<p> History of Korean-American Relations</p><p>Michael Kim e-mail: [email protected] phone: 017-398-7116</p><p>Tuesdays 6:00 pm-9:00 pm</p><p>This course will provide a broad historical overview of Korean-American relations from the initial encounters in the 19th century to the postliberation period. There will be a particular focus on important developments during the height of the Cold War and the factors that have played a key role in shaping the Korean American relationship during the 1960-1980s. The course requirements are one paper presentation and a 10-15 page research paper on any topic that is related to the course materials.</p><p>Course Requirements: Students will be required to attend all classes and participate in class discussions. Students will give a short presentation on their paper topics and submit a 10-15 page research paper that applies some of the themes discussed in the class.</p><p>Grading for the course: Class Participation and Attendance: 40% Paper Presentation: 20% Final Paper (Double spaced, 10-15 pages): 40% </p><p>Week 1: Introduction (3/8)</p><p>Week 2: American and Japanese Expansion in the late 19th century (3/15)</p><p>William F. Nimmo, Stars and Stripes across the Pacific: The United States, Japan, and Asia/Pacific Region, 1895-1945, p. 1-49.</p><p>Week 3: Korea and America’s First Encounter (3/22) Yur-Bok Lee, “Korean - American Diplomatic Relations, 1882-1905,” in Yur-Bok Lee and Wayne Patterson, eds., One Hundred Years of Korean-American Relations, 1882- 1982, p. 12-45. Fred Harvey Harrington, “An American View of Korean - American Relations, 1882-1905,” in Yur-Bok Lee and Wayne Patterson, eds., One Hundred Years of Korean- American Relations, 1882-1982, p. 46-67.</p><p>Week 4: The Cold War and Containment Policy (3/29)</p><p>John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History, 1-25 John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment, p. 25-53.</p><p>Week 5: Holiday (4/5)</p><p>Week 6: U.S. Military Government 1945-1948 (4/12)</p><p>Bruce Cumings, Korea's Place in the Sun, p. 185-236.</p><p>Week 7: The Korean War (4/19)</p><p>Bruce Cumings, Korea's Place in the Sun, p.237-298. John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History, p. 54-84</p><p>Week 8. History and Memory of the Korean War (4/26)</p><p>David R. McCann, "Our Forgotten War: The Korean War in Korean and American Popular Culture," in West, Levine, and Hiltz, eds., America's Wars in Asia: A Cultural Approach to History and Memory.</p><p>Week 9. The New Look and Eisenhower (5/3) John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment, 127-197.</p><p>**One page Paper Proposal and Bibliography Due**</p><p>Week 10: Korea American Relations in the 1960s. (5/10)</p><p>Donald Stone Macdonald, U.S.-Korean Relations from Liberation to Self-Reliance ; The Twenty Year Record (San Francisco: Westview Press, 1992), p. 111-140. Park, Tae-Gyun, "Change in U.S. Policy toward South Korea in the early 1960s," Korean Studies, 1999</p><p>Week 11: U.S. Policy Toward South Korea in the 1970s. (5/17)</p><p>John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment, 274-308. Wookhee Shin and Youngho Kim, “Entrapment Vs. Abandonment: South Korea-U.S. Alliance in Transition, 1968-1972,” 1-28 Tae-Hwan Kwak and Wayne Patterson, “The Security Relationship between Korea and the United States, 1960-1984,” in Yur-Bok Lee and Wayne Patterson, eds., One Hundred Years of Korean-American Relations, 1882-1982, p.108-126.</p><p>Week 12: Paper Presentations (5/24)</p><p>Week 13: The Kwangju Massacre and Korean American Relations (5/31)</p><p>Gi-Wook Shin, “Introduction,” in Gi-Wook Shin and Kyung Moon Hwang, eds., Contentious Kwangju : the may 18 uprising in Korea's past and present Don Baker, “Victims and heroes : competing visions of May 18,” in Gi-Wook Shin and Kyung Moon Hwang, eds., Contentious Kwangju : the may 18 uprising in Korea's past and present</p><p>Week 14: The North Korean Crisis (6/7) Cha, Victor D. 1961, “Hawk Engagement and Preventive Defense on the Korean Peninsula” International Security, Volume 27, Number 1, Summer 2002, pp. 40-78. Snyder, Scott 1964, “Pyongyang's Pressure,” The Washington Quarterly - Volume 23, Number 3, Summer 2000, pp. 163-170.</p><p>**Paper Due: June 15**</p>