KORE 362: Modern Korean History

KORE 362-K01: Modern Korean History
(Spring 2024)

03:00 PM to 04:15 PM T

Mason Korea (119 Songdomunhwa-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, Korea) - Hybrid

Section Information for Spring 2024

KORE 362 Modern Korean History covers Korean history approximately from the late Chosŏn period to the present. While focusing on Korea’s historical experience, it takes a broader and comparative perspective to look at historical changes in modern East Asia together. It examines how Korean history was intertwined with and helped share modern East Asian history, by comparing Korea’s historical experience with those of Japan and China, and the shared historical contexts. It also looks at how Korean history was influenced by global changes such as imperialism and Cold War. 

             As a survey course, the class will cover major historical events in modern Korean history, ranging from the premodern-to-modern transformation, including the changing worldviews and relationship with China and Japan, colonization, liberation, national division, the Korean War, authoritarian rule, democratization, and globalization. 

While exploring these topics, this course also provides an immersive learning experience for students as the course is offered at Mason Korea. Students will learn Korean history as a lived experience of Korean people by reading biographical readings and visiting the museums to hear the firsthand accounts of Korean people who lived through this time. During the semester, students will go on two field trips to the historical sites related to class topics. 

             The course emphasizes a self-driven, proactive study where students explore their own topic of interest related to modern Korean history by writing a research paper or producing a documentary film. This course fulfills the Korean minor and major elective requirements and is a Mason Core course.  

Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Surveys the history of the Korean Peninsula from the seventeenth century to the present in a global context and explores historical topics of special interest. Offered by Modern & Classical Languages. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Mason Core, Global Contexts, Global Understanding
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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