Korean Studies Minor
3016 Humanities and Social Sciences Building
(858) 534-0491
E-mail: koreanstudies@ucsd.edu
http://koreanstudies.ucsd.edu/
All courses, faculty listings, and curricular and degree requirements described herein are subject to change or deletion without notice. Updates to curricular sections may be found on the Academic Senate website: http://senate.ucsd.edu/Curriculum/Updates.htm.
The Korean Studies Minor Program requires that students complete a total of twenty-eight units of Korea and/or Korea-related courses. Normally twenty-eight units add up to seven courses, if each course is a four-unit course. If courses taken offer fewer than four units each, then more than seven courses are needed to fulfill the minor requirement of twenty-eight units.
Students can take a maximum of three lower-division courses; however, the Minor Program does not require lower-division courses. All twenty-eight units can be upper-division courses. Students are not required to take language courses, but we strongly encourage simultaneous language courses as part of the overall specialization in Korea.
Please keep in mind that the approved list of courses is divided into two categories: Korea courses (100 percent Korea content) and Korea-related courses (less than 100 percent Korea content). Students need to petition to use Korea-related courses and courses where topics vary.
All of the lower- and upper-division courses must be taken for a letter grade.
Approved List of Courses
1. Courses on Korea
Ethnomusicology (petition required for all ethnomusicology courses)
- MUS 15: when topic is Introduction to Korean Pop Music (petition required)
- MUS 87: when topic is Introduction to the Korean Wave (petition required)
- MUS 111: when topic is World Music Traditions—Music and Dance of Korea (petition required)
- MUS 116: when topic is Popular Music Studies Seminar: Korean Pop Culture (petition required)
History
- HIEA 150. Modern Korea, 1800–1945
- HIEA 151; The Two Koreas, 1945–Present
- HIEA 152. Histories and Cultures of the Modern Korean Diaspora
- HIEA 153. Social and Cultural History of Twentieth-Century Korea
- HIEA 180. Topics in Modern Korean History
Literature
- LTEA 140. Colonial Korea in Literary and Cinematic Representations
- LTEA 141. Postliberation Korean Literature
- LTEA 142. Korean Film and Literature
- LTEA 143. Gender and Sexuality in Korean Literature
- LTEA 144. Korean Diaspora
- LTKO 100A. Readings in the Colonial Period Literature and Culture
- LTKO 100B. Reading in the Postliberation Period Literature and Culture
- LTKO 100C. Reading in the South Korean Women’s Literature
Korean Language Courses
- LIHL 115. Korean for Korean Speakers
- LIHL 135. Advanced Korean for Korean Speakers
- LTKO 1 A-B-C. Beginning Korean
- LTKO 2 A-B-C. Intermediate Korean
- LTKO 3 A-B-C. Advanced Korean
Korean Politics and Security (School of International Relations and Pacific Studies)
- IRGN 484. Korean Politics
- IRGN 408. Korean Security
- IRGN 485. Korean Economy
- POLI 133J. Korean Politics
2. Korea-Related Courses (petition required for all Korea-related courses)
Asian Cultural Studies
- LTCS 133: when topic is Globalization and Culture in East Asia
Asian Ethnomusicology
- MUS 13AS. Music of Asia and Oceania
- MUS 15: when topic is Popular Music of East Asia: Its Transnational Flows and Fusions
- MUS 116: when topic is Women and Popular Music of Japan and Korea
Asian History
- HILD 10. East Asia: The Great Tradition
- HILD 11. East Asia and the West, 1279–1911
- HILD 12. East Asia in Global Perspective: The Twentieth Century
- HIEA 125. Women and Gender in East Asia
Asian American Studies
- ETHN 20. Introduction to Asian American Studies
- ETHN 122. Asian American Culture and Identity
- ETHN 123. Asian American Politics
- HILD 7B. Race and Ethnicity in the United States
- HIUS 124. Asian American History
- LTEN 28. Introduction to Asian American Literature
- LTEN 181. Asian American Literature
- MUS 116: when topic is Music of Asian Americans
Critical Gender Studies Program
- CGS 104: when topic is Queer Contact Zones in Asian, Intra-Asian, and Asian American Studies
Communication
- COMM 104D. Comparative Media Systems: Asia
Sociology
- SOCI 133. Immigration in Comparative Perspective