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| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIS5240 | Japanese Colonial Rule and Korean Society | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| This course introduces to students critical debates in Japanese colonial rule and post-colonial Korean society. The principal aims of this course are 1) to help students develop a historiographical command in the Japanese colonial empire and its impact on postcolonial Korea, and 2) contextualize their own research projects within academic debates. This course consists of two parts. The first part explores recent historiographical trends on the rise and collapse of the Japanese colonial empire. The second part focuses on postcolonial Korea, with a special emphasis on two issues—the Japanese collaborator (k. chin’ilpa), and on the “comfort women.” | |||||||||
| HIS5241 | Revolution and democracy from modern West to 21st-century Korea | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Korean | Yes | ||
| Since the upheavals of 1960 and through those of 1980 and 1987 to the ‘Candlelight Revolution’ of 2016, contemporary Korea has undergone numerous political movements of resistance (or ‘revolutions’). These revolutions have provided the Korean society with watershed moments of political and cultural change. The cultural revolutions of 1968 in Europe and the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2010 and 2011 have not been without consequences in the distant Korean society. These revolutions can roughly be understood as results of the historical and contingent combinations of ‘movement’ as action and ‘democracy’ as ideology. According to widespread historical narratives the modern origin of these ‘democratic revolutions’ lie in sixteenth-century Holland, seventeenth-century England and eighteenth-century America and France. These may indeed be approached from several directions, one of which is to see them through the posterity’s standpoint and thereby discover the traces of revolution in every rebellion and enthusiasm for democracy in every popular movement. Another path one may follow is to focus on the possible reasons that led the people under non-democratic regimes to risk opposing the given structure and throw themselves into the turbulent and dangerous field of politics. That is, also, to try to elucidate what specific reform plans had been pursued by each ‘democratic’ movement. | |||||||||
| HIS5242 | Museum and History | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| A Museum is a space where scholars collect, study, and introduce to people material and immaterial cultural heritage. Naturally, museums were closely related to historians. Historians’ findings are presented to people through museums, and museums’ collections, in turn, are invaluable resources for historical research. This course explores museums’ history in the context of the rise and evolution of history as an academic discipline, and helps students build and deepen their knowledge in museology. | |||||||||
| HIS5243 | Environment and History | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Environmental history as an historical discipline seeks to understand the changing relationship between human beings and their natural surroundings. This research challenges old scholars’ narrow focus only on human activities and helps us consider transformations of the nature that actually critically affected human history. Given that the destruction of eco-systems surfaced as a serious social question in recent years, to study this question in historical contexts and consider its possible solutions became one of the most serious challenges of historians. | |||||||||
| HIS5244 | History of crime and criminal justice | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The notions and kinds of crime and jurisprudence, which are important phenomena of human society, have differed depending on eras, regions, and cultures. In this seminar, students will discuss the various human desires and tendencies by doing research on crimes and laws in the East and the West in historical and cultural contexts. | |||||||||
| HIS5245 | History of discrimination and alienation | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The mainstream of political history has so far been “history from above.” However, there have always existed discrimination and alienation in history. In this seminar, students will discuss questions related to the history of gender and LGBT, the history of ‘the local’ which has stood in a vulnerable position in contrast to the center, the history of ‘foreigners’ and immigrants and the alienation and discrimination experienced by them, the social issues and questions of identity associated with migration, the history of poverty, and the history of discrimination against minority races and ethnic groups. | |||||||||
| HIS5246 | Seminar on digital history | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Historical research has recently experienced a sharp growth. This is in part due to the development of computing, which can provide immense support to the categorization and interpretation of a huge amount of data and may thus be useful to historical research. This seminar aims to develop a new methodology of historical scholarship through computing and apply it to actual research. This is hoped to deepen the students’ understanding of digital history. | |||||||||
| HIS5247 | History of Medicine and Hygiene | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The medical practitioner and medicine as an academic discipline underwent a significant transformation with the birth of the nation state. Thanks to the abolishment of hereditary status, medical practitioners became top elites whose entrance barrier was guarded by professional schools, and their knowledge, now embraced by state administrators, became a critical tool to manage the health of the entire nations in the name of “hygiene.” This course traces these modern transformations of the medical practitioner and medicine, and considers how and why medicine as a discipline came to define the normalcy and abnormalcy of human beings and societies. | |||||||||
| HIS5248 | New knowledge media and history | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Historically, society and culture, and even politics and economy have been immensely affected by the advent of various knowledge medias. In this seminar, students will discuss the rise and decline of knowledge medias that have made significant impacts upon world history, such as paper, codex, typeprinting, books, newspapers, journals, photography, movies, computers, laptops, tablets, and smartphones, from the perspectives of Korean history, Asian history and Western history, as well as from those of political history, economic history, social history, cultural history, intellectual history, and social history of ideas. | |||||||||
| HIS5249 | Oral History and Memory | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Oral history seeks to collect and study historical facts through planned interviews. Research of oral history is a popular methodology in many academic disciplines, such as history, anthropology, and sociology, and thus highly interdisciplinary in nature. Historians, in pursuit of rigorous empirical evidences, have long been suspicious of the incomplete and random nature of human memories and reluctant to embrace this methodology. However, historians began to use interviews for their research by cross-checking facts in historical sources in document forms. Furthermore, they took up research on the ways memories took shape and evolved. As oral history research grows with discovery and production of interviews, this discipline has a significant academic potential and deserves scholarly attention and financial support. | |||||||||
| HIS5250 | The City in History | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Despite the continuing wars in the past and the real estate crises in recent years, cities attract more and more people around the world. This course surveys the history of cities from antiquity to the present and examines the social questions created by the birth and growth of cities. This course consists of two parts. The first part explores how and why cities were born and how the meanings of the city, as a space as opposed to rural areas, were reconstituted in administrative, economic, and cultural terms. The second part introduces scholarly debates on such urban problems as environmental pollution and housing shortage. | |||||||||
| HIS5251 | University and Society | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| Universities, which were born in medieval Europe and spread around the world during the nineteenth century, fundamentally transformed societies in the modern world. This course illuminates key aspects of the social transformation these centers of higher learning promoted, and introduces scholarly debates about them. Issues covered in this course include transition from hereditary status to social class, the making and crisis of cultural hierarchy between the West and the East, and the expansion of higher education within each society. This course does NOT have a geographical focus. Instead, it nurtures within students global and comparative perspectives. | |||||||||
| HIS5252 | History of science and technology | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| From the ancient to contemporary history, the advancement and regression of science and technology have been affected by social, cultural and historical contexts as well as the internal logic of the scholarly spheres of science and technology. In this seminar, students will discuss the historical roles played by certain scientific technologies and their characteristics in their own periods from a historical perspective. | |||||||||
| HIS5253 | The Foundations of Historical Studies | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| This seminar is intended as a common core programme for entering postgraduate students in the Department of History. Run as a ‘Problem-based learning’ class, this seminar will provide students with a ground for transformation into professional historians with the most recommended traits. During the semester students will be required to present their own problems and solve them with approaches discussed in the seminar. | |||||||||
| HIS5254 | Studies in Qin and Han Dynasties China | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This lesson intensively studies important historical source materials or the recent research debates on Qin and Han dynasties. It expects to understand deeply the significance of the first unified empires in China and their influence in the Chinese tradition. | |||||||||