For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIS5255 | History of Settler Colonialism | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The birth of nation states around the world in the nineteenth and twentieth century, paradoxically, significantly destabilizes their borders, due to the rise and fall of their empires which entailed political instability and ideological conflicts in their former colonies. Numerous people, both from colonizer and colonized countries, crossed these shaken up borders for better opportunities not available in their hometowns. This course traces the lived experiences of these migrants in their new homes and examines the origins of the social and political questions, such as racial issues and the complex relationship between their home countries and the countries they settled. | |||||||||
| HIS5256 | Comparative History of Inequality | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| In the early twenty-first century, social mobility is declining and income and asset inequalities are aggravating around the world, marking a significant contrast to the global experiences in the late twentieth century. However, the levels of those inequalities and the ways they happened were different for countries. What factors determined these differences in the experiences of inequality? This course looks at the history of education, employment, and taxation of a specific country and compare the experiences to their equivalents in other countries. In so doing, we consider the specificities of our interested country’s experiences and the factors that shaped those specificities. | |||||||||
| HIS5257 | Hatred and Conflict in History | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Hatred and conflict have become prominent social issues as the initial transition to industrial society has been more or less completed. This course will provide a window into the historical moments when hatred and conflict were the glaring aspects of the time, thus helping students approach and grasp past perspectives in their multiple dynamics. | |||||||||
| HIS5258 | Sexuality in History | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The most important agency of history is human. And sexuality is one of the most important factors influencing human affect and behavior. Although sexuality can be interpreted in many ways, it is intrinsically related to human sexual desire. From ancient times to the present, sexuality has profoundly influenced individual lives and social relationships throughout history. Nevertheless, sexuality has always been the realm of taboos in history. Even today, social controversies surrounding sexuality, such as the issue of homosexuality, continue. This course aims to help reconstruct history from a new perspective by examining how sexuality is revealed and operated in history. | |||||||||
| HIS5259 | Pandemic and Social Change | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The question of pandemic that is pressing down on modern society, undoubtedly, existed in the past as well. This course will provide a window into the historical moments when pandemic defined the political, social and cultural aspects of the time, thus helping students approach and grasp past perspectives in their multiple dynamics. This, in the event, will lead to studies on various kinds of other social questions that could have arisen from the impact of pandemic. | |||||||||
| HIS5260 | Social History of Disasters | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| Historical disasters caused by droughts, floods, typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, fires, and diseases have had a great impact on human life. People therefore recorded the backgrounds, occurrences, and results of these events in various forms. Through this class, students can understand today's and other times’ perceptions and attitudes about disasters and efforts to solve them, and gain historical insight into the disasters of our time. | |||||||||
| HIS5261 | Cultural History of Disabilities | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Accidental or innate physical and mental damages have been labelled as‘disabilities’ through a complex process since modern times. Existing research has limited the study of the process of disability to the group of people with disabilities or to the phenomenon of modern alienation. However, recent disability studies are questioning the relationship between the ‘disabilityization’ process and modern ‘normality’. This class attempts to reveal, relativize, and critically reflect on the modern ‘normality’ while focusing on the sociocultural aspects of that question in history. | |||||||||
| HIS5262 | Family in History | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The family has been a basic social unit throughout human history. By looking at the long-term evolution of the family as a social unit in a variety of world regions, this course nurtures within students a comparative perspective on historical significance of the family and its modern transformations. | |||||||||
| HIS5263 | Natural Resources and Development | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| One of the keywords in human history, especially since the modern period, is development. Recently, historians have challenged an old assumption that there is a universal and linear developmental path for human history. This course examines the methodologies of these recent historians, who label their work as “history of development” or “global history of development”, and seek to consider how to incorporate their ideas in the history of national resources and environment. | |||||||||
| HIS5264 | Studies in Computational History | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | - | No | ||
| Various digital technologies have been integrated into historical research and are being employed through convergence. Computational historiography endeavours to establish historical simulation through ABM (Agent-Based Modeling). The goal of this class is to expand the scope of historical interpretation and understanding by realizing the interaction of various actors in various properties and complex environments through simulation. | |||||||||
| HIS5265 | Studies on Republicanism | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| In the contemporary world in which a majority of developed nations are founded upon the principles of representative democracy, questions concerning monarchies and republics are still tightly bound by the political thought and language of republicanism. As a tradition, republicanism has been cardinal in the West for over a thousand years and has taken deep root in the East after the 19th and 20th centuries. This course will delve into the republican paradigm and make inroads into the political, economic, and moral problems of our society. | |||||||||
| HIS5266 | Paperwork Administration in East Asia | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| As leaders of states in premodern East Asia elaborated an administrative system on top of which was the monarchs, the order of the central government came to arrive and be executed in local communities. In this sense, the paperwork-based administration system can be a useful vantage point understand how monarchy operated in which directions. By looking at the paperwork administration in China, Japan, and Korea, this course considers how the paperwork administration experiences in these three countries echo and diverge from one another. | |||||||||
| HIS5267 | East Asia and Sinocentrism | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course explores the historical significance of Sinocentrism in premodern East Asia. Sinocentrist ideas were embedded in the ways intellectuals considered China in premodern East Asia. Students will examine how East Asian intellectuals understood, interpreted, and appropriated Chinese culture in East Asian societies. | |||||||||
| HIS5268 | Issues in the History of Joseon | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This class aims to understand the various historical aspects of the Joseon Dynasty from a problem-focused approach. It deepens the understanding of Joseon history by selecting and discussing important historical issues that showcase the period. Through this exercise, we will identify important trends in the study of the Joseon Dynasty and various research topics related to it. | |||||||||
| HIS5269 | Modern European History Workshop | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | English | Yes | |
| Modern European History Workshop is a postgraduate course taught in English meticulously crafted to offer students of history a comprehensive exploration of key issues in modern European history. This program equips students with diverse research methods, concentrating on pivotal events such as the Renaissance, the Wars of Religion, the English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Congress of Vienna, the 1830 Revolution, and the 1848 Revolutions. Each course within the program delves into a specific subtopic per semester, necessitating students to adeptly navigate major research literature relevant to that subject. Proficiency in the relevant European languages is crucial for effective engagement. Upon completing the course, students will have the proficiency to construct a detailed map of historiography for each semester, reflecting a nuanced understanding of the chosen topics. | |||||||||