For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSD5099 | Seminar on Domestic Politics and International Relations | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Political Science | Korean | Yes |
| This course offers a focused view on how domestic politics affect international relations, and how international relations affect domestic politics. We analyze how the political, economic, and social conditions within states affect foreign policy and international relations. We also examine how international politics affects domestic political leadership, policies, cleavages, and even institutions. To this end, we focus on several distinct substantive areas, including the use of force, international trade, and participations in international organizations. The primary assignment will be a piece of original research, which you will develop over the course of the semester with substantial input from both the class and me. | |||||||||
| PSD6010 | Theories of Comparative Walfare State | 3 | 6 | Major | Doctor | 1-4 | Political Science | - | No |
| After 1945, "political settlements" in the industrial democracies involved the construction of welfare states. Governments used policy instruments to promote full employment and to guarantee to all citizens a certain standard of housing, health care, education, and financial security. However, since the 1970s, the democratic welfare state in its varied forms has come under challenge. In this class, students will look both at theoretical texts justifying or criticizing the welfare state and at empirical cases, comparing politics and policy in democratic welfare states such as the United States, Britain, France, Swiss, Sweden and Germany. | |||||||||
| PSD6011 | Party Politics in Korea | 3 | 6 | Major | Doctor | 1-4 | Political Science | - | No |
| The course reviews political parties and party systems in Korean politics, including party functions and organization, party platforms, finance, leadership, factions, and the relationship with political development. | |||||||||
| PSD6027 | Seminar on Korean Foregin Policy | 3 | 6 | Major | Doctor | 1-4 | Political Science | - | No |
| This course is to study Korean foreign policy in past-present regimes 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 sturdy critically various methodologies and diplomatic behaviors withinestablished theories. Finally, Students will discuss some directions for new pattern of foreign policy in the post-Cold war era | |||||||||
| PSD6034 | Advanced Seminar on Government | 3 | 6 | Major | Doctor | 1-4 | Political Science | - | No |
| Advanced study on Korean government. Major topics include analysis of government institutions and political process, and issues involving who governs and how major policy decisions are made. | |||||||||
| PSD6042 | Advanced Seminar on Korean Unification | 3 | 6 | Major | Doctor | 1-4 | Political Science | - | No |
| An advanced seminar course discussing students individual research design on selected topics of Korean unification. Each class consists of presentations and discussion. One research paper is required. | |||||||||
| TKC5007 | Advanced Issues in Translation Studies | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-8 | Translating Pre-modern Korean Text in Classical Chinese | - | No |
| This course examines general theories regarding translation studies and discusses values and roles of Chinese classics translation in Korea. It explores commonalities and peculiarities of Chinese classics translation, and helps students develop their sense of value for translation. | |||||||||
| TKC5019 | Korean Annotation (?nhae) and Usage of Particles (hy?nt’o) onChinese Classics | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-8 | Translating Pre-modern Korean Text in Classical Chinese | - | No |
| Korean scholars had used the annotations and particles in order to analyze and clarify the meanings of Chinese classics. Therefore, knowledges of the annotations and particles are the key to understand the ways in which Korean scholars read Chinese classics in traditional times. By exploring the annotations and particles, this course discusses how to use them for contemporary translations of old documents. | |||||||||
| TKC5034 | Advanced Issues in the Studies of Chinese Characters | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-8 | Translating Pre-modern Korean Text in Classical Chinese | Korean | Yes |
| This course improves our understanding of Chinese characters through examining their origins and development. First, it examines forms, sounds and meanings of classifiers to understand their origins. It further explores the structure of Chinese characters, and their original and derivative meanings, and discusses how to apply them to our translation of Chinese classics. | |||||||||
| TKC5035 | Online Archives for Chinese Classics in East Asian Countries | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-8 | Translating Pre-modern Korean Text in Classical Chinese | - | No |
| This course practices to use the databases for Chinese classic materials produced at the Academy of East Asian Studies. The Academy makes various kinds of databases for classic materials available online. In particular, Library of Chongy?ng has held the database for The Compilation of Korean Confucian Classics since 2004 and established EAS-NET in order to facilitate information exchanges for scholarly research. In addition, it standardized the catalogues of 5,700 archives and developed their databases. This course practices to use various online materials and improve our translation of classic materials. | |||||||||