For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CCCE001 | Practice on the Lun Yu | 2 | 4 | Major | Master | 1-5 | Confucian Classics and Korean Thought | Korean | Yes |
| The analects consists of Confucius' speech and behaviour, questions and answers, literary men's words. This book is essential to study Confucius' thought. The themes of the analects are to quest out upright life as a man. By studying the analects, we will be able to understand Confucius' thought and recover confidence between humanity, furthermore establish self as a subject of ethical practice. | |||||||||
| CCCE002 | Basic Theory of Confucianism | 2 | 4 | Major | Master | 1-5 | Confucian Classics and Korean Thought | Korean | Yes |
| In this course, the basic aim is to understand the formation of Confucianism and examine Scriptures and then inquire into basic thought of Confucianism in philosophy and ethics. | |||||||||
| CCCE003 | History of Confucious Thought | 2 | 4 | Major | Master | 1-5 | Confucian Classics and Korean Thought | - | No |
| This course presents understanding of general aspects of formation, change, development of Confucianism by summarizing historical flow of Confucian thought from ancient age and modern times and analyzing the characteristics of Confucian thought in each times. | |||||||||
| CCCE032 | Oriental Classics and Leadership | 2 | 4 | Major | Master | 1-5 | Confucian Classics and Korean Thought | - | No |
| This course will lead to the profound world of philosophy by reading the classics. Especially, the students will discuss about the meaning of the oriental classics as the method of researching the Asian and solving the problem that the Asians have. | |||||||||
| CCCE035 | Topics in History of Korea Thoughts | 2 | 4 | Major | Master | 1-5 | Confucian Classics and Korean Thought | Korean | Yes |
| Reviews the historical development of Korean thought, from the nation's founding myth of Tan-gun, through the thought of the reverend priest Wonhyo of the Shilla Kingdom and the Confucianism of the Three Kingdom's era, to the thought of the national priest Pojo of the Koryo Dynasty and the interaction among Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism during that period. | |||||||||
| CCCE041 | Special Lectures on the Art and Thought of East Asia | 2 | 4 | Major | Master | 1-5 | Confucian Classics and Korean Thought | - | No |
| This course offers a broad understanding of the Confucian aesthetics. Students read materials related to aesthetics chosen from the Confucian classical texts and understand the core of Confucian mind for beauty. Some visual materials such as paintings and calligraphies are also used. | |||||||||
| CCCE045 | History of Korean Philosophy | 2 | 4 | Major | Master | 1-5 | Confucian Classics and Korean Thought | - | No |
| This course considers the historical characters of Korean Philosophy to understand the development of Korean Philosophy in the current of philosophical history from the ancient era to the close of Koryo periods, by analyzing and debating the original texts and the important parts adapted from them. | |||||||||
| CCCE048 | Introduction to East Asian Thought | 2 | 4 | Major | Master | 1-5 | Confucian Classics and Korean Thought | - | No |
| This course focuses on the major philosophical schools of Classical China, covering the time between the 12th century BCE through the unification of China in 221 BCE. Special attention is given to the ethical, religious, and political thought of the Confucian, Mohist, Daoist, and Legalist “schools.” The doctrines associated with these early Chinese philosophical movements affected cultural development in art, philosophy, religion, science, and politics throughout East Asian history. The special focus will be given to understand how each thinker of this period differ from each other. | |||||||||
| CCS5026 | Studies on Issues in Modern Culture | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Comparative Culture | Korean | Yes |
| n this course we study Issues of Modern Culture. We expect students will expand the range of thought to the Issues of Modern Culture. | |||||||||
| CCS5033 | World Film Comparative Research Seminar | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Comparative Culture | Korean | Yes | |
| This course is set up in two stages. First, the first stage of the course is to analyze important films and trends that have led the flow of world cinema from the birth of cinema to the present day. You will understand the stage of development of cinema by checking the important trajectory of the film after its birth and understanding the film in relation to art. This process will be a process to find an answer to the fundamental question of what is a film by examining the history of cinema as an art. In the second stage, we will analyze major films from around the world, understand the culture of each region projected in the film, and check the methods of films that each country understands. Understanding the world's films not only diachronic but also synchronic will not only understand the art of cinema, but will also enhance the understanding of the world's local culture. | |||||||||
| CEK4004 | Confucianism and Humanities Convergence | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | Confucian Studies, Eastern Philosophy and Korean Philosophy | - | No | |
| The course explores the contemporary meanings and roles of Confucian fundamental questions and answers concerning humanity, society, nature, and etc. that have been accumulated for thousands of years, especially from a humanities perspective in the era of convergence. In this course, we will attempt interdisciplinary approaches with adjacent fields and the convergences with practical studies including cultural contents, performing arts, and education, based on the main topics of Confucianism regarding human beings and universe. | |||||||||
| CEK4005 | Zhouyi Administration | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | Confucian Studies, Eastern Philosophy and Korean Philosophy | - | No | |
| The Zhouyi is a Confucian classic that enables us to cope dynamically with the ever changing realities as well as it contains profound principles of human life and nature. Therefore, the principles of the Zhouyi are still instructive in suggesting the righteous ways of coping with the ever changing realities of contemporary world. This course explores the righteous ways of management, leadership, and the meaning of administration based on Zhouyi’s philosophy in contemporary reality. | |||||||||
| CEK4102 | Research on Humanities and Cultural Contents | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | Confucian Studies, Eastern Philosophy and Korean Philosophy | - | No | |
| The purpose of this course is to examine various discourses in humanities that tries to systematically analyze cultural contents of the modern world, and to develop the ability to formulate a new discourse that can offer different insights through critical thinking. | |||||||||
| CEK4104 | AI and Ethics in East Asian Perspective | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | 1-4 | Confucian Studies, Eastern Philosophy and Korean Philosophy | - | No |
| The purpose of this course (“AI and Ethics in East Asian Perspective”) is to examine important ethical issues such as what is to be human and how we should live in the age of AI (artificial intelligence) and the 4th industrial revolution from the perspective of East Asian Philosophy. As the usage of AI becomes prevalent, the world has gone through tremendous changes. As we have seen in the case of AlphaGo (a computer program that plays the board game Go), individual humans cannot surpass the capacity of AI. As time goes by, the capacity of AI will increase and its application and function will diversify. Therefore, it is not farfetched to imagine that AI provides accurate medical diagnosis and perform meticulous operations in hospitals, AI passes judical judgments in courts, or AI teaches our children in schools. Accordingly, it is time for us to think about what is to be human and how to live our lives in this new era. This course will offer two specific aims. The first aim is to understand what kind of ethical problems can be caused in the age of AI and how can we live harmoniously with AI. The second aim is to examine what kind of answers East Asian philosophy can offer to these unprecedented ethical problems. This course will provide students an opportunity to learn about the general issues of AI and to think about specific ethical issues in terms of East Asian perspective. This will not only help students understand East Asian philosophy in general, but also think about | |||||||||
| CEK5123 | Reading of the Essential Writings of Hundred Schools of Thoughts(zhuzi baijia) | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Confucian Studies, Eastern Philosophy and Korean Philosophy | - | No |
| This course aims to investigate philosophical differences and similarities between pre-Qin thoughts including Confucianism, Mohism(墨家, Mojia), Daoism(道家, Daojia) and Legalism(法家, Fajia) by reading their original texts widely. Students thus would be able to learn the basic philosophical foundations of East Asian Philosophy. Through this, students are to research in priority the central and philosophical themes, which constituted Hundred Schools of Thought, such as the transition of the relationship between Heaven(天, Tien) and Human(人, Ren), differences in ethical point of views, and its corresponding changes in social ideologies, etc. | |||||||||