Literature Courses
Literature Courses
Guidelines for Self-Placement in Language Courses
AMES 126S Korean Sociloinguistics
Professor Hae-Young Kim
Examination of Korean language in social and cultural contexts from sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological points of view. Focus on construction of cultural identities, social order and interpersonal relationships through everyday language use. Honorifics and language ideology, language and gender, regional and social variations, language contact and language policy in contemporary Korea. Sociolinguistics literature introducing conceptual frameworks and empirical research on specifics of language in use and synchronic and diachronic variations. Readings and class conducted in English. PREREQUISITE: Familiarity with Korean or basics of Linguistics.
AMES 144 Korea in the World
Professor Nayoung Aimee Kwon
Variable topics on Korean culture from global perspectives. Colonialism, occupation, national division, wars, hyper-development, gendered/ethnic conflicts, global displacements, (post)modernity. Literature, film, pop-culture, history, testimonies, and other forms of representations. Topics framed in local, regional, and global contexts.
AMES 148 Critical Inter-Asia
Professor Nayoung Aimee Kwon
Reconsidering the nexus of cultures and societies in Asia. Critical, transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives on two or more Asian cultures and their interactions in the world. Variable concerns and texts from history, literature, current affairs, cinematic, visual, and pop-cultures. Topics framed in local, regional, and global contexts.
AAL163 Korean Literature in Translation
This course is an introduction to the study of modern Korean literature through the broad theme of individual and society. This course will cover key works of fiction from the early twentieth century to the postwar era and will address issues such as nationalism, Japanese colonization, changing role of women, the Korean War, American occupation, and national division. Supplementary readings will provide historical contextualization as necessary. Discussions will be based on close readings of the texts. All materials will be provided in English. No prerequisites.
AALL 167/267 Trauma and Passion in Korean Culture
An examination of various representations of "trauma" and "passion" in Korean culture through films, literature, and other cultural media. We will consider broad-ranging implications of "trauma" and "passion" through the lens of war, love, loss, and pathos, as articulated in different historical moments. (C-L LIT 165F)
AAL175S World of Korean Cinema
Professor Nayoung Aimee Kwon
The world of Korean cinema, broadly defined in terms of national, generic, theoretical boundaries, beyond conventional auteur, genre, one-way influence, and national cinema theories. Cinematic texts examined in local, regional, and global contexts and intersections, in conversation with global theories and histories of cinema, visual cultures, and other representational forms. Variable topics informed theoretically and politically by discourses on gender/sexuality, race/ethnicity, global flows of people and cultures, popular and "high" culture crossovers, transnational co-productions, remakes, translations and retellings. No knowledge of Korean language/ culture presumed.