Courses

This course will help students understand how creative technologies are brought to a real market. It focuses on core topics in innovation supposing a business environment. The course will further introduce how different technological firms innovate on the adoption of advanced and emerging technologies.

Professor — Jae-Yun Ho

Prerequisite — Introduction to Management [CTM1001], IT Foundation [CTM1002], Information Systems Management [CTM 2002] (Preferred) 

Semester — Both

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 — Sehwan Yoo, Keeheon Lee

Prerequisite — None

Semester — Both

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 — Introduction to Managment [CTM1001]

Semester — Fall Semester

This class applies management point of view to the UX design and IT service by combining theoretical and practial aspects of UX design and strategic management.

Professor — Changhoon Oh

Prerequisite —  None

Semester — Spring Semester

This course covers essential skills to secure investment for their ventures. It covers topics such as understanding financial statements, analyzing business feasibility of startup ideas, and effectively presenting innovative ideas and business plans. The course aims to provide students with the necessary knowledge and competencies to attract investment for their entrepreneurial endeavors.

Professor — Joosung Lee

Prerequisite —  None

Semester — Fall Semester

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 —  None

Semester — Spring Semester

This course offers an in-depth exploration of social network analysis (SNA), a methodological framework that leverages network and graph theories to examine social structures. Through interactive discussions, group projects, and practical exercises, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental concepts, techniques, and real-world applications of SNA across diverse fields.

Professor — Keeheon Lee

Prerequisite — Computer Programming and Literacy [CTM1004], Movie “The Social Network”

Semester — Fall Semester

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 — Juyeon Song

Prerequisite — Introduction to Management [CTM1001]

Semester — Fall Semester

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 — None

Semester — Spring Semester

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 — Juyeon Song

Prerequisite — None

Semester — Spring Semester

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 — Daechang Lee

Prerequisite — None

Semester — Spring Semester

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 — Juyeon Song

Prerequisite — Financial Accounting for Technology Venture Firms [CTM2015]

Semester — Fall Semester

The goal of this course is to provide students with the opportunity to gain expertise in the humanities, social sciences and the arts, as well as a background in science and technology. Students will explore culture, history and art from traditional to contemporary, seeking the possibilities of creative scientific research and applications. 

Professor — Saebyul Park

Prerequisite — None

Semester — Spring Semester

This course introduces the core fundamentals of effective project management to enable you to initiate a project and manage its scope. The course establishes the foundations for creating a comprehensive project plan, including the work breakdown structure (WBS), schedule, budget, and communication plan. Additionally, it addresses the management of resources, risks, and project quality.

Professor — Juyeon Song

Prerequisite — None

Semester — Spring Semester

This advanced course explores the digital economy and formulation of digital business strategies. It aims to understand human-company dynamics in digital markets, design and regulation of digital markets, and leveraging digital resources for strategic value creation. Using a combination of theory and empirics, the course covers topics like network effects, two-sided markets, search, reputation systems, and data utilization. It also examines specific digital markets such as search engines, e-commerce, and media.

Professor — Daechang Lee

Prerequisite — Introductory courses of Economics or Management

Semester — Fall Semester

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 — Jae-Yun Ho

Prerequisite — Technovation: Technology and Innovation Management [CTM3015]

Semester — Fall Semester

This course provides a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental concepts and practices in service management. It covers the key aspects of service design, service operation, and the application of service management principles across various industries, including IT, healthcare, transportation, finance, and public services. The course also explores the use of management science and IT tools in designing and developing effective service systems.

Professor — Young Hoon Lee

Prerequisite — None

Semester — Fall Semester

This course introduces a variety of tools and techniques that can be used to manage technology and innovation strategically. The course will cover the fundamental concepts of these tools through lectures and case studies. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to develop practical skills and techniques by actively engaging in hands-on, interactive activities that involve the use of the tools.

Professor — Jae-Yun Ho

Prerequisite — Technovation: Technology and Innovation Management [CTM3015]

Semester — Fall Semester

This course provides an in-depth study of the core concepts of network science, with a particular emphasis on their applications in the creative industry. Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental principles of network science, as well as the techniques of machine learning with graphs. This knowledge will enable them to analyze, model, and extract valuable insights from the intricate networks within creative contexts.

Professor — Keeheon Lee

Prerequisite — None

Semester — Fall Semester

This course introduces OR/MS tools that help CTM students make a better decision. It covers linear programming, network analysis, integer programming, nonlinear optimization, decision analysis, heuristics and meta-heuristics. 

Professor — Young Hoon Lee

Prerequisite — IT Foundation [CTM1002], Computer Programming and Literacy [CTM1004]

Semester — Spring Semester

This course provides an overview of the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) research. It explores how different types of music information can be used in various applications, such as music discovery, analysis, interactive performance, and visualization. The course will particularly focus on applying natural language processing techniques to music analysis. The primary objective of this class is to introduce the key topics and tasks in MIR, and to enable students to conduct their own academic research in this field.

Professor — Saebyul Park

Prerequisite — None

Semester — Fall Semester

This course is designed to provide students with the fundamental knowledge, techniques, and practical skills required to navigate the global marketing landscape. It focuses on helping students analyze the global marketing environment, formulate and implement effective international marketing strategies, and coordinate marketing programs in the international marketplace. A key emphasis of the course is on the concepts of standardization versus adaptation in the context of global marketing strategies.

Professor — Eujin Park

Prerequisite — Introduction to Management [CTM1001]

Semester — Spring Semester

This course aims to give students a deep understanding of human resource management (HRM) principles and their application within technology-driven businesses. It explores various HRM aspects in the context of the tech industry, such as talent acquisition, employee development, and HR strategies for innovation-driven organizations.

Professor — Daechang Lee

Prerequisite — None

Semester — Spring Semester

This course allows students to conduct independent research on a topic that is mutually agreed upon by the student and a faculty member who has agreed to serve as the student's advisor. Enrollment in this course is limited to students who have received prior approval to register.

Professor — Jae-Yun Ho

Prerequisite — Filling out the UDS Registration form before the lecture registration period

Semester — Fall Semester

This course focuses on developing conceptual and formal communication systems, with a particular emphasis on the use of visual elements and cultural studies. It also aims to help students acquire the ability to parse complexity and gain a deeper understanding of culture, enabling them to design within human contexts. The course will continue to develop the technical proficiencies required to produce professional-quality comps across various formats building on work from Design Thinking.

Professor — Hyun-Kyung Lee, Bokyung Lee

Prerequisite — None

Semester — Spring Semester

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 — Jean Young Song, Dongwhan Kim

Prerequisite — None

Semester — Fall Semester

This course aims to understand basic financial theory and practices and develop the big picture of managerial finance so that you can understand how things fit together. It also aims to strengthen your skills in analyzing financial problems, identifying the issues, and making financial decision.

Professor — Bong-Geun Choi

Prerequisite — None

Semester — Fall Semester

Students will examine our current world as well as look into the future for inspiration. The students will participate in group exercises for ideation; receive feedback from individuals outside the academic sphere; explore technologies that will help them reach their goal; and use these experiences to produce a real world solution. 

Professor — Holoubek Todd Verne

Prerequisite — None

Semester — Both

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 — None

Semester — Spring Semester

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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