Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 21 - Topics in Korean Studies

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Dartmouth College

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09W, 10W: 2A Selected subjects at the discretion of the instructor. Each course offering will examine a theme, author, period or genre in the context of Korean cultural history, often from a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. In 09W, Humor in Twentieth Century Korean Literature and Film will examine the genre of comedy against the backdrop of Korean political, social and cultural history, drawing connections between comedic works and the Korean context while working both to understand the meaning of the "comic" or "humor" through various thinkers' perspectives on wit, jokes, farce, humor, and so on and to examine deep connections between this oft-neglected genre and developments on the peninsula in the contemporary period. Students should emerge with a set of analytical tools for understanding comedic works as well as a general sense of the trajectory of modern Korean literary and film histor ies. Dist: SOC; WCult: NW. Hansc

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3.00

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Lecture

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www.dartmouth.edu

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(603) 646-1110

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Quarter

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