Kwantlen Polytechnic University

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Provided Programs&Courses

Exchange

  1. Program (Korea-related degree offered) : Exchange program
    • Programs Remarks - Take courses from partner Korean University with full transfer credit to Kwantlen University
    1. Korea-related Courses : GEOG 21853 Credits: Regional Geography of East Asia
      • Courses Remarks - Students will examine the physical and human environments of East Asia, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and North and South Korea, from a geographical perspective. They will analyze and critically comment on the roles played by physical, cultural, and economic resources in the development of this region. They will examine the present interactions between the countries of this region within national and international contexts and consider possible futures for this region.
    2. Korea-related Courses :ASIA 1311: Religions of East Asia
      • Courses Remarks - Students will study the major religions of East Asia. They will critically examine the history and doctrines of religions including Daoism, Buddhism, and Shintoism. Students will analyze how these religions evolved over time in response to local conditions, and how they influenced the formation of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese cultures.

Undergraduate

  1. Program (Korea-related degree offered) : Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies (Major and Minor)
    • Programs Remarks - Asian Studies students begin their first year of studies with courses that broadly introduce the countries and cultures of East and South Asia, as well as some of the social science methodologies required in upper level courses. As they progress to more narrowly defined regional courses, students will examine in greater depth the societies, cultures, political systems, economies, and histories of the peoples and nations of South and East Asia, as well as their interactions with Canada and the rest of the world.
    1. Korea-related Courses : ASIA 3140: Environment and Society in East Asia
      • Course Remarks - Students will critically analyze the interaction between environments and societies in East Asia. They will critically examine environmental history, institutional politics, property rights, and political ecology. Students will analyze the historical background of specific environmental problems, examine the legacies of late imperial, early twentieth, and late twentieth century policies on the use and abuse of natural resources. 

Post-Secondary

  1. Program (Korea-related degree offered) : Associate of Arts Degree in Asian Studies
    • Programs Remarks : The Associate of Arts Degree (AA) in Asian Studies is designed to introduce students to the discipline and to prepare them for further study. Students can choose to focus on a particular geographic region.
    1. Korea-related Courses :ASIA 3150: East Asian Immigrants to North America
      • Course Remarks - Students will critically analyze East Asian immigration to North America over the past two hundred years. They will also examine settlement experiences in North America, with a particular emphasis on the connections between immigrants and their homelands, interactions among East Asian immigrants and other groups in North America, and the development of ethnic communities. 
    2. Korea-related Courses : ASIA 3151: Gender in East Asia
      • Course Remarks - Students will critically analyze the role of gender in contemporary East Asia, and in doing so gain a unique opportunity to explore differences in the conceptualization of gender among countries and regions. They will, by going beyond dichotomies of East and West, traditional and modern, critically examine gender issues from a theoretically informed and comparative perspective. Students will critique different conceptualizations of feminism, the gendered effects of economic change, the relationship of gender to politics and the state, and the historical and transnational contexts which shape gender relations. They will, therefore, gain an insight into the situation of women in contemporary East Asia, as well as extend their understanding of the dynamics of gender in the contemporary world.
    3. Korea-related Courses : ASIA 4350: Canadian East and South Asian Communities
      • Course Remarks - Students will critically examine the theories surrounding the study of migration and adaptation, as well as explore the local experience of East and South Asian communities in Canada, with emphasis on the post-World War II period. They will critically look at immigrants as 'social actors' and active contributors to their own social and cultural transformation as they engage with the new and changing social, economic and political structures of Canadian society. Students will conduct a field research project from a social science perspective on an Asian community in the urban field site of Greater Vancouver or in the Fraser Valley region.
    4. Korea-related Courses : HIST 1150: Introduction to Traditional East Asia
      • Course Remarks - Students will examine some of the main themes in the history of East Asia. They will examine major developments in China, Japan, and Korea to approximately 1800. Students will focus on religious, social, cultural, economic, and political developments, as well as the interactions among the nations of this region.
    5. Korea-related Courses : HIST 3140: Environment and Society in East Asia
      • Course Remarks - Students will critically analyze the interaction between environments and societies in East Asia. They will critically examine environmental history, institutional politics, property rights, and political ecology. Students will analyze the historical background of specific environmental problems, examine the legacies of late imperial, early twentieth, and late twentieth century policies on the use and abuse of natural resources. They will critically examine a broad range of issues including agriculture, forests, wildlife and biodiversity, grasslands, water, and the impact of "mammoth projects".