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 , 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, 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: ’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