HIST098 - INTRO TO KOREAN CIV

Status
X
Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
HIST098 - INTRO TO KOREAN CIV
Term session
1
Term
2015B
Subject area
HIST
Section number only
910
Section ID
HIST098910
Registration notes

HISTORY & TRADITION SECTOR

Meeting times
CANCELED
Instructors
PARK, EUGENE
Description
This gateway course surveys the history of Korea from early times to the present. We will study the establishment of various sociopolitical orders and their characteristics alongside major cultural developments. Covered topics include: state formation and dissolution; the role of ideology and how it changes; religious beliefs and values; agriculture, commerce, and industry; changing family relations; responses to Western imperialism; and Korea's increasing presence in the modern world as well as its future prospects. Students will also be introduced to various interpretive approaches in the historiography. No prior knowledge of Korea or Korean language is presumed.
Course number only
098
Cross listings
EALC080910
Use local description
No
LPS Course
false