9:30-10:45A     TR     BH317

A portion of the above section reserved for graduates
G372:  Graduate students register for HIST T500
Above section carries culture studies credit

This course examines the society, politics, and economic development
of modern Korea, both North and South.  Major course themes focus on
the transformation of Korea from an agrarian, bureaucratic, and
aristocratic society into two, dynamic, authoritarian,
industrialized…in the case of South Korea…democratizing, states.  We
will trace Korea's response to the influx of Western political power
in Asia after 1840 and examine the effects on Korea of the intrusion
of capitalism and imperialism in the late 19th century.  Since 1900,
intellectual, political, social, and economic change in Korea has been
extraordinarily rapid.  How the modern Korea state and society has
evolved as a response to this change is the central concern of the
course.

Texts: Nancy Ablemann, John Lie, Blue Dreams, which examines the 20th
century Korean Diaspora, Carter Eckert, Offspring of Empire, narrative
of the origins of Korean Capitalism, Michael Robinson, Cultural
Nationalism in Colonial Korea, Korean nationalist and social
revolutionary movements, Bruce Cumings, Korea's Place in the Sun,
historical narrative of Korea, includes contemporary north Korea.

Course evaluation based on a Mid-term Exam (30%), final (30%),
Term-Essay (30%), and participation and attendance (10%).