For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
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| CEK5132 | Seminar on Confucianism and Natural Sciences | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Confucian Studies, Eastern Philosophy and Korean Philosophy | - | No |
| This is an advanced interdisciplinary seminar course focusing on comparing the basic scientific paradigms in Confucianism and those of the modern natural sciences. The main objective of this course is to guide students to understand the basic similarities and differences between them, particularly at the horizon of paradigms. In the light that the main purpose of natural science is to explain the nature, Confucian view on nature, which is grounded mainly on the Book of Changes, also went through creation, revision, and recreation. On the horizon of paradigm, students will compare the cosmological view based on the Book of Changes including Zhou Dunyi’s Explanation of the Diagram of the Supreme Ultimate and the modern physics such as Big Bang theory. Students will also explore the Confucian theories on human nature in comparison to the theories in the modern Neuroscience and moral psychology including the theory of evolution. | |||||||||
| CEK5133 | Seminar on Confucianism and Social Sciences | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Confucian Studies, Eastern Philosophy and Korean Philosophy | Korean | Yes |
| This is an advanced interdisciplinary seminar course focusing on the convergence of Confucianism and modern social sciences. The main objective of this course is to illuminate the social and political aspect of Confucianism through comparing it with the modern theories in the field of social science and on this basis to examine the meaningful suggestions which we can draw from Confucianism for modern social sciences. During the premodenr period, Confucianism was a multidisciplinary thought, which shares many fundamental ideas with political science, sociology, and management. In this course, students will discover the social and political elements in the Confucian classics and interpret them in comparison with the modern theories in social sciences, and examine the implications and limits of them. Furthermore, students will be encouraged to search for solutions to the problems of modern societies in the Confucian texts. | |||||||||
| CEK5134 | A Survey of the History of East Asian Philosophies | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Confucian Studies, Eastern Philosophy and Korean Philosophy | Korean | Yes |
| This course explores the development of chinese philosophy from ancient age from modern age. We inquire into vicissitude of Chinese philosophy in each period. | |||||||||
| CEK5135 | Studies in Japanese Thoughts | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Confucian Studies, Eastern Philosophy and Korean Philosophy | - | No |
| In this course, we will study theories of Japanese modern philosophers, who took the lead of Myungchi Revitalising Reform(明治維新) pushed up Japanese modernisation and will search for relation with civilisation thinkers together. You will also study ideas of Hukujawa Yugichi, a leader of Japanese modern ideas and reception of Confucianism in Japan. | |||||||||
| CEK5136 | Reading of Primary Philosophical Texts of the Pre-Qin Period | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Confucian Studies, Eastern Philosophy and Korean Philosophy | - | No |
| During the chinese history, there is no age which was so various and vigorous than ancient period between B.C. 770 and 221. By investigating the thoughts of this period, we can study how various thinkers suggested there idea to end the turbulent age of china. so this will help us to think how we solve the contemporary social problems. | |||||||||
| CEK5137 | A Comparative Study of East Asian Philosophy | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Confucian Studies, Eastern Philosophy and Korean Philosophy | - | No |
| We will develop a macroscopic view using the medium of objective comparative research between Eastern and Western philosophy. Also, through this lecture, we aim to build groundwork for educating philosophers who can merge the East and the West together. | |||||||||
| CEK5138 | Academic Writing 1 | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Confucian Studies, Eastern Philosophy and Korean Philosophy | Korean | Yes |
| This graduate course is to develop skills of logical analysis of texts, and to exercise logical, critical writing. The primary objective of this course consists in building up students’ ability of reading comprehension, critical comment, essay composition. To fulfill these goals, students will learn how to analyze logically, criticize, compose the philosophical texts by means of ‘Step-up Writing Program(SWP) which is a model of exercising program for developing ‘academic communication competence’. | |||||||||
| CEK5139 | Academic Writing 2 | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Confucian Studies, Eastern Philosophy and Korean Philosophy | - | No |
| This graduate course is to develop skills of logical analysis of texts, and to exercise logical, critical writing. The primary objective of this course consists in building up students’ ability of reading comprehension, critical comment, essay composition. To fulfill these goals, students will learn how to analyze logically, criticize, compose the philosophical texts by means of ‘Step-up Writing Program(SWP) which is a model of exercising program for developing ‘academic communication competence’. | |||||||||
| CEK5140 | Digital Humanities and Future of East Asian Philosophy | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Confucian Studies, Eastern Philosophy and Korean Philosophy | Korean | Yes |
| This course (“Digital Humanities and Future of East Asian Philosophy”) aims to foster students who are equipped with a capacity to use information technology and to apply it in dealing with philosophical texts of East Asia so that they can interpret them in innovative and creative ways. Since the end of the 1990s, there has been tremendous achievement in the area of digitalization of various documents in Korea such as historical documents including the Annals of the Joseon dynasty and the Daily Records of Royal Secretariat of Joseon dynasty, and also philosophical and literary texts of various periods. The digitalized information includes visual images and aural sounds as well. Now we are living in the see of digitalized information. What we should do as a next step is to think and learn about how to utilize the enormous information to promote our understanding of East Asian philosophy in a way that has not been possible through existing methods. Therefore, this course will introduce to students new information technology from basic level to advanced level, with a special emphasis on philosophical context of East Asia. The ultimate aim of this course is to enable students to create their own ways of dealing with East Asian philosophy using various new technology, such as Big Data and Text Mining, and so on. | |||||||||
| CEK6104 | Seminar in Thought of Korean-Chinese Arts | 3 | 6 | Major | Doctor | 1-4 | Confucian Studies, Eastern Philosophy and Korean Philosophy | - | No |
| This course studies traditional figures of Korean art by comparing the works including the gentleman culture, like the old tomb murals, the architectures and arts, etc. with Chinese ones. | |||||||||
| CEK6106 | Practice in Korean Li-Hsueh Thought | 3 | 6 | Major | Doctor | 1-4 | Confucian Studies, Eastern Philosophy and Korean Philosophy | - | No |
| In this course, you will discuss the specific contents and characters of Korean Li-xue that has been founded by Kim Jang-Saeng and Kim Jip, his son. | |||||||||
| CEK6108 | Special Lecture on Thought Culture in East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Doctor | 1-4 | Confucian Studies, Eastern Philosophy and Korean Philosophy | - | No |
| This course surveys Thought and culture in East Asia centering around Korea, China and Japan. How was Confucianism originated in China spread? How did Buddhism which began in India blossom out in Korea and Japan? How did Taoism change in each society? We discuss various thought in the East Asia perspective. | |||||||||
| CEK6115 | Studies in History of Korean Religious Thought | 3 | 6 | Major | Doctor | 1-4 | Confucian Studies, Eastern Philosophy and Korean Philosophy | - | No |
| The purpose of this course is to consider Korean acceptance and changes of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism from ancient era to modern period in the history of Korean Philosophy, and the process of creative development in relation to the history of Chinese philosophy. | |||||||||
| CLA5001 | Exercises in Classical Chinese1 | 1 | 3 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Liberal Art | - | No |
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| CLA5002 | Exercises in Classical Chinese2 | 1 | 3 | Major | Master/Doctor | Liberal Art | Korean | Yes | |
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