KORA398E
Special Topics in Korean Studies; The Koreas: Korean War to the 21st Century
This is a CIC courseshare course. The instructor, Professor Charles Kim, is at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, but UMD students enroll and receive it at UMD. Korea has always been part and parcel of key trends and phenomena in East Asia and the world. Students who take this course will explore the transformations, the setbacks, and the dynamism that have characterized modern Korean history, with a focus on post-1945 South Korea and North Korea. By exploring society and culture, we will delve into the resilience of Korean people as they lived through a turbulent history marked by national divisions and the Korean War, Cold War-era development and competition, democratization, and popular memory and nostalgia.
Sister Courses: KORA398A, KORA398C, KORA398D, KORA398F, KORA398G, KORA398I, KORA398J, KORA398K, KORA398L, KORA398M, KORA398N, KORA398V, KORA398W, KORA398Y, KORA398Z