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,
GWU’s 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 GWU’s
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 nation’s 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, GW’s 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 School’s 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 University’s
Korean Studies Program signed with the POSCO TJ Park Foundation a Memorandum of
Understanding for a “POSCO NGO Fellowship Program” “to 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.”
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 CISTP’s 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 School’s 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 Park’s 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 School’s research and support centers, functions as the effective institutional
department for the Asian Studies Program.
The Asian Studies Program with a
Korean emphasis (“Korean Studies Program”
hereinafter) shares a joint mission with the Sigur Center
for Asian Studies “to 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.”
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 Women’s 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 Center’s 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 area’s 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.
GWU’s
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 GWU’s
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 “700 series,” which consists of “experimental or special courses that are on the
cutting edge of the academic endeavor,” 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
“Korean Culture through Film,” initially as part of GWU’s 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
GWU’s 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.
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.
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 GWU’s President Stephen Joel
Trachtenberg. The grant was the
Foundation’s formal recognition of GWU’s 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
University’s 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 Foundation’s positive
response to GWU’s application for an endowment grant apparently was the report
by the Foundation’s 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
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 Department’s Area Studies
programs, and at other private and public organizations.
Kim-Renaud’s
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 han’gûl
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 “one
of the great intellectual achievements of humankind,” 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-Renaud’s 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 students’ 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-Sook’s 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-Renaud’s 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
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 P’ohang 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-CLIO’s 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 Korea’s 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 State’s 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 CBS’s 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, “Korea and China’s Relations: Yesterday and Today,”a 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
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
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). Francoeur’s 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).
Francoeur’s 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
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 “Interview
with Roy Richard Grinker.” 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 “South Korea, North Korea, and the
Idea of Unification: Mutual Perceptions.” Chae-jin
Lee, ed. Inter-Korean Relations. Sejong Institute, Republic of Korea.
1998 Interview with Roy R. Grinker. T’ongil Hanguk.
September, pp. 36-39. In Korean.
1998 “Unification and the Economy,” 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 “Prevalence of Autism Spectru Disorders among Korean
School-Aged Children” 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
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
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 “Kongzi wen yu Laozi: Two Faces of
the Dao” 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 (Buddha’s 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
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
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 Korea’s 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: Korea’s 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 Korea’s Economy
2001, published by the Korea Economic Institute of America,
Washington, 2001.
Korea’s 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 Korea’s 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.
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 College’s 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.
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.
GWU’s 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
“Creative Women of Korea” was published by a major press specializing in Asian
Studies, M.E. Sharpe. Other years’
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) “Music of Korea,” 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) “Text and Context of the Korean
Cinema,” 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) “One Hundred Years of Korean Literature,” 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) “Education in Korea,” 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) “The Military and Korean Society,” 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 Center’s occasional papers series
and by publication on the Center’s 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:
· “The Korean Economy in the Era of Global
Competition” conference co- sponsored by the
Sigur Center and the Korean Economic Institute of America. September 18-19, 1999.
· “North Korea Policy After the
Perry Report: A Trilateral (US, Japan, S Korea) Workshop” co-hosted with Keio University, Japan and Yonsei
University, Korea. March 2-3, 2000.
·
“The Korean Peninsula: Paths to
Reconciliation and Reunification” conference co- sponsored by the Sigur Center and The American
Council on Asian and Pacific Affairs.
September 29-30, 2000.
·
Workshop on “Redefining the Japan-US Alliance: Toward
Building a Security Community” co-sponsored by the Sigur Center and the
Japan Forum on International Relations, November 5, 2002
·
Conference on “The Changing Economic-Security Nexus in Northeast
Asia,” co-sponsored by the Sigur Center, Keio University and Kyunghee
University, November 22-23, 2002.
·
Symposium on “Will the Sun Still Shine?: Prospects and Challenges for the Korean
Peninsula” 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.
·
“The ROK April 15th Elections: Change,
Challenges, and the Future of U.S.-Korean relations, “ 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.
·
“Memory and Reconciliation between Japan and South
Korea: A Status Report.” a Brown Bag Lecture by Alexis Dudden (Connecticut College) and Sarah C. Soh
(San Francisco State University), October 22, 2004.
·
“Education in Korea,” 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.
·
“Puzzles of Anti-Americanism in South Korea: Making Sense of Public
Opinion,” a Brown
Bag Lecture by Kisuk Cho (Ewha
Womans University), February 7, 2005.
·
“Buddhist Elements in Korean Shamanism,” a Public Lecture by Hyun-key Kim Hogarth, February 9, 2005.
·
“Reorienting U.S. Relations with the Koreas:
Negotiating Nukes, Nationalisms, and National Interests,” 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, “North Korea
and the Future of Security in Northeast Asia,” Monday, October 3rd, 2005, 12:30-1:45
·
“Cultural Approaches to
Peace on the Korean Peninsula”, 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, “A State of Mind,” 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.
·
“Korean Music,” report of conference
co-sponsored by the East Asian Languages and Literature Department and the Sigur
Center, 2002.
·
“Text and
Context of the Korean Cinema,” 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 • 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
GW’s 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 program’s 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 one’s own books on one’s 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 “small but
top-quality” 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 “Advanced Korean Conversation
and Composition” corresponding to similar courses in Chinese and Japanese. Some
students would also want to read “Korean Literature” 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 “Conversational Korean” 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 “CHINESE.” 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 “Study Elsewhere,” 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 Korea’s 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.]