** I reserve the right to make changes in the class schedule as needed and as seem appropriate for the development of the class objectives, but I will not add major papers or projects.
Week 1 (2/25) Introduction and Course Overview
What is culture and society? How do you begin a cultural studies project? What key terms and phrases come to mind when you think of Korea and why?
[Bring one-paragraph reflection with you to class.]
[Please complete a student information sheet by next week.]
Week 2 (3/04) South Korean Nationalism
Gi Wook Shin, “Introduction: Explaining the Roots and Politics of Korean Nationalism,” in Ethnic Nationalism in Korea: Genealogy, Politics, and Legacy, (Stanford, Stanford UP, 2006), 1-20.
Week 3 (3/11) Transnational Adoption
Eleana Kim, Human Capital: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Neoliberal Logic of Return,” Journal of Korean Studies 17:2 (2012), 299-327.
Week 4 (3/18) “Comfort Women” Memories and Critiques
Sala, Ilaria Maria. “Why Is the Plight of ‘Comfort Women’ Still So Controversial?” The New York Times, 14 Aug. 2017. Op-ed.
Recommended: Hyunah Yang, “Re-membering the Korean Military Comfort Women: Nationalism, Sexuality, and Silencing,” in Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism, ed. Elaine H. Kim and Chungmoo Choi (New York: Routledge, 1998), 123-140.
Week 5 (3/25) Korean Families in Transition
John Finch and Seung-kyung Kim, “The Korean Family in Transition” in Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society, 134-148.
Week 6 (4/01) Inequality and Social Change
Hagen Koo, “The Muddled Middle Class in Globalized South Korea,” in Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society (New York: Routledge, 2017), 107-118.
Week 7 (4/08) Voicing Christian Aspiration
Harkness, Nicholas. “Voicing Christian Aspiration: The Semiotic anthropology of Voice in Seoul.” Ethnography 16, no. 3 (2015): 313-330.
Week 8 (4/15) South Korean Education
So Jin Park, “Educational Manager Mothers as Neoliberal Maternal Subjects,” New Millennium South Korea: Neoliberal Capitalism and Transnational Movements, ed., Jesook Song (New York: Routledge, 2010), 101-114.
Week 9 (4/22) In-class Midterm Exam (TBA)
Week 10 (4/29) Gender and Sexuality
Laurel Kendall, “Introduction,” in Under Construction: The Gendering of Modernity, Class and Consumption in the Republic of Korea, ed. Laurel Kendall (Honolulu: University of Hawai’I Press, 2002), 1-24.
Week 11 (5/06) Youth and Unemployment
Haejoang Cho and Jeffrey Stark, “South Korean Youth Across Three Decades,” in Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society, 119-133.
Week 12 (5/13) Urbanization and Gentrification
Seon Young Lee, “Cities for Profit: Profit-driven Gentrification in Seoul, South Korea,” Urban Studies (2017), 1-15.
Week 13 (5/20) NCCU Anniversary
Week 14 (5/27) Beauty, Desire and Aesthetics
Kang, Yoonjung. “Leave No Birthing Trace: The Politics of Health and Beauty in the South Korean Postpartum Care Market.” In Gender and Class in Contemporary South Korea: Intersectionality and Transnationality, edited by Hae Yeon Choo, John Lie and Laura C. Nelson, 83-105. Berkeley: University of California, 2019.
Week 15 (6/03) Technology and Video Gaming
Dal Yong Jin, “Age of New Media Empires: A Critical Interpretations of the Korean Online Game Industry,” Games and Culture 3:1 (Jan 2008), 38-58.
Week 16 (6/10) Multiculturalism in Contemporary South Korea
Jin-Kyung Lee, Immigrant Subempire, Migrant Labor Activism, and Multiculturalism in Contemporary South Korea,” in Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society, 149-161.
Week 17 (6/17) In-class Final Exam
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