HIST 325

Fall 2018

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History of Korea
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Credit: 3 hours.

Same as EALC 367. See EALC 367.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Hist & Phil
Cultural Studies - Non-West
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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
70086
Lecture-Discussion
CIC
4:45PM -7:00PM
W
G96 Foreign Languages Building
Ritter, K
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/27/18-12/12/18
Degree Notes:
Humanities - Hist & Phil, and Cultural Studies - Non-West course.
Section Info:
This course is taught by video conference from Indiana University. Intr: Prof. Michael Robinson. This is a course focused on the historical experience of modern Korea. The major themes of the course focus on the transformation of Korea from an agrarian, bureaucratic/aristocratic society into two, dynamic, authoritarian, industrialized and, in the case of post 1987 South Korea, democratizing, states. We will trace the Korean response to the influx of Western political power in Asia after 1840 and examine the effects of the intrusion of capitalism and imperialism on the Korean peninsula at the end of the 19th century. Since 1900, intellectual, political, social, and economic change in Korea has been extraordinarily rapid. In succession, Koreans have had to endure and respond to a forty year colonial intrusion of Japanese power, a re-occupation after 1945 by the U.S. and Soviet Union, a catastrophic civil war, and the lingering effects of political division. How the modern Korean state and society has evolved as a response to these changes and forces will be our central concern. We will have to consider how the traditional legacy affected the emerging blend of old and new that shaped modern Korea. In doing so, we will better be able to understand the unique shape of contemporary Korea’s social/political order and its place in the emerging world order of the 21st century. Korea’s 20th century has spawned a number of contesting historical narratives; we will actively evaluate these different views of the past while we explore the intersection between history and politics. In doing so we will develop our own sense of what it means to be historically minded.
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