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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| CLA5002 | Exercises in Classical Chinese2 | 1 | 3 | Major | Master/Doctor | Liberal Art | Korean | Yes | |
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| CLA5003 | Exercises in Classical Chinese3 | 1 | 3 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Liberal Art | Korean | Yes |
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| CLA5004 | Exercises in Classical Chinese4 | 1 | 3 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Liberal Art | - | No |
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| COV7001 | Academic Writing and Research Ethics 1 | 1 | 2 | Major | Master/Doctor | SKKU Institute for Convergence | Korean | Yes | |
| 1) Learn the basic structure of academic paper writing, and obtain the ability to compose academic paper writing. 2) Learn the skills to express scientific data in English and to be able to sumit research paper in the international journals. 3) Learn research ethics in conducting science and writing academic papers. | |||||||||
| EAS5040 | Society and Economy in East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | East Asian Studies | Korean | Yes |
| The aim of this course is to examine the process of transformation of society and economy in the East Asian region in the 19th century and before. This course will not look at economy as an independent unit but explores it in close relation with society and culture. | |||||||||
| EAS5120 | Literary Exchanges between Korea and China in Pre-modern and Modern Times | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | East Asian Studies | - | No |
| Korean classical literature was much indebted from exchanges with Chinese literature. Adopting methods of comparative literature, this course examines literary exchanges between two countries in both pre-modern and modern times as reflected in Korean classical Chinese literature and classical novels. | |||||||||
| EAS5141 | Popular Culture in Korea | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | East Asian Studies | Korean | Yes |
| Approaching the topic of poular culture from the question of performative arts, we will deduce the effect of popular culture on how Korean society operates and changes. We will also examine the characteristics and standing of Korean popular culture regionally within East Asia. | |||||||||
| EAS5171 | Pop Goes Tradition: the cultural reinvention of the past in today’s China | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | East Asian Studies | - | No |
| By examining a selection of popular forms of cultural production, e.g.: films, visual art, martial arts stories and comics, this course will investigate the multitude of means by which Chinese history is creatively, and not always fideliously, reinvented and used to serve present-day concerns. | |||||||||
| EAS5192 | Advanced Study on East Asian Classics | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | East Asian Studies | - | No |
| This course aims to cultivate the capacities for examining classical texts in terms of their nature or type, locations, and history of interpretations and for rearranging and reconstructing them appropriately in the light of the demand of the time. Although our main focus will be on the texts recorded in classical Chinese, our study can also include the formation of texts in other languages and their relations with each other. | |||||||||
| EAS5240 | Symbols in East Asian Culture and Art | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | East Asian Studies | - | 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. | |||||||||
| EAS5244 | East Asian Comparative Studies | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | East Asian Studies | 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 | East Asian Studies | - | 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 | East Asian Studies | 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 | |||||||||
| HIS5208 | Special Seminar on the Political History of Japan | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | History | Korean | Yes |
| In this class, Japanese history related to the politics will be considered chronologically. Especially the law of ancient society, Gamakura, Muromachi, Dokugawa, and the constitution of the nation. And how the each laws affect the politics will be discussed. The purpose of this class is that all students develop their ability to study the Japanese politics. | |||||||||
| HIS5245 | History of discrimination and alienation | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | History | - | No |
| The mainstream of political history has so far been “history from above.” However, there have always existed discrimination and alienation in history. In this seminar, students will discuss questions related to the history of gender and LGBT, the history of ‘the local’ which has stood in a vulnerable position in contrast to the center, the history of ‘foreigners’ and immigrants and the alienation and discrimination experienced by them, the social issues and questions of identity associated with migration, the history of poverty, and the history of discrimination against minority races and ethnic groups. | |||||||||