For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSD5054 | Study of Korea Foreign Policy | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course os to study Korean foreign policy in past-present regime and issues since the national independence of 1945. Today, foreign policy is one of the most important instruments to maximize national interests. Students will search methodologies to understand Korean foreign policy in Korean perspective over great power-oriented perspective. For this, students will study critically various methodologies and diplomatic behaviors within established theories. Finally, students will discuss some directions for new pattern of foreign policy in the post-Cold War era. | |||||||||
| PSD5055 | Study of Foreign Policy | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| In this course, students will critically sturdy the principal current theoretical approaches to empirical and normative sturdy of policy making in foreign affairs. Especially, we examine a close inspection of contemporary policy making processes U.S, Russia and China. Also, we cover central historical episodes including two World Wars and Cold War. This course goes with case study methodology and historical investigative methodology, and Lecture and discussion. One term paper is required. | |||||||||
| PSD5057 | Studies in Chinese Foregin Policy | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| This is a survey course for the major characteristics of Chinese foreign policy and the China policy of other countries. Recent debates on Chinese military enforcement and its implications will also be covered. This course specializes in Chinese foreign policy. It consists of 1)comparative foreign policy studies 2)evaluation of Chinese foreign policy 3)issues of documentary sources and research methods 4)empirical analysis of key events and themes in Chinese foreign policy 5) historical evaluation of China's policy toward Korean peninsula. | |||||||||
| PSD5058 | Seminar in Chinese Area Studies | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This seminar focuses on the political economy of reform and opening in post-Mao China since 1978. More specifically, it concentrates on changes that have transpired in over 10 different sectors, including elites, policy-making, agriculture, fiscal relations, foreign economic relations, and society | |||||||||
| PSD5061 | State and Market | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Over the last three decades East Asia as a regional economy has achieved rapid economic growth. While Japan is competing for regional economic hegemony with U.S.A., the East Asian NICs appear to possess a competitive advantage over countries such as Latin American NICs. This course attempts to explain the development dynamics in East Asian capitalism. In the context of current academic debates, this course seeks to explain the world economic system as a macro-system and the state apparatus as a micro-component to explain East Asian development. | |||||||||
| PSD5065 | Politics in Contemporary China | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| This seminar examines central aspects and significant results of China’s political issues in the reform era. Special attention will be paid to such topics as the changing structure and operation of China's political system, state’s roles in the economic development, changes of elite politics and leadership, shifting central-local relations, emerging entrepreneur class and its political implications ,and prospect for China's democratization. This course is designed for students who have acquired some background knowledge of contemporary China, and who have interests in domestic politics in China. | |||||||||
| PSD5069 | Korean Politics History | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| This course associates theories of democracy in the liberal tradition with authoritarianism, militarism, and command economy in Korean political history. | |||||||||
| PSD5072 | International Political Thought | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| An examination of the development of international politiacl thought from ancient Greece to the present. Readings include Thucidies, Cicero, Machiavelli, Althusius and Grotius, Hobbes, Kant, Lenin and etc.. Lecture and discussion. One term paper is required. | |||||||||
| PSD5073 | Methodology of International Politics | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| An examination of a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches in international politics: normative, historical-structural and mathematical and quantitative approaches such as game theory and multivariate technics. Presentation and discussion. One term paper required. | |||||||||
| PSD5076 | Debates on Contemporary International Relations | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course studies important debates on major issues of current international relations. The U.S.-PRC relations and great power politics, Middle Eastern problems, terrorism, path of future democracy, development aid diplomacy, political and economic bi-polarization, climate change are some examples of debate topics. Graduate students' independent research skills will be strengthened in the course of applying analytic frameworks of social sciences to key international relations agenda. | |||||||||
| PSD5077 | Seminar on Emerging Democracy | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| This course helps student to understand the political development of emerging democracies around the world. Through the 3rd waves of democratization in 1990s, we observed that many developing countries experienced democratic transition from the previous authoritarian regime. After the democratic transition, however, only a few emerging countries has gone through democratic consolidation. Rest of them have even collapsed into authoritarian regime. Students will examine what explains the various political changes of emerging democracies. | |||||||||
| PSD5078 | Seminar on International Cooperation and Development | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| This course provides students with intellectual tools and practical skills required in the field of development as a researcher, manager, practitioner, or activist. Students will study various developmental theories and related critical concepts. Students are encouraged to develop practical and analytical strategies on how to actively participate in international development cooperation. | |||||||||
| PSD5079 | Political Crisis Theory | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The aims of this course is twofold. First, it revisits arguments about 'ungovernability' and 'contradictions of late capitalism' developed in 1970s to inquire into its current usefulness. Neo-Marxists saw the causes for the contradictions of late capitalism in the fiscal crisis while the conservatives held that rising expectations and excessive participation are responsible. After all, both theories commonly noted the problem of government overload. The second aim of this course is to obtain insights from reviewing and analyzing the economic stimulus programs of the Korean government. | |||||||||
| PSD5082 | Political Ideologies | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| A fairly sophisticated examination of major 20th century political ideologies within their social and political contexts, giving special emphasis to their diverse evolutionary paths. The course will focus on the three traditional rival political ideologies: liberalism, conservatism and radicalism. Some new important ideologies such as feminism and environmentalism may be examined in relation to three major political ideologies. Lecture and discussion. One term paper is required. | |||||||||
| PSD5084 | Seminar on Political Economy | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Both Marxist and Non-Marxist theories of Political Economy will be dealt with, tracing their development and current applications. Through comparative perspectives, students will be given changes to compare the political economy of Korea with that of other countries. | |||||||||