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Oct 30, 2025
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AAS 536 - Korean Humanism in Modern History
Korea’s modern history was a historical vortex in which diverse experiments in humanism unfolded in response to profound challenges to human dignity, identity, and ethics. These developments reflected Korea’s dramatic and turbulent encounter with modernity. In this period, a multitude of historical forces’ ranging from tradition and reform to colonization and revolution, collided, coexisted, and were reconfigured, producing a rich array of intellectual, literary, and political responses. This course investigates the emergence, evolution, and transformation of Korean humanism from the late 19th to the 20th century. It explores how Korean thinkers, writers, and reformers reimagined the notions of human dignity, ethical responsibility, and selfhood within the intersecting contexts of Confucianism, colonial modernity, nationalism, Christianity, socialism, and democratization. Through close readings of primary texts and engagement with critical scholarship in English, students will examine how Korean humanistic thought responded to historical crises and contributed to projects of reform, resistance, and renewal.
3 credits
Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)
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