For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EAS5157 | International Cooperation in East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The objective of this course is to understand the establishment and policy directions of international organizations designed to promote economic cooperation and development, such as the ODA (Official Development Assistance), and explore international relations in East Asia. A variety of topics, including concerted efforts by different nations to address the problem of poverty, effective international cooperation through multi-level ODA, and international efforts to enhance East Asia's welfare and credit-worthiness, will be examined through a wide array of existing research and debate. A thorough knowledge of international cooperation will serve as the basis of achieving a balanced understanding of Korea's place in the international order and of East Asian international relations more generally. | |||||||||
| EAS5158 | Politics and Thought in Modern and Contemporary East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| Politics and thought in modern and contemporary East Asia developed through so many transformations of traditional systems. In this process, the importation of Western ideas played a crucial role. The course will analyze and seek to illuminate political culture in East Asia, beginning with the history of how various philosophies and ways of thinking originating in the West found their new homes across the ocean. | |||||||||
| EAS5161 | Rise of Modern Literature in East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Modern literature in East Asia was born and developed under common circumstances of the decline of centrality of classical Chinese literature and emergence of indigenous national literature, thus sharing a range of features in common. Nevertheless, each nation's literature shows many unique and colorful features thank to particular historical conditions, predilections of mass for literature, manners of impact by Western literature, and writers' personal intellectual experiences of respective country. This course explores both commonality and particularity in modern East Asian literature as a way to identify both shared and unique features in its modern transformation. | |||||||||
| EAS5165 | Practicing Privacte Diaries of East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Private diaries appeared in the same period throughout the pre-modern East Asian societies using Chinese writing system. By reading these diaries, this course examines the variety of structures of knowledge and culture in Koreaand other East Asian countries. Emphasis will be primarily placed on the Korean private diaries in the late Chos?n period, but we go further to compare them to Chinese diaries in the Ming-Qing period and Japanese in the Tokugawa period. | |||||||||
| EAS5166 | Structure of Japanese Local Society and Local Administration | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course examines the transformation of individual local places in Japan and analyzes the localities of each place. In order to understand various changes and problems in contemporary Japan, close attention will be paid to widening gaps between urban and rural societies, plan for a wider area, changes in residence and settlement, globalization and foreign workers. We go further to examine the relationship of city to social development, self-government in local areas, changes in local societies, transformation of social education, family sociology, Korean community in Japan, and discuss East Asian societies in a comparative perspective. | |||||||||
| EAS5167 | Neo-Confucianism and East Asian Traditional Thought | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Neo-Confucianism offers a reinterpretation of traditional Confucianism by encompassing the ideologies of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. As a comprehensive inquiry into traditional East Asian philosophies, Neo-Confucianism has enjoyed great influence within the East Asian cultural context and remains indispensable to the study of East Asian Traditional Thought. The study of Neo-Confucianism and East Asian Traditional Thought occurs on two levels: Firstly, to examine the commonalities of Neo-Confucianism so as to determine the essence of East Asian Traditional Thought, and secondly, to find other possible inquiries into East Asian Studies on these grounds. | |||||||||
| EAS5170 | From High-Art to Pop-culture: the post-New Era literary scene | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| By performing close readings of selected texts by key contemporary authors in the PRC, this course aims to track and examine the tumultuous changes wrought on the literary scene by the advent of market reforms in the aftermath of the New Era 新时期. | |||||||||
| EAS5171 | Pop Goes Tradition: the cultural reinvention of the past in today’s China | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| By examining a selection of popular forms of cultural production, e.g.: films, visual art, martial arts stories and comics, this course will investigate the multitude of means by which Chinese history is creatively, and not always fideliously, reinvented and used to serve present-day concerns. | |||||||||
| EAS5172 | East Asian Popular Culture During the Early Modern Period | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The purpose of this course is to examine the process of "modernization" in East Asia from the perspective of popular culture. Transition to modernity was not a process of lineal and homogeneous development but that of complicated conflict and competition among various sectors. The populace, while being regulated by the governing power or the ruling ideology, managed to form its own independent culture in their everyday life. Therefore, they took a different stance from that of the elite during the transition period toward modernity. | |||||||||
| EAS5174 | East Asian Thought in the Antiquity | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course is designed as a survey of the ancient Chinese philosophy approximately from 551 to 221 B.C.E. (i.e. from the birth of Kongzi (Confucius), the first major thinker and teacher in ancient Chinese philosophy, to the unification of China under the Qin dynasty). Primarily we will move from one thinker to the next in a rough chronological order, ultimately covering the eight major thinkers in ancient China: Kongzi (Confucius), Mozi, Yang Zhu, Mengzi (Mencius), Laozi (the putative author of the Daodejing), Zhuangzi, Xunzi, and Han Feizi. However, these thinkers had been traditionally classified into four major “schools” of Chinese philosophy, viz. Confucian, Mohist, Daoist, and Legalist schools, and developed their views in response to the previous thinkers as well as their contemporary rivals. So, our investigation of their ideas will also be a rigorous examination of the dialectical disputes among these “schools.” | |||||||||
| EAS5175 | Comparative Philosophy | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course examines the ancient Chinese Confucian tradition (focusing on the thought of Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi) from the perspective of virtue ethics. Virtue ethics, which includes as its main components 1) the flourishing or happy life, 2) virtues as an indispensable condition for the happy life, 3) self-cultivation as a means to achieve virtues, and 4) discourses on human nature as a precondition for proper moral self-cultivation, has been considered as a possible alternative to the "problematic" consequentialist and deontological moral theories in the West. In this course, we will examine the recent trend in Anglo-American scholarship that considers ancient Chinese Confucianism as an important and promising version of virtue ethics. | |||||||||
| EAS5176 | Philosophies and Eudaemonics of East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| In East Asia confucianism, buddhism and taoism define the pursuit of happiness as the highest goodness. A wise man in Confucianism, a buddha in Buddhism and a true man in Taoism obtain happiness without anguished states by facing or transcending worldly sufferings. Accordingly, this class intends to focus the figure of happy human beings who is inherent in these three biggest philosophies. we all have painful aspects of life irrespective of men and women of all ages, rich and poor, high and low. hopefully this class will suggest some solutions in a way to our contemporaries. | |||||||||
| EAS5177 | Confucianism and Art | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The course examines various aspects of Confucianism in the Asian art and culture from China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Ranging from pre-modern fine art, music, rituals and architecture to contemporary culture (film, drama, and etc.), we will trace the transformations of Confucian values in Asian arts. Social and political perspectives will be employed to analyze the invisible but influential Confucian powers in cultures: how artists have interacted and cultivated their own culture under the Confucianism, and how those cultures have been redefined with their own nationalistic agendas. Also this course includes the on-site programs to attend Munmyo ritual at Sungkyunkwan during the course. | |||||||||
| EAS5178 | Visual Art and Culture of East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| The course examines various aspects of cross-cultural visual arts from China, Korea, and Japan. Ranging from pre-modern paintings, calligraphy, sculpture, craft arts, and architecture to contemporary art including media art, we will interpret the various visual arts through Aesthetics and art theories. Aesthetics and art theories will be employed to analyze the visual arts : how the spirit of era in Asia has interacted with visual arts. Also this course includes the on-site programs to visit museums during the course. | |||||||||
| EAS5179 | Compatative Studies of Korean and Japanese Culture | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The course examines the comparative aspects of Korean and Japanese art and culture. Ranging from pre-modern art, tea ceremony, and architecture to modern and contemporary culture (film, manhua/manga, animation, etc.), we will trace the how Korea and Japan to share the East Asian Aesthetics and at the same time how to develop their own Aesthetics. Aesthetical perspectives will be employed to analyze the Korean and Japanese values in cultures: how culture-provider-artists and culture-consumer-patrons in that region have interacted and formulated their own culture, and how those cultures have been redefined with their own nationalistic agendas. | |||||||||