University of North Texas

Provided Programs&Courses

Undergraduate

1. Program (Korea-related degree offered) : Minor in Asian Studies
   • Programs Remarks - The University of North Texas offers students who have a strong interest in Asia the option of pursuing an interdisciplinary minor in Asian studies. This minor should be of value to those students who are planning on careers in the business world, government, or the legal profession, as well as those who simply want to broaden their knowledge about a part of the world that includes a significant portion of the world's population and economic output.
   1. Korea-related Courses : ANTH 3710 East Asia
      • Courses Remarks - An overview of cultures and contemporary issues in societies in the Far East, in the context of social and political change and development. Compares anthropological and ethnographic studies of the Peoples' Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan, supplemented by selected research from sociology, history, and political science, and specific areas of cultural and social change in each society, including kinship and family, ethnicity, economic and political development, industrialization, urbanization, and health and social policy.
   2. Korea-related Courses : PHIL 3665 - Eastern Religon and the Environment
      • Courses Remarks - An examination of non-Western religious traditions for an environmental philosophy geared toward assessing global environmental issues with a focus on South Asian and East Asian philosophical and religious traditions.
   3. Korea-related Courses : PHIL 3595 East Asian Philosophy and Religion
      • Courses Remarks - Philosophical study of East Asia from earliest times to the present, including ancient Chinese religion; Taoist, Confucian, Mohist and Legalist philosophies; Chinese Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism; the influence of Shinto, Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism upon medieval Japan; and Japanese philosophy since the Meiji Restoration. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of department.