Education
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Major Requirement
Major Elective
(CTM Courses)
Introduction to management (CTM1001)
Major Requirement — The course is a study of management concepts with diverse functions. Furthermore, it offers a comprehensive introduction to effective management principles and conduct along with implementation practices. Throughout the course, students will be expected to apply managerial disciplines to their study and personal lives.
Professor(s) — Eunyoung Cheon, Jae Yun Ho
Prerequisite Subject — None
Semester — Both
IT Foundation (CTM1002)
Major Requirement — The course aims to introduce various Information Technologies including computer programs, network, database, and basic system implementation techniques. Furthermore, basics of Internet Technology and computer hardware will be covered. The main goal of this course is to make students familiar with a computer.
Professor — Keeheon Lee
Prerequisite Subject — Programming for Everybody (from 2022)
Semester — Fall Semester (from 2022)
Introduction to Information systems management (CTM2002)
Major Requirement — This course is designed from the viewpoint of business managers. Students will learn about information technologies as well as the information and technology challenges today’s managers and their organizations face by examining real-world examples.
Professor — Choong C. Lee
Prerequisite Subject — None
Semester — Both
Technovation (CTM3015)
Major Requirement — This course will help students understand how creative technologies are brought to a real market. It focuses on key topics of technology and innovation management. This course will further introduce how different technological firms innovate on the adoption of advanced and emerging technologies.
Professor — Jae Yun Ho
Prerequisite Subject — Introduction to Management, IT Foundation, Introduction to Information Systems Management (preferred)
Semester — Both
Techno-art capstone project (TAP4001)
Major Requirement — In this course, students will develop product or service prototypes of innovative ideas. Each team will generate a new product that has technical feasibility, market competitiveness, and quality design. The teams will go through 4 stages of product design and development process: discover, define, develop, and deliver.
Professor — Chae Han So, Na Yeon Kim, Jae Yun Ho, Younah Kang, Keeheon Lee
Prerequisite Subject — Relevant MR & ME courses in each major
Semester — Spring Semester Only
PROGRAMMING FOR EVERYBODY (CTM1004)
Major Elective — In this course, students learn how to write a computer software using a programming language called Python. Students will write their own computer software based on the lecture. The main goal of this course is to foster code literacy.
Professor — Keeheon Lee
Prerequisite Subject — None
Semester — Spring Semester
Strategy for Creative Technology Business (CTM2003)
Major Elective — This course is a study of strategic management concepts and techniques for crafting and executing appropriate strategies. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to a comprehensive introduction to strategic management principles and conduct.
Professor — Eunyoung Cheon
Prerequisite Subject — Introduction to Management
Semester — Spring Semester
Attracting Investment for an Entrepreneurial Venture (CTM2009)
Major Elective — This course covers fundamental necessary skills to attract investment of an entrepreneurial venture in startup education. It includes the basics of constructing and analyzing financial statements and new business feasibility as well as the essential skills of making effective presentations in the view of startup companies.
Professor — Joosung Lee
Prerequisite Subject — None
Semester — Fall Semester
Entrepreneurially MANAGING IN CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIES (CTM2010)
Major Elective — The best companies make use of the state-of-the-art technologies to design and manufacture innovative products from which various value-creating services are offered. This course presents the latest case studies along with fundamentals of entrepreneurship for product/service innovation.
Professor — Joosung Lee
Prerequisite Subject — None
Semester — Spring Semester
Strategic Marketing in Creative Industry (CTM2012)
Major Elective — This course is a study of strategic marketing concepts and techniques for crafting and executing appropriate marketing strategies. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to a comprehensive introduction to strategic marketing principles and conducts and prepare them to be marketing strategy acumen.
Professor — Eunyoung Cheon
Prerequisite Subject — Introduction to Management
Semester — Fall Semester
Introduction to Data Science (CTM2014)
Major Elective — This course provides students with opportunities to analyze data using Python and methods in data science that can be applied to solve business problems based on evidence.
Professor — Keeheon Lee
Prerequisite Subject — None
Semester — Spring Semester
Financial Accounting for Technology Venture Firms (CTM2015)
Major Elective — This course provides the basic knowledge of the accounting and finance for managing a firm efficiently and effectively. It teaches the accounting principles and procedures, and the ways of interpreting the financial accounting information and utilizing it.
Professor — Chang Yong Ham
Prerequisite Subject — None
Semester — Spring Semester
BUSINESS STATISTICS (CTM2016)
Major Elective — This course provides students with variety of basic techniques in understanding and interpreting data. This course further helps students to develop skills in analyzing scenarios and problems in commerce and industry by applying statistics methods.
Professor — Chang Yong Ham
Prerequisite Subject — None
Semester — Spring Semester
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FOR TECHNOLOGY VENTURE FIRMS (CTM2017)
Major Elective — The course helps students to understand how firms meet financial objectives by utilizing financial decision making and to explain financial tools and techniques to help firms maximize value.
Professor — Chang Yong Ham
Prerequisite Subject — None
Semester — Fall Semester
MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING FOR TECHNOLOGY VENTURE FIRMS (CTM2018)
Major Elective — This course introduces fundamentals of managerial accounting including how to navigate the financial and related information managers need to help them make decisions. Students will learn about cost behaviors and cost allocation systems, how to conduct cost-volume-profit analysis, and how to determine whether costs and benefits are relevant to decisions.
Professor — Chang Yong Ham
Prerequisite Subject — Financial Accounting
Semester — Fall Semester
BUSINESS MODELS IN CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY (CTM3001)
Major Elective — This course helps students understand various types of business models based on the use of information technology. They also learn how to analyze and design business models by learning components, linkages, dynamics, and evaluation.
Professor — Hee Woong Kim
Prerequisite Subject — None
Semester — Spring Semester
Information Security and Privacy (CTM3006)
Major Elective — This course focuses on information security and privacy issues learning elements of security, privacy and relevant regulations, policies and laws for students to develop better perspective on these issues.
Professor — Beom Soo Kim
Prerequisite Subject — None
Semester — Fall Semester
ECONOMICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION (CTM3013)
Major Elective — This course is designed to provide a working knowledge of economic principles and real world practices on a range of topics pertaining to technology and innovation, applications of economics into the real business decisions, rather than the theory itself.
Professor — Shin Cho
Prerequisite Subject — None
Semester — Spring Semester
TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT (CTM3019)
Major Elective — This course introduces diverse tools and techniques for supporting the strategic management of technology and innovation. Students learn basic concepts of these tools through lectures and case studies, and also train skills and techniques through hands-on activities.
Professor — Jae Yun Ho
Prerequisite Subject — Technovation
Semester — Fall Semester
UNDERGRADUATE DIRECTED STUDY (CTM4001)
Major Elective — The main goal of this course is to develop students’ research ability. A student and a professor in CTM will conduct research together.
Professor — Major Chair
Prerequisite Subject — None
Prerequisite — Filling out the UDS Registration form before the lecture registration period
Semester — Fall Semester
TECHNOLOGY-SERVICE CONVERGENCE MANAGEMENT (CTM4004)
Major Elective — Through this course, students will develop a deep understanding of value creation methods, service management basics, strategic planning, and presentation skills.
Professor — Joosung Lee
Prerequisite Subject — Innovation Management or Technology Management courses
Semester — Fall Semester
Major Elective
(IID & STP Courses)
Major Elective
(Other Courses)
Major Graduation Requirement
DATA VISUALIZATION (IID2017)
Major Elective — In this course, students learn key concepts of data visualization (data types, data structures, data encoding), R as a powerful tool for data analysis, data manipulation, and data visualization. Furthermore, they will also learn visualization of basic data structures, visualization of multivariate data structures and pattern discovery.
Professor — Chae Han So
Prerequisite Subject — None
Semester — Spring Semester
DEEP LEARNING (IID3019)
Major Elective — In this course, students will learn deep learning techniques, tools, and concepts. Through this course, students will understand classical neural network architectures, learn building blocks of statistics and linear algebra to calculate forward propagation and backward propagation in a deep neural network and more.
Professor — Chae Han So
Prerequisite Subject — None
Semester — Spring Semester
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL COMPUTING (IID2019)
Major Elective — This course aims to develop a broad understanding of the characteristics of social software and computational systems, including opportunities and challenges surrounding trending services and technologies.
Professor — Dongwhan Kim
Prerequisite Subject — None
Semester — Fall Semester
MACHINE LEARNING (IID3017)
Major Elective —In this course, students will learn data preprocessing techniques to prepare raw data for machine learning, learn to detect clusters and reduce data dimensionality by unsupervised learning, understand the basic workflow of machine learning and more.
Professor — Chae Han So
Prerequisite Subject — None
Semester — Fall Semester
Science, Technology, Innovation and Policy (STP4001)
Major Elective — Innovation and entrepreneurship have been regarded as sources for economic vitality and growth.This course lectures literature on innovation and entrepreneurship. Also, it reviews policy options for Government from a comparative perspective.
Professor — Sam Youl Lee
Prerequisite Subject — None
Semester — Spring Semester
DIGITAL BUSINESS AND CONSULTING (GSI7357)
Major Elective — This course can be counted as ME only for students who took it before Spring 2020. (Having this course recognized as ME will not be included in the 6 credit limit from the lists below).
[Students admitted before Spring 2020] only up to 2 courses (6 credits)
For students admitted before Spring 2020, up to 2 courses (6 credits) of the following courses can be recognized as ME.
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR (BIZ1102)
Major Elective — Through this course, students can learn basic, but essential knowledge of human behavior in an organization. They will learn the issues of motivation, perception, group dynamics, leadership, diversity, and culture in organizations, not only from a theoretical, academic perspective but also from a practical standpoint.
Semester — Both
mARKETING (BIZ2120)
Major Elective — In this course, students learn marketing terminologies, concepts, and basic theories. They build integrated view of the marketing process and understand what market is and who marketers are while conducting a team project. Students will conduct both quantitative and qualitative analyses on markets.
Semester — Both
* If students took this course when the CTM marketing course was not offered, they can have one more course recognized as ME (up to 3 courses, 9 credits). This only applies to students who took this course before Spring 2020.
PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT (BIZ2121)
Major Elective — This course aims to teach students how to build blocks to effectively communicate in professional business, understand the importance of business ethics and corporate social responsibility in doing business with a global perspective. In addition, students will learn various strategic and tactical decisions in the course of managing business operations inside and outside the firm.
Semester — Both
START UP 303: START UP (BIZ4182)
Major Elective — Through this course, students will cooperate with the business school students on how to run a start up. They will make a team and be taught by successful entrepreneurs. This course aims to increase students' creativeness and communication skills.
Semester — Fall Semester
[Students admitted from Spring 2020] only up to 2 courses (6 credits)
For students admitted from Spring 2020, up to 2 courses (6 credits) of the following courses can be recognized as ME.
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR (BIZ1102)
Major Elective — Through this course, students can learn basic, but essential knowledge of human behavior in an organization. They will learn the issues of motivation, perception, group dynamics, leadership, diversity, and culture in organizations, not only from a theoretical, academic perspective but also from a practical standpoint.
Semester — Both
PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT (BIZ2121)
Major Elective — This course aims to teach students how to build blocks to effectively communicate in professional business, understand the importance of business ethics and corporate social responsibility in doing business with a global perspective. In addition, students will learn various strategic and tactical decisions in the course of managing business operations inside and outside the firm.
Semester — Both
ECONOMETRICS I (ECO3104)
Major Elective — The goal of this course is in introducing popular skills for analyzing economic data. Students will get familiar with the well-known econometric analyses and link this to the knowledge on the numerical outputs generated by standard statistical packages.
Semester — Both
LINEAR ALGEBRA (STA2102)
Major Elective — In this course, students learn the definition of matrix and its calculation. They will also learn Gaussian and Gauss-Jordan Elimination and their characteristics, features of the matrix, and more.
Semester — Both
MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS(1) (STA3126)
Major Elective — This course introduces undergraduate-level mathematical statistics. It covers the concept of probability and distribution, introduction to various distributions and their properties, statistical inferences, and large sample theory.
Semester — Both
DATA MINING (STA4103)
Major Elective — Through this course, students will learn the process of data mining. In addition, they will understand the concept of machine learning and its adaption. They will increase their actual data analyzing abilities.
Semester — Spring Semester
1. Transfer students admitted to sophomore year must earn 3 Passes. Transfer students admitted to junior year must earn 2 Passes.
2. Students admitted in 2009-2015 should take 2 courses (6 credits) from Language and Arts courses of UIC or Non-UIC foreign language courses(including both elective and major courses).
Students admitted in 2016-2019 should take 1 course from Language & Arts courses in UIC or 1 course from Non-UIC language courses.
Students admitted in 2012-2015, and 2019-2020 may get an exemption for language course(s) according to UIC language requirement exemption regulations. Those students who get exempted, or only have to fulfill partial requirements do not earn extra credits and should take other courses in place of language courses.
3. 2013 TAD students may take "Introduction to Statistics" or "Calculus and Vector Analysis" instead of "Research Design and Quantitative Methods". 4. Select 2 categories out of 3 categories.
5. Taking both "Creative Technology Business Case Study" and "Senior Project" can be substituted with "Techno-Art Capstone Project".
Additional Important Information
1. Students cannot take two classes in the same language during the same semester. Class instructors will determine the appropriate language level for students based on placement exams and interviews.
2. Major credits will be reduced to 36 if a student completes a double major (see next page for more details for double majors).
3. General transfer students get an exemption for Holistic Education and Yonsei RC101 courses.
4. 2012 Transfer students should follow 2013 graduation requirements.
5. Up to 2 courses (6 credits) from other majors listed on the UIC website can be counted as ME.
6. Leadership Seminars in Techno-Art Entrepreneurship will now be counted as ME and this change will be applied to all CTM students admitted from 2012 and thereafter.
7. Social Innovator Certificate Program courses listed on the UIC website can be counted as ME.
Double Major Graduation Requirement
1. Only UIC students can apply for a double major within UIC major offerings.
2. For common curriculum requirements, students having a double (2nd) major should follow the CC requirements of their 1st major.
3. Up to 2 courses (6 credits) from other majors listed on the UIC website can be counted as ME.
4. Social Innovator Certificate Program courses listed on the UIC website can be counted as ME.
Graduation Requirements for Transfer Students with a Bachelor’s Degree
1. Transfer students with a bachelor's Degree are required to take 2 semesters of Chapel.
2. Up to 2 courses (6 credits) from other majors listed on the UIC website can be counted as ME.
3. Leadership Seminars in Techno-Art Entrepreneurship will now be counted as ME and this change will be applied to all CTM students admitted from 2012 and thereafter.
4. Social Innovator Certificate Program courses listed on the UIC website can be counted as ME.
Minor Graduation Requirement
1. Only UIC students can apply for a minor within UIC major offerings.
2. Up to 2 courses (6 credits) from other majors listed on the UIC website can be counted as ME.
3. Social Innovator Certificate Program courses listed on the UIC website can be counted as ME.
CTM's Major-exclusive Programs
Bachelor's & Master's Accelerated Degree Program
The Graduate School of Information (GSI, https://gsi.yonsei.ac.kr/) at Yonsei University offers a master's course for CTM students to obtain Bachelor's and Master's degrees in 5 years.
Undergraduate Directed Study
Undergraduate Directed Study (UDS) is a one-semester internship program (3 credits) which offers an opportunity for students to study within selected professors' laboratory. This program is powered by the Graduate School of Information.
Yonsei Center for Social Innovation
https://uic.yonsei.ac.kr/ycsi/
Funded by University for Creative Korea, the Social Impact Initiative for Global Creative Talent aims to foster social innovators by providing diverse curricular and extra-curricular programs within Underwood International College, Yonsei University's Techno-Art Division and Integrated Social Sciences Division. These two divisions were selected by the government in 2016 to be recipients of social innovation grants. Due to the Yonsei Center for Social Innovation's usage of government funds, programs and initiatives are restricted to the two above-mentioned divisions. However, students who double-major in any major within these two divisions would be allowed to participate in our initiatives and programs!
The Social Impact Initiative for Global Creative Talent comprises of the following entities:
Yonsei Center for Social Innovation
Design Factory Korea
Institute for Global Sustainability
Design Factory Korea
Design Factory Korea (DFK, http://dfk.yonsei.ac.kr/) is an educational platform housed at the Yonsei University’s International Campus in Incheon, South Korea. It is part of the Design Factory Global Network (DFGN) – an innovative and interdisciplinary network creating collaboration between the similar-minded people, projects and platforms. DFGN holds regular meetings to share the experiences, and to discuss and research educational methods in engineering, business and design for the new era. Design Factory concept originates from Aalto University in Finland and the idea is currently brought to 5 countries (Finland, Australia, Switzerland, Chile and China) and DFK joins the network as the 6th member.
