Program
M.A. in Cultural Anthropology, M.A. in Gender and Cultural Studies
Mandatory Courses
Course No. |
Course Name |
Course Description |
Credit |
ANT5001 |
Qualitative Research Methodology |
This course introduces various qualitative research methods including participant observation, indepth interview and life history. |
3 |
ANT5002 |
Theory of Cultural Anthropology |
This course examines traditional and contemporary theories of Cultural Anthropology from a critical standpoint. |
3 |
ANT5003 |
Introduction to Gender and Cultural Studies |
This course introduces various issues on Gender and Cultural Studies including research agenda, methods, and interpretation of research outcomes. |
3 |
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Cultural Anthropology Courses
Course No. |
Course Name |
Course Description |
Credit |
ANT5004 |
Quantitative Research Methodology |
This course offers students basic knowledge on how to conduct quantitative research. |
3 |
ANT5101 |
History of Cultural Anthropology |
This course traces the development of Cultural Anthropology as an academic field in a comparative scope that covers the trajectories of the discipline in non-western societies. |
3 |
ANT5102 |
Power and Resistance |
This course reviews relations between politics and culture and analyses political realities of non-western societies with a critical perspective on contemporary political concepts. |
3 |
ANT5103 |
Anthropology of Disability |
This course introduces anthropological perspectives and theories on disability with an emphasis on ethnographic work. |
3 |
ANT5104 |
Poverty of the 21st Century |
This course identifies contemporary poverty issues including perception, agenda, institution, and political engagement. |
3 |
ANT5105 |
Anthropology and International Development |
This course promotes an understanding of anthropological engagement in international development. |
3 |
ANT5106 |
Anthropology of Globalization |
This course reviews anthropological approaches to globalization and examines how global mobility expedites the global-local dynamics. |
3 |
ANT5107 |
Migration and Cultural Studies |
This course analyzes the patterns and networks of transnational migration with a focus on an Asian context. |
3 |
ANT5108 |
Border Society and Mobility |
This course seeks to develop a theoretical tool to understand mobile economic and social-cultural phenomena taking place across the nation-state border. |
3 |
ANT5109 |
Anthropology of Youth |
This course examines anthropological discussion on youth with a focus on the processes and implication of global market economy and technology development that form a new youth as a cultural and political category. |
3 |
ANT5110 |
Education and Field |
This course introduces various issues and research methods associated with education field. |
3 |
ANT5111 |
Digital Society and Cultural Change |
This course provides an introduction to cultural change brought about by social network services and new challenges facing anthropology. |
3 |
ANT5112 |
Fieldwork and Documentary Practice |
This course offers students opportunities to learn how to report and analyze cultural fields through digital technology. |
3 |
ANT5113 |
Anthropology of Capitalism |
This course understands Capitalism as a combination of various practices in the historical and cultural mediation and explores theoretical issues through ethnographic approaches. |
3 |
ANT5114 |
Chinese Studies I |
This course promotes the general understanding of China and examines social and cultural transformation that has been underway in the country. |
3 |
ANT5115 |
Chinese Studies II |
This course deepens the understanding of China in an analytic perspective. |
3 |
ANT5116 |
Japanese Studies I |
This course identifies the histography and key issues in the study of Japanese culture and explores research methods and epistemology to deepen the understanding of culture and society of contemporary Japan. |
3 |
ANT5117 |
Japanese Studies II |
This course explores thematic and area-wise issues to deepen the understanding of Japanese society. |
3 |
ANT5118 |
Southeast Asian Studies I |
This course traces theoretical developments that have explained diverse cultural phenomena and understands contemporary issues in Southeast Asian society. |
3 |
ANT5119 |
Southeast Asian Studies II |
This course deepens the knowledge of Southeast Asian society by exploring key issues that affect the region. |
3 |
ANT5120 |
Special Topics in Anthropology |
This course introduces newly emerging topics, methodology and theory in the field of Cultural Anthropology. |
3 |
Gender and Cultural Studies Courses
Course No. |
Course Name |
Course Description |
Credit |
ANT6101 |
Sexuality Theory |
This course reviews the development of research agendas and theoretical discussions on sexuality and examines current methodological and theoretical issues. |
3 |
ANT6102 |
Gender and Labor |
This course understands labor differentiation and hierarchy along gender lines and analyzes the nature of gendered economy. |
3 |
ANT6103 |
Feminist Cultural Studies |
This course examines the historical development and theoretical issues of cultural studies in the feminist perspective. |
3 |
ANT6104 |
Gender and Fieldwork |
This course introduces students methodological approaches to gender issues. |
3 |
ANT6105 |
Intimacy in Contemporary Society |
This course explores the formation of family and intimacy in the context of changing social structure and globalization. |
3 |
ANT6106 |
Life and Medicine |
This course examines a social-political context that drives the new sense of life. |
3 |
ANT6107 |
City and Culture |
This course reviews the study of city that faces the expansion and reproduction of capital and suggests sustainable cultural policies. |
3 |
ANT6108 |
Cultural Theory |
This course explores cultural theory that accounts for various social-cultural and political phenomena and offers students a perspective to analyze cultural phenomena in Korean society. |
3 |
ANT6109 |
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies |
This course analyzes transnational cultural flows and networks in the Asian context. |
3 |
ANT6110 |
Korean Cultural Studies |
This course understands Korean society and culture in a critical perspective and seeks to develop methodology and theoretical frameworks to develop Korean cultural studies. |
3 |
ANT6111 |
Special Topics in Cultural Studies |
This course identifies and analyzes emerging cultural issues. |
3 |
ANT6112 |
Feminist Cultural Anthropology |
This course reviews the knowledge production processes of Cultural Anthropology from a feminist perspective. |
3 |
ANT6113 |
Anthropology of Feminist Education |
This course approaches education with a viewpoint of feminist pedagogy. |
3 |
Dissertation Writing Courses
Course No. |
Course Name |
Course Description |
Credit |
ANT7101 |
Individual Study I |
This course provides students with opportunities to develop a dissertation topic through individual study with a supervisor. |
2 |
ANT7102 |
Individual Study II |
This course provides students with opportunities to develop a dissertation topic through individual study with a supervisor. |
2 |
ANT7999 |
Independent Research I |
This course provides students with opportunities to write a dissertation under the guidance of a supervisor. |
0 |