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 may be found on the Academic Senate website: http://senate.ucsd.edu/catalog-copy/approved-updates/.
The Korean studies minor is an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary program that allows students to explore and deepen their interest in and knowledge of Korea. Korean studies at UC San Diego places special emphasis on modern Korea as a transnational formation, exploring how Korea has been shaped and has constructed itself under changing historical circumstances and in relation to other nation-states, empires, and their histories and cultures. Course offerings for the minor include the disciplines of history, literature, and language; culture and popular culture studies; gender and sexuality studies; music; political science; international relations; and globalization studies. The program comprises two broad categories: (1) courses on Korea and (2) Korea-related courses. The first category of courses automatically count toward the minor, while the second category of courses needs to be petitioned through the Korean Studies Program. Please consult with the program coordinator regarding Korea-related courses, Education Abroad Program courses, and other transfer credits.
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 recommend that students take language courses as part of their 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. Popular Music (4) when topic is Introduction to Korean Pop Music (petition required)
- MUS 87. Freshman Seminar (1) when topic is Introduction to the Korean Wave (petition required)
- MUS 111. World Music Traditions (4) when topic is Music and Dance of Korea (petition required)
- MUS 116. Popular Music Seminar (4) when topic is Korean Pop Culture (petition required)
History
- HIEA 150. Modern Korea, 1800–1945 (4)
- HIEA 151. The Two Koreas, 1945–Present (4)
- HIEA 152. Histories and Cultures of the Modern Korean Diaspora (4)
- HIEA 153. Social and Cultural History of Twentieth-Century Korea (4)
- HIEA 180. Topics in Modern Korean History (4)
Literature
- LTEA 140. Modern Korean Literature in Translation from the Colonial Period (4)
- LTEA 141. Modern Korean Literature in Translation from 1945 to the Present (4)
- LTEA 142. Korean Film, Literature, and Popular Culture (4)
- LTEA 143. Gender and Sexuality in Korean Literature and Culture (4)
- LTEA 144. Korean American Literature and Other Literatures of the Korean Diaspora (4)
- LTKO 100. Readings in Korean Literature and Culture (repeatable if taken on different topics) (4)
- LTKO 192. Senior Seminar in Literatures in Korean (1)
Korean Language Courses
- LTKO 1 A-B-C. Beginning Korean (5-5-5)
- LTKO 2 A-B-C. Intermediate Korean (5-5-5)
- LTKO 3 A-B-C. Advanced Korean (5-5-5)
- LTKO 2D. Intermediate-Advanced Korean I (5)
- LTKO 2E. Intermediate-Advanced Korean II (5)
- LTKO 11. Conversation Workshop I (1)
- LTKO 21. Conversation Workshop II (1)
- LTKO 149. Readings in Korean Language, History, and Structure I (fall) (4)
- LTKO 149. Readings in Korean Language, History, and Structure II (winter) (4)
- LTKO 149. Readings in Korean Language, History, and Structure III (spring) (4)
- LIHL 115. Korean for Korean Speakers (4)
- LIHL 135. Advanced Korean for Korean Speakers (4)
Korean Politics and Security (School of International Relations and Pacific Studies)
- IRGN 408. Korean Security (4)
- IRGN 484. Korean Politics (4)
- IRGN 485. Korean Economy (4)
- POLI 133J. Korean Politics (4)
2. Korea-Related Courses (petition required for all Korea-related courses)
Asian Cultural Studies
- LTCS 133. Globalization and Culture (4) when topic is Globalization and Culture in East Asia
Asian Ethnomusicology
- MUS 13AS. World Music/Asia and Oceania (4)
- MUS 15. Popular Music (4) when topic is Popular Music of East Asia
- MUS 116. Popular Music Studies Seminar (4) when topic is Women in Music of East Asia
Asian History
- HILD 10. East Asia: The Great Tradition (4)
- HILD 11. East Asia and the West, 1279–1911 (4)
- HILD 12. Twentieth-Century East Asia (4)
- HIEA 125. Women and Gender in East Asia (4)
Asian American Studies
- ETHN 20. Introduction to Asian American History (4)
- ETHN 122. Asian American Culture and Identity (4)
- ETHN 123. Asian American Politics (4)
- HILD 7B. Race and Ethnicity in the United States (4)
- HIUS 124/ETHN 125. Asian American History (4)
- LTEN 28. Introduction to Asian American Literature (4)
- LTEN 181. Asian American Literature (4)
- MUS 116. Popular Music Seminar when topic is Music of Asian Americans (4)
Critical Gender Studies Program
- CGS 104. Advanced Topics in Comparative Perspectives (4) when topic relates to Queer Asian Studies
Communication
- COMM 104D. Comparative Media Systems: Asia (4)
Sociology
- SOCI 133. Immigration in Comparative Perspective (4)