York University

Provided Programs&Courses

Graduate

1. Program (Korea-related degree offered) : Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies
   • Programs Remarks - The Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies (GDAS) is a one-of-a-kind diploma tailored specifically for students conducting their graduate research in Asia and Asian Diasporas. With support from a large number of experts in Asian Studies, the Diploma provides academic and professional exposure to students who can enrich their graduate training and strengthen their credentials in Asian Studies.
     Most of the existing courses focus on Chinese, Japanese, and Korean societies past and present. New courses are being developed that deal with Vietnam, and with those parts of Southeast Asia that sustain close cultural ties with East Asia.
   1. Korea-related Courses : The Making of Asian Studies: Critical Perspectives
      • Courses Remarks - The course examines how academic studies on Asian spaces and identities have been produced historically and are presently constructed and connoted. The course does not, however, provide a substantive introduction to historical or contemporary processes of change in Asia. As we read through the interdisciplinary material taken from the Humanities and Social Sciences with different area foci (South Asian, Southeast Asian and East Asian) as well as literature, we will pay particular attention to (1) questions of methodology with an eye to our own scholarly projects and (2) epistemology, i.e. how we think about Asia and how we position ourselves as well as our future scholarly contributions in light of “the making of Asian Studies“. 
   2. Korea-related Courses : AP/ HIST 3766 3.0A (FALL)  KOREA SINCE WORLD WAR II
      • Courses Remarks - This course is a survey of twentieth-century Korean history, with emphasis on the social movements and economic development following Korea’s division in 1945. Although initial lectures and discussions review early twentieth-century history, the course focuses on late twentieth-century developments, including US and USSR occupations (1945-1948) after Japanese colonization and the Korean War (1950- 1953). 
   3. Korea-related Courses : AP/HIST 2710 6.0A HISTORY OF EAST ASIA
      • Courses Remarks - This course studies Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese societies from their beginnings to the 20th century. In other words, it covers approximately one quarter of the history of human civilization.
   4. Korea-related Courses : AP/ HIST 4765 6.0A RETHINKING GENDER IN EAST ASIAN HISTORY
      • Courses Remarks - This course examines gender roles in pre-modern and modern China, Korea and Japan. It focuses on women: their places in the family and society, their relationships with one another and men, and the evolution of ideas about gender.

Undergraduate

1. Program (Korea-related degree offered) : East Asian Studies
   • Programs Remarks - The EAST ASIAN STUDIES Program (EAST) offers a broadly based approach to the study of the peoples and civilizations of East Asia. It is a rich and flexible Program of study that brings together courses from the academic disciplines of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Languages and Literatures, and Fine Arts.
   1. Korea-related Courses : AP/KOR 1000 6.0 Elementary Modern Standard Korean
      • Courses Remarks - This is an introductory Korean language course.The objective of the course is to equip students which basic spoken and written communicative skills in the interpersonal mode in most essential daily life situations. The course starts with the sounds of spoken Korean, the writing system Hangul, and greetings, and proceeds to basic communication, fundamentals of grammar, and elementary reading skills for simple sentences.
   2. Korea-related Courses : AP/KOR 2000 6.0 Intermediate Modern Standard Korean
      • Courses Remarks - The course reviews topics of Korean grammar normally covered in an elementary course. The objective of the course is to equip students with communicative skills in speaking, reading and writing at the intermediate level in Korean, such as expressing various stances of the speaker—eg.judgement, interference, and evaluation or subjective assessment of ideas—and expressing more complex relations between events, such as cause, reason, purpose, condition, concession, intention and background. 
   3. Korea-related Courses : AP/KOR 3600 6.0 Contemporary Korean Culture
      • Courses Remarks - This course is designed to introduce students to contemporary Korean culture, identity, and society. It seeks to help students develop a dynamic understanding of modern Korea by taking an interdisciplinary approach to cultural and social political issues of Korean society. The course focuses contemporary Korean identities and popular culture such as Korean films, dramas and popular music.
   4. Korea-related Courses : AP/POLS 4285 3.0 The International Political Economy of Eastern Asia
      • Courses Remarks - This seminar examines the changing dynamics of political, economic and security relations in and among the countries of Eastern Asia.
   5. Korea-related Courses : AP/SOSC 2600 9.0 (AP/HUMA 2800 9.0) Introduction to the Study of Religion
      • Courses Remarks - This course introduces students to some of the basic research methods used in the Humanities and Social Sciences to study the religious. We explore the history, literature and practices of the religions of South Asia (Buddhism, Hinduism), East Asia (China, Japan, Korea), Europe and West Asia (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), Africa and the Americas, though not all traditions may be examined every year.
   6. Korea-related Courses : AP/POLS 3591 3.0 Political Economy of Asia and Pacific
      • Courses Remarks - The course studies the political and economic changes in the region of Asia and the Pacific and their implications for the global capitalist system. Interactions between the state, capital, classes, and gender are discussed.

Exchange

1. Program (Korea-related degree offered) : Exchange Program under East Asian Studies
   • Programs Remarks - Exchange Programs are coordinated through York International. Normally it is expected that undergraduate students be in an Honours Program and have completed two years of study at York. Graduate students may pursue research and/or attend classes related to their studies. In all cases, approval of the student’s major department is required to ensure the compatibility of York and the host institution programs.

Designated Center

• Korean Studies Center : York Centre for Asian Research
• Main Organization : York University
• Date Center founded : 2002
• Korean Studies Center address : Eighth Floor, Kaneff Tower, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3
• Center website : http://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/
• Korea-related Journal : Asia Research Briefs, Asia Colloqia Papers