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78362
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Online
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BTA
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10:30AM
-12:00PM
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TR
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3072E Literatures, Cultures, & Ling
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Blazek, K
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- Availability:
- Open
- Part of Term:
- 1
- Date Range:
- 08/24/26-12/09/26
- Credit:
- 3 hours
- Section Title:
- Seoul: History and Places
- Section Info:
- This course provides a critical and interdisciplinary survey of Seoul as a 600-year-old capital and contemporary megacity that has served as the locus of Korea’s history, modernity, and future. Using the city as an analytical prism, the course explores the political, economic, social, and cultural conditions that have shaped Seoul’s transformation. Students will examine material spaces, architectural and visual imaginaries, and forms of cultural and civic expression, considering perspectives that are monumental and mundane, local and global, singular and multiple. The class is project-driven and includes in-class group activities, collaborative and individual projects, and peer review. Students engage with materials across genres and media—including texts, images, films, projects, and events—produced by scholars, artists, activists, government entities, and citizens. The course encourages comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to urban issues that extend beyond Seoul. This section is offered through the BTAA Course Share Program and will be taught via video-conferencing/Zoom/online by the University of Michigan.
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