ANT477H1 - Transnational Korea in and outside the Peninsula
Hours: 24S
This course addresses reading ethnography as a tool to understand compressed and complex modernity such as Korean societies, both in and outside of the Korean peninsula. In particular, this course aims to develop students’ critical thinking on class, ethnicity, gender, family, and migration in Korea and diasporic societies of Koreans in Canada, China, Japan, and US.
Prerequisite: ANT207H1 and 0.5 credit at the 300+ level from BR=1/2/3 coursesBreadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
CIN372Y1 - Contemporary World Cinema
Hours: 48L/72P
Major contemporary developments beyond Hollywood and European filmmaking, examining a select number of national/regional cinemas: Africa, Korea, Iran, India (Hindi cinema), and Latin America. Topics include: transnationalism, indigenization of generic and stylistic conventions, cultural contexts, distribution networks, film festivals, and reception within a global economy.
Prerequisite: CIN105Y1Exclusion: ENGC83H3Recommended Preparation: CIN201Y1Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1), Society and its Institutions (3)
DTS416H1 - Wars, Diaspora and Music
Hours: 24S
The course explores how composers, performers, songwriters and audiences made sense of traumatic and violent events that they experienced, such as ethnic conflicts, wars, exile and displacement, through music. We will also look at how government ideologies employ music during wars. The case studies will include stories of Jewish, Palestinian, Afghan, Romani, Korean, Rwandan and other diasporas severely affected by wars and violence.
Prerequisite: 14.0 credits including DTS200Y1Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
EAS103H1 - Premodern East Asia
Hours: 24L/12T
Examines how various histories of East Asia can be written by focusing on specific themes in the histories of China, Japan, and Korea to roughly 1600. Required of EAS specialists, majors, and minors.
Exclusion: EAS102Y1Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
EAS105H1 - Modern East Asia
Hours: 24L/12T
Examines how various histories of East Asia can be written by focusing on specific themes in the histories of China, Japan, and Korea from roughly 1600 to the Cold War. Required of EAS specialists, majors, and minors.
Prerequisite: EAS103H1Exclusion: EAS102Y1Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
EAS110Y1 - Modern Standard Korean I
Hours: 48L/72T
This course is designed to help students build communication skills in the Korean language. Through an integration of listening, speaking, reading and writing, it aims to provide a solid foundation in beginning-level Korean. This course assumes that students do not have any prior knowledge of Korean. Students must go through screening process conducted by the Department. See https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/korean for details.
Prerequisite: Students must go through screening process conducted by the Department. See https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/korean for details.Exclusion: EAS211Y1Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
EAS210Y1 - Modern Standard Korean II
Hours: 48L/72T
As a continuation of EAS110Y1, this course is designed to help students improve their 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. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/korean for details.
Prerequisite: EAS110Y1 (63% minimum)/ equivalent as determined by the Korean placement interview.
Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/korean for details.Exclusion: EAS211Y1, EAS212H1Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
EAS211Y1 - Accelerated Modern Standard Korean I & II
Hours: 96L
Covering both EAS110Y1 and EAS210Y1, the course is ideal for self-motivated students who enjoy fast-paced language learning, students with 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. Students must go through screening process conducted by the Department. See www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/korean for details.
Prerequisite: Students must go through screening process conducted by the Department. See https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/korean for details.Exclusion: EAS110Y1, EAS210Y1, EAS212H1Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
EAS212H1 - Accelerated Modern Standard Korean II
Hours: 48L
As a continuation of EAS110Y1, this course is designed to help students increase their Korean communication skills at beginner high to intermediate low levels. It is ideal for self-motivated students who enjoy fast-paced language learning, and students who have built basic language skills from prior study. Successful completion of the course fulfils the prerequisite for EAS310Y1. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/korean for details.
Prerequisite: EAS110Y1 (70% minimum)/Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department.Exclusion: EAS210Y1, EAS211Y1Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
EAS248H1 - Marxism and East Asia
Hours: 24L
This course focuses on how Marxism became one of the most important and influential systems of revolutionary thought in East Asian countries such as Japan, Korea, and China in the twentieth century, with enormous repercussions for our present historical conjuncture. The course particularly focuses on the theoretical creativity and impasses that went into translating the basic tenets of Marxism to address particular, national questions in East Asia.
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
EAS251H1 - Aesthetics and Politics in 20th Century Korea
Hours: 24L
This lecture course examines key questions and texts in the history of literature from the Korean peninsula during the twentieth century, exploring how aesthetic form refracted the experiences of colonialism, division, and the formation of opposing nation-states.
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
EAS270H1 - Narratives of 19th-Century Korea
Hours: 24L
This course examines the tumultuous events of 19th-century Korea – from peasant uprisings to gunboat diplomacy and from the decline of slavery to the economy’s integration into global capitalism – together with the ways these events have been subjected to the changing and contentious interpretations of historians.
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
EAS271H1 - 20th Century Korean Colonial History
Hours: 24L
An exploration of Korean colonial history in a comparative and global context, including coverage of controversies over political economy, gender, race, architecture, and later public memory debates.
Exclusion: EAS271Y1Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
EAS272H1 - The Two Koreas in World History
Hours: 24L
This course begins with the division of the peninsula into two mutually-hostile Koreas in the context of decolonization and the Cold War, and traces the struggles of peoples on both sides of the divide down to the late 20th century.
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
EAS274H1 - Popular Culture in East Asia
Hours: 24L
Through various forms of popular culture in the 20th century, this course explores the cultural contexts and social trajectories of China, Japan and Korea. Forms of popular culture studied include art, visual culture, consumer habits, foodways, advertising, music, and fashion.
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
EAS278H1 - Approaches to Korean Cinema
Hours: 48L
This course explores the postwar development of film in Korea with a focus on the analysis of film form, genre and historical context.
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
EAS296H1 - Topics in East Asian Studies
Hours: 24L
A study of Chinese, Japanese or Korean culture, history and/or literature. Content depends on the instructor. When offered, the course will have a subtitle that describes its content.
EAS310Y1 - Modern Standard Korean III
Hours: 48L/72T
As a continuation of EAS210Y1 and EAS211Y1, this course is designed to help students improve their Korean proficiency at the intermediate level. The class focuses not only on oral fluency and grammar but also on reading comprehension. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by Department. See www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/korean for details.
Prerequisite: EAS210Y1 (67%)/ EAS211Y1 (67%)/ EAS212H1 (67%)/equivalent as determined by placement processBreadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
EAS333H1 - Modernism and Colonial Korea
Hours: 24L
This course considers the problem of colonial modernism through a close reading of literary and 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. Topics 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 reconfiguration of notions of the rural, and changing notions of time and space in the cultural products of nativism. Readings of literary works will be accompanied by showings of paintings and photographs from the period, as well as discussions of theoretical essays on modernism.
Prerequisite: EAS105H1Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
EAS348H1 - Gift, Plunder, and Exchange: Japan and World History
Hours: 24L
This course critically re-evaluates the history and historiography of Japanese capitalism, imperialism/colonialism, and world-empire through the lens of three, distinct “modes of exchange”: gift, plunder, and commodity exchange. Inspired by Kojin Karatani’s The Structure of World History: From Modes of Production to Modes of Exchange (2014), this course explores the emancipatory politics inherent in the critical analysis of modes of exchange, and takes up historical cases from Japan, Hokkaido, Okinawa, Taiwan, Korea, China, and the “Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.”
Prerequisite: EAS105H1/ EAS247H1Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
EAS361H1 - Zen Buddhism
Hours: 24L
This course introduces the Zen Buddhist traditions of China, Korea, and Japan. Emphasis is placed on the radical views of history, language, ritual, self, and enlightenment espoused by these traditions. The course also examines issues related to Zen monasticism, the development of koans, and the definition of orthodoxy in both premodern and modern Zen. Students will be asked to explore these and other topics by paying close attention to the historical, doctrinal, and institutional contexts from which they arose.
Prerequisite: EAS105H1Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
EAS370H1 - Media, Cultural Citizenship, and the Korean Diaspora
Hours: 24L
This course explores how cultural and ethnic identity in diaspora is constructed in media texts, and how the politics of national identity target various publics. We will examine the work of particular filmmakers, diasporic Korean celebrities in Korea, and digital platforms for producing public visibility, such as YouTube.
Prerequisite: EAS105H1Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
EAS372H1 - The Postwar, Cold War and Divided Koreas
Hours: 24L
This research-oriented course examines the divided history of the Korean peninsula since 1945 in the context of the global war. Examines key debates in the history of contemporary Korea, beginning with the Korean war and ending with the contemporary culture of division.
Prerequisite: EAS105H1Exclusion: EAS372Y1Recommended Preparation: EAS271H1Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
EAS373H1 - Revolutionaries, Rebels, and Dissent in Korea's Long 20th Century
Hours: 24L
Korea’s long 20th century experienced many tumultuous moments of dissent, rebellion, and revolution. When, why, and how do specific people dissent? This course devotes each weekly meeting to the study of a single moment of dissent, ranging from the peasant uprisings of the 1890s to labor activities in the colonial period and from anti-regime student movements in the 1970s to recent social movements and candlelight demonstrations.
Prerequisite: EAS105H1Recommended Preparation: EAS271H1Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
EAS396H1 - Special Topics in East Asian Studies
Hours: 24L
A study of Chinese, Japanese or Korean culture, history and/or literature. Content depends on the instructor. When offered, the course will have a subtitle that describes its content.
Prerequisite: EAS105H1
EAS410Y1 - Modern Standard Korean IV
Hours: 96L
As a continuation of EAS310Y1, this course is designed for advanced-level learners of Korean. Through reading short essays/articles and watching films, this course aims to improve students’ proficiency in speaking, writing, listening, and reading. Classroom and online discussions are conducted entirely in Korean. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See www.eas.utoronto.ca/languages/korean for details.
Prerequisite: EAS310Y1 (70% minimum)/equivalent as determined by placement processBreadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
EAS416Y1 - Academic and Professional Korean
Hours: 96L
This course aims to assist students to upgrade their language proficiency for academic and professional purposes. It is ideal for students who seek career opportunities in Korea-related business or in higher education in Korean studies. Emphasis is on comprehension and composition of academic and business texts and preparation for Korean proficiency tests. Students who do not meet the prerequisite must go through placement process conducted by the Department. See www.utoronto.ca/languages/korean for details.
Prerequisite: EAS310Y1 (70% minimum)/equivalent as determined by placement process.Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
EAS417H1 - Korean Literary Translation Workshop
Hours: 24L
A workshop format is used to explore problems encountered when translating Korean literary texts (fiction and poetry) into English. Practice with a variety of texts is accompanied by readings in translation theory to refine our understanding of translation and enrich our experience working with historical forms of Korean and English.
Prerequisite: EAS209H1 and EAS310Y1 or its equivalentRecommended Preparation: EAS410Y1Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
EAS432H1 - Korean Cultural Studies Seminar
Hours: 24S
This seminar provides an opportunity for in-depth reading and research into a specific topic in the cultural and intellectual history of Korea. Topics will vary each semester but may include colonial period print culture, the New Woman, the history of photography, and modernism.
Prerequisite: EAS209H1Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
EAS450H1 - History of the USA in the Pacific, the 19th century
Hours: 24S
This course examines the growth of the American empire in Asia Pacific during the late 19th century. It examines historical writings concerning Japan, Korea, Hawaii, the Philippines, and China.
Prerequisite: EAS209H1 or permission from the course instructorRecommended Preparation: EAS209H1/ HIS271Y1/ HIS280Y1/ HIS285H1Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
EAS452H1 - The Korean War, Global Cold Wars, and Decolonization
Hours: 24S
This course examines the political economic, racial, and cultural dimensions of the Korean war in a global context. It examines how the Korean War consolidated Cold War structures and discourse on both sides of the conflict by examining such issues as the United Nations, multiculturalism, decolonization, atomic weapons, and military industrialization. In this writing intensive course, students will be expected to write a major research paper.
Prerequisite: EAS209H1 or permission from the course instructorRecommended Preparation: EAS209H1/ HIS271Y1/ HIS280Y1/ HIS285H1/ HIS344H1/ HIS377H1Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
EAS459Y1 - Rethinking the Cold War in East Asia
Hours: 48S
This research course examines the ways our historical understanding of the Cold War in East Asia has shifted over the last twenty years. Focusing primarily on the divided Korean peninsula where it can be said the Cold War still rages, the course examines the mutual constitution of two competing regional political economies rooted in a shared commitment to developmentalism.
Prerequisite: EAS209H1 and EAS271H1Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
EAS466H1 - Rethinking North Korean History
Hours: 36S
This essay-driven course explores the complexity of examining North Korean history by using comparative methods developed through the study of other socialist societies and theories of everyday life.
Prerequisite: EAS209H1, EAS271H1Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
EAS468H1 - Democratic Struggles in Korea
Hours: 24S
This seminar examines resistance, struggles, strikes and movements seen as constituting a troubled history of democracy across Korea’s long 20th century.
Prerequisite: EAS209H1, EAS271H1Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
EAS471H1 - Issues in the Political Economy of South Korea
Hours: 24S
A course designed to guide students toward a research paper on a selected topic of interest on the postwar political economy of South Korea.
Prerequisite: EAS209H1 and EAS271H1Exclusion: EAS471Y1Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
EAS473H1 - Modern Korean Historiography
Hours: 24S
An examination of recent literature in the modern Korean history field, focusing especially on the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Prerequisite: EAS209H1 and EAS271H1Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
EAS476H1 - Social Protest in Modern East Asia
Hours: 24L
This course explores cases of social protests in 19th and 20th century China, Japan, and Korea. Students will read and write about specific case studies of anti-government student protests, labor actions, anti-colonial movements, women’s rights activism, and peasant rebellions.
Prerequisite: EAS209H1Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
EAS488H1 - Fandom, Transmedia, and the Korean Wave
Hours: 24S
This course investigates the transmedia forms and reception contexts of what is now known as hallyu or "the Korean wave." Topics include fan subjectivity and the “global popular,” across a broad array of texts, including music, feature films, television dramas, fan blogs, and internet video. This seminar considers how popular media shape collective identity, and explores the connections between activism, mass media, commodity culture, and their corresponding affective registers, bridging fan studies, media studies, and contemporary Korean cultural studies.
Prerequisite: EAS209H1Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
EAS496H1 - Advanced Topics in East Asian Studies
Hours: 24S
An in-depth study of Chinese, Japanese or Korean culture, history and/or literature. Content depends on the instructor. When offered, the course will have a subtitle that describes its content.
Prerequisite: EAS209H1
FAH260H1 - The Artistic Landscape of East Asia
Hours: 24L
An overview of major monuments and themes in the art and architecture of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia and Tibet), from the Neolithic to the present.
Exclusion: VPHB73H3Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
FAH262H1 - Art and Visual Experience in Modern and Contemporary East Asia
Hours: 24L
An overview of major monuments and themes in the art and architecture of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia and Tibet) and its diaspora in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Exclusion: VPHB77H3Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
HIS107Y1 - Approaches to East Asian History
Hours: 48L/20T
This course draws on the history of China, Korea and Japan between 1600 to 1950 to explore historical issues of gender, nationalism, war and relations with the West.
Exclusion: HIS100Y1, HIS101Y1, HIS102Y1, HIS103Y1, HIS106Y1, HIS108Y1, HIS109Y1, HIS110Y1, HIS284H5/ EAS204Y1Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
HIS405Y1 - Canadian Foreign Relations
Hours: 48S
A course on Canadian external relations since 1945. Topics include Canada and the Cold War, the Korean War, the Suez crisis and the war in Vietnam, membership in international organizations, and bilateral relations with other countries. (Joint undergraduate-graduate)
Prerequisite: HIS311Y1/ POL312Y1Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
MUN100H1 - Global Innovation
Previous Course Number: MUN101H1
Hours: 24S
Innovation has always been a key driver of economic growth, population health, and societal success. Transformative change has historically been linked to major innovations such as urban sanitation, pasteurization, the printing press and the industrial revolution. Currently, the opportunity to enhance life chances worldwide relies on innovating for the poor, social innovation, and the ability to harness scientific and technological knowledge. What precisely is innovation? When does innovation happen? Who benefits from innovation? How can innovation be fostered, and how do innovations spread? Relying on major global transformations and country-specific case studies (for example, South Korea, Taiwan, Israel and India), this course examines the drivers of innovation, the political, social, economic, and scientific and technological factors that are critical to promoting innovation and addressing current global challenges, and the consequences of innovation. Restricted to first-year students admitted to Munk One. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: Admission to Munk OneBreadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
SLA280H1 - Introduction to Russian Asia: From Central Asia to Siberia
Hours: 24S
Introduction to geography, languages, people, literature, and the history of Russian Asia. Includes readings in history, exile narratives, articles on the linguistic geography of the languages of Russia including Russian, Siberian languages such as Yakut and Tungus, Turkic languages of Central Asia, Korean and Chinese as minority languages, with a special focus on language contact and language politics.
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)