KORA398D

This is a Big Ten Academic Alliance CourseShare course. The instructor is at the University of Wisconsin, but you enroll and receive credit for it at Maryland. For further information please contact the KORA CourseShare coordinator, at koracourseshare@umd.edu Students will be responsible for providing basic information to the host institution in order to access the course's Canvas site. Ties between the United States and the Korean Peninsula are contentious, complex, and often confusing. The Korean peninsula is home to one of the United States closest allies, the Republic of Korea (ROK), and one of its more bombastic antagonists, the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK). While the history of US relations with the Korean peninsula are still shaped by the ongoing Korean War, the relationship is much older and the major players in the relationship are more diverse than soldiers and generals. This course will survey the issues and questions that have shaped and continue to shape Korean views of the United States and vice-versa from the 19th century up to the present day.