes, and consequence of globalization and international development. It will compare and contrast the views from economists, political scientists, and sociologists in understanding global change and institutions. | |||||||||
| SOC3033 | International Migration and Transnationalism | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | - | No | |
| International migration is a significant phenomenon in the era of globalization. With the development of transportation and technology, immigrants have been able to maintain transnational ties with their home country after migration. This course introduces theories of international migration, immigrants’ assimilation into the destination country, and immigrants’ political, economic, social, and medical transnational ties with their home country. This course also examines migration history and migration-related issues among Korean immigrants in the U.S. and the characteristics of different immigrant groups in Korea. | |||||||||
| SOC3035 | Social Change and Judicial Justice | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | - | No | |
| How does social change affect judicial system and justice? As various social change-globalization, democratization, human rights diffusion, gender equality, the fourth industrial revolution- occurs, it leads to changes in our views of judicial system and justice. This course examines the relationship between social change and judicial system by exploring major issues and cases of judicial justice and human rights protection. The issues include, but are not limited to gender and jurisprudence, freedom of expression and regulation on hate speech, administrative justice, new technology and human rights, North Korean human rights, business and human rights, and migration and law. | |||||||||
| SOC3036 | Technology and Work: With Social-Relations Perspecives | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | English | Yes | |
| Technological change is one of the fundamental drives that has shaped the modern economy. From the various kinds of factory machines, railroads, telegraph, electricity, petrochemical substances during the Second Industrial Revolution to the contemporary bio-medical revolutions and digital revolutions, technological changes have exerted great impacts on how human labor is organized, mobilized, utilized, and exploited. Technological changes have affected humans-tools relationship, created new breeds of workers (e.g. “proletariat class,” “white-collars,” “knowledge-workers,” “clinical laborers or bio-surrogates,” “platform workers” and also many kinds of invisible workers such as undocumented immigrants), and changed work-place environments. Though technological changes are often recognized as (and indeed they are) “progress,” they also interact/exacerbate the existing social inequalities and injustices and challenge/undermine the hard-won labor rights. This course aims to explore the relationship between technology and human labor, with special attention to its socio-political implications. Mostly it will focus on market labors, but will also include relevant discussions on non-market labor (such as domestic labor). | |||||||||
| SOC3037 | Understanding the social dimensions of modern urban space | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor | 3-4 | English | Yes | |
| This course aims to explore spatial manifestation of urban dynamics. Over half of the entire world population now live in city and this proportion is estimated to rise further. This means urban space, as intensified, augmented, and rapidly changing space, is the basic setting of living for the majority of human beings. This course examines the nature of “urbanity” as it is spatially played out and its economic, political, environmental, and human-rights implications, specifically keeping in mind the possibility of more democratic control of urban space. This course will start with classical theories of urban sociology. Then, this course will explore urban space as sites of production, as sites of consumption, and as sites of entertainment. Thirdly, this course will discuss the political economy of urban development with the cases of gentrification, segregations, exclusion from basic urban infrastructures (water, sewage, waste collection, etc). Finally, this course will study social interactions (and the lack of social interactions, that is, social isolation) in urban spaces and the emerging, intangible infrastructure. This course will focus on “modern” urban spaces, with a special focus on the changes in human-material relations. | |||||||||