For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EAS5211 | Advanced Studies of Sexuality and Cultural Transformation of Modern East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The goal of this course is to learn how to analyze modern East Asian societies through history of sexuality. History of sexuality that examines not only sexual desire and intercourse but also related values, regulations, and systems as a whole is a main methodological and analytical concept by which to make an analysis for contemporary East Asian society. This course will also explore prospective methodologies and viewpoints by examining previous theoretical approaches. | |||||||||
| EAS5212 | Graduate Seminar: History of Modern and Contemporary East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The goal of this course is to examine historical events and topics of great significance from the end of World War Two to the twenty first century in modern East Asian history. In particular, historical events as well as East Asian interrelations - for instance, the Korean War and the division of the Korean Peninsula - may be the main topics for this course. | |||||||||
| EAS5214 | Gender and East Asian Women | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The goal of this course is to examine how gender or femininity was represented in modern East Asian culture and what social, historical, and intellectual contexts it contained. Moreover, this course will take into account women's self-representation and its shifting modes by examining some historical events. | |||||||||
| EAS5215 | Theories and Culture of Representation in East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| "Representation," which has appeared at the end of the 20th century as a methodological tool for cultural studies and has a meaning of what is expressed through language, sign, and human behavior, is a broad concept applicable to literature and art in general. We will study the structure of representations of social and cultural phenomena in East Asia during the modern period. | |||||||||
| EAS5216 | World Literature and East Asian Literary Culture | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course aims at exploring how "world literature" mostly consisting of western classics has been adopted and circulated in East Asia. Through this course, students will understand how "the world system of liberal arts" or a globalization of modern culture is structured in East Asian literature and culture. Moreover, students will explore the cultural ideology linked with historical moments between colonial and postcolonial, between the cold-war and the post cold-war period. | |||||||||
| EAS5219 | Seminar on East Asian Democracy | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course aims at conceptualization on what democracy is in East Asian context. Based upon in-depth study on the West-oriented concept of democracy and its introduction to East Asia, we discuss its validity, which would decide whether East Asian democracy exist or not, and if so, how we define it. | |||||||||
| EAS5220 | Depth Research for theories of political system in East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | English | Yes | |
| This lecture approaches the changes in political system that have occurred in East Asian countries since 'The Shock of the West', in terms of entangling of tradition and modernization (especially of liberalism and democracy). In addition, it aims to analyze the appearance of this entangling to view it as the formation of political identities for modern East Asian countries. | |||||||||
| EAS5223 | Special Lecture on social history of division and unification | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This lecture analyzes what kind of society the division of Korea that occurred with the end of World War II has constructed and what kind of structural and cultural interaction it has brought to each societies. Based on this, it also aims to predict the vision and problems that may appear in the process of the Unification which is a political as well as social. | |||||||||
| EAS5228 | Seminar on East Asian Security | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course aims at the prospects and limits of the East Asian security cooperation system, focusing on the topics such as politics, economy, bilateral alliance, disarmament. | |||||||||
| EAS5231 | History of Eastern Aesthetics | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| As examining how the three religions (Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism) impacted on building East Aesthetics, students learn the historical change of East Aesthetics. | |||||||||
| EAS5232 | Special Lecture of the Culture of Taoism in East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| As investigating the characteristics of the culture of Taoism in the three countries such as Korea, China, and Japan, students examine the relationship among these countries and the aspect of that relationship. | |||||||||
| EAS5233 | The History of the Cold War in East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Even though we say that our world entered into the Post Cold War Era in the late 20thcentury, it is said that the Post Cold War Era has not arrived yet in East Asia. Korean war seems to be the origin of the tension of the cold-war that is still in East Asia. Therefore, the goals of this course are as follows. Firstly, as examining how each area in East Asia was related to Korean war, students learn the origin of the cold-war in East Asia. Secondly, as investigating how to form and exchange the post-colonialism/the thought of the cold war in each area of East Asia, students figure out what the universality and the regionality of the cold-war means in East Asia. | |||||||||
| EAS5234 | Nationalism and Gender in East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| It is common that the modern nationalism in each county in East Asia that experienced the colonization and the late modernization greatly concerned with the women’s problems. The nationalism in each country was developed various ways depending on the regionality and it caused the difference of strategy when trying to overcome the women’s problems. Furthermore, this difference succeeds the difference of the project of the modernization. In this course, students examine how post-colonialism impacted the women’s problem in East Asia and find the historical and theoretical lesson from this examination in order to overcome the tension between the feminism and the nationalism. | |||||||||
| EAS5235 | The Cultural Movement in the Modern China and East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Recently, Chinese ‘Kulki’ is received attention a lot across the world. As China had held a unique position to play a significant role in the time of the post colonialism and the cold war since the mid-twentieth century, Chinese ‘Kulki’ should be understood based on the historical background. In this course, as examining the cultural projects/movements conducted in the 20th century in China such as “5.4 new cultural movement”, “the popularizing movement of art”, “patriotic movement of new China”, “the Cultural Revolution”, “the movement of liberating thoughts”, students learn which kind of political and cultural issue has been raised by Chinese ‘Kulki’ in East Asia including China itself. | |||||||||
| EAS5236 | Socio-Economic History in Modern East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| In the historial perspectives, this course analyses the changing process of modern socio-economy in East Asia centered around Korea, China, and Japan. This course covers the colonial problems of the modern transition period with the imperialistic problems of Western Europe in the context of socio-economic history. | |||||||||