International
Courses
2025 DISS Course Schedule
| Session | Time | Course Title | Field |
|---|---|---|---|
| Session 1 (June 23 – July 4, 2025) |
09:00-12:30 | Korean Cinema Plus: Remakes, Revenge, Rebellion  |
Film/Media |
| Comparative Criminal Justice : Theoretical Perspectives |
Criminal Justice | ||
| Consumer Psychology in the Korean Wave (Hallyu) |
Business | ||
| Korean Language and Culture (Basic) |
Korean/Culture | ||
| 14:30-18:00 | Korean Dystopian Content: From Parasite to Squid Game |
Film/Media | |
| Cultivating Healthy Mind and Body with Meditation |
Buddhism/Meditation | ||
| Korean Music in Context : from Traditional music to K-pop |
Korean/Culture | ||
| Session 2 (July 8 – July 19, 2024) |
09:00-12:30 | Buddhism and Contemporary World |
Buddhism/Meditation |
| Comparative Criminal Justice : System and Field* |
Criminal Justice | ||
| Korean Popular Culture; Society & Media |
Film/Media | ||
| Korean Language and Culture (Basic) |
Korean/Culture | ||
| 14:30-18:00 | Comparative Studies on World Cinema |
Film/Media | |
| Lead Better: Leadership Skills Workshop in 1:1 Management |
Business | ||
| Korean Language and Culture (Intermediate) |
Korean/Culture |
* Applicants are responsible for confirming credit transfer availability with their home university advisors.
Courses at a glance by field
- Film and Media ▼
- Korean Language and Culture ▼
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Courses Professor/Course Description Korean Language & Culture (3crs)
BasicDongguk University Korean Language Center 09:00-12:30 The objective of this course is for students to read and write Korean consonants and vowels completely and understand basic sentence structure, tense expression, and usage of verbs and adjectives. This course will help students to build basic Korean communication skills for daily lives and understand Korean culture with its local experience. Korean Language & Culture (3crs)
IntermediateDongguk University Korean Language Center 14:30-18:00 The objective of this course is for students to pronunciate under phonological and pronunciation rules. Depending on the situation, students can understand when to use formal or informal expressions. This course will help students to compose sentences using various connecting words and express Korean naturally with the use of verbal and indirect speech. Korean Music in Context: from Traditional music to K-pop (3crs) Prof. Jeong Hyeon Joo 09:00-12:30 In this course, students will explore Korean traditional and contemporary music cultures and scenes. Topics will vary from traditional Gugak to recent music genres, including K-pop, indie music,
experimental music scenes, trot, and film music. Students will look into sociological contexts,
compositional ideas, and performance practices through weekly lecture, group discussion, listening,
reading, and creative activities. - Business and Engineering ▼
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Courses Professor/Course Description Lead Better: Leadership Skills Workshop in 1:1 Management (3crs) Prof. Karin McDonald 09:00-12:30 Empowering techniques to Manage, People, Projects, and Innovation will develop the key interpersonal management and communication skills and understanding in order to confidently and successfully function in a school or business environment using time and self-management, active listening, facilitation, and motivational criticism techniques. This is not a lecture course. This is a student-centered participation course so students should be comfortable communicating in English. Students will learn: how to understand the current management environment, how to manage time and emotions effectively, how to listen like a manager, how to resolve conflicts, how to manage projects, how to create quality new ideas, how to sell a good idea, how to get buy-in. Design Thinking Meets the Real Business World (Capstone Design) (3crs) Prof. Sue Hyun Lee 14:30-18:00 The purpose of this course is for the students to apply theoretical knowledge acquired during this summer semester. During the project, students engage in the entire process of solving the real-world problems from collecting and processing actual data along with suitable and appropriate analytic methods to the problem. Both the problem statements and the datasets originate from real-world domains similar to those that students might typically encounter within industry or academic research. - Buddhism and Meditation ▼
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Courses Professor/Course Description Buddhism and Buddhist Practices (3crs) Prof. Soon Il Hwang 09:00-12:30 Buddhism has played a major role in the Korean thought and culture since its transmission at
around the 5th century CE. In order to understand Korean Culture, it is important to understand
what Buddhism may be and how it has developed from early to modern period. This lecture
surveys Buddhist thought and culture from the ancient India to the modern Korea to provide the
general picture of Korean Buddhism and the Buddhist culture. It also provides opportunities to visit
various Korean Buddhist temples and important museums to experience Korean Buddhist culture
and heritage.Cultivating Healthy Mind and Body with Meditation (3crs) Hyeju Sunim 14:30-18:00 This course covers a wide spectrum of Buddhist meditation practices, including mindfulness meditation, concentration meditation, and Seon (Zen/Chan). Students will learn how to approach Buddhist meditation practices and explore how to practice them. By learning to understand their selves and interconnectedness among all beings, students will be able to observe how their mind works and explore how to live in harmony with all other beings with healthy and compassionate mind. This course will also discuss the global movement of meditation practices and the benefits of practicing meditation for well-being. Students will learn to apply these meditation practices to their daily lives. - Criminal Justice & Law ▼
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Prof. Youn Oh Cho
Prof. Seungmug (Zech) LeeCourses Professor/Course Description Comparative Criminal Justice System
and Practices (3crs)09:00-12:30 The course is designed to provide the systematic overview of comparative criminal justice systems
(law, police, courts, and corrections) between the U.S.A. and S. Korea. Through a comprehensive
comparison and contrast of both countries’ criminal justice systems and practices, this course
enables participating students to draw both provincial and universal benefits, leading to more
efficient and effective criminal justice systems and practices in each country.
Evaluation & Credit Transfer
· Evaluation Policy (based on absolute evaluation)Grading is based on attendance, class discussion, homework and examination. According to the a regulation, Dongguk University requires a minimum of 80% attendance to receive academic credit. Students are evaluated by ‘PASS’ or ‘FAIL’ (However, a letter grade will be conferred as well upon request)
· Grading Scale
| Grade | A+ | A0 | B+ | B0 | C+ | C0 | D+ | D0 | F | P |
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| Mark | 4.5 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 3.0 | 2.5 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0 |
· Attendance Policy
· Credit Transfer
- Absence more than 1/5 = F
- 3 times lateness = 1 absence
· Credit Transfer
Students in other colleges and universities may transfer credits according to the regulations of their home institutions. Please consult with the appropriate academic authorities or academic advisors to check whether a specific course in Dongguk International Summer School may be applied toward academic major or distribution requirements.
- Department
Office of International Relations
- Contact
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- cscenter@dongguk.edu
(Certificate Issuance, Education Verification) - kic@dongguk.edu (Korean Language Course)
