Seoul National University

This course examines the readings of major American poets from the time of the colonial settlement to the present.

This course examines and analyzes the worth of representative poets and masterpiece in Modern Korean poetry from the 1920s to the 2000s. It also introduces concepts, basic principles of modern Korean poetry and students get the pleasure of reading poems once again. This process is a time of the reenacted experience about historical experience, philosophical experience, sensuous experience in the modern poetry. In this lecture, students read Korean modern poetry and study basic poetics and theory of poetry at same time. In addition, we widen the extent of the understand by studying about variety of a cultural experience that appeared on modern Korean poetry. We  study Korean poetry along with multiple genre of art, as well as ideology of history, politics, folk, and themes such as love, food, fashion . Students contemplate 'What is poetic thing?' While all students who like poetry can enjoy this course, appreciation of poems at the University-level is beyond the level of that reading comprehension. By reading poems, students can find the important poetic spirit that penetrate contemporary culture.

This course examines the impact of Buddhism on East Asia by examining some of the key visual legacies of this tradition, including Buddhist imaginings of the afterlife, the development of the stupa, and the art of Zen Buddhism. The main focus is on the pre-modern era, but the course also covers the current manifestations of Buddhism in China, Korea, and Japan.

This course introduces the field of ethnomusicology. In order to do this, it explores major concepts that have shaped the core of ethnomusicological studies. The course examines issues such as music and identity (ethnic, gender, racial), music and politics, music and ritual, musical roots, change and preservation, globalization, field research, transcription and musical instrument classification. In the course, students think, talk, and write about how and why people make music, as well as how and how ethnomusicologists go about their work. Students undertake a group fieldwork projects that contribute to a class-wide fieldwork project.

This course examines various philosophical issues related to empirical sciences. What are the goals of science? What methods do scientists use to achieve them? Does scientific activity help attain truths about the world? Does science progress? Is scientific activity rational as often suggested? Is science value-neutral? How can we draw the line between science and pseudo-science?

This course examines advanced topics in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, as well as some recent issues in the fields of culture, arts, and engineering. 

This course provides students with the following intermediate Korean language skills: ability to ask questions; answer questions and engage in discussion; ability to comprehend mass media; ability to conduct intermediate level everyday conversation; and ability to write an intermediate level document. Students learn a variety of useful expressions commonly used in questioning, answering, and discussing in a class, and practice how to use those expressions. They also study lots of useful expressions frequently used in mass media such as radio, TV and movies, and practice how to comprehend those mass media. 

This course provides an overview of the modern and contemporary history of Southeast Asian nation-states. The first part of the course focuses on the development of Southeast Asian studies from precolonial history to the arrival of European, American and later Japanese colonial powers in the region; the path to independence, and the impact of the Cold War. The second part of the course delves into the origins and dynamics of maritime trade in the South China Sea, including the current conflict between Vietnam and China. 

This course introduces economic concepts and theories for analyzing and evaluating sustainable development and practices. Students examine causes and potential solutions to environmental and social degradation, and learn the value of these services. Students also study the functions of businesses, governments and civic groups and the role of sustainable development.

This course provides a review on the literati culture of East Asian societies, focusing on China and Korea. Course topics include : socio-economic and political status of literati in the traditional era, contributions of the literati in the formative period of the East Asian civilization and meaning and impact of literary activities in maintaining societies.