This course examines Korean popular culture and its related issues in historical and sociocultural contexts. For this examination, the course surveys a history of Korean popular culture in the 20th and 21st centuries, focusing on forms of media culture (popular music, cinema, and TV dramas/shows) that has not only led to but developed through Korean Wave both within and outside of Korea. Also, the course delves into a variety of phenomena and issues in Korean popular culture in conjunction with contemporary Korean society. The course then aims to critically and analytically discuss the ramification of Korean popular culture and Korean Wave in the global, local, and glocal perspectives.

IEE1154

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The goal of this course is to familiarize students with Korean culture, literature, film, music, and society. Classes will consist of lecture, readings, and films and will be structured around small group and class discussions. Through this course, we will examine larger issues such as the legacy of colonialism, gender and social status, the Korean War and its aftermath, economic development and modernization, nationalism, etc. Through this examination we hope to consider broader and more inclusive approaches to understanding Korean culture and society.

IEE3103

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This course will explore how Korean thinkers and reformers/activists have engaged religions and ideologies in the major political, social and cultural developments and movements during premodern Korea and beyond. Through this course, the students are expected to gain a deeper understanding of how ideologies and religious ideas have informed the major debates and collective activities that have made the Korean history progress. One further aim of this class is to enhance the students’ ability to write readable essays and paper based on their knowledge and insight acquired through the lectures, readings, and discussions.

IEE3107

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This course will explore how Korean thinkers and activists have engaged religions and ideologies in the major political, social and cultural movements and activism during colonial and contemporary Korea. Through this course, the students are expected to gain a deeper understanding of how ideologies and religious ideas have informed the major debates and collective activities that have made the Korean history progress further. One further aim of this class is to enhance the students’ ability to write readable essays and paper based on their knowledge and insight acquired through the lectures, readings and discussions.

IEE3108

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A general survey of the historical development of various aspects of Korean civilization, including politics, society and economy, thought and religion, and the arts.  Half of the course will cover the main themes in Korean history and their historical interpretations, from prehistoric times to the modern period.  It will also pay special attention to social systems, religion and culture, as well as the changing geopolitics of the region.  The discussions will take a comparative approach by examining contemporaneous China, Japan, and northeast Asia, identifying similarities and differences between the regions. Through this course, students will have a better understanding of the challenges Korea faced in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the historical processes through which Korea, China, and Japan developed.

IEE3121

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The turbulent recent history of South Korea has produced a society that is engaged with a variety of local and global social forces in complex and contradictory ways. The sweeping social changes in South Korean society have engaged it in a struggle to redefine and re-examine itself, and its relation to such basic ideas as gender, class, tradition and nation. Contemporary films provide an especially interesting entry into these issues and how Koreans have been thinking about them. This course is intended to enhance students` understanding of a variety of historical, social, cultural issues of South Korean society by analyzing relevant contemporary South Korean films.

IEE3300

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This course helps students to become familiar with contemporary mass media and popular culture in Korea along with relevant issues. A primary emphasis will be placed on the ways in which the media express and mediate Korean popular culture. Students will learn theoretical concepts and ideas that enable them to understand Korean mass media and “read” Korean popular culture from academic perspectives. The topics to be examined include ownership, diversity, economics, policy, multiculturalism, K-pop, Korean Wave, film, journalism, broadcasting, among others.

IEE3317

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This course aims to provide an overview of the history of the Korea-US relations and to discuss major issues regarding Korea-US relations. The first half of the course deals with the various encounters between the  two countries from the late nineteenth century up to the 1980`s. The second half discusses various contemporary issues related to the two countries, including security, trade, Korean nationalism, immigration, North Korea`s nuclear program, and territorial disputes, among many others. 

IEE3326

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To learn the basics of business communication, application, and practical and theoretical factors of communication.

Business communication is designed to introduce you to skills and practices that will help you communicate and develop a communication strategy for yourself in business and/or for writeen and oral form. We will look at the standard practices for communicating within and across business sectors. We will practice some of the fundamentals of business writing, including memoranda, email, business letters, and discuss how to be persuasive and engaging in thses writings.

IEE3328

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Lectures will explore a range of topics related to technologies of contemporary digital and social media, with particular attention to understanding technical, historical, ethical and legal issues. Students will learn to express themselves effectively with digital media, and especially on the web.

IEE3372

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