For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EAS5180 | Modern and Contemporary Economic and Social History of the Two Koreas | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| After the political divisionof the Korean peninsula in the aftermaths of WWI, North Korea and South Korea were merely regarded as Third World nations. Both Koreas underwent massive economic and social transformations within a few decades during the Cold War. However, in this day and age, North Korea remainsone of the poorest nations in the world, largely characterizedby lack of economic growth and famine, whereas South Korea is a high-tech nation par excellence and being ranked as the 12th largest economy in the world in the 2000s. This class provides a comparative analysis of the economic strategies of the Two Koreas during the Cold War as well as after the disintegration of the Eastern Bloc. The class also pays special attention to the social consequences of authoritarian power in both Koreas. The latter portion of this class will compare the two Koreas with the two Germanys, with a focus on the decline of the North Korean and East German economy in the 20th century. | |||||||||
| EAS5181 | Classical Studies in East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| This course aims to learn the history of interpretations of East Asian classics, such as Confucian canons in order to establish East Asian Classical Studies as a unit of history and meaningful life that contributes to the cultural heritage and future of mankind. | |||||||||
| EAS5183 | Gender Studies in East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The goal of this course is to establish East Asian gender studies as a historically significant scholarly unit by examining a history of gender studies in East Asia and exploring East Asian women's social and historical experiences. In this course, students attempt to practice basic methodologies for East Asian gender studies. | |||||||||
| EAS5184 | The method of dissertation composition for the study of East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This research will perform the practical exercise and criticism on methods to examine the research outcomes of domestic and international study of East Asia based on graduate students' interested topics and on methods to set up the topic and methodology. Furthermore, students will have thorough knowledge of basic refinement for academic dissertation composition. Then, based on this, they will acquire research ethics when writing academic research papers and dissertations in Korean or in foreign language. | |||||||||
| EAS5188 | Cultural History of East Asian Literature | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| This course is designed to examine the formation of dominant narrative forms and expressions in various literary and cultural texts and historical disourses events in East Asia including Korea, China and Japan. Various topics, such as the establishnent of dominant literary and cultural forms and the "same but different" literary, cultural representation and forms of memories concerning common historical experiences will be examined | |||||||||
| EAS5189 | Advanced Studies of East Asian Narrative Modes | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| "Narrative" is a mode signifying time and experiences. To explore a common narrative mode leads to understanding of the formation and transformation of history and culture. This course aims at exploring the East Asian narrative mode and its historical transformation. | |||||||||
| EAS5192 | Advanced Study on East Asian Classics | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course aims to cultivate the capacities for examining classical texts in terms of their nature or type, locations, and history of interpretations and for rearranging and reconstructing them appropriately in the light of the demand of the time. Although our main focus will be on the texts recorded in classical Chinese, our study can also include the formation of texts in other languages and their relations with each other. | |||||||||
| EAS5195 | International Relations in Japanese History | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The goal of this course is to examine how Japan was shaped as a state through international relationships with China and Korea and to understand cultural characteristics of Japanese society. Also, this course aims at improving the historical understanding of premodern East Asia as well as Japan by examining the aspect that Japan's changing political tendencies shaped East Asian international relationships. | |||||||||
| EAS5197 | Graduate Seminar: East Asian Maritime Networks | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The goal of this course is to shed light on the commonality of East Asia and its cultural and historical foundation shaped by East Asian maritime networks from the senventeenth century on. In this course, students will attempt to reconstruct East Asian maritime networks and the sociocultural impacts by examining related historical materials such as travelogues and reinterpreting them through substantial approaches. | |||||||||
| EAS5201 | International Trade in Traditional East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| In traditional East Asia, there had been lively international trade activities going on from long before the "Western impact" of the 19th century. We will try to reconstruct the historical picture of the East Asia in this period by understanding the actual state of affairs of these activities and their meaning. | |||||||||
| EAS5202 | Popular Movements and Political Culture in Premodern East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| "Political culture" means cultural norms and values by which political thoughts and activities shared by both the dominant and the dominated classes are defined. The people could not free themselves from the dominant ideology and system, while they formed a popular culture based on their own lifestyle. Therefore, this course attempts to explore premodern East Asian history as a whole by shedding light on popular movements from the perspective of political culture. | |||||||||
| EAS5203 | Law, Culture, and History of East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The goal of this course is to explore interactions and conflicts between premodern and modern, between East and West by focusing on the East Asian law system. This course will facilitate a postmodern interest in microhistory of East Asia, in particular, by examining the legal system as a whole including crime, punishment, and lawsuit, its popular perception. | |||||||||
| EAS5205 | East Asian Thought and Conceptual History | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| This course will trace the history of East Asian thought through an examination of conceptual history. In that conceptual history that explores the interrelations of language and history needs the transactional view of crossing region, nation and history of an era and realizes the contemporaneity of the uncontemporary of our language life, this course helps to understand the continue and change of East Asian thought. | |||||||||
| EAS5207 | Comparative Depth Research of modernization in East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course will help students to conduct any research on how the countries of East Asia are different from the West in the aspect of process and speed as they have started from the 'traditional' society and have experienced the process of 'modernization' as well as the political and social 'development.' Students will also study the common things and difference across the countries. | |||||||||
| EAS5208 | Modern Historiography and Modernity | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Modern historiography has brought a epoch-making perspective in understanding East Asian culture and history. This course attempts a critical inquiry on the role of modern historiography in understanding East Asian modernity through the study of modern historiography in general. | |||||||||