Vanderbilt University

Provided Programs&Courses

Undergraduate

1. Program (Korea-related degree offered) : Major in Asian Studies
   • Programs Remarks - The Asian Studies Program is Vanderbilt's home for the study of Asian languages and cultures. As a center for interdisciplinary inquiry, our program explores Asia through the multiple lenses of literature, history, history of art, religious studies, political science, and sociology. Our faculty's expertise encompasses a wide range of regions, countries, and languages, including East/Central Asia (China, Japan, Korea, and Tibet), South Asia (including India, Bangladesh, and Nepal) and Southeast Asia (particularly Vietnam).
2. Program (Korea-related degree offered) : Asian Studies Minor
   • Programs Remarks - The Asian Studies minor is less language-intensive and more interdisciplinary than the Chinese/Japanese Language and Culture minors. It is an ideal approach for those students who want to explore Asian cultures, but wish to combine some language study along with a broad selection of knowledge from other fields. It requires a minimum of 18 hours of coursework.
   1. Korea-related Courses : HIST 1050. East Asia since 1800
      • Courses Remarks - Traditional orders in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Encroachment of European empires. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century social and political revolutions. Japanese imperialism and the invention of pan-Asianism. WWII in the Pacific; the rise and persistence of Communism. East Asia as a new center of the global economy in the twenty-first century.
   2. Korea-related Courses : HART 1200. Arts of East Asia
      • Courses Remarks - A survey of sculpture, painting, and architecture in China, Japan, and Korea. Historical, religious, philosophical, and cultural background.
   3. Korea-related Courses : HART 1220. History of Asian Architecture
      • Courses Remarks - Cultural traditions of Asia from the first millennium BCE to the nineteenth century through the study of architecture. Cities, temples, and domestic structures of China, Japan, Korea, South Asia (India and Pakistan), and Southeast Asia.
   4. Korea-related Courses : HART 3164W. Art of Buddhist Relic and Reliquary
      • Courses Remarks - From second century BCE to present. Relic veneration and construction of reliquaries from a visual perspective. Beautification, ritualization, use and abuse, and bodily issues spanning India, China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia.
   5. Korea-related Courses : HIST 2110. Crisis Simulation in East Asia
      • Courses Remarks - Strategic motivations and behaviors of international actors. Simulations of the decision-making process during critical historical moments in the East Asian context through role-playing and video games. Offered on a graded basis only.
   6. Korea-related Courses : HIST 2111. U.S.–Asia Relations
      • Courses Remarks - Eighteenth and Nineteenth century European empires in Asia and the Americas to present age of globalization. Trade and culture; migration and social contacts; sports and medicine; diplomacy and war. Focus on U.S. and East Asia. Offered on a graded basis only. No credit for students who have earned credit for HIST 294 01 spring 2015.
   7. Korea-related Courses : HART 2150. East Asian Architecture and Gardens
      • Courses Remarks - East Asian religious, vernacular, and garden architecture from the second century CE to the present. Influence of Buddhism on East Asian architecture, fengshui, and site selection, garden as religious landscape, Asia in modern architecture.
   8. Korea-related Courses : RLST 3753. East Asian Buddhism
      • Courses Remarks - East Asian Buddhist texts. Key Buddhist ideas, values, practices, and institutions. Chronological surveys of key developments in major historical periods.