Course Syllabus YONSEI INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL 2012
Introduction to Korean Studies
CREDIT 3 INSTRUCTOR Steven D. Capener
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[COURSE INFORMATION]
This course aims to familiarize the student with modern Korean literature, history, culture, and society. Classes COURSE DESCRIPTION consist of lecture, historical and literary readings, and film. As the main objective is an understanding of patterns of & GOALS behavior and thought, the course content will be weighted more toward readings in literature than in history.
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PREREQUISITE
Meet the attendance requirements COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Mid-term exam=30% Final exam=50% GRADING POLICY Participation=20%
A course reader will be available for purchase (mandatory)
TEXTS & REFERENCES
Seoul Women's University assistant professor- PhD-Modern Korean literature, Yonsei University PhD-Sport philosophy, Seoul National University INSTRUCTOR’S PROFILE Areas of interest- Colonial era Korean literature Korean literary modernism 1960-70s Korean literature Comparative literature Course Syllabus YONSEI INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL 2012
[WEEKLY SCHEDULE] * Your detailed explanations would be very helpful for prospective students to get a pre-approval for credit-transfer from their home university in advance. COURSE MATERIAL & WEEK (PERIOD) WEEKLY TOPIC & CONTENTS REFERENCE ASSIGNMENTS
Introduction to the course and the instructor- Lectures: Korea’s contact with modernity; the colonial period and its issues Group discussions and presentations Readings from packet: assigned history content, 1 covering the readings Hyun Jin Geon’s story “A Society that Drives You to Drink”
Lectures: The colonial period deepens; Korean- ness under Japanese colonial rule; Liberation and war Group discussions and presentations 2 Second reading: assigned history Yi Sang’s story covering the readings and film Wings and Jeon Kwang Yong’s Kapitan Ri Film: The Good, the Bad, and the Weird
Lecture: Split consciousness-liberation and its aftermath, division and war Third reading: assigned history, Kim Dong In’s Cry of the Magpies and possibly another work of Group discussions and presentations 3 short fiction covering the readings and film Film: Taegukki Mid-term exam Group discussions and presentations covering the readings
Lectures: The 4.19 revolution and the 1961 coup; Park Chung Hee and the re-making of Koreans; The problem of the self in a mass society Group discussions and presentations Fourth reading: assigned history, Jo Jeong Rae’s 4 covering the readings and film Land of the Banished and Kim Seung ok’s Record of a Journey to Mujin
Film: The President’s Last Bang Lectures: Questions of identity-collective vs individual Group discussions and presentations Fifth readings: assigned history, Pak Wan so’s A 5 covering the readings and film Certain Barbarity and Identical Apartments
Course Syllabus YONSEI INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL 2012
COURSE MATERIAL & WEEK (PERIOD) WEEKLY TOPIC & CONTENTS REFERENCE ASSIGNMENTS
Lecture: Korean identity in the 21st century Group discussions and presentations Film: Peppermint Candy covering the readings and film 6 Readings: to be decided Final exam