For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EAS5044 | Reading of Classical texts of East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The researchof East Asian studies requires basic understanding of the worldview of East Asia in the Classical periods that forms the cultural foundation of East Asia and the knowledge of Classical Chinese with which the East Asian thoughts are expressed. In this course, students selectively read early East Asian texts to enhance both understandings of the world of thoughts of East Asia and classical Chinese language. | |||||||||
| EAS5045 | Preliminary Studies on Confucian Canon | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The research of East Asian studies requires the basic understanding of the world view of Confucianism that forms the cultural foundation of East Asia and the knowledge of Chinese letters with which the Confucian thoughts are expressed. In this course, students will read basic Confucian cannons including the Four Books (The Analects of Confucius, Mencius, The Book of the Golden Mean, Great Learning) in order to learn Chinese letters and basic better understand the thoughts of Confucianism. | |||||||||
| EAS5047 | Korean Studies in the West | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course will offer a glimpse of various academic activities related to the researches of Korean studies overseas that have been at the center of East Asian studies. The study of Korean studies abroad, especially in the West, since the modern times best represents the perspective of the West toward Korea. Students can get a rare chance to make a research of the history of Orientalism based on the history and the academic accomplishments of Korean studies, thereby diagnosing and forecasting the course of Korean culture. | |||||||||
| EAS5103 | East Asian Studies Overseas | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The rise of East Asia as a center of the world politics and economy coincides with the growth of East Asian studies. This course reviews the achievements in East Asian studies through major scholarly works from Japan, China, Europe, and the United States, and also examines perspectives applied to these achievements. | |||||||||
| EAS5104 | Modern Korean Literature: Theories and Methods | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course aims at generating innovative new approaches toward the study of modern Korean literature. While textual hermeneutics has represented the mainstream methodology employed in literary studies in Korea, a strong recent trend has been to consider literature as one aspect of the larger terrain that comprises cultural studies. This new climate has given rise to an urgent need to adopt a concrete as well as comprehensive approach toward understanding the cultural-historical character of modern Korean literature. This course will explore the question of literary homology across the geographical region and investigate the uniqueness of modern Korean literature from the larger perspective that encompasses entire East Asia. | |||||||||
| EAS5106 | Survey Methods for East Asian Societies | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course focuses on developing scientific attitude in surveying population, classes, public opinions, and economic activities of East Asian countries. The course aims to secure survey methods conducive to objective results for the issues to be examined under a consideration of commonality and particularity of each country. | |||||||||
| EAS5107 | Intellectual Culture in Traditional East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The human knowledge has not been established without the involvement of power relations, forms of discourse, classes, gender, and regional conditions. Besides, the sphere of knowledge embraces not only scholarly knowledge circulated within institutionalized academia, but also common knowledge, common sense, hobbies, and information circulated in everyday life. Theses everyday forms of knowledge constitute sub-structure of the human knowledge, and maintains close relations with ideologies of concerned societies. This course examines the formation of social conditions and intellectual culture in traditional East Asia through its cultural dynamism. | |||||||||
| EAS5111 | Family, Marriage, and Women in East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Confucianism in East Asia has been believed to help reproduce oppressive social institutions against women, supported by patriarchal family system and a Confucian moral ethic of filial piety. This course conducts a practical study how to envision a new standing of family and women in modern society through examining tradition women and family in East Asian societies. | |||||||||
| EAS5114 | Internationa Relations of Traditional China | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course surveys dynamism of war and peace represented in Chinese histories from ancient through early modern times. In light of modern international politics, the course evaluates historical significance of traditional international relations formed through continued strifes and cooperations between dynasties. | |||||||||
| EAS5115 | History of International Relations in Traditional East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course surveys traditional international relations in East Asia until the nineteenth century in light of nation-building and contacts with the West. The course aims to understand traditional East Asian international order, and then its transformation amid subsequent contacts with Western imperialism. | |||||||||
| EAS5120 | Literary Exchanges between Korea and China in Pre-modern and Modern Times | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Korean classical literature was much indebted from exchanges with Chinese literature. Adopting methods of comparative literature, this course examines literary exchanges between two countries in both pre-modern and modern times as reflected in Korean classical Chinese literature and classical novels. | |||||||||
| EAS5121 | Modern Media and Culture | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| One of the most important social institutions in the creation of modern culture was media. Despite its central role, media remains an understudied subject, one that has not yet been treated to rich, many-sided analyses. The aim of this course is to examine how media functioned in modern East Asian society as a central apparatus enabling the flow of knowledge, transmission of thought and expansion of cultural forms, thereby creating a shared cultural topography in East Asian experiences of modernity. | |||||||||
| EAS5123 | Cultural Discourse on Modern Korean Society | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| Cultural approach to modern Korean society is a most recent method to understand it. Here, the notion of culture combines in a holistic way not only life patterns based on customs, values, institutions, and traditions, but also control and integration mechanisms in society such as ideologies concerned with mass culture, symbol systems, formats for communications. The recent scholarly interest in modern culture is to extend and deepen the study of modernity started from the 1990s. The objects of such cultural study range wide, such as publications, schools, modern readers, mass media, means of transportation, sex, body, diseases, romantic love, housings, clothes, advertisements, crimes, and public sanitary. This course aims to provide effective materials and insights to reconstruct comtemporary Korean society as what it was. In addition, the course aims to reconstruct cultural communications and exchanges in East Asia by studying cultural characteristics in trends and imitations. | |||||||||
| EAS5126 | Social History of Modern Culture | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Social analysis has traditionally focused on politics and economy. Recently, however, there has been a gradual increase in awareness regarding the importance of querying the relationship between cultural phenomena and social structures. The objective of this course is to analyze concrete cultural expressions arising from major events in modern East Asian social history, which includes colonial domination, modern religions, socialism, and war, and trace their significance in comparative contexts. | |||||||||
| EAS5127 | Population Changes in Early Modern East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course aims to understand population changes in East Asian regions in terms of ethnic composition and geographical distribution, and to understand impacts of such changes on politics, economies, and societies in East Asia. | |||||||||