University of Minnesota

Provided Programs&Courses

Undergraduate

1. Program (Korea-related degree offered) : Asian Languages and Literatures B.A.
   • Programs Remarks - Students in this program study an Asian language - Chinese, Hindi and Urdu, Japanese, Korean, or Hmong - as well as methods of literary and cultural analysis. The language study provides advanced spoken and written skills that allow students direct access to the people and cultures of Asia, where more than half the world's population lives. The analytical courses give a theoretically sophisticated understanding of the rich literary and cultural texts, from the accepted literary canon to popular culture and film.
   1. Korea-related Courses : KOR 3031 - Third Year Korean I
      • Courses Remarks - Speaking, reading, writing at advanced level in modern colloquial Korean. Narration, written reports. Further Chinese characters introduced.
   2. Korea-related Courses : KOR 3032 - Third Year Korean II
      • Courses Remarks - Speaking, reading, writing at advanced level in modern colloquial Korean. Narration, written reports. Further Chinese characters introduced.
   3. Korea-related Courses : KOR 4041 - Advanced Readings in Modern Korean I
      • Courses Remarks - Speaking, listening, reading, writing. Content/task-based course. Study vocabulary/read novels, journals, selections from Korean history/arts. Writing summaries, reports, simple reaction papers.
   4. Korea-related Courses : KOR 4042 - Advanced Readings in Modern Korean II
      • Courses Remarks - Speaking, listening, reading, writing. Content/task-based course. Study vocabulary/read novels, journals, selections from Korean history/arts. Writing summaries, reports, simple reaction papers.
   5. Korea-related Courses : KOR 5140 - Readings in Sino-Korean Texts
      • Courses Remarks - Sino-Korean vocabulary/characters necessary for advanced and superior level of knowledge in Korean. Students conduct research projects based on specialized readings in their own fields of study.

Graduate

1. Program (Korea-related degree offered) : Asian Literatures, Cultures, and Media M.A.
   • Programs Remarks - The Asian literatures, cultures, and media (ALCM) program enables students to pursue the study of Asian texts and media, broadly understood. The Asian Languages and Literatures Department does not admit students directly to the M.A. degree. It considers applications only from students seeking the Ph.D. degree. The M.A. is offered only as an exit degree or interim credential.
2. Program (Korea-related degree offered) : Asian Literatures, Cultures, and Media Ph.D.
   • Programs Remarks - The Asian literatures, cultures, and media (ALCM) program enables students to pursue the study of Asian texts and media, broadly understood. The program encourages work that questions the boundaries of traditional area studies, demands proficiency in the language(s) of concentration, and provides opportunities for students to design a flexible program of study.
   1. Korea-related Courses : ALL 3261W - Writing (in) East Asian Cultures: From Oracle Bones to Tattoos
      • Courses Remarks - History, materiality, practice of writing Chinese characters (hanzi/kanji/hanja) in cultural venues in East Asia, including contemporary society. Sites/practices where writing takes on high cultural value. Oracle bone writing, calligraphy, advertisements, tattooing. Identity construction, nationalism.
   2. Korea-related Courses : ALL 3265W - The Fantastic in East Asia: Ghosts, Foxes, and the Alien
      • Courses Remarks - How the strange/alien is constructed in premodern Chinese/Japanese literature. East Asian theories of the strange and their role in the classical tale, through the works of Pu Songling, Ueda Akinari, and others. Role of Buddhist cosmology/salvation in other works (e.g., Journey to the West, drama).
   3. Korea-related Courses : ALL 3261W - Writing (in) East Asian Cultures: From Oracle Bones to Tattoos
      • Courses Remarks - History, materiality, practice of writing Chinese characters (hanzi/kanji/hanja) in cultural venues in East Asia, including contemporary society. Sites/practices where writing takes on high cultural value. Oracle bone writing, calligraphy, advertisements, tattooing. Identity construction, nationalism.
   4. Korea-related Courses : ALL 3536 - Modern Korean Literature
      • Courses Remarks - Modern Korean literature in English translation from the colonial period until the 1990s. Read literary texts critically, using genre categories, theories of narrative voice, different understandings of modern literary subjectivity, and historical contextualization.
   5. Korea-related Courses : ALL 3556 - Korean Film
      • Courses Remarks - Introduction to Korean film from the Japanese colonial period to the present day, with a particular emphasis on the last two decades.