UNDERSTANDING RHETORICS
Introduction to rhetoric as a theory of public language communication. Promote rhetorical understanding of topics of this course including text and public speech, public argumentation and persuasion, the structure and function of public speech, language of politics, language of advertisement, social-psychological natures of public speech, language and thought, language manipulation, etc.
INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE COMMUNICATION
Understanding the psychological processes under the usage of words in language communication. Promote basic understanding of language communication by learning how information of the sound, structure and meaning of words is retrieved in mind/brain, and how this information is used in the process of real language communication.
INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL COMMUNICATION
An introduction to visual communication. This course introduces the basic concepts and central hypotheses concerning sensation and perception, human visual system, visual pathway, and the basic characteristic of visual perception model.
NEWSPAPER AND COMMUNICATION
This course provides education systematically with technical communication related to the field of Journalism. Specifically students will learn how journalists gather, write and report news events.
PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION
Study of many sided aspects and problems of persuasion in the context of communication. Including various situations of persuasion, such as personal, collective, public relations, etc.
UNDERSTANDING VISUAL MEDIA
Study of image through the communicational process. Focus on grammar of visual expression, methods of realization and practical application in the context of visual media such as movie, advertisement, television, virtual reality, etc.
STRORYTELLING AND COMMUNICATION
Cultural contents, such as movies, ad, sports, music and photos, contain stories in different ways. Systematic study of process between production and reception of story in communication view.
UNDERSTANDING SPOKEN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATION
An introduction to theories and models of human communication mediated by various forms of spoken language. This course introduces the psycholinguistic mechanisms underlying speaking/listening processes as the principles of conversational interactions.
ADVERTISING AND COMMUNICATION
Study of communication on context of advertisements. This course comprehensively deals with conditions depending various media, contents of advertisements, psychology of consumers, grammar of technical expression, rhetoric, etc.
CRITICS AND COMMUNICATION
Critical education of complicated communicational reality. Cultivate right intelligence to find the solution for manipulation or distortion of information or reports an error by analyzing the perversion of mass media and personal discourses.
TEXT AND COMMUNICATION
An introduction to theories and models of written language communication mediated by various kinds of text. Participants are introduced to the psycholinguistic mechanisms underlying writing/reading processes as well as the principles of text production and discourse comprehension.
BROADCASTING AND COMMUNICATION
This course is designed to provide the students an insight into the broadcast media and to develop the communication skills for broadcasting purpose.
MARKETING AND CORPORATE COMMUNICATION
Understanding marketing strategy and efficient communication of corporate with analysis of positioning strategy, consumer behavior, CI and logo.
PUBLIC OPINION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS
Study of theories and application concerning the public opinion and public relations that lead the current of mass society. This study contains various affairs: politics, election, PR, marketing, advertisement, media policy, straw poll, information strategy, etc.
EDITING AND PUBLISHING
This practical course offers participants an opportunity to learn and apply the principles for selecting and editing image and language data as well as various layout techniques in favor of an easy document processing. In addition, the efficient strategies of publishing and circulation of edited documents are explored.
MEANING AND CONTEXT
A course exploring the mechanism of meaning which changes under various communication contexts/situations. Principles governing the relationship between word/sentence meanings and their contextual meanings are discussed in the framework of Pragmatics.
COMMUNICATION DISORDERS AND TREATMENTS
Theoretical and practical study of many sided communication disorders and scientific treatments. Including delayed acquisition, stammering, dysphasia, aphasia, etc.
SPORTS CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION
Study of communication and signification in sports. Establishment of sports communication structure through sociological, economic, political, psychological and semiotic interpretations.
INTRODUCTION TO ANIMATION
An introduction to animation as a new communication technique which develops rapidly in modern society.
ART AND COMMUNICATION
Understanding of the world of art at the angle of communication. The elements of art are deconstructed and reconstructed by the theories of language or sign, such as paints, pictures, sculpture, music, video arts, etc.
DIGITAL CULTURE AND CONTENTS
Understand analysis and application of digital culture’s contents. Focus on developing the competence treating the contents compatible to new digital media such as virtual realities, ultramodern apparatus for visual or acoustic process, etc.
BILINGUAL COMMUNICATION
A seminar on the childhood bilingualism and non-primary language development/usage. Issues and methods of psycholinguistics/sociolinguistic researches on topics such as cognitive processes of bilingual development, representation of bilingual knowledge, and communication by non-primary language are discussed.
INTERNAITONAL COMMUNICATION
Understanding of globalization current, including its ideology, policies of nations, types of individual lives. And study of conditions or principles of communication in the paradigm of globalization.
FUNDAMENTALS OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION
An introduction course to the nature of (interpersonal) communication. Topics of this course include definition/types of communication, tools/functions of communication, communication disorders, development of communication faculties, and human-machine communication.
FUNDAMENTALS OF MASSCOMMUNICATION
Today, the information-oriented society and digital paradigm make people face up to complicated communication. This course is designed to have a general and systematic understanding of mass-communication in today’s such complicated conditions.
FUNDAMENTALS OF JOURNALISM
In the era of information, the value of journalism is increased and understanding of journalism is basic requirement for us. This class studies purpose and fundamental principles of journalism.
FUNDAMENTALS OF ADVERTISING
This course introduces the fundamental principles and practice of advertising across a range of marketing communication channels including both traditional and new media.
UNDERSTANDING SEMIOTICS
As a new emerging study in the 20th century, understanding semiotics - informative for cultural analysis and the study of communication contents - clearly and systematically from the very basic. Also, learning the cultural phenomenon - including film, television, music, art, animation, music videos, cartoons, photography, fashion, advertising, etc. – related with modern life.
LANGUAGE AND PSYCHOLOGY
Understanding of the psychological processes – the foundation of two language communication axis which are language output (speaking and writing) and language comprehension (listening, comprehension and reading comprehension). This course is introductory level of the psychology of language or psycholinguistics combined the linguistics and psychology.
UNDERSTANDING COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Cognitive science is the study of human cognition. Human intellectual activities are assumed as information processing of receiving, storing, transforming and exporting all kinds of sensory information/language information. This course promotes understanding of the basics on the content and the way of this interdisciplinary study to discover the properties of human cognition as information processing.