Courses
The Politics of the Dispute over Democracy in Korea during the 20th Century
This course examines the regional characteristics and dynamism of South Korean democracy by exploring major political and socia...
Imperialism and Anti-Colonialism Seen from the Field
This eight-week course explores the life of Yi Yuk-sa and the impact of Japanese colonial rule on the independence activists of...
The Internal Development Theory and the Perception of Korean History
This course explores the context in which the internal development theory emerged in modern and contemporary Korean history. It...
Korean History 101
As a prerequisite for the Korean history courses offered by the Institute for Global Korean Studies, this course provides basic...
Politics and Conflict in Modern and Contemporary Korea
This course examines the patterns of political conflict and confrontation in modern and contemporary Korea through several key ...
Conflict and Competition in Korean History: Political and Social History of Pre-Modern Popular Uprisings
This course explores the conflicts and competitive structures in Korean history related to premodern popular uprisings and exam...
Production and Consumption in Modern and Contemporary Korean History
This course examines how key actors, such as workers, corporations, and the government, have perceived labor and the laws and s...
State-Building of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla
This course examines the formation process of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla, the representative states of ancient Korean society.
Korean War
This course examines the causes, background, progression, outcomes, and impact of the Korean War.
Experiment of Nationalist Socialism and North Korea
This course examines the history of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from the 1940s to the 1960s and explores the caus...
Korean Diaspora, Its history, and Transnational Koreans
This course examines the historical process of ethnic diaspora that began from the late Joseon Dynasty and has continued throug...
Formation of Contemporary Korea Through Everyday Life Culture
This course examines the process by which everyday life culture as a structural environment that surrounds us in the space of c...
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This course examines the historical process of ethnic diaspora that began from the late Joseon Dynasty and has continued through the Cold War and t...
This course examines the process by which everyday life culture as a structural environment that surrounds us in the space of contemporary Korean s...
This course contextualizes the discourses and terrain surrounding women's labor.
This course explores a history of Korean architecture through hanok, a traditional Korean building.
This course approaches premodern Korean society through the window of medical care.
This course takes a historical approach to Korean urban space and residential culture from premodern times to the present and overviews the backgro...
3rd year
Understand the relationship between humans and space and time from an East Asian perspective.
This course views local areas as a multilayered place where multiple levels of history have unfolded, understands the macroscopic structures and co...
This course examines the history and significance of Korean food in the 20th century by tracing the Korean dining table from the open port period t...