Korean Studies at George Washington University

(January 24, 2006)

Young-Key Kim-Renaud, Ph.D., Chair

Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Professor of Korean Language and Culture and International Affairs

The George Washington University

Washington, D. C. 20052

U.S.A.

 

 

1.  Introduction and Mission Statement

The George Washington University is located in the heart of Washington, D.C., just blocks from the White House, the World Bank, and the Kennedy Center. The National Mall is just a short walk away and houses, among other attractions, the world-renowned Asian collections of the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The Library of Congress, just a short Metro ride away, has some of the world's richest and most extensive collections of Asian materials. Washington is, of course, also home to numerous research institutions and non-profit organizations, many of which focus on Asian issues. All of these resources are easily accessible to students, faculty and visitors alike.

The rapid ascendance of Northeast Asia has made each country of the area a more distinct entity. Korea is now regarded as an integral and significant part of East Asia both from historical and contemporary points of view.  In particular, Korean culture and civilization is no longer considered a mere subset of the Chinese or Japanese for lack of direct knowledge, as was the case in the 1950s.  Historically, Korea, being in the heart of the Northeast Asia where Mahayana Buddhism and Confucianism flourished, has contributed to the development of the East-Asian culture and civilization.

 

Today, Korea's strategic location and active participation in world economic, political, intellectual and cultural life as well as a significant number of diasporic Koreans living throughout the world have made the study of Korean language and culture a new subject of practical importance and worthy intellectual pursuit. What happens in one area of East Asia affects scholars in the other areas.  In fact, as far as academic standards are concerned, no East Asian language and culture/literature department can be considered first-rate today if it does not include a Korean language program.  Experience shows that increases in one language offering seem to increase interest and "traffic" in all East Asian language offerings.

 

The George Washington University (GWU) is one of the institutions of higher learning that decided to strengthen their East Asian studies programs by formally including the Korean studies component in the early 1980s.  However, GWUfs relationship with Korea is long and significant.  Suh Jae-pil (also known by his American name of Philip Jaisohn), a renowned leader in the fight for independence and modernization of Korea, graduated from Columbia Medical College (now GWUfs School of Medicine and Health Sciences) in 1892, becoming the first Korean and one of the fist Asians to earn a Doctor of Medicine degree in the United States (Theodore T. Suh, http://www.ncneighbors.com/media/documents/261.6.doc). Syngman Rhee, the first President of the Republic of Korea, received his B.A. degree from GWU in 1907, a Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award in 1949, and an honorary degree (LL.D.) in 1954 (http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/archives/almanac/recip.html). Roh Tae Woo, the 13th President of the Republic of Korea (1988-1993), received an honorary degree in 1989 (http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/archives/collections/verticalfiles.html). Executives of the largest Korean companies, such as Hyundai, Dae Woo and Samsung either studied at GWU, earned degrees, or were recipients of honorary degrees.

 

At program levels, various parts of the University have established close relationships with the Republic of Korea also.  Over the years, students have come from Korea to study at GWU.  GWU has been a favorite destination for many distinguished visiting scholars from Korea and others who are Korea specialists. The GWU community has been greatly enriched by their relationship with Korea and Korea specialists.  Being in the center of the nationfs capital, where many different nationalities come together, GWU has constantly emphasized international and cross-cultural education.

 

One of the Elliott School's most recent initiatives has been the construction of a network of partnerships with other outstanding graduate programs in international affairs around the world.  The purpose of this network is to enable exchange of both graduate students and faculty.  The network now has more than a dozen partners, including the London School of Economics, Sciences Po (Institut d'Etudes Politiques) in Paris, the Free University of Berlin, Waseda University, Fudan University, the National University of Singapore, the University of Sydney, and Hong Kong University. In Korea, GWfs Elliott School has established a thriving joint degree program for a Master of International Studies (M.I.S.). with the Graduate School of International Studies of Ewha Womans University in Seoul (http://www.gwu.edu/~elliott/academicprograms/studyabroad/Ewha.cfm). This exchange relationship, which began in 2001 and was renewed in 2004, is part of a broader graduate student exchange program specifically with the Graduate School of International Studies at Ewha. Many students go for study in Korea for only a semester, although some indeed take the one-year dual degree program. They also have other exchange relationships with two other prestigious universities in Korea, Seoul National University and Yonsei University.

 

The Elliott Schoolfs interest in Korea and Korean affairs goes beyond the walls of GWU and Universities with exchange relations. Various research centers within the Elliott School have individual connections with counterparts in Korea.  The Sigur Center for Asian Studies, in particular, has a strong relationship with various scholars and institutions of higher learning. In December 2005, the Sigur Center and Stanford Universityfs Korean Studies Program signed with the POSCO TJ Park Foundation a Memorandum of Understanding for a gPOSCO NGO Fellowship Programh gto provide the opportunity for key personnel of Korean non-government organizations to spend time at leading North American universities gaining knowledge and experience that will further the development of NGOs in Korea.h

 

The Center for International Studies at Yonsei University, and the Center for International Science and Technology Policy (CISTP) has a relationship with the Science, Technology, and Economic Policy Institute and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Evaluation and Planning. Dr. Oh-Kab Kwon, Chairman and CEO of the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation, is an alumnus of the CISTPfs M.A. program and currently serves as the President of the GW Alumni Association in the Republic of Korea, the largest GW alumni association outside of the U.S. The strong connection between CISTP and Korean organizations was further reaffirmed in 2005 by the appointment of Prof. Nick Vonortas, director of the Center and professor of economics and international affairs at GW, on the Board of Directors of the Korea-U.S. Science Cooperation Center, which promotes Korean research and development in cooperation with U.S. research institutions.

 

The Elliott Schoolfs frequent talks, conferences, and other meetings on Korea are well attended. Other colleges and professional schools have also been interested in Korea, as manifested in Professor Yoon-shik Parkfs activities in the financial sector noted above.

 

There are basically two complementary and mutually cooperating parts to Korean studies at GWU, one in the Korean humanities taught in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (EALL) of the Columbian School of Arts and Sciences, concentrating on language, literature and culture, and the other in the social sciences with the study of history, anthropology, education, political science, business and economics, by various faculty affiliated with the Elliott School of International Affairs (ESIA). GWU is the only university in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, which has a degree program in a specifically Korean field, offering a minor in Korean language and literature.  More broadly, Korea is an integral part of the Asian Studies Program, which is a multidisciplinary undergraduate and graduate academic program within the Elliott School.  The Sigur Center for Asian Studies (SCAS), one of the Elliott Schoolfs research and support centers, functions as the effective institutional department for the Asian Studies Program.

 

The Asian Studies Program with a Korean emphasis (gKorean Studies Programh hereinafter) shares a joint mission with the Sigur Center for Asian Studies gto increase the quality and broaden the scope of scholarly research and publications on Asian affairs, promote U.S.-Asian scholarly interaction and serve as the nexus for educating a new generation of students, scholars, analysts, and policymakers prepared to deal with the rapidly expanding role of East Asia and the Pacific Rim in world affairs.h

 

GW has one of the oldest international studies programs in the country, having been engaged in instruction in international affairs since 1898.  But the quality of our program has grown most rapidly since the establishment of a separate school of international affairs in 1987.  Three times in succession, GW has been awarded the status of a National Resource Center in International Studies by the U.S. Department of Education in the triennial competition.  During the most recent round of competition, in 2002-03, GW was the only university in the Washington area to receive such a grant.  It was also one of only eight universities in the United States to receive the full range of funding -- funds for both academic programs and graduate fellowships -- under this program.  This award confirms the quality of our teaching and research in international affairs, which is based on the combination of both area studies and functional studies into a single integrated program.

For our students we strive to offer an education which will change their lives by not only offering them special linguistic and cultural experiences but also by training them to function more wisely and competently in the increasingly globalizing world. The East Asian Languages and Literatures Department prepares students for significant careers in East-Asian affairs and related fields, by helping them develop leadership qualities through rigorous academic and practical training. Careers in East Asia related fields offer very diverse opportunities in a world in which Asia plays an increasingly important role. The students in our program go into government, diplomacy, business, academia, intelligence, medicine, and the legal profession, etc.

For our faculty, we endeavor to foster an atmosphere in which dynamic research and teaching projects can be carried out, to benefit each other as well as our students. Many of our faculty members count among the prominent scholars in East Asian studies. At the University level, the EALL Department works to complement and support the disciplinary study of East Asia in a number of different departments and programs in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and professional schools, including Anthropology, Art History, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, Religion, Political Science, Business, International Affairs, Law, and Womenfs Studies. The EALL Department also complements, while being its integral part, the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, which has recently been selected as one of seven areas of academic excellence by the University. The Sigur Centerfs main interest is in current affairs, but without knowledge of cultural and historical background of the region, a true understanding of the present is impossible.

The Korean studies program also responds to the needs of the larger Washington, DC community. The Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities series organized by EALL for students, faculty members, and friends of GWU helps to promote interdisciplinary and international dialog. The media—not only the mainstream ones such as Washington Post, NPR, News Channel 8, but also ethnic Asian print and broadcast media--often seek advice of our faculty members on Korean and East-Asian and Asian-American affairs.

The Korean and East Asian programs maintain close relations with the Freer-Sackler Galleries and the Asian Pacific American Program of the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum complex, which are minutes away from the GWU campus. We work closely also with the areafs various research libraries and the Asian Division of the Library of Congress as well as with the East-Asian studies faculty in other universities in the area. Various embassies from East Asian countries including Korea and their cultural centers are frequent supporters or our academic and cultural activities.  Curators, visiting faculty, and advanced graduate students from all over the world that does research at those institutions could be and are invited to help with guest teaching here at GWU.

The Washington, D. C. metropolitan area is one of the most culturally diverse in the nation and one of the world's most cosmopolitan urban areas. Maryland and Northern Virginia have a large and growing population of people of East-Asian ancestry, including a very significant number of ethnic Koreans, Chinese and Vietnamese. The rapid growth of these Asian ethnic populations is increasingly reflected in GWU's enrollment figures. GWU, like few other educational institutions of higher learning in the United States, is strategically situated geographically and demographically to further the research and teaching of East Asian societies and cultures as well as their current affairs.

In what follows, we present the state of the Korean Language and Literature program, closely following the GWU Guidelines and Format for Self-Study Report.  We will specify our plans to continue our strength, while reviewing where some of the problems might have originated and how we may avoid them in the future. We also make a modest proposal for the way the EALL Department and the University could help to make the Korean component of the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department healthy and prosperous. In the Appendix, we will list GW courses on Asia and Korea-related topics.

 

2. A Brief History

The history of the Asian Studies program at GWU reflects the changes in the global situation since the early 1960s.  During the peak of the Cold War in the aftermath of the Second World War, colleges and universities in the United States realized that they were miserably lacking in scholars doing research on Eastern European and East-Asian countries, the majority of which belonged to the Communist block.  They were naturally ill prepared to educate their students and the public at large or to advise government leaders on policy toward these emerging regimes. 

GWUfs renowned Institute for Sino-Soviet Studies was thus born in 1961 with the goal to help fill this gap by promoting and supporting scholarly research, policy analysis and undergraduate and graduate-level teaching in Soviet, Central and East European and East Asian affairs.  It was under these circumstances that, in 1963, the first Chinese language courses were offered at GWU.  They were taught by Beverly Fincher out of the then Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.  In 1965, a formal Chinese language program was established, still within the Slavic Department. An independent Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures was created as a part of the then School of Public and International Affairs, under the Chairship of Dr. Chung-Wen Shih in 1972, offering a full battery of Chinese language and literature courses.  Japanese language was added shortly thereafter. 

 

Korean-language instruction at GWU began with two courses technically first offered in the academic year of 1982-83, but actually in the summer of 1983, with six students enrolled. At that time, GWU was the only university in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, formally offering Korean language courses as part of its regular curriculum.  Since then, other universities in the area began offering Korean courses, too.  However, steady growth in the number of course offerings made GWUfs Korean program the leader not only in this area but definitely one of the most comprehensive language programs in the world.  Only a small portion of the Korean language programs offer a four-year language education. The Korean program began to offer Korean literature courses during the academic year 1999-2000, and GWU is the only university in the area regularly offering Korean literature courses. These courses, first taught as an experimental g700 series,h which consists of gexperimental or special courses that are on the cutting edge of the academic endeavor,h became part of the regular course offerings of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.  With the establishment of these courses as part of the regular curriculum, a Minor in Korean Language and Literature could finally be instituted.  Before, those who wanted to concentrate on Korean studies did it only through the Elliott School of International Affairs, as East-Asian Studies majors with a Korean focus. The Korean Minor now can be and is chosen as a secondary field of study also by the students of the Elliott School of International Affairs and the Columbian School of Arts and Sciences.

 

Korean language was introduced in the academic year of 1982-83, and the first two courses were taught by Dr. Young-Key Kim-Renaud, a linguist by training but with a broad research interest, in the summer of 1982, starting with six students.  The Japanese program was expanded to include literature in translation in 1980-81.  Soon the EALL Department began offering majors and minors in Japanese Languages and Literatures, too. 

 

In the academic year 1999-2000, the EALL Department crossed an important threshold by adding two crucial new courses: Korean Literature in Translation I & II, and with them making it possible for students to minor in Korean Language and Literature. In the academic year 2003-2004, we began offering another Korea course, entitled gKorean Culture through Film,h initially as part of GWUfs experimental 700 series.  This is a very popular course, and in the first semester it was offered, the enrollment reached the cap of 30 students.  We now offer it every semester as part of the regular EALL course offerings.

 

After the Cold War, the Institute changed its name to The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the new Sigur Center for Asian Studies was established in the Elliott School for International Affairs.   Recently the Sigur Center was chosen as one of seven areas of academic excellence

 in GWUfs effort to focus its priorities on areas that have gained or have the potential to gain national and international recognition. The role of the EALL Department in the Asian Studies Program housed in the Sigur Center is thus enhanced.  The establishment of the EALL Department as an independent entity in the early 1970s makes GWU one of the elite in the group of U.S. universities to recognize the historical and future importance of East Asian languages and literatures in Asian Studies.  Pioneered in the nineteenth century by such distinguished scholars as F. Max Muller and James Legge, the Asian studies field has developed into one of the most rigorous and challenging in the humanities.

 

In addition to the language, literature and culture courses offered in the EALL Department, there are a wide range of Asian studies courses offered in different parts of the University. The Asian Studies Program benefits from a particularly strong full-time faculty of twenty-six members representing a range of disciplines (Anthropology, Education, Geography, History, International Affairs, Linguistics, Literature, Political Science, and Religion).  These faculty members have collectively authored more than sixty books, thirty edited collections, and nearly four hundred journal articles and book chapters.  As a result of this scholarly productivity, the Asian Studies faculty at GWU has a strong national and international reputation. At the same time, Asian Studies faculty have made major contributions to the University based on their service at department, school, and University levels in a range of administrative and committee positions, as well as significant leadership roles in their professions.

The Asian Studies Program derives particular strength from its association with the Sigur Center of Asian Studies. The Sigur Center sponsors research projects, study groups, conferences, and lectures on political, social, economic, and security issues in Asia. The Center also hosts the Visiting Scholar and Visiting Research Associate Programs, bringing eminent scholars and top policy planners from universities and government organizations around the world to the Elliott School to teach and pursue their own research.

As the institutional home of the Asian Studies program, the Sigur Center also coordinates undergraduate and graduate instruction in Asian affairs throughout the university. This program is one of the nation's leading programs for the study of modern and contemporary Asia. It boasts an internationally recognized faculty with particular strengths in East Asia and policy issues and with coverage of South and Southeast Asia as well. This faculty is the largest of any university in the Washington, D.C., area.

The Sigur Center regularly convenes a range of Asia-related conferences, hosts numerous talks by leading academic and policy experts, support faculty research, and brings large numbers of visiting scholars to campus to share their research and expertise with GWUfs students and faculty. Thus, the Sigur Center creates a special synergy between the Asian Studies curriculum and its own agenda for intellectual exchange, academic research, educational outreach, and policy analysis.

 

3. Current State of Korean Studies at GWU

 

3.1. Faculty

             

In terms of Korean Studies at GWU, a major turning point was the creation of an endowed professorship in Korean studies.  During the academic year of 1997-1998, in the midst of the Korean financial crisis, GWU was successful in winning a Korea Foundation endowment grant of $1 million, which was matched by GWUfs President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg.  The grant was the Foundationfs formal recognition of GWUfs initial achievement in implementing a solid program in Korean Studies, and of its sound common vision shared by the faculty, students and administrators.  Equally important, the matching grant was an indication of the Universityfs seriousness of wanting to strengthen the Korean Studies Program at the highest level. The Elliott School Dean Harding and Young-Key Kim-Renaud worked hard to raise the endowment fund. However, the one critical basis for Korea Foundationfs positive response to GWUfs application for an endowment grant apparently was the report by the Foundationfs site-visit team, which found our Korean program offered in the EALL Department of the highest caliber. 

 

That GW is viewed as an important place to do Korean studies was evidenced by the number of qualified candidates who applied for the newly created tenure-track position and endowed chair in Korean studies. Kirk W. Larsen, then a recent Ph.D. in History from Harvard University, was selected from an impressive pool of more than 40 highly qualified candidates. 

 

There are now two full-time professors, who are devoted to Korean Studies one hundred percent of the time, as shown below:

 

 

Young-Key Kim-Renaud is a tenured full Professor of Korean Language and Culture and International Affairs and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at The George Washington University. She is a theoretical linguist with a broad interest in the humanities and Asian affairs. She is a past President of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics and of the Washington Linguistics Society. Kim-Renaud is currently serving as the Korea Book Review Editor for the Journal of Asian Studies, and as Editor of Korean Linguistics and of the International Journal of Korean Studies. Before joining George Washington in 1983, she worked as Assistant Program Director for Linguistics at the U.S. National Science Foundation. She also taught at Harvard University as a visiting lecturer (1986–87). She is the initiator and co-convener of the annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium series in the Korean Humanities at GWU (1992–).

 

Kim-Renaud teaches Korean language courses at all levels, Korean literature courses, and a course in Asian Humanities.  She is also a member of the GWU Linguistics faculty.  She is frequently invited to give lectures at other universities, at the State Departmentfs Area Studies programs, and at other private and public organizations.

 

Kim-Renaudfs research activities combine language teaching and linguistic research, which she finds mutually beneficial. Her dissertation, Korean Consonantal Phonology, has been one of the most cited works in Korean linguistics over the last 30 years, and has been pivotal to numerous subsequent phonological articles and dissertations.  She has also done research in the fields of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, syntax, pragmatics, and second-language acquisition.

 
Kim-Renaud has edited a volume presenting a comprehensive overview of contemporary theoretical studies in all aspects of Korean linguistics. In addition, she edited a book on the Korean writing system, the first comprehensive scholarly treatment of hanfgûl published in English, with chapters by diverse and leading scholars in Korean linguistics and history. As a backdrop that explains the creative scientific and philosophical environment behind the invention of what has been called gone of the great intellectual achievements of humankind,h she has also edited a volume on the culture and society of 15th-century Korea, the era of the sage King Sejong, inventor of the Korean alphabet, for general audiences as well as Korean-studies specialists.


Kim-Renaudfs interest in second-language acquisition has grown over the years, as she has been engaged in teaching foreign languages now for more than three decades. Mistakes as well as studentsf novel sentences reveal much about linguistic structure, both in universal and language specific senses. She believes that these complementary activities are helpful as they provide a constant check on the existing theories, which need continual modification. She has also been actively engaged in research on the history and governance of Korean-language instruction in America.  As a Korea specialist, she has also researched Korean education and studied the history and current social and political status of the Korean peninsula and of the immigrant Koreans in the United States for a broader audience.


Kim-Renaud has also been involved in literary translations, and her English translation of Hahn Moo-Sook's Korean original long novel, Yoksanûn hûrûnda, under the title of And So Flows History, is currently
in press by the Univeresity of Hawaii Press. Her experience with translation has directed her attention to the relationship between language and culture. She is keenly interested in language change reflecting sociocultural change, in particular as a mirror of rapidly changing values, customs, and class structure.

 

Kim-Renaud has received various awards and grants, including three Fulbright awards (Korea, 1986, Jordan, 1994, and Korea, 1997–98). She is the author or editor of eight books: And So Flows History, an English translation of Hahn Moo-Sookfs Korean original, entitled Yŏksanŭn hŭrŭnda, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press and the Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii, Honolulu (2005), Studies in Korean Syntax and Semantics by Susumu Kuno with Young-Joo Kim, Soo-Yeon Kim, Young-Key Kim-Renaud, Ik-Hwan Lee, Ken-Ichi Takami, and John B. Whitman [co-editor with John B. Whitman], Washington, DC: International Circle of Korean Linguistics and Seoul: Pagijong Press (2004), Creative Women of Korea: The Fifteenth through the Twentieth Centuries (2003), The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure (1997), Theoretical Issues in Korean Linguistics (1994), King Sejong the Great: The Light of 15th-Century Korea (1992/97; Korean tr. 1998; German tr. 2002), Studies in Korean Linguistics (1986), and Korean Consonantal Phonology (1975/95).

 

Kim-Renaud has been actively engaged in various committee works at GWU, and currently serves as a member of the Promotion and Tenure Committee.  She has served as a panelist in various scholarship and fellowship committees within and outside GWU, and recently finished a three-year term as a member of the Fulbright Senior Scholar Review Committee for Japan/Korea. 

 

Kim-Renaudfs outreach activities are diverse and far-reaching.  She has organized numerous academic and cultural activities not only for GWU students and faculty but also for the whole Washington Metropolitan area community.  She has been interviewed as an expert in Korean studies and Korean-American affairs by various media including the U.S. National Public Radio, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.  She has also testified in court as an expert witness as a cultural specialist.  She also devotes her time to community services, and has been a long-term board member of the Korean Community Service Center of Greater Washington, Inc.

 

 

Kirk W. Larsen is Korean Foundation Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs at the George Washington University. After completing graduate work at Harvard University and working for one year as a visiting lecturer at the University of Texas—Austin, he arrived at GWU in 2000. Since then, he has worked to increase and improve Korean studies in the arenas of teaching, scholarship, and public service.

 

Kirk Larsen teaches courses on the history and culture of Korea at both the graduate and undergraduate level. His undergraduate Korean history course is always filled to capacity (40+ students) and his graduate seminar on Modern Korea consistently attracts a number of graduate students from various disciplines (8-10 students). The demand for Korean history courses at GWU has grown to the point where Professor Larsen will expand the range of course offerings potentially including undergraduate courses on traditional Korea, the Korean War, and North Korea, and adding a special topics graduate seminar in the near-term future. Professor Larsen also incorporates Korea into other courses he teaches on East Asia and International Affairs more generally. In addition to courses, Professor Larsen also advises and trains History Ph.D. students, four of which selected Korea as either a major or minor field in their comprehensive examinations in the academic year, 2003-4. Beginning in the fall 2005, he will be director of the Elliott School's undergraduate program in international affairs -- the largest major in the University.

 

Larsen has presented papers at conference venues ranging from Pfohang and Yanbian to Berlin and the Association of Asian Studies annual conference. In addition, he has presented papers or given invited talks at Harvard, Princeton, Duke, and Georgetown universities. Professor Larsen has published reviews of Korea-related books in The Journal of Asian Studies and in Business History Review. Additional reviews in the JAS and in Pacific Affairs are forthcoming. Professor Larsen has also published an article on Sino-Korean trade in Chinese Business History and was a co-editor of the widely used Harvard Korean Studies Bibliography. He has written numerous entries on Korean and Asian history for ABC-CLIOfs World History subscription website. Four submissions to edited collections on a variety of historical topics are due to be published in the near future. He is presently co-editing a volume on Chosôn Koreafs reception of international law. Finally, he is soon to complete a monograph titled Tradition, Trade and Empire: Qing Imperialism in Chosôn Korea, 1876-1910.  


Professor Larsen, to a degree unusual for a historian, has been an active participant in policy dialogue in Washington, bringing an acute historical perspective to the analysis of contemporary developments on the Korean peninsula. He has been often consulted by the Washington DC policy community and in various Korea- and Asia-related outreach efforts. He is a regular participant in the Korea Current Affairs Roundtable and has spoken at Korea-related conferences at Duke University, the School of Advanced International Studies (Johns Hopkins), and at The George Washington University. He has also lectured on various aspects of Korean history and culture at the Area Studies division of the U.S. Department of Statefs Foreign Service Institute and also at the Korean Culture and Information Service. He is frequently consulted by local and national media on Korea-related issues, appearing and/or being cited in a range of media including CBSfs The World at Six, Hardball with Chris Matthews, the Washington Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Miami Herald, and Agence France-Presse. He has also participated in a number of briefings, symposia, and panels organized by various local schools, universities and organizations. One recent example is his lecture on Tuesday, October 4, 2005, at the Korea Culture and Information Service, entitled, gKorea and Chinafs Relations: Yesterday and Today,ha discussion of traditional relations between Korea and China, how modernization impacted both nations and the exchanges between the Korea and China today.

 

There are three part-time faculty members, who teach Korean language and culture courses within the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.  Two are ABDs nearing the completion of their doctorates. Both Ki-tae Kim and YiYoung Kim are doctoral candidates in Linguistics at Georgetown University. John Finch has a Ph.D. in Anthropology and has taught courses in Film Studies in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland.  We have also hired various drill instructors over the years, drawing mainly from the pool of graduate students in the Elliott School of International Affairs. 

 

GWU has also been fortunate in getting faculty members in various departments, who are interested in Korean studies, although they were hired as experts in other areas.  These include Gregg Brazinsky in History, Susanne Francoeur in Art History, R. Richard Grinker in Anthropology, and Shoko Hamano in Linguistics, Harry Harding,  Henry Nau and Mike Mochizuki in Political Science, Tom Michael in Religion and Honors, and Yoon-shik Park in Business Administration, whose brief introductions appear below.

 

 

Gregg Brazinsky is a historian of U.S.-East Asian relations. His current research is on American Cold War Nation Building in South Korea. He received a Fulbright Scholarship to do research in Korea in 1999-2000 and has studied at the Yonsei University Korean Language Institute. His publications include "Koreanizing Modernization: South Korean Intellectuals and Modernization Theory," in Michael Latham et al eds., Staging Growth (2003) and "From Pupil to Model: American Economic Assistance Policies and Korean Development," forthcoming in Diplomatic History. He has recently received a Kluge Fellowship from the Library of Congress where he is completing his manuscript on U.S.-Korean relations.

 

 

Susanne Francoeur teaches Korean art as part of courses on East Asian art and Buddhist Art of Asia.   Her course on the art of East Asia, which is offered in the fall semester, includes four to five sessions dealing with the art of Korea. The material is organized chronologically starting with the Neolithic period and ending with the Chosôn dynasty.  In each period she concentrates on the most prominent and most accomplished aspects of the art of Korea, which includes ceramics, metal work, painting (early tomb paintings, landscapes, genre as well as Buddhist), sculpture and architecture (both Buddhist).  Francoeurfs seminar on the Buddhist Art of Asia contains a section on the Buddhist art in Korea with concentration on painting and sculpture from the Three Kingdoms to the Chosôn dynasty. In both courses she places special emphasis on the larger regional context in which these art forms developed modeled on certain prototypes such as Chinese, Indian, Central Asian, and how they in turn were transmitted to Japan shaping the early production of Buddhist art as well as ceramics (a point that has been long overlooked).


Francoeurfs seminar is capped at 15 and it is always filled. There are 53 students in her course on the art of East Asia in fall 2003, somewhat higher than in the past years. Students are from across the board with a strong concentration on International Affairs, Fine Arts, Art History, and Museum Studies.

 

 

Roy Richard Grinker, Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs and Human Sciences at GWU, has conducted fieldwork in South Korea since 1992 on unification issues, and is the author of numerous publications on Korea. These include:


1995a "The Real Enemy of the Nation: Exhibiting North Korea at the Demilitarized Zone." Museum Anthropology. 19 (2).
Reprinted in C. B. Steiner, ed., in press. Museums of Display/Museums on Display. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


1995b "Mourning the Nation: Ruins of the North in Seoul." Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, 3 (1): 331-352.

 

1996 "Imagining the North: Unification and Colonial Discourses in a South Korean Exhibition." (A revised and personalized version of Grinker, R.R. 1995b, "Mourning the Nation.") In Cho Hyong, ed. T'ongildoen ddangaeso toburo sanun yonsup (Learning to live together in a unified land), pp. 189-207. Seoul: Ddo Hanaui Munhwa. Trans. Yu Seung Hee. In Korean.

 

1996 Op-ed ("Shiron"): "Understanding 'Difference' in North-South Korean Relations." Joong-Ang Ilbo, June 19, 1996: 6. (circulation: approximately
2.5 million). In Korean.

 

1997 "T'ongilhankuksahoe: miriponun koulinka" [Korean Unification Society]. Sindonga (circulation, approximately 500,000). April, 1997: 136-145.  In Korean.


1997 Prepared Testimony before the United States House of Representatives, February 26, 1997. Engaging the Hermit Kingdom: U.S. Policy toward North Korea." House International Relations Committee,
Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. Other Witnesses: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs, Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asian Affairs, Ambassador James Lilley, Robert Manning (Progressive Policy Institute).


1997
 gInterview with Roy Richard Grinker.h In Yoo Dong Hee, ed. Nampukhanuit'onghapkwapangsong [North-South Unification and Broadcasting], pp. 89-96. Munhwa Broadcasting Company, Seoul, Korea. In Korean.


1998 "Learning to Hate Communism: Elementary School Textbooks and the
Construction of Nationhood in South Korea" Social Analysis (special issue on divided nations), ed. Gautam Ghosh. Vol. 57, 88-110.


1998 gSouth Korea, North Korea, and the Idea of Unification: Mutual Perceptions.h  Chae-jin Lee, ed. Inter-Korean Relations. Sejong Institute, Republic of Korea.

 

1998 Interview with Roy R. Grinker. Tfongil Hanguk. September, pp. 36-39.  In Korean.


1998
gUnification and the Economy,h Korean Economic Daily. In Korean. July 29, 1998: 6.


2002 Kim-Renaud, Young-Key, Kirk Larsen, and Roy Richard Grinker, eds.
, Korean Music. Sigur Center for Asian Studies Working Papers, 10.


2000 Kim-Renaud, Young-Key and Roy Richard Grinker, eds.
, Creation and Re-Creation in the Korean Humanities. Sigur Center for Asian Studies Working Papers, 8.


R. Richard Grinker is currently engaged in a long-term project on disability in general, and autism, in particular in Korea. He is conducting research with families in Seoul, Chinju, and Sunch'ang County (Cholla puk-do) and has done extended interviews with 60 families to date. He is working with Korean psychiatrists to modify a Developmental Expectations Questionnaire to make it appropriate for Korean society. In addition, he is planning the first ever prevalence study of autism in South Korea in collaboration with two child psychiatrists in South Korea. He has received a grant for researching gPrevalence of Autism Spectru Disorders among Korean School-Aged Childrenh from the National Alliance for Autism Research (NAAR). He will be working with researchers from Yale, McGill, University of Chicago and Yonsei University in Seoul.


Grinker is co-convener of the Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities. He advises numerous students on topics in Korean culture, Korean international affairs, and unification issues, and serves as a grants reviewer on Korean international affairs for the United States Institute of Peace.

 

·        Shoko Hamano

Professor Shoko Hamano received her Ph.D. in Anthropological Linguistics in 1986 from the University of Florida. She teaches lower and intermediate level Japanese language courses. She was the 2004 recipient of the Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Teaching Award. She received her B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Tokyo in 1976 and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropological Linguistics from the University of Florida. Prior to coming to GW, Hamano taught at the University of California Santa Cruz and served as acting director for the Japanese Language Program at Harvard University.

Her written work includes: The Sound-Symbolic System of Japanese (CSLI, 1998); "Voicing of Obstruents in Old Japanese" in the Journal of East Asian Linguistics (July 2000); and Making Sense of Japanese Grammar (University of Hawaii Press, 2002). Dr. Hamano is currently involved in a research project concerning a northern dialect of Japanese.

Shoko Hamano is a Japanese linguist, who has studied Korean and who has been doing contrastive analysis between Japanese and Korean.  She has been doing pedagogical research on teaching Japanese to Korean students.

 

Harry Harding is presently the Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs. After he steps down from the deanship at the end of June 2005, he will become University Professor of International Affairs, with an office in the Sigur Center for Asian Studies. He received his B.A. in public and international affairs from Princeton, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford. A specialist on Asian affairs with a particular interest in China, he is the author of A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China Since 1972 (1992), China and Northeast Asia: The Political Dimension (1988), China's Second Revolution: Reform after Mao (1987), and Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976 (1981). His edited volumes include The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know (2004), Sino-American Relations, 1945-55: A Joint Reassessment of a Critical Debate (1989), and China's Foreign Relations in the 1980s (1984). He has published articles in a wide range of scholarly and policy journals, from China Quarterly to Foreign Policy to World Politics, and serves on the editorial boards of the China Quarterly and the Journal of Democracy.

Dean Harding maintains a research interest in his areas of expertise: Chinese domestic politics, Chinese foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and the international relations of the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, he is conducting informal research on two other topics: the expression of political ideas in civic architecture, and the cross-cultural relations between Asia and America. Most of his courses include coverage of Korea.

Dr. Harding joined the Elliott School in January 1995. He had previously been a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution (1983-94), and had served on the political science faculties of Stanford University (1971-83) and Swarthmore College (1970-71). He has also been a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, directed the East Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and held visiting or adjunct professorships at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Washington at Seattle, Georgetown University, the George Washington University, and United College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Harding received the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching from Stanford University in 1975. His first book, Organizing China, was awarded the 1986 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, which honors outstanding books on subjects concerning the Pacific Rim. A subsequent book, A Fragile Relationship, was named an "Outstanding Academic Book" by Choice magazine, and received the honorable mention award in the competition for the "Best Book in Government and Political Science" conducted by the Association of American Publishers.

Dr. Harding is a trustee of the Asia Foundation, a director of the Asia Foundation in Taiwan, a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a director of the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, a director of the Atlantic Council of the United States, and a member of the Committee on International Security Studies of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has previously served as a fellow of the World Economic Forum, the chairman of the Program on International Studies in Asia, a member of the U.S.-PRC Joint Commission on Scientific and Technological Cooperation, a member of the Defense Policy Board, and a member of the Senior Advisory Panel that advised the Asian Development Bank in drafting a Long Term Strategic Framework for the years 2000-2015.   

 

Thomas Michael is an Assistant Professor of Religion and a faculty member in the Honors program at GWU.  His interest in Korean religions stems from his training in East Asian religions.  His primary areas of interest in Korean religions are Buddhism, Confucianism, and shamanism.  His research is particularly concerned with the role played by Korea in the establishment and dissemination of all forms of Buddhism, especially Zen Buddhism, in the history of East Asia. In his work on shamanism, he has examined the history and practice of its various forms all over the world, with special emphasis on its Asian manifestations.  He believes that Korean shamanism offers a particularly rich body of material because of its indigenous origins, its interactions with Buddhism, and its continuing popularity in contemporary Korea.


Thomas Michael recently presented his paper gKongzi wen yu Laozi: Two Faces of the Daoh at the David Hall Memorial Conference at Trinity University
(2003).  He has completed his manuscript, the Embodied Dao: Metaphysics in Early Daoism and is continuing work on several article manuscripts, including Early Chinese Shamanism.  Michael sits on the Selection Committee for the Luce Scholarship and is on the Planning Committee for the DC area Vesak celebration (Buddhafs birthday) and various other events at Buddhist temples.

 

Professor Michael is scheduled to present a paper at the Ninth International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women (WW05), which takes place in Seoul, Korea from 19-24 June 2005.

 

 

Mike M. Mochizuki holds the Japan-U.S. Relations Chair in Memory of Gaston Sigur at the Elliott School of International Affairs in George Washington University and director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies.  Mochizuki is a specialist of Japanese politics and foreign policy, U.S.-Japan relations, and East Asian security affairs.  His latest co-authored book is Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: How to Deal with a Nuclear North Korea, reviewed by The Washington Post (9/7). Mochizuki also appeared on Voice of America discussing North Korea (9/11). 

 

·        Henry R. Nau

Henry R. Nau is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the Elliott School. He currently directs the U.S.-Japan Economic Agenda and coordinates the US-Japan Legislative Exchange Program, a semiannual meeting between Members of the US Congress and Japanese Diet. He has served as a staff member in the White House and other government agencies at the highest level. His most recent publications include At Home Abroad: Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002. In April 2003, Nau, looking for ways to initiate a trilateral parliamentary exchange program, organized a historical panel discussion on "political leaders from the three allies in Asia look at the North Korean issue", with Korean Congressman Jay Kun Yoo attending. The most recent meeting is taking place here in Washington, DC with two ROK assemblymen attending: Chung Eui-yong (Uri) and Hwang Jin Ha (GNP).

 

Yoon-shik Park, Professor of International Finance, has had a long and deep interest in Korean financial world and its relationship with the global economy.  His recent academic activities related to Korea are as follows:

 

In teaching, he has incorporated the causes of the 1997-98 Korean financial crisis and its lessons in his Seminar on International Banking for both undergraduate (IBUS 173) and graduate (IBUS 273) classes. In order to prepare his students for this class session, he has assigned as a reading material his paper, The Asian Financial Crisis and its Effects on Korean Banks, a paper in The Korean Economy in an Era of Global Competition, Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies, Volume 10, 2000, published by the Korea Economic Institute of America.

 

            Park has published extensively in Korea-related topics.  His publications focusing on Korea include the following:

 

(1)  Book:

 

Korean Bond Market: Post-Asian Crisis and Beyond, Korea Stock Exchange, 2003.

 

(2)  Articles and Papers:

 

FDI into Korea: Reaching the Next Plateau, a paper to appear in the new book, Korea: Reaching the Next Plateau, to be published by the Korea Economic Institute of America, Washington, 2003.

 

Why Is the Market Economy So Strong? A paper presented at the academic conference on Changes in North-East Asian Economic and Political Order and Koreafs Preparations for the 21st Century, organized by George Washington University, Keio University (Japan) and Kyung Hee University (Korea), State Plaza Hotel, Washington, D.C., November 22-23, 2002.

 

The Outlook for Korea-U.S. Economic Relationship, a paper presented at the Conference on the Korean Economy and Korea-U.S. Economic Relations, sponsored by Center for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, George Mason University, November 15, 2002.

 

Challenges and Opportunities for Korean-American Businesses, a paper presented at The Centennial Anniversary Conference on Korean Immigration to the United States, Washington, August 16-17, 2002.

 

U.S.-Korea Strategic Economic Partnership, a paper presented at the International Symposium on U.S.-Korea Strategic Business Partnership in the 21st Century, organized by Gateway Institute for Regional Development, Kean University, New Jersey, March 15, 2002.

 

Sunshine Policy of the D J Kim Administration and its Effects on North-South Korean Economic Cooperation, a paper presented at the Conference on North-South Korea Cooperation Since the 2000 North-South Korea Summit Meeting, organized by Georgetown University, Washington, June 15, 2002.

 

Potential Impact of International Capital Flows on the Korean Financial Market and Real Sector: Koreafs Strategic Reponses, a chapter in Restructuring the Korean Financial Market in a Global Economy, edited by Lee-Jay Cho, Yoon Hyung Kim and Inseok Shin, Korea Development Institute, Seoul, Korea, 2002.

 

Potential International Financing Sources for North Korea, a paper presented at the Conference on Korea and the Four Major Powers in Northeast Asia, organized by the Center for Asian Studies of the Richard Walker Institute of International Studies, University of South Carolina, May 18-20, 2001.

 

Moral Hazard, Financial Reforms, and the Role of the State, a paper presented at the Conference on Korea in Transition: three Years under the Kim Dee Jung Government, organized by Georgetown University, Washington, March 26, 2001.

 

Corporate Governance Reform, a paper in Koreafs Economy 2001, published by the Korea Economic Institute of America, Washington, 2001.

 

Koreafs Chaebols Issue Combined Financial Statements for First Time, Korea Insight, published by the Korea Economic Institute of America, August 2000.

 

The Asian Financial Crisis and its Effects on Korean Banks, a paper in The Korean Economy in an Era of Global Competition, Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies, Volume 10, 2000, published by the Korea Economic Institute of America.

 

Economic Restructuring and Reform in Korea: Accomplishments and Challenges, a paper presented at the International Conference on Economic Crisis and Restructuring in Korea, organized by the Korea Development Institute, Seoul, Korea, December 3, 1999.

 

Financial Sector Restructuring, a paper in Koreafs Economy 1999, published by the Korea Economic Institute of America, Washington, 1999.

 

            Yoon-shik Park has participated in many conferences dealing with Korean economic and business issues.  For example, in July 2003, he was invited to participate in an International Conference on the Next Growth Engines of the Korean Economy in the 21st Century, organized by the Ministry of Energy, Trade and Industry in Seoul, Korea.

 

In September 2003, he was invited to speak at a Seminar on the Market Economy, organized by Kyung Hee University and the Joong Ang Ilbo Daily in Seoul, Korea, to make a presentation on why the market economy is strong and the implications of the market economy for Korea.

 

He has also been a member of the board of directors, Korea Economic Institute of America, Inc. in Washington, as well as a member of the board of directors, Samsung Corporation, the well-known large Korean chaebol company active in international business.

 

Since the retirement of Young C. Kim, GW has relied on part-time faculty to teach courses on Korean politics, relying on part-time faculty. John Merrill, chief of the Northeast Asia Division of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research for the U.S. Department of State, was one of them. Currently, Young-shik Daniel Bong, a recent Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, has been teaching a course on Korean politics per semester, as can be seen in the Appendix.

 

There are also faculty members with close ties with Korea, although their teaching and research are not in Korean studies, per se.  For example the Institute for Computer Graphics at GWU, with James K. Hahn as its Director, and the Computer Graphics Laboratory at the Seoul National University have been working collaboratively for the past 6 years for both research and education. This has resulted in a number of exchanges of visiting faculty between the two institutions as well as students. The area of common interest is in the use of digital media and computer science in the domain of medicine. A number of significant research projects have been conducted jointly, and successful in securing funding.   

 

3.2.Korean Studies Curriculum

 

Two Korean-Literature in Translation courses, one for the pre-1900 or pre-Modern period and another for the post-1900 or Modern and Contemporary period, were offered as a 700 series for the first time in the 1999-2000 academic year, as mentioned before.  Before the year was over, a proposal to offer the Korean-literature courses as part of the regular course offerings by EALL and CCAS was submitted, which was received enthusiastically by the Columbian Collegefs Curriculum Committee and also by interested students.  These new offerings have made it possible for students to minor in Korean. The requirement for a Korean Minor includes taking all eight Korean language courses and two literature courses offered at GWU, i.e., 8 language courses amounting to four years of study and two Korean-Literature-in-Translation courses.  More recently, our film course has been accepted to replace one of the upper-level Korean literature courses.

 

The Korean Language and Literature Program at GWU continues to be a small but quality program. While student enrollment has been nothing comparable to major universities in the U.S., and the number of students choosing Korean language and literature as their minors continue to be small, the quality and seriousness of students have definitely gone up.  Some of the top honor students who are Japanese and Chinese majors have been enrolled in Korean-language classes.  Students taking our Korean studies courses number over 100, and if we count those courses that include a Korean component, they are about 250.  We also have had a Ph.D. candidate in History, and a few Law School students, and other graduate students in International Affairs.  In general, the ratio of non-Korean heritage students starting to learn Korean has been going up.  This year a great majority of students enrolled in the first-year Korean language course are of non-Korean heritage.

 

GWU is one of few universities and the only one in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area, which grant a specific degree in Korean language and literature.  However, as we wonft be able to secure more faculty members and more courses in the Korean humanities for quite a while, it is not likely that a major in Korean language and literature will be established in the near future.  Korean studies will thus need to continue to be pursued as a concentration within the Asian Studies Program.  What follows is largely from the 2003 Executive Summary of the Asian Studies Program at GWU, of which Korean Studies is a subpart. 

 

The Asian Studies Program supports a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs.  At the undergraduate level, it currently offers a Bachelor of Arts major in Asian Studies and supports a concentration on Asia in the International Affairs major.  At the graduate level, the Program offers a Master of Arts in Asian Studies and graduate certificates in East Asian and Chinese Studies, as well as Asian Studies fields for the International Affairs and other Elliott School M.A. programs.  The numbers of students enrolled in these programs are not particularly large.  Enrollment in the B.A. major has seen some decline in recent years from around thirty students to less than twenty.  Undergraduate concentrators, however, have been increasing from a low of twelve in fall 2000 to a new high of thirty-eight in spring 2003.  In each of the past five years, the Program recruited less than a dozen new students each year. Nonetheless, there is significant growth in this area with eighteen new students entering in fall 2003.  Even if the number of students enrolled as majors or degree students in the Program is not large, the Program continues to serve an even broader range of students with approximately forty courses offered each year by Asian Studies faculty at the undergraduate level and approximately twenty courses at the graduate level.

 

What is significant is the number of students pursuing doctoral degrees concentrating on Asia in various academic departments.  For example, there are 25 Ph.D. students dealing with topics on Asia in the Political Science Department, of which one is on Korea.  There are 12 Ph.D. students in History, of which two are concentrating on Korea.

 

3.3. Outreach 

 

Young-Key Kim-Renaud, director of the language and culture program and its sole faculty member as well as the Chair of the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department, has worked very closely with the EALL Departmental colleagues in order to create a common sense of mission. Shoko Hamano, in particular, has been a close colleague, because we share similar interests in linguistic theory.  Furthermore, the two languages we study and teach are typologically very similar.  Kim-Renaud has studied Japanese and is conversant in rudimentary Japanese. Professor Hamano has also taken the first-year Korean language courses for credits in the academic year 2000-2001.  Kim-Renaud also frequently exchanges academic discussions with Jonathan Chaves, Chair of the EALL Department.  Not only do we teach Asian Humanities course together, but also we enjoy learning from each other in the broad areas of arts and literature.

 

The Korean program wants to work closely with other faculty members of different but related disciplines, as well as those in other programs in Korean studies, within GWU and beyond.  Kim-Renaud enjoys her association and exchanges not only with those faculty members in Korean-studies fields, but also with members of various other Departments at GWU, including Yvonne Captain (Spanish), Peter Caws (University Professor of Philosophy and Human Sciences), Patricia Chu (English), Bruce Dickson (Political Science), Ellen Cheerio (Spanish), Alf Hiltebeitel (Religion), Ed McCord (History), You-me Park (English), Peter Rollberg (German and Slavic), Isabel Vergara (Spanish), Daqing Yang (History), Harry Yeide (Religion), and John Ziolkowski (Classics), Dorothy Moore (Education) and others in the Elliott School, Education School, Business School, Medical School, and even Engineering School, who have shown their interest in and support for Korean studies.  Kim-Renaud has also served in various Departmental and University committees, participated in interdisciplinary lectures and other meetings, and taught a Freshmen Advising Workshop.

 

GWUfs Korean program has become nationally and internationally known also through various other academic efforts by Young-Key Kim-Renaud. Kim-Renaud continues to be busy with frequent conference presentations, invited speeches, and her continued research and publications. The Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities series offers a valuable opportunity to GWU students and faculty and the Washington DC community to learn about various aspects of Korean culture and civilization, and in the process students get a first-hand opportunity to observe how conferences are organized and executed.  They listen to scholarly debates and try to participate in them.  They have the opportunity to meet eminent scholars not only among the main speakers but also in the audience.

 

3.3.1. Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium Series

 

The HMS Colloquium series at GWU, established by funds raised by Young-Key Kim-Renaud and co-convened with R. Richard Grinker and Kirk W. Larsen since a few years ago, is widely recognized as one of the very best Korean-studies colloquium series in the world.  A good proof is that other institutions in the Washington, DC area have wanted to co-sponsor the colloquium.  In 1998, Georgetown, George Mason, and the University of Maryland as well as the International Circle of Korean Linguistics became joint organizers, and extra funding became available not only from the major funding agencies in Korea but also in the Washington, DC area.  In 2002 and 2003, we have joined hands with two different branches of the Smithsonian Institution.  In 1999, for example, a graduate student studying in Korea made a trip all the way from Seoul to DC just to attend the Colloquium at GWU, although this was a very unusual case.  The 1998 colloquium on gCreative Women of Koreah was published by a major press specializing in Asian Studies, M.E. Sharpe.  Other yearsf colloquia have also been published as Sigur Center Papers series.  The complete list of our past colloquium is given below:

 

(1) "Psyche and Cosmos in Traditional Korea Thought," with Michael C. Kalton and Young-Chan Ro as guest speakers, November 4, 1995.

 

                (2) "Views of Enlightenment and Monastic Practice in Korean Son (Ch'an/Zen) Buddhism," with Sung-Bae Park and Robert Buswell as guest speakers, April 27, 1996.

 

                (3) "Shamanism in a Confucian Society: Past and Present," with Boudewijn Walraven and Laurel Kendall as guest speakers, October 26, 1996.

 

                (4) "Writing and Reconciliation," with JaHyun Kim Haboush and David McCann as guest speakers, October 25, 1997.

 

(5) "Sparks of Creativity: Women in the Korean Humanities," with John Duncan, Young Hai Park, Yi Song-mi, Mark Peterson, Kichung Kim, JaHyun Kim Haboush, Sonia Haussler, Kumja Paik Kim, Bonnie Oh, and Yung-Hee Kim as speakers who also served as discussants of other papers, and Young-chan Ro, John Goulde, Kongdan Oh, Don Baker, and Marsha Weidner as discussants.  October 24-25, 1998).

 

(6) "Creation and Recreation: Modern Korean Fiction and Its Translation," with Korean authors, Pak Wan-so and Ch'oe In-ho; translators, Bruce Fulton and Yu Young-nan; and commentators, Peter Caws, Alf Hiltebeitel, Young-Key Kim-Renaud, and Peter Rollberg, October 30, 1999.

 

                (7) "Christianity in Korea," with Don Baker and Chai-sik Chung, October 21, 2000.

 

(8) gMusic of Korea,h with Byung-ki Hwang and Robert C. Provine as speakers; and Andrew P. Killick, Chan E. Park, and Elizabeth D.Tolbert as discussants, October 20, 2001.

 

(9) gText and Context of the Korean Cinema,h with Park Chul Soo (Film Director), Chris Berry and Hyangsoon Yi as speakers and Harvey B. Feigengaum, Ranjan Chhibber, and Peter Y. Paik as discussants, October 26, 2002.  In conjunction with the Colloquium, the Freer Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian Institution presented five recent Korean films, October 18-27, 2002.

 

(10) gOne Hundred Years of Korean Literature,h with Elaine Kim, Heinz Insu Fenkl, Nora Okja Keller, and Don Lee as speakers and Patty Chu and You-me Park as discussants, co-organized with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program (APAP) and National Museum of American History, starting with the readings by the speakers the first night of the Colloquium at the Museum, October 24-25, 2003.

 

(11) gEducation in Korea,h with speakers, Nancy Abelmann, Jae Hoon Lim, and Michael J. Seth, and discussants, Fred Carriere and Gregg Brazinsky, October 23, 2004 [In cooperation with the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery].

 

(12) gThe Military and Korean Society,h with speakers, Eugene Y. Park, Sheila Miyoshi Jager, Jiyul Kim, and Suh Ji-moon, and discussants, Carter E. Eckert, John R. Merrill, and David R. McCann, October 22, 2005

 

3.3.2. Conferences, Workshops, Film Showing, and Panel Discussionos Organized by the Sigur Center

 

As noted before, the Sigur Center regularly convenes important conferences and other forms or meetings, both on its own and with various co-sponsors and co-organizers, covering a range of Asia-related topics, of which the HMS Colloquia series is one. These conferences normally involve international scholars, members of the policy community, leading academics, as well as member of the GWU Asian Studies faculty. Papers and discussion summaries of these conferences are also disseminated through the Centerfs occasional papers series and by publication on the Centerfs website. The conferences, workshop, and panel discussion on Korean studies the Center has organized in cooperation with various other departments within the University and sometimes also with other external organizations in the recent years include:

 

·    gThe Korean Economy in the Era of Global Competitionh conference co- sponsored by the Sigur Center and the Korean Economic Institute of America.  September 18-19, 1999.

·    gNorth Korea Policy After the Perry Report: A Trilateral (US, Japan, S Korea) Workshoph co-hosted with Keio University, Japan and Yonsei University, Korea. March 2-3, 2000.

·         gThe Korean Peninsula: Paths to Reconciliation and Reunificationh conference co- sponsored by the Sigur Center and The American Council on Asian and Pacific Affairs.  September 29-30, 2000.

·      Workshop on gRedefining the Japan-US Alliance: Toward Building a Security Communityh co-sponsored by the Sigur Center and the Japan Forum on International Relations, November 5, 2002

·        Conference on gThe Changing Economic-Security Nexus in Northeast Asia,h co-sponsored by the Sigur Center, Keio University and Kyunghee University, November 22-23, 2002.

·        Symposium on gWill the Sun Still Shine?:  Prospects and Challenges for the Korean Peninsulah co-sponsored with the Korea Economic Institute, January 24, 2003.

·        Distinguished lecture by Professor Ledyard: "Women in Korean History and the Question of Modernity: the Case of Kang Wansuk (1761-1801), Religious Activist and Martyr," November 5, 2003.

·        "Remembrance and Reconciliation"--a Korea Peace Day Panel Discussion with Kirk W. Larsen (George Washington University), John Merrill (State Department), and Mike Mochizuki (George Washington University), on the Korean War, Korean-American Relations, and the Nuclear Threat. Young-Key Kim-Renaud (George Washington University) presiding. November 6, 2003.

·         gThe ROK April 15th Elections: Change, Challenges, and the Future of U.S.-Korean relations, g a Panel Discussion with Peter Beck (Korea Economic Institute of America), Kirk W. Larsen (GWU), Sook Jong Lee (Visiting Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution), April 16, 2004.

·        gMemory and Reconciliation between Japan and South Korea: A Status Report.h a Brown Bag Lecture by Alexis Dudden (Connecticut College) and Sarah C. Soh (San Francisco State University), October 22, 2004.

·        gEducation in Korea,h 11th Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities, with Nancy Abelmann (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Michael Seth (James Madison University), Jae Hoon Lim (GWU), Gregg Brazinsky (GWU), Frederick Carriere, (The Korea Society in New York), October 23, 2004.

·        gPuzzles of Anti-Americanism in South Korea: Making Sense of Public Opinion,h a Brown Bag Lecture by Kisuk Cho (Ewha Womans University), February 7, 2005.

·        gBuddhist Elements in Korean Shamanism,h a Public Lecture by Hyun-key Kim Hogarth, February 9, 2005.

·        gReorienting U.S. Relations with the Koreas: Negotiating Nukes, Nationalisms, and National Interests,h a Symposium co-sponsored with the Korea Economic Institute of America and Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea [Panel I:  Reorientations in Korea and East Asia with Katharine Moon (Wellesley College), Charles Armstrong (Columbia University), Youngshik Bong (Wellesley College and GWU),  James Seymour (Columbia University),  Mike Mochizuki (GWU); Panel II:  Reorienting U.S. Policy with Youngshik Bong (Wellesley College and GWU), John Feffer (editor, Asian Perspective Special Issue), Karin Lee (Friends Committee on National Legislation), Katharine Moon (Wellesley College), and Joseph Winder (Korea Economic Institute of America), February 25, 2005.

·        Lecture by Balbina Hwang, Policy Analyst, The Heritage Foundation, gNorth Korea and the Future of Security in Northeast Asia,h Monday, October 3rd, 2005, 12:30-1:45

·         gCultural Approaches to Peace on the Korean Peninsulah, Korea Peace Day Event, The George Washington University in cooperation with the Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea (ASCK, www.asck.org), November 10, 2005.

·        Viewing of the Film, gA State of Mind,h directed by Daniel Gordon, story of two North Korean schoolgirls and their families in the lead up to the Mass Games, The George Washington University in cooperation of the Alliance with Scholars Concerned about Korea (ASCK, www.asck.org), November 10.

 

The center has produced monographs including the following, which result from the HMS colloquia:

 

·        "Christianity in Korea," with Don Baker and Chai-sik Chung, 2001.

·         gKorean Music,h report of conference co-sponsored by the East Asian Languages and Literature Department and the Sigur Center, 2002.

·        gText and Context of the Korean Cinema,h report of conference co-sponsored by the East Asian Languages and Literature Department and the Sigur Center, 2003.

·        Korean American Literature [co-editor with R. Richard Grinker and Kirk W. Larsen], Sigur Center Asian Papers, Vol. 20, The George Washington University, 2004.

·        Korean Education [co-editor with R. Richard Grinker and Kirk W. Larsen], Sigur Center Asian Papers, Vol. 24, The George Washington University, 2005.

 The center also publishes a collection of reports written by GWU graduate students who conducted field research in Asia during the 2000-01 and 2001-02 academic years under the Numata research internships.  Finally, the Sigur Center contributes $2,500 annually to the journal Problems of Post-Communism.

 

GWU regularly draws excellent visiting scholars from all over the world. In addition to the Sigur Center, which regularly hosts scholars from Asia, individual departments also invite them.  For example, most recently, the EALL department hosted a visiting scholar, Professor Ki-Suk Lee, Chairman of the English Department of Cheju National University each one of the visiting scholars contributes enormously to the life of the GWU community.  Students and the faculty come to contact with people from different thought systems and cultures, even without traveling.

4. Analysis of Strengths and Areas for Improvement

 

4.1. Strengths

List of courses compiled from websites of respective universities

 

 

University

COURSES

Excludes Directed Readings and Independent Study courses.

Underline indicates course offerings unavailable at GWU.

GWU

East Asian Languages and Literatures

(11 courses)

          Beginning Korean (KOR 1, 2)

           Intermediate Korean (KOR 3, 4)

           Advanced Korean (KOR 105-6)

           Readings in Modern Korean (KOR 107-8)

           Korean Literature in Translation
            (KOR 111, 112)

           Korean Culture through Film (KOR 162)

Georgetown University

East Asian Languages and Cultures

(8 courses)

          Intensive First Level Korean I, II

           Intensive Second Level Korean I, II

           Intensive Third Level Korean I, II

           Business Korean I, II

University of Maryland

Asian and East European Languages and Literatures

(2 courses)

            Introductory Reading for Speakers of Korean I

            Introductory Reading for Speakers of Korean II

Johns Hopkins University

(5 courses)

           Elements of Korean I, II

            Intermediate Korean for Reading and Writing

           Advanced Korean I; II

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Korean Language and Culture program at GWU is embedded in a very strong East Asian Studies program and it is an integral part of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, which provides moral and practical support in teaching and research.

 

4.2.  Areas for Improvement


The Korean Language and Literature Program at The George Washington University has made phenomenal progress in a rather short period of time, and has been tackling various challenges, one by one. The East Asian Languages and Literatures Department has been trying to increase the use of technology, especially in language instruction. The Department has also endeavored to provide more and varied course offerings. Most important, the Department has recently created the EALL category, which includes various subjects that will tie four distinct and hitherto unrelated subsections, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, emphasizing their participation in the great East Asian civilization.


Our Korean language and literature program, housed in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, has focused on humanities. At GW, where area studies programs, in general, are an integral part of a professional education in international affairs, in the case of Korean studies, the most obvious connection is with our Security Policy Studies Program, given the continued importance of the tensions on the Korean peninsula.  But a faculty appointment in Korean politics could also build connections with our International Trade and Investment Policy Program and with our International Development Studies Program as well as our International and Comparative Law Program, showing the relevance of the Korean experience to economic modernization, political development, contemporary trade and investment issues, human rights and environmental concerns.

 

The appointment of an outstanding modern historian of Korea, Kirk Larsen, has greatly contributed to enhancing Korean studies at GW.  The appointment of an equally first-rate political scientist specializing on contemporary Korea would make GWfs Korean studies program one of the very best in the world.  In the past, we were fortunate that one of our senior faculty in comparative politics, Professor Young C. Kim, happened to have an interest in both Korea and Japan.  After Professor Kim retired, however, the department of political science chose a successor who conducted research on other parts of the world, such that it presently lacks a specialist on Korean politics. In view of the importance of Korean politics and U.S.-Korea relations today, we have been offering courses on these subjects whenever we can, but relying only on part-time faculty cannot guarantee the programfs quality and its longevity.

GWU Scholars draw on the massive holdings of the Library of Congress and National Archives as well as a number of academic, governmental and private institutional collections. GWU is home to the Slavic, East European and Asian Reading Room, a special collection of reference works and periodicals unequaled in other academic institutions in the area, and to the National Security Archive, the world's largest private repository of declassified government documents. However, the GWU collection in the Korean humanities is sadly deficient.  Students and faculty may rely on other libraries such as the Library of Congress in town and etc., but there is nothing like having onefs own books on onefs own shelves.

4.3.  Strategic Plan

As shown before, the Korean language and literature program has taught students, not

only from the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, but also from the Elliott School of International Affairs, the School of Business and Public Management, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Law School, as well. In addition, students from neighboring universities such as George Mason University, American University, and Catholic University, have come to take Korean courses at GWU as Consortium students of the Universities of the Washington DC Metropolitan Area. 

 

In order to respond to the needs and goals of the heterogeneous student body and in order to maintain our reputation we have gained as a gsmall but top-qualityh program, the Korean Studies Program has established the following general objectives:

 

4.4. Specific Goals and Objectives

 

   1)  We believe we have been able to build a solid foundation for Korean language studies to students of diverse backgrounds, with a goal of language proficiency for practical and academic purposes. Now, we need to strengthen the social sciences component of the Korean studies program at GWU.

   2)   To present Korean studies in a manner which will make students better educated about East Asia in general and about Korea, in particular.  It is also hoped that students will be more curious toward diverse cultures and wiser in their judgment in dealing with current affairs, whatever they may be doing in the future.

   3)   To continue to earn national and international reputation through fine graduates in the field of Korean studies, and through continued research and publications by its faculty.

   4)   To make its presence known to the GWU community and beyond through our continued outreach programs such as the annual Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean Humanities and various Sigur Center lectures and panel discussions at GWU, and various other community outreach activities.

   5)   To work closely with other Korean studies programs within GWU and in other universities and organizations to share information and mutual support. At present, the EALL Department works very closely with the Elliott School, especially the Sigur Center, and with the History, Anthropology, and Religion Departments in the Columbian School of Arts and Culture, and also Asian studies faculty in the Political Science Department. The History and Political Science departments, in which we are trying to strengthen the Korean component, are nationally and internationally known for their academic excellence. The cooperation should be all encompassing, that is, active collaboration is desirable in teaching, research, and outreach.

   6)   Increase library holdings.


4.5. Actions taken and to be taken in order to achieve the stated goals

 

Transient part-timers can only do so much in making the Korean presence known and have little effect in building a strong academic program in Korean studies. The Korean studies program at GW, in order to maintain its momentum of continued progress, has just created a tenure line to hire a regular faculty member, who is a specialist in Korean politics, thereby making the already excellent Political Science Department even stronger.  

 

The current weakness even in our language and culture program is lack of diversity in course offerings.  We have a fairly extensive language and literature program with 8 language courses and 2 literature courses, and one film course. However, there is room for expansion there, too. We would like to offer at least gAdvanced Korean Conversation and Compositionh corresponding to similar courses in Chinese and Japanese. Some students would also want to read gKorean Literatureh not in translation but in the original.  This way, we could welcome native speakers of Korean, too.  Korean students make the largest international student group at GWU.  If we have the manpower, yet another course gConversational Koreanh for non-heritage speakers should be offered.  It would be a better way of offering different services, appropriate to different needs of students rather than separating the students into heritage and non-heritage groups.

 

The addition of these courses would not only increase the enrollment figures but also eventually help to establish a Korean major, thus making the EALL Department with three solid programs in it. It would also make a Korean-studies major possible in the Elliott School.  For this purpose, it goes without saying that an extra full-time faculty in Korean language and literature is needed, but the current budgetary constraint does not seem to make this an immediately realizable goal.

 

We need to continue to work very closely with colleagues in other departments, especially when they try to incorporate the Korean component in their teaching and research.

 

The EALL Department has recently undergone a massive curriculum reform. One of the remarkable changes, especially from the Korean studies point of view, is the creation of the EALL category. In this category are various foundational courses such as Confucian literature and different religions of East Asia, which used to be taught under the category of gCHINESE.h  Therefore, many of the East Asian Religion and Literature courses have been cross-listed in the EALL Department, too.  This is, of course, a part of our effort to give space to Korea, as it deserves.

 

4.6. Measures of effectiveness for each of the actions

 

(1)   A full-time instructor would be more devoted to his/her teaching and to the program in general than part-timers.  Teaching evaluation is not always a good measure of how one is doing.  It is important to measure how students are doing, and if they seem to be eager to learn more and generally happy to remain in the program.

(2)   Increase enrollment.

(3)   Increased library collections.

(4)   Increased language proficiency and cultural awareness through the increased use of technology and development of supplementary material.

(5)   Encourage collaboration among faculty members within and beyond the department to learn from each other and help each other.

(6)   Encourage gStudy Elsewhere,h which means not only studying abroad in Korea, etc., but also allowing students to go to other excellent institutions as exchange students.

(7)   Raise funds for more scholarships, including travel fellowships.

 

We believe that an able new faculty member in the Political Science Department can and will contribute to all these areas.

 

5. Conclusion

 

The Korean Studies Program at GWU has come of age. The GWU Korean program, although small, has built a reputation of excellence, and strives to maintain it by continuously working for growth and improvement. Nevertheless, the GWU Korean Program is too small to reach a true level of broad academic excellence as yet.  For this reason, it is particularly necessary for the faculty and students to be creative in using their resources.

 

Our goal is to make sure that Korea continues to get due attention from the whole GW community, including the faculty, students, and administration.  We will continue to help other faculty members and students to have exposure to Korean studies at least in all East-Asia courses. The idea is for each and every student to become familiar with traditional Korean culture and civilization, and its relevance in understanding and solving current issues that emerge. We will continue to encourage the other faculty members to adjust existing courses to include a Korean component.  There are two advantages in this approach.  First, it places Korean studies in the proper context and allows for a more objective point of view, too.  Most important, this often is a good way to recruit future Korean-studies specialists. We are also dedicated to building archival and library resources to a level sufficient to attract researchers and students from across the country and the world.


Our size is
not huge, but our ambition is great. We are committed to the growth of Korean scholarship and intend to make GWU an internationally recognized center for outstanding work and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in Korean studies.  We also intend to be a central node that can integrate the various Korean-related activities in the greater D.C. area -- so that when people think of Korean-related activities in D.C they think FIRST of GWU.  Through its academic missions, GWU is committed to being a part of Koreafs dynamic intellectual history and to offer expert advice to policymakers as well as ordinary citizens so that they make rational judgments vis-à-vis the current affairs involving the Korean peninsula. Given the significance of political change and current security issues to a full understanding of contemporary Korea, our immediate, short-term goal is to add a first-rate political scientist to our team. The job announcement has been posted, and GW is determined to fill this position with a superb scholar.

 

 

Appendix A

 

Minor in Korean Language and Literature (Code 858)

Prerequisite: Korean 1-2, 3-4 or equivalent. The minor consists of Korean 105-106, and 12 additional credit hours of 100-level Korean courses.

 

 


Courses in Korean Language and Literature:

 

KOREAN Language Courses:

1-2 Beginning Korean (4-4) Kim-Renaud

Fundamentals of grammar and pronunciation, with graded speaking, reading, and writing practice. Laboratory fee, $50 per semester. (Academic year)

3-4 Intermediate Korean (4-4) Kim-Renaud

Continuation of grammar, with emphasis on speaking, reading, and writing. Laboratory fee, $50 per semester. (Academic year)

105-6 Advanced Korean (3-3) Kim

Reading of basic texts, writing of short pieces, conversation, systematic review of grammar. Laboratory fee, $50 per semester. (Academic year)

107-8 Readings in Modern Korean (3-3) Kim

Continuation of reading of basic texts, writing of short pieces, conversation, systematic review of grammar. (Academic year)

 

KOREAN Literature Courses:


111-12 Korean Literature in Translation (3-3) Kim-Renaud

An introductory survey of traditional and modern Korean literature read in English translation: love and nature poetry; theater (classical drama, puppet plays); fiction; diaries. (Academic year)

 

KOREAN Culture Course:

 

162 Korean Culture through Film

This course examines the intersection of gender, class, and nation in contemporary Korean society through the lens of current Korean films. 

 

 

KOREAN History Courses:

 

HIST 101 Section 10 The Korean War  (3 credits)
 

HIST 190 Section 10 History of Korea  (3 credits)

 

HIST 297 Section 11 Modern Korea  (3 credits)

HIST 801 Section 10 North Korea  (3 credits)

 

Appendix B


Courses in Asian Studies [Korea-related courses are marked with *]:

 

NAME                                   COURSE                                                                                                                                                      

 

Alagappa                               IAFF 290.42             Force in Asian Politics

 

Bong                        *           IAFF 190.16             Korea's Globalization

                                 *           IAFF 290.46             Politics of the Korean Peninsula

 

Bose                                      IAFF 190. 14            Comparative Politic of S Asia

                                              IAFF 290. 40            Democracy & Development in South Asia

 

Bowie                                    PSC 173.10               Comparative Politics of Southeast Asia

                                 *           PSC 273                   The Political Economy of Asia

 

Branzinsky               *           HIST 101                  Modernization and the Cold War in Asia

                                 *           HIST 182                  U.S. Diplomatic History—20th Century

                                

Chaves                                  CHIN 109/110          Introduction to Classical Chinese

                                              CHIN 163/164          Chinese Literature in Translation

                                              CHIN 172                 Poetry of Tang and Song Period

                                              CHIN 801                 Chinese Poetry and the West

                                              JAPANESE 111/112 Japanese Literature in Translation

                                 *           HUM 6                     Asian Humanities

 

Clarke and Edwards                                                         LAW 536                                           Law of Japan           

                                             LAW 541                  Introduction to Chinese and Japanese Law

                                             LAW 543                  Law of the People's Republic of Chin                                              

 

Cummings                *           DEL 220.14              Education and Modernization in Asia

 

Dalpino                                 IAFF 190. 16             Democ/Hum Rights in South East Asia

 

 

Dickson                                 PSC 190                   Politics & Foreign Policies of China

                                              PSC 270 & 271         Politics of China

 

Finch                        *           KOR 162                  Korean Culture through Film

 

Francoeur                  *           AH 187                  East Asian Art:  Survey of the arts of                                                                                                                                         China, Japan, and Korea

                                  *           HUM 6                    Asian Humanities

Frost                                     CHIN 162                 Chinese Culture through Film

                                              CHIN/WSTU 136     Chinese Women in Myth, Literature and          

                                                                              Film

                                              WSTU 170               Gender and Modern China

 

Grinker                      *        ANTH 156                Politics, Ethnicity and Nationalism

                                                                              graduate
                                   *         ANTH 263               Nationalism and Ethnicity

 

Grzelczyk                    *         PSC 192. 13             ProSem:US-Korea Strategic Relation

 

Hamano                                 JAPN 001/002          First-Year Japanese

                                              JAPN 003/004          Intermediate Japanese

                                              JAPN 105/106          Advanced Japanese                                                

                                              JAPN 121/122          Advanced Japanese Conversation and             

                                                                              Composition

                                

Hanami                                  ANTH 179.80           Japanese Culture

                                              JAPN 107/108          Readings in Modern Japanese

                                              JAPN 109/110          Intro to Classical Japanese

                                              JAPN 162                 Japanese Culture through Film

                                                                             

Harding                    *          HONR 175               US/Asia Intercultural Relations

                                  *          PSC 175                   International Relations of E. Asia

                                              PSC 272.10               Foreign Policy of the PRC

                                  *          PSC 275.10               International Politics of E. Asia

 

Hiltebeitel                            HMSC 203/REL 262 Language, Meaning, and Interpretation

                                  *          HMSC 204               National Mythologies

                                  *          HUM 6                     Asian Humanities

                                  *          REL 2                      World Religions East

                                              REL 101                   Theory and Method in the Study of

                                                                              Religion

                                              REL 111                   Myth, Epic, and Novel

                                              REL 157                   Indian Philosophies and Mysticism

                                              REL 158                   Hinduism

                                              REL 159                   Mythologies of India

                                  *          REL 160                   Buddhism

                                              REL 190                   The Goddess in India and Beyond

 

Kilpatrick                              ECON 269                  Economy of China                                       

                                              ECON 271.10           Economy of Japan

                                  *          ECON 295                APEC and the Economies of the Asian

                                                                              Pacific

 

Kim, K.                    *          KOR 001/002            Beginning Korean

                                  *          KOR 105/106             Advanced Korean

                                  *          KOR 107/108            Readings in Modern Korean

 

Kim, Y.                     *          KOR 003/004            Intermediate Korean

 

Kim-Renaud            *          KOR 001/002            Beginning Korean

                                  *          KOR 003/004            Intermediate Korean

                                  *          KOR 111                  Korean Literature in Translation: Classic

                                  *          KOR 112                  Korean Literature in Translation: Modern

                                  *          HUM 6                     Asian Humanities

 

Kuipers                    *          ANTH 162               Ethnographic Analysis/Speech

 

Larsen                      *          HIST 101                  The Korean War

                                  *          HIST 190                  History of Korea

                                             *          HIST 250.12             History of International Systems

                                  *          HIST 296                  20th Century China

                                  *          HIST 297                  Modern Korea

                                  *          HIST 801                  North Korea

                                  *          IAFF 91                    East Asia: Past and Present

 

Lee                                        CHIN 107/108          Readings in Modern Chinese

                                              CHIN 123                 Intro to Chinese Linguistics

                                              CHIN 180                 20th Century Chinese Literature

 

McCord                                HIST 118                  China to 1800

                                              HIST 187                  History of Modern China

                                   *         HIST 196                  The Modern Transformation of East Asia

                                              HIST 295                  Seminar: Late Imperial China

                                              HIST 296.10             Seminar: 20th Century China

                                

McHale                                   HIST 101               Modern Southeast Asia

                                   *         HIST 101                  Perspectives: Asian American History

                                              HIST 297                  Modern Indochina

                                   *         HONR 175               Colonialism & Legacy

 

Michael                      *         EALL 182/ REL 182 East Asian Religion and Philosophy

                                   *         EALL 183/ REL 183 Confucian Literature in East Asia

                                   *         EALL 184/ REL 184 Religion and Ethics in East Asia

                                   *         EALL 185/ REL 185 Daoism in East Asia

                                   *         EALL 186/ REL 186 Shamanism in East Asia

 

Mochizuki                  *         IAFF 207                  Asian Studies Capstone Project

                                   *         PSC 175                   International Relations of East Asia

                                              PSC 190                   Japanese Politics & Foreign Policy

                                              PSC 288                   Japanese Politics

                                   *         PSC 289                   Japanese Foreign Policy

 

Ollapally                                IAFF 290. 39            Intl Relations of South Asia

 

Park                           *         IBUS 271                 International Business Finance

                                   *         IBUS 273                 Seminar on International Banking

 

Rubinfein                              HIST 189                  History of Modern Japan

 

Searight                      *         PSC 289.11               The Politics of Asian Regionalism

 

Shambaugh                            PSC 190                   Politics & Foreign Policies of China

                                              PSC 270 & 271         Politics of China

                                    *        PSC 275                   International Politics of East Asia

 

Spector                                  HIST 126.10             US & Wars in Indochina, 1945-75

                                              HIST 229                  Seminar: World War II

 

Sutter                                    IAFF 281                  Taiwan: Internal Development & Foreign

Affairs

 

Thornton                               HIST 188                  History of Chinese Communism

                                              HIST 260                  U.S.-Soviet-China Relations

 

Wang, G.                               CHIN 003/004          Intermediate Chinese

                                              CHIN 105/106          Advanced Chinese

                                

Wang, J.                      *        EALL 75                  East Asian Calligraphy

 

Wise                            *        IAFF 282.10             Asian Regional Security

 

Yang                            *        HIST 101                  World War II in Asia

                                              HIST 189.10             History of Modern Japan

                                              HIST 289                  Modern Japanese History

                                    *        HIST 297.10             Reading and Research Seminar:

                                                                              The Japanese Empire and Its Legacies

                                              HIST 297.11             Modern Japan-China Relations

 

Zhang                                    CHIN 001/002          Beginning Chinese

                                              CHIN 003/004          Intermediate Chinese

                                              CHIN 88                  E-learning Tools for Chinese

                                              CHIN 121/122          Advanced Chinese Conversation and

                                                                              Composition

 

GWU Students can also take Korean or Korea-related courses in other universities belonging to the Consortium of Universities in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area.

[NB. Sources for this article include but are not limited to the following websites: http://www.gwu.edu/, http://www.gwu.edu/~eall,  http://www.gwu.edu/~elliott/, http://www.gwu.edu/~history/, http://www.gwu.edu/~psc/, http://www.gwu.edu/~sigur/, http://www.gwu.edu/~elliott/academicprograms/studyabroad/Ewha.cfm. I am grateful to Dean Harry Harding for his helpful comments and suggestions on an earlier version of this report, and to Elaine Garbe and Ikuko Turner for their help in updating the data.]