In this course, the students will approach linguistics through an inquiry into the characteristics of the Korean language, allowing them to garner information about the type of science that Korean linguistics represents and what exactly is studied in this field. More specifically, the position of Korean linguistics in relation to other languages, its historical changes, as well as the grammatical and lexical features of the modern Korean language will be examined. 

This course will offer comprehensive explanations on the questions concerning the study of Korean literature. It will provide the students a basic level of Korean literary knowledge that is needed to study and understand its works. Students will systematically examine the concept, scope, genre systems, historical development, as well as the characteristics of themes and aesthetics found in its literature. Such an examination will strengthen and sharpen the student’s research skills for more advanced studies in this field.

This course will help students understand the association between literature and life. Through Korean works, students will confirm the general principle that literature reflects society. They will examine Korean poetry, novels, and criticism in the context of Korean society; through this examination, students will strengthen their foundation for further, more thorough research into Korean literature.

This course will survey the general theory of phonology and how it can be applied to the Korean language. First, the course will cover the basic principles of phonology Methods of establishing a phoneme will be analyzed to understand Korean phonemes and their organization. In addition, the course will cover synchroic anddiachronic phonology as well as the historical development of phonemes.

The goal of this course is to foster a general understanding of classical poetic works from ancient gayo to hyangga, Goryeo gayo, sijo, and gasa. Students will master the methods of understanding and interpreting literary works. They will survey phraseology, meter, and methods of expression, while learning how to properly read, analyze and interpret works of classical poetry.

This course teaches the students the fundamentals of analyzing and interpreting Korean dramatic works while helping them develop basic research skills. Dramatic pieces from the Enlightenment period to the present will be surveyed as the class’ primary source.

This course will investigate the development and classification of distinct periods in the history of classical Korean literature. The two primary components of this course will include critical analysis of the texts and an investigation of the historical context in which it was written.

This course deals with the development of modern Korean literary history, focusing on the criticisms, novels, poems, and dramas of each period from the Enlightenment Period until the 1960s. Students will come to comprehend the particular significance of works in relation to modern Korean literary history, which covers the new novels and poetry of the Enlightenment Period, the new literature founded by Yi Gwang-su, Choi Nam-sun, Kim Dong-in, Yeom Sang-seop, and others, the proletarian literature of the 1920s, the realist and modernist literature of the 1930s, the literature of liberation, and post-war literature.

In order to understand literary prose, one must be able to comprehend it in the process of gathering and classification, appreciation and understanding, as well as the interpretation and analysis of literary works. Among these, the ability to interpret works of prose forms the foundation. In this course, students will master the unique methods of reading classical prose and appreciate the aesthetic of these works. They will also analyze the works read in class.

The course provides a survey of the ways in which the Korean language has changed from ancient times to the present. First, we will inquire into the genealogy and formation of the Korean language and discuss methods of classifying the language by period. Later, we will examine the characteristics of the systems for spelling, phonology, grammar, and vocabulary from each period. By comparing these characteristics, students will be able to grasp how the Korean language has changed.

This class will use grammar to look at the structure of the Korean language. Phonemes – consonants, vowels, syllables, accents, and other sounds of the language – will be studied in terms of how they relate to the language’s morphemes, vocabulary, phrases and sentences. The goal of the course is to enhance students’ understanding of modern Korean grammar.

Presupposing a foundation in classical novels, the goal of this course is to help students understand the aesthetics as well as the expressions of the emotions and thoughts found in the Korean classic novels. This will enable the students to master the methods of analyzing and interpreting these works. We will first examine the results of research concerning works and genres that have taken place up until now. Then we will practice methods of analyzing and interpreting specific works or genres examining its specific, aesthetic cha- racteristics.

In order to effectively understand modern Korean poetry, this class will take a detailed look at the key elements of the subject in question and attempt to apply them to Korean poems. This will increase our understanding of the poem’s underlying meanings. We will also familiarize ourselves with basic theories as well as examine actual works and their important attributes for a functional understanding of modern Korean poetry. Included in this study are symbolism, figures of speech, imagery, meter, form, emphasis, irony, and other poetic elements.

This course will study several poets who represent the time period stretching from the beginning of human civilization to the 1950’s. In addition, we will examine the history of researches that have been performed on themand select a methodology through which the students themselves can research and compare their works with.

This course develops the ability to do a structural analysis of a novel. This ability will enable students to better understand and critique novels. In class we will read various novels to explore the structure and theory behind the modern Korean novel as a genre. While we will focus on the unique characteristics of the modern Korean novel, its descriptive techniques and construction, we will also review the history of the Korean novel’s development as a whole and evaluate problems discovered in the process.

With the study of writers as a background, this course will help students comprehend the characteristics of the modern Korean authors in general as well as specific authors. The main subject of the course will be an examination of the history of authorial research and the analysis of literary works while focusing on modern Korean authors. It will be a seminar-style course seeking to improve students’ knowledge and understanding of the history of Korean novels.

Presupposing a general understanding of Sino-Korean literature, the goal of this course is to help students understand its aesthetics. Furthermore, we will study the uniquely Korean thoughts and emotions depicted in this literature and master apt methods of analysis and interpretation. In order to accomplish this, we will first examine the research concerning these works. Secondly, we will practice methods of analyzing and interpreting specific works or genres while simultaneously examining the aesthetic characteristics of the respective, specified genre.

This course presupposes a foundation in classical poetry. Its goal is to help students understand the aesthetic characteristics of classical poetry and the emotions and thoughts of Koreans that are expressed in it. Various classical forms including gayo, hyangga, Goryeo gayo, sijo, and gasa will be studied. Also examined are the research as well as practice methods of analysis and interpretation.The class will also emphasize the studying of the aesthetic characteristics of specific works and genres.

This subject aims at enhancing students’ ability to extract and process information or data related to the Korean language. Recently, with the development of information technology, academic practices are undergoing considerable changes. There- fore students are required to keep up with these changes. Topics to be dealt with include the compilation and processing of corpus information, extraction of linguistic information from corpus data, statistical analysis of extracted information, conversion of linguistic information to database, and management of the linguistic database.

The goal of this course is to expose students to the methods necessary to carry out research on Korean dialectology. Students will be introduced to various theories on dialectology. In particular, the course will concentrate on geographical dialectology and evaluate the characteristics of each dialect’s phonemes, grammar, and vocabulary. Students will learn to distinguish between different dialects and create dialectological diagrams to illustrate such differences.

The aim of this course is to evaluate existing research and to assess the current trends in Korean language research. In this course Korean linguistic history will be divided into different eras and notable linguists from each era will be selected and their research evaluated. Each student will present an analysis of one linguist and lead the class discussion.

Language is generally viewed as the union of sound and meaning. Semantics is the branch of linguistics concerned with meaning This course will evaluate the definition of meaning, the relationship between the meanings of words, and how they change Furthermore, it will evaluate the meaning of sentences and conversations to facilitate a thorough and comprehensive understanding of the Korean language.

This course capacitates students to use research techniques in order to understand the characteristics of Korean oral literature. Additionally, students will learn to analyze and interpret the philosophies of Koreans depicted in various genres such as folklore, folk music and traditional plays while examining the existing researches and aesthetics of selected works.

In this course students will learn to properly read, analyze, and evaluate problematic novels published from the Enlightenment Period up until the 1970’s.

This course presupposes the student to have a foundation in various schools of literary criticism from after the Enlighten- ment Period. The class will explore modern Korean literature through different perspectives. One of the primary tasks of literary criticism is to establish standards by which we evaluate a piece of literature. This course closely examines the interrelation between world literary criticism and modern Korean literary criticism, especially on the critical research in 20th century Korean literature.

The goal of this course is to foster the basic ability to analyze poetry, using texts from the Enlightenment Period to the present.

This course discusses the lexical structure of Korean. Topics to be dealt with include the internal structure of words, word formation, borrowing of words, word meaning and its change, lexical relations, classification of lexical items, lexical statistics, and lexicography.

This course aims to help students understand the fundamentals of analyzing and interpreting Korean film and television drama. The Students will come to a deeper understanding of Korean film and television drama by analyzing individual texts from a new perspective. Emphasis will be given to a balanced understanding of both individual texts and socio-cultural contexts.

The course will broaden students’ understanding of Korean by reading and analyzing materials with respect to spelling, letters, phonology, grammar, and vocabulary. With philological and bibliographical approaches, students will learn the methods and procedures for dealing with historical texts in Korean.

In this age of globalization and the Korean wave, as elements of Korean culture such as K-pop, television dramas, and film spread throughout the world, Korean literature is also gaining in popularity abroad. Thus it is important to examine how Korean literature has been expressed, interpreted, and understood outside Korea. In this context, this class will study works of Korean literature translated into English and how they are understood and interpreted in English-speaking countries, covering everything from classic to contemporary literature. In this way, students will gain a deeper understanding of Korean literature from a new perspective and thus be better equipped to contribute to the globalization of Korean literature in the future.

Most Korean classic novels have been handed down as written manuscripts. Therefore, in order to appreciate, understand, and study these works, we first need the ability to read them. The purpose of this course is to improve students’ basic ability to read classical novels. We will attempt detailed interpretation and analysis of the readings, which will include selected woodblock prints and handwritten manuscripts, written in either hanmun (classical Chinese characters) or Hangul (vernacular Korean).

‘K-Literature’ refers to Korean literature that has recently emerged as a subject of interest in the world. In the 2000s, Korean literature became the subject of global interest. Writer Han Kang won the International Man Booker Prize in 2016, and writer Yoon Go-eun also won the CWA Dagger Prize in 2021. Not only novels, but also poets such as Kim So-yeon and Kim Hye-soon are receiving world attention. It can also be said that the power of the screenplay was very great for Korean films to be in the limelight around the world. Therefore, through the writers and works of ‘K-Literature’, students can broadly understand contemporary Korean literature.

The categories and nature of Korean studies have been constantly changing in response to Korea’s global status. Korean literature has historically received less attention compared to other areas of Korean studies due to its regional focus. However, as Korean studies has become an increasingly prominent discipline at major universities in Korea and abroad, the traditional approach to research and education of Korean literature is in need of a significant transformation. The boundaries of ‘Korea’ and the category of ‘literature’ are constantly being expanded or challenged. This course aims to explore the understanding of Korean literature as a field of Korean studies and its significance by critically examining the achievements and possibilities of Korean literature in the context of the academic and cultural development of Korean studies at home and abroad. This course will equip students with both specialized knowledge of Korean literature and a broader understanding of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural practices, empowering them to meet the contemporary demands within the field of Korean studies.