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| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
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| EAS5238 | Sociology of Art in the Late Joseon Dynasty | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The painting world during the 18th and 19th centuries is to study from an artistic and sociological angle. The art of an era is produced and nostalgic by associating with politics, economic conditions, social structure, international relations, and governance logic. We will consider various examples of how this influenced the formation and changes of painters, paintings, and painters in the late Joseon Dynasty and the patterns and principles of such influences. | |||||||||
| EAS5239 | Historical Interpretation of Analects | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| Gong-mun is a combination of Confucius and his disciples to improve the chaotic political situation at the end of the Warring States period. The data that documented how they were formed, how they presented ideals, and what activities they had been doing is called ‘Analects’. ‘Analects’ is basically a political philosophy book and a guide to moral ethics for hypocrites. Therefore, in order to understand Confucius, ‘Analects’, an internal approach is needed that takes account of the circumstances at the time. By reconstructing the Confucius era through the research methods of hypertrophy and literature archaeology, we are trying to gain a new understanding of the Analects. | |||||||||
| EAS5240 | Symbols in East Asian Culture and Art | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| East Asia's culture and art is basically a structure of figurative imagery. The literary classes were responsible for directly building, maintaining and consuming cultural arts in East Asia, where they came up with symbols to present and realize their ideas and tastes in the art. Symbols in institutions, rituals, literature, and painting were the key instruments of building their own inner circle, supporting their own order and maintaining their exclusive status. Understanding the patterns and principles of symbols in the culture and arts of Korea, China and Japan will be a very important source of insight to grasp true character of the modern history of East Asia. | |||||||||
| EAS5241 | Cultural Politics of Memory in East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Nation power intervenes in social memory in any way in the past, and that desire is affecting our lives today. All of the positive memories of Olympics, economic growth and globalization, including collective, public, historical memories of tragedy such as war, genocide, and forced mobilization, have all governed the direction of our lives, and are not free of such memories. In this lesson, we take a critical look at the cultural politics of memories that have been anchored, territorialized, excluded, and shrouded. And analyze the complex factors that work with such a story of memories. | |||||||||
| EAS5242 | Seminar on Contemporary Japanese Social and Cultural History | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Our perspectives on Japan have formed by historical relations between Korea and Japan in Japanese colonial period. But, to understand why present Japan spreads and stabilizes distorted historical perspective, we need to understand some parts related political, economical, social, and cultural history of Japan after defeat in World War 2. In this class, we examine the history of modern Japanese culture in the history of East Asian peoples, which options have produced current Japan after its defeat in World War 2. | |||||||||
| EAS5243 | Arts and Thoughts of East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course examines the history of art in Korea, China, and Japan, as well as the relationship with history of thoughts from premodern to modern period. As a method of new art history, it covers various visual objects such as painting, print, ceramic, sculpture, architecture, clothes and the details of decorations in the philosophical contexts. It emphasizes up-close analysis of the relationship of visual objects and literary documentary. | |||||||||
| EAS5244 | East Asian Comparative Studies | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| A comparative review of the history of East Asia (Korea, China, Japan), followed by selection of several important themes, such as state form, social organization, and economic structure. The final goal of this course is to explore the possibility of mutual understanding based on the history of East Asia rather than a history of international relations of East Asian countries. From ancient to the modern period, lectures can be focused on particular periods and subjects, in accordance with lecture's special interest. | |||||||||
| EAS5245 | Political Economy of East Asia in Social Science Methodology | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course is to study the social-science methodologies that are the basis for the study of East Asia studies from the perspective of social science. Students will understand and apply research design in the field of social science, as well as qualitative and quantitative methodologies commonly used in social science, such as political science and economics. In addition, by reviewing excellent articles and books published in Korea and abroad, Student's will understand the changing process of existing methodologies . | |||||||||
| EAS5246 | Korean migration history: Koreans in foreign countries and foreigners in Korea | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | English | Yes | |
| South Korea developed itself from one of the most significant emigration nations to one of the most rapidly growing immigration nations in the world. This course first provides a comprehensive historical survey on ethnic Koreans who left the peninsula from roughly the nineteenth to the early-mid twentieth century in order to live in foreign countries. Emigration groups discussed include Korean family and labor migrants in China, Japan, South America, North America and Western Europe as well as Korean orphans sent to the West, North Korean refugees and laborers living outside the "hermit kingdom", and deported Koreans in the Soviet Union and Central Asia. The second half of the course pays attention to the increasing number of foreigners coming to live in South Korea since the late twentieth to early twenty-first century. Typical immigration groups discussed include American soldiers, foreign professionals, language teachers, and international students as well as marriage and labor migrants from South-East Asia and China in addition to North Korean escapees settling down permanently in South Korea. Important questions raise each time include: why did Koreans leave to foreign countries and why are foreigners coming to Korea? When did Koreans leave to foreign countries and when did foreigners start coming to Korea? How many Koreans left their motherland and how many foreigners left to Korea? How are Koreans economically and socially doing in the foreign host nations and how are | |||||||||
| EAS5247 | History of Japan | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| Japanese history is typically divided into four periods: ancient, medieval, early modern, and modern eras. This course aims towards developing an understanding of the historical transformations of Japan, with a focus on the characteristics of each period based on the above categorization of historical periods. With regard to ancient Japan, the course examines the process in which a centralized state was formed based on a ruling system adopted from China. For the medieval period, it focuses on the emergence of the samurai as a key political force in Japan, owing to the accelerating trend of the decentralization of power. Later, for the early modern era, it observes the gradual unification of this decentralized society. Lastly, the course explores the changes that Japanese society faced during the modern era when the collision between the traditional China-led regional order with the West resulted in the prevalence of the West-centric modern world order. | |||||||||
| EAS5248 | Characteristics of Japanese History | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| The Japanese archipelago is separated from the Asian continent by the sea. The nation’s geographical condition tends to give the impression that Japanese society has always been isolated from other regions. Indeed, Japan has sometimes undergone unique historical developments that are different from China and the Korean Peninsula, given that its decentralized political structure continued from the end of 12th century to the end of 19th century as the samurai held onto political power. As is evident in the birth of the Ritsuryo system, however, there was also a period in Japan when it took a similar path to those of neighboring countries. This phenomenon stems from the dual role of the sea, which acts as a defensive barrier against invading and pillaging forces, while also facilitating international exchanges for shared interests. Taking into account this dual nature of the sea, this course explores the way in which the society of the Japanese archipelago established relations with the surrounding regions and the influence of such relationships on developments in Japanese history. | |||||||||
| EAS5249 | Cultural contents in East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| Cool Japan, which symbolizes the transition from an economic powerhouse to a cultural powerhouse, does not simply use cultural elements as content like J-pop and J-Cinema. It is contributing to the consumption of “Japanese image” in various fields, from home electronics, architecture to fashion, animation, food culture. In addition, science & technology policies such as Big Science and the creation of a lifestyle applied with popular science also show the soft power of contemporary Japan. By grasping the process by which such cultural contents are developed in connection with social change, the basic knowledge necessary to understand contemporary Japan is considered from the perspective of social and cultural history. Learning keywords are Surrender of Japan (postwar revival and rapid economic growth, Big Science, nuclear power), Tokyo Olympics (national brand, Osaka Expo), Japanese culture boom (Japonism, Family Computer, digital contents, popular science, economic bubble), Cool Japan policy (Abenomics, Lifestyle), Japan in the world (the birth of Japanese Studies), Media Arts (Manga, Japan Animation), cultural exchange and cultural diplomacy, soft power, public diplomacy, etc. | |||||||||
| EAS5250 | Modern Korean Translation Culture and East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Korean | Yes | ||
| This class will grasp the phenomenon of 'translation,' which progressed in Korea and East Asia from the late 19th century to the early 20th century, in terms of the formation of cultural identity. It may be said that the work of translating the West by East Asia is the process of reconstructing the West independently on the foundation of East Asian culture. In this class, the significance of translation in that period of cultural transition will be studied from various aspects with focus on Korea. Further, a better insight into the modern period of East Asia will be gained from the viewpoint of comparative humanities by analyzing the problems of translation subjects, translation texts, translation spaces, and translation methods at those days according to topics. | |||||||||
| EAS5251 | East Asian Popular Culture and Narrative | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| This course aims to study the narrative forms and structures that have thrived in East Asian popular culture from the perspectives of comparative literature and culture. Narrative or storytelling is a universal cultural phenomenon, which is unexceptional in East Asia. Therefore, in this course students will understand the nature of East Asian narratives and the cultural significance of narrative or storytelling in East Asian popular culture by examining a wide variety of narrative forms and genres in East Asia. | |||||||||
| EAS5252 | Social History of Crime and Punishment in East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Korean | Yes | ||
| This course aims to understand the formation of the social order and crime control mechanism in East Asia through the study of crime and punishment and to take a close examination on the people's everyday life in East Asia from the perspective of microhistory. The law was the integral part of the people's everyday life in East Asian society, in which the highly systematic legal codes and mechanisms were developed. This fact is verifiable in the fact that innumerably various forms of crime records have been preserved in East Asia. In this course a wide variety of sources concerning crime and punishment will be explored in order to better understand East Asian social history. | |||||||||