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Apr 06, 2026
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AAS 523 - Language and Society in Korea
A multidisciplinary exploration of society and culture through the lens of language practices with a focus on South Korea. It examines the complex relationship between linguistic practices and major historical and sociocultural events in the Korean society and analyzes how the language(s) has encoded and even reinforced at times cultural and social experiences of Korean people. The topics include ethno-linguistic identity, nationalism, regionalism and dialects, kinship and gender, foreign language education, relationship with Chinese and Japanese, popular culture, linguistic hybridization, and intercultural communication in globalizing and digitalizing world, as well as historical development of spoken and written systems of the Korean language.
3 credits
Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)
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