Дисциплины специализации

This course focuses on current practices in corporate financial reporting and fundamental issues relating to asset valuation and income determination. We pay close attention to financial statement analysis and interpretation of financial disclosures to help improve risk assessment, forecasting, and decision‐making.

This course does NOT emphasize the details of GAAP or countless accounting rules and procedures that comprise GAAP. The main focus is developing a set of powerful analytical tools for students to understand the environment in which financial reporting choices are made, what the options are, how financial data are used for various types of decisions, and how to avoid misusing financial statements.

This course utilizes lectures, case discussions and analyses, numerical exercises, and independent reading.

A significant complaint made by many business leaders and employers have today is that their employees do not write well. They further claim that these employees do not understand how and when to use standard business writing genres and that they continue to communicate poorly even after being informed of their weaknesses. Employers often end up dismissing such employees or, at the very least, avoid giving them promotions or challenging projects to work on.

In this light, this course offers an introduction to the techniques and types of professional writing, including correspondence and reports. It is designed to help you strengthen skills of effective business and professional communication in written modes. After successful completion of this course, you will have the skills necessary to communicate effectively in a variety of professional situations.

The students will gain particular insight and an understanding towards modeling and rational approaches to decision- making and their contribution to organizational effectiveness. Analysis and communication are emphasized throughout the course by using real world and practical applications and cases.

Topics in this course include linear programming and model building, network problems, model applications, decision analysis applied to tactical and strategic business decisions in functional areas and interfaces among these areas will be covered. Major emphasis will be placed on the conceptual understanding rather than memorization.

This course will begin with the question of what is East Asia, particularly from the eyes of South Korea. Then, we will examine the sources of conflict and cooperation in terms of security, politics, and economy through historical evolution. Course will conclude with intensive reading on the US-China competition and its implications for East Asia.

Much emphasis will be placed on understanding the various aspects of alliance and rivalry dynamics. Finally, our reading list incorporates articles applying international relations theories to the politics of the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia. Weekly readings will help students understand and explain current and past affairs of international politics in systematic and analytic ways. As a seminar course, students are encouraged to take part in class discussion proactively. They should master the assigned readings before class and be fully prepared to discuss it intelligently in class.

Course Objective

• Understand the key topics, concepts, and issues of IPE
• Differentiate various theoretical perspectives of IPE
• Understand global/regional trade regimes and related IPE issues
• Examine the international monetary and financial relations and the mechanism of global financial crisis
• Explore the debates over globalization and its impacts

A variety of agenda drawn from the disciplines of political science, economics, sociology and cultural studies, to international relations will be covered and discussed. The class meets once every week to have group seminar with the instructor. Two presentation and feedback sessions are scheduled to guide the research projects of the students. 

The main reason the discipline of international relations was created in the first place was to create world peace. However, with the advent of realism as the most dominant paradigm in international relations, the discipline seemed to have contributed more to creating world conflicts and war than peace and cooperation among nations. During the second half of the semester, this course will cover specific ways to change our consciousness and create world peace.

Over the last couple of years, revitalization of arts and culture in Korean cities has given new life to small commercial districts that used to lag behind. These revitalized cities are now seen as brand new attractive hotspots for sightseeing and entertainment; however, gentrification caused by this process is becoming a serious social issue. Gentrification in Korea is unique in that its effects reach not only the regional economy and its small businesses but also the area’s culture and history. This interdisciplinary seminar course, through an exploration of the process of gentrification in select Korean cities, investigates the ways that we, as urban citizens, can contribute to the creation of more just cities from management perspectives.

This course provides you with top management perspective and a framework for managing in severe adversity. It assumes that you are the CEO of a growing company which is facing an abrupt and severe adversity, a problem way out of the ordinary. You are expected to make a decision with a timely determination of the issues and the available options. In turn, this decision may as well determine the fate of the company and your career as the CEO.

Because the circumstances the CEO will face are often times threatening to both the company’s success and to own career ambitions, the issues investigated will put you into the crucible of management under fire. Therefore, you must learn to correctly identify problems and come up with effective solutions.

With regard to adversity, conflicts occur at different levels within organizations, and their management and resolution are one of the important issues that need a lot of time and energy on the part of managers and CEO. Therefore, organizational leaders must have sufficient information and knowledge about how to cope with conflicts. According to new approaches to organization and management, conflict is inevitable and a certain level of conflict is inexorable for organizational effectiveness. Due to its nature, an organization is fertile ground for the growth and development of conflicts and disagreements, and negotiation is one of the techniques that a manager can use. The basis for dealing with conflicts is to remember that not all conflicts are destructive. Surprisingly, conflicts sometimes turn out to be useful and constructive.

In the early stage of the course, students will be introduced to the idea of entrepreneurship in a global context. Subsequently, they will learn to apply the concepts of design thinking, systems thinking, engineering, finance, and business organization. Students will have an opportunity to identify not-yet-satisfied customer needs, design new products or services that meet those needs, and develop business models to support the creation and launch of those products or services beyond classroom.

In this course, we will observe a variety of cases and focus on the emerging business models in the Age of Industry 4.0 where new supplier ecosystems will involve the creation of high value networks comprising core industrial automation, measurement, instrumentation, and commercial information and communication technology (ICT).

Subsequently, we examine the relationship between Industry 4.0 and global trade. According to research, digitalization makes global trade flexible; however, this paperless global trade imposes a number of challenges on us. After reviewing the issues in global trade, data requirements for global trade, and Industry 4.0 technologies for global trade, we discuss the policy priorities for governments.

This course tries to answer these and other broad questions through a comparative analysis of political and economic development experiences of five East Asian countries (Japan, China, Taiwan, South and North Koreas).  Comparisons will be attempted at three different levels: among the individual countries, between the 'capitalist' and 'socialist' political economies, and with other developing countries.

As a course in comparative political economy, this seminar seeks to make up two typical deficiencies discernible in the rapidly growing literature on the region.  Firstly, though much has been written on these countries and relatively detailed political and economic analyses of individual countries are now available, scanty attention has been paid to the interaction between polity and economy of these countries in a striking contrast to development studies of other regions, especially Latin America.

Secondly, paying little attention to the gradations of generalities (thus, specificities as well) involved, studies of truly comparative nature have been rare.  More often than not, rapidity of growth, growth with equity, paradoxical obstinacy of nondemocratic political systems and the like are either explained away by imposing upon the East Asian cases those theories and models grown out of an almost completely different context but abstracted enough to appropriate seeming universal applicability.  Or they are simplistically ascribed to the nationally or regionally peculiar attributes.  To overcome these fallacies of "misplaced concreteness" and "exceptionalism," efforts were made to balance the readings between the current state and the historical evolution of these political economies.

Specific issues include: economic heritages, socio-political legacies, cultural backgrounds, sources of economic growth, development strategies, institutional arrangements for capital accumulation and resource allocation, socio-political costs of rapid economic growth, performance of two types of economies, and legitimation vs. accumulation, effciency vs. equity dilemmas.

Exploring these questions through the course, we will look into how the basic patterns of the state-society relations in the modern world have been transformed, and how they have been played out in East Asian countries, China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan in particular, over the past decades of political and economic development. In doing so, students are expected to acknowledge the importance of the historical origins and the developmental paths of state-society relationship in understanding the unique aspects of each government’s policies as well as of people’s political behaviors.

The purpose of this course is to understand the current situation concerning human rights in Asia, and to facilitate a chance to think about what the future may bring. In addition, continuous efforts will be made to help students to consider human rights as a concrete real-time problem in particular societies. Students' country-specific interests in the region will be encouraged.

It is hoped that, after the course, students are able to create their own views on economic and political aspects of the current global trade governance as well as interactions of multilateralism and regionalism.

The course will also deal   with the issues of economic development in relation to trade which may be crucial to the economic growth of  many  developing  countries.  It  is  hoped that, after the course, the students can better understand  the  current  status  and progress of globalization and international economic cooperation through various trade and aid initiatives. More importantly, the students are expected to be able to create their own views on the economic issues  regarding  globalization, trade and development.

Then, we turn to basic economic growth models and poverty related issues such as inequality and population. Half of this course covers macroeconomic issues on development such as investment and savings, financial development, foreign debt and aid, trade policy.

After the end of World War II and during most time of the Cold War period, South Korea, as a newly independent state, had been heavily dependent on its alliance with the United States to achieve its national objectives of security and prosperity. However, with the end of the Cold War and its successes in economic development and democratization, Seoul has attempted to expand the horizon of foreign policy through multilateralism and an active pursuit of peaceful unification of the Korean Peninsula.

In the changing context of contemporary world politics, this course will also examine the future direction of South Korea’s foreign policy and strategic choice in its relations to major powers and facing with the dynamic of changing security environment in East Asia.