For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSD5034 | Advanced Seminar on North Korean Politics | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Political Science | - | No |
| Analysis of the political ideology, govern-mental institutions, party structure, political behavior, and foreign relations of North Korea. | |||||||||
| PSD5035 | Introduction to Comparative Politics | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Political Science | Korean | Yes |
| Introduction to the study of western capitalist democracies, communist regimes, and authoritarian states. How do these types of state differ? What factors enhance the emergence of one type of state versus another? What factors explain the rise and collapse of democracies? What is the relationship between political development and economic development? These questions will be addressed through theoretical readings and case studies. | |||||||||
| PSD5038 | Modern Political Thought | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Political Science | - | No |
| An eximination of the development of political thought from 17th through 20th centuries. Readings include Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Bentham, Mill, Marx and Lenin. The course will focus on such themes as the nature of modernity and liberalism, conceptions of the nation-state, the individual, freedom, justice, equality, politics and authority. Lecture and discussion. One term paper is required. | |||||||||
| PSD5047 | Korean Politcs and Leadership | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Political Science | - | No |
| The objectives of this course are to introduce you the most influential theoretical approaches of leadership to the study of Korean politics and to apply and evaluate these approaches in a series of historical case studies of leadership and Korean politics. Students will study real leaders in selected cases, including China, German, France as well as Korea. | |||||||||
| PSD5050 | Korean Political Culures | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Political Science | - | No |
| There are unique political cultures in Korean politics. Regionalism, confucianism, anti-communism and the like would explain what Korean political cultures are. In this course, comparing western political cultures with Korean political culture, students analysis how Korean political cultures are formed and study these characteristics. | |||||||||
| PSD5054 | Study of Korea Foreign Policy | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Political Science | - | No |
| This course os to study Korean foreign policy in past-present regime and issues since the national independence of 1945. Today, foreign policy is one of the most important instruments to maximize national interests. Students will search methodologies to understand Korean foreign policy in Korean perspective over great power-oriented perspective. For this, students will study critically various methodologies and diplomatic behaviors within established theories. Finally, students will discuss some directions for new pattern of foreign policy in the post-Cold War era. | |||||||||
| PSD5055 | Study of Foreign Policy | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Political Science | Korean | Yes |
| In this course, students will critically sturdy the principal current theoretical approaches to empirical and normative sturdy of policy making in foreign affairs. Especially, we examine a close inspection of contemporary policy making processes U.S, Russia and China. Also, we cover central historical episodes including two World Wars and Cold War. This course goes with case study methodology and historical investigative methodology, and Lecture and discussion. One term paper is required. | |||||||||
| PSD5057 | Studies in Chinese Foregin Policy | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Political Science | Korean | Yes |
| This is a survey course for the major characteristics of Chinese foreign policy and the China policy of other countries. Recent debates on Chinese military enforcement and its implications will also be covered. This course specializes in Chinese foreign policy. It consists of 1)comparative foreign policy studies 2)evaluation of Chinese foreign policy 3)issues of documentary sources and research methods 4)empirical analysis of key events and themes in Chinese foreign policy 5) historical evaluation of China's policy toward Korean peninsula. | |||||||||
| PSD5058 | Seminar in Chinese Area Studies | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Political Science | - | No |
| This seminar focuses on the political economy of reform and opening in post-Mao China since 1978. More specifically, it concentrates on changes that have transpired in over 10 different sectors, including elites, policy-making, agriculture, fiscal relations, foreign economic relations, and society | |||||||||
| PSD5061 | State and Market | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Political Science | - | No |
| Over the last three decades East Asia as a regional economy has achieved rapid economic growth. While Japan is competing for regional economic hegemony with U.S.A., the East Asian NICs appear to possess a competitive advantage over countries such as Latin American NICs. This course attempts to explain the development dynamics in East Asian capitalism. In the context of current academic debates, this course seeks to explain the world economic system as a macro-system and the state apparatus as a micro-component to explain East Asian development. | |||||||||
| PSD5065 | Politics in Contemporary China | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Political Science | Korean | Yes |
| This seminar examines central aspects and significant results of China’s political issues in the reform era. Special attention will be paid to such topics as the changing structure and operation of China's political system, state’s roles in the economic development, changes of elite politics and leadership, shifting central-local relations, emerging entrepreneur class and its political implications ,and prospect for China's democratization. This course is designed for students who have acquired some background knowledge of contemporary China, and who have interests in domestic politics in China. | |||||||||
| PSD5069 | Korean Politics History | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Political Science | - | No | |
| This course associates theories of democracy in the liberal tradition with authoritarianism, militarism, and command economy in Korean political history. | |||||||||
| PSD5072 | International Political Thought | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Political Science | - | No | |
| An examination of the development of international politiacl thought from ancient Greece to the present. Readings include Thucidies, Cicero, Machiavelli, Althusius and Grotius, Hobbes, Kant, Lenin and etc.. Lecture and discussion. One term paper is required. | |||||||||
| PSD5073 | Methodology of International Politics | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Political Science | - | No | |
| An examination of a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches in international politics: normative, historical-structural and mathematical and quantitative approaches such as game theory and multivariate technics. Presentation and discussion. One term paper required. | |||||||||
| PSD5076 | Debates on Contemporary International Relations | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Political Science | - | No |
| This course studies important debates on major issues of current international relations. The U.S.-PRC relations and great power politics, Middle Eastern problems, terrorism, path of future democracy, development aid diplomacy, political and economic bi-polarization, climate change are some examples of debate topics. Graduate students' independent research skills will be strengthened in the course of applying analytic frameworks of social sciences to key international relations agenda. | |||||||||