University of Toronto

Provided Programs & Courses

Undergraduate

1. Program (Korea-related degree offered) : East Asian Studies BA (Major and Minor)
   • Program Remarks - The Department of East Asian Studies offers an in-depth and wide-ranging series of courses dealing with the history, culture, and language of pre-modern, modern, and contemporary East Asia. Our program enables students to develop a necessary understanding of China, Japan and Korea as cultures and societies of global importance. 
   1. Korea-related Courses : EAS 103H1 – Premodern East Asia
      • Course Remarks - Examines how various histories of East Asia can be written by examining specific themes in the histories of China, Japan, and Korea to roughly 1600. Required of EAS specialists, majors, and minors.
   2. Korea-related Courses : EAS 105H1 – Modern East Asia
      • Course Remarks - Examines how various histories of East Asia can be written by examining specific themes in the histories of China, Japan, and Korea from roughly 1600 to the Cold War. Required of EAS specialists, majors, and minors. 
   3. Korea-related Courses : EAS271H1    20th Century Korean History
      • Course Remarks - A survey of the history of Korea from the Tonghak uprising and Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895, through the colonial period, division, and civil war, to the democratization movement.
   4. Korea-related Courses : EAS272H1    Post-War Korean Society & Culture
      • Course Remarks - This course offers a critical analysis of South Korean film and literature as a way of understanding the political and cultural contexts of post-Korean War South Korean society and culture. The class is devoted to developing critical perspectives on the historical context and cultural representation of Korea. In particular, it introduces students to the ongoing construction of identities about marginalized Koreans through major political incidents, including the Kwangju uprising.
   5. Korea-related Courses : EAS333H1    Modernism and Colonial Korea
      • Course Remarks - This course considers the problem of colonial modernism through a close reading of literary and other cultural texts from early 20th century Korea. It asks what it means to enter modernity under colonial rule, and questions the relationship between imperialism, writing, and subjectivity in particular. Topics covered include the role of literature in elaborating new concepts of subjectivity, literature and the fine arts as assimilatory practices, the emergence of urban space and consequent reconfiguration of notions of the rural, and changing notions of time and space in the cultural products of nativism.
   6. Korea-related Courses : EAS372H1    The Postwar, Cold War and Divided Koreas
      • Course Remarks - This research-oriented course examines the divided history of the Korean peninsula since 1945 in the context of the global war. Beginning with the Korean war and ending with the contemporary culture of division, the course examines key debates in the history of contemporary Korea.
   7. Korea-related Courses : EAS396H1    Topics in East Asian Studie
      • Course Remarks - An in-depth study of Chinese, Japanese or Korean culture, history and/or literature. Content depends on the instructor. See EAS website for details. When offered, the course will have a subtitle that describes its content.
   8. Korea-related Courses : EAS471Y1    Issues in the Political Economy of South Korea
      • Course Remarks - A heavy reading, heavy writing course designed to guide students toward a final research paper on a self-selected topic of interest on the postwar political economy of South Korea. 
   9. Korea-related Courses : EAS473H1    Modern Korean History Seminar
      • Course Remarks - An examination of recent literature in the modern Korean history field, focusing especially on the late 19th and 20th centuries.
   10. Korea-related Courses : EAS110Y1    Modern Standard Korean I
       • Course Remarks - This course is designed to help students build communication skills in the Korean language. Through an integration of listening, speaking, reading and writing, this course aims to provide a solid foundation in beginning-level Korean. This course assumes that students do not have any prior knowledge of Korean. 
   11. Korea-related Courses : EAS210Y1    Modern Standard Korean II
       • Course Remarks - As a continuation of EAS110Y1, this course is designed to help students increase their communication skills in the Korean language.  Students in this course are expected to perform basic communicative functions, read and write paragraph-level texts, and conjugate verbs/adjectives accurately.
   12. Korea-related Courses : EAS211Y1    Accelerated Modern Standard Korean I & II
       • Course Remarks - Covering both EAS110Y1 and EAS210Y1, the course is ideal for self-motivated students who enjoy fast-paced language learning, students possessing a passion for Korean films and television, students with some listening and speaking skills from prior study or family background, and students taking the full four-year course series. Successful completion of the course fulfils the prerequisite for EAS310Y1. 

Graduate

1. Program (Korea-related degree offered) : East Asian Studies MA
   • Program Remarks - The Department offers programs leading to the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in East Asian Studies. The Department also participates in several graduate level collaborative programs: Asia-Pacific Studies (MA), Book History and Print Culture (MA, PhD), Sexual Diversity Studies (MA, PhD).
2. Program (Korea-related degree offered) : East Asian Studies PhD
3. Program (Korea-related degree offered) : Contemporary Asian Studies BA (Major and Minor)
   • Program Remarks - Based at the Asian Institute in the Munk School of Global Affairs, the Dr. David Chu Program in Contemporary Asian Studies provides a multidisciplinary, pan-Asian, and thematically driven lens through which to understand the complexities of today’s Asia. Students gain empirical and critical knowledge of South, Southeast, and East Asia from multiple disciplinary approaches, including anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, and sociology.
   1. Korea-related Courses : CAS200Y1 – Global Asia
      • Course Remarks - This course introduces students to Asia’s growing role in the contemporary global community. It provides an interdisciplinary take on key themes and topics in the study of the Asia with a particular emphasis on the dynamic movement of people, ideas, and resources across borders in the region. It provides conceptual and area studies backgrounds for students aiming to take more advanced courses on Asia and for students interested in the Contemporary Asian Studies major and minor. The course also examines the growth and character of economic, political, and cultural connections tying Asia to Canada.
   2. Korea-related Courses : CAS310H1    Comparative Colonialisms in Asia
      • Course Remarks - This course analyzes the impact of colonialism in South, East, and Southeast Asia and the various ways in which pre-colonial traditions intersect with and reshape colonial and postcolonial process across the various regions of Asia. The course will examine the conjunctures of economy, politics, religion, education, ethnicity, gender, and caste, as these have played out over time in the making and re-making of Asia as both idea and place.
   3. Korea-related Courses : CAS320H1    Comparative Modernities in Asia
      • Course Remarks - Since at least the late 1700s, the effects of capitalism across the globe have profoundly transformed both the rural and urban landscapes of human livelihood, consumption, production and governance in Asia.  While colonial empires have declined, new empires have emerged, and a growing number of countries have witnessed the rise of nationalism and independent states, political and technological revolutions, and most recently neoliberal globalization. 
   4. Korea-related Courses : CAS490H1   Asian Authoritarianisms
      • Course Remarks - In the wake of Arab Spring, the Asia Pacific has displaced the Middle East in the spotlight as a holdout region whose countries remain significantly resistant to global democratizing tends. Despite notable breakthroughs in Taiwan, Korea and more recently, Indonesia, the region remains home to a remarkably diverse group of functioning authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes, including Vietnam, North Korea, Myanmar, Singapore, China and Malaysia. 
4. Program (Korea-related degree offered) : Global Asia Studies BA
   • Program Remarks - Global Asia Studies (GAS) is an inter-disciplinary undergraduate program that places Asia within a dynamic global and diasporic context. It enhances our understanding of historical and contemporary global culture and politics by enabling students to engage with an extensive and intensive study of Asia and Asian Diasporas in the past and present.
   1. Korea-related Courses : GASA01H3 Introducing Global Asia and its Histories
      • Course Remarks - This course introduces Global Asia Studies through studying historical and political perspectives on Asia. Students will learn how to critically analyze major historical texts and events to better understand important cultural, political, and social phenomena involving Asia and the world. 
   2. Korea-related Courses : GASA02H3 Introduction to Global Asia Studies
      • Course Remarks - This course introduces Global Asia Studies through the study of cultural and social institutions in Asia. Students will critically study important elements of culture and society over different periods of history and in different parts of Asia.
   3. Korea-related Courses : GASC19H3 Gender in East Asian Science and Technology
      • Course Remarks - This course examines how gender issues influence the history and contemporary development of science and technology in East Asian societies, including China, Japan, and Korea. 
   4. Korea-related Courses : GASC41H3 Media and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia
      • Course Remarks - This course introduces students to media industries and commercial popular cultural forms in East and Southeast Asia. Topics include reality TV, TV dramas, anime, and manga as well as issues such as regional cultural flows, global impact of Asian popular culture, and the localization of global media in Asia.
   5. Korea-related Courses : GASC50H3 Comparative Studies of East Asian Legal Cultures
      • Course Remarks - An introduction to the distinctive East Asian legal tradition shared by China, Japan, and Korea through readings about selected thematic issues.
   6. Korea-related Courses : GASD47H3 Politics and East Asian Art
      • Course Remarks - A writing-intensive seminar that will lead to a collective digital research project. The content varies from year to year.

Designated Center

• Korean Studies Center : Centre for the Study of Korea
• Main Organization : Munk School of Global Affairs
• Date Center founded : 2006
• Korean Studies Center address : Center for the Study of Korea, Munk School of Global Affairs @ University of Toronto, 315 Bloor Street West (At the Observatory), Toronto, Ontario, M5S 0A7 Canada
• Center website : http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/csk/
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