Content based on these topics by these authors: Lee, Ha, and Sorensen (ed.) Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea, 19101945 University of Washington Press 2013 Hanscom, Christopher P. Imperatives of culture: selected essays on Korean history, literature, and society from the Japanese colonial era Honolulu, Hawaii: Univ. of Hawai'i Press 2013 Cumings, Bruce The Korean War: a history New York, NY: Modern Library 2010 Kim, Pyong-guk The Park Chung Hee era: the transformation of South Korea Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press 2011 Kendall, Laurel Consuming Korean tradition in early and late modernity: commodification, tourism, and performance Honolulu, Hawaii: Univ. of Hawaii Press 2011 Cho, Hui-yon (ed.) Contemporary South Korean society: A critical perspective. London: Routledge 2013 Vladimir Tikhonov Modern Korea and Its Others: Perceptions of the Neighbouring Countries and Korean Modernity London: Routledge 2015 Sangjoon Lee and Abe Markus Norne (eds.) Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media. University of Michigan Press 2015 Yeh, Wen-Hsin Mobile subjects: boundaries and identities in the modern Korean diaspora Berkeley, Calif.: Inst. of East Asian Studies, Univ. of California, Berkeley 2013 Kim, Son-ju The northern region of Korea: history, identity, and culture Seattle, Wash.: Center for Korea studies 2010. Lankov, Andrej N. The real North Korea: life and politics in the failed Stalinist utopia Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press 2013 Ryang, Sonia Reading North Korea: an ethnological inquiry Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Asia Center 2012
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Twelve scholarly publications provide the basic structure of the course. Every participant shall present,on two different times during the semester,about one or more chapters of these selected books. Presentations shall be followed by classroom discussion. For the sake of a fruitful discussion, a small number of excerpts will be assigned as required reading for all participants. Requirements and assessment criteria:Besides the two presentations (tasks a and b), the requirements comprise satisfactory completion of the following tasks: c) One written feedback on a colleagues presentation, d) Serve as a sahoeja (chairperson, moderator) for one discussion, e) Serve as a toronja (debater, discussant) for one discussion, f) Submit one report about one chosen topic. Observe a set of rules for composition, quoting and referring to sources, formatting (all this will be announced and explained in the course). There will be no exam. The tasks a eshall not overlap. Attendance will be checked.
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