EALC 360

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Seminar in Korean Studies

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Credit: 3 hours.

Survey of Korean history, philosophy, religion, economy, art, literature, and culture across per-modern, modern and contemporary periods.

May be repeated in the same or separate terms to a maximum of 12 hours if topics vary. Prerequisite: Restricted to junior or senior standing.

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EALC 360 class schedule data for fall 2024
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	78362	Online	BTA	1:20PM -2:40PM	WF	n.a.	Butler, D Ha, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/24-12/11/24 Section Title: Performing Korean Diaspora Section Info: Course title: Korean Dramatic Tradition: Performing Korea and Performing Korean Diaspora This course is offered online via BTAA CourseShare (Prof. Hayana Kim at Ohio State University) and will be taught synchronously via zoom. The class will meet in G96 LCLB. What is the role of performance in shaping contemporary Korean politics and cultures? What is the relationship between Korean cultures and the cultures of the Korean diaspora? In this course, we will examine a variety of performances that represent and transform Korean cultures and histories, both South and North, and across the Korean diasporas in the 20th and 21st centuries. Performance, as we understand in this course, does not simply mean a set of aesthetic works. Rather, it encompasses a much broader cultural phenomenon that includes practices of everyday life, practices that structure law and politics, products of popular culture, and embodied communications in the public sphere. Because of such breadth of topics, course materials will come from various sources and genres, including plays, dance, shaman rituals, avant-garde theatre, postdramatic theatre, protest, and digital media arts. Engaging with these materials, we will pay attention to historical contexts from which each performance emerges, as well as what interventions it makes in contemporary Korean politics. Some of the key events and topics include the “Comfort Women,” the Jeju 4.3 Uprising, the Korean War, military dictatorship, the Gwangju Uprising, democratization movements, globalization, as well as migrations caused by colonialism, war, and oppressive politics. We will wed these historical discussions with critical discourse on gender, modernity, traditionalism, nationalism, global Korean diaspora, multiculturalism, human rights, and digital media. This course mixes lectures, discussion, written assignments, student presentations, and public-facing multimedia projects as a final project. By the end of this course, students will have read and watched a number of plays and performances by contemporary Korean and Korean diasporic artists and activists and be able to engage in informed debate on contemporary performance cultures in Korea, conceived broadly beyond the peninsula.