{"id":297,"date":"2022-11-21T23:37:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T23:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/?p=297"},"modified":"2023-04-22T15:18:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T22:18:55","slug":"history-of-korea-1260-to-1876","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/history-of-korea-1260-to-1876\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Korea, 1260 to 1876"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Korea 180B in UCLA Registrar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COURSE DESCRIPTION<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 1260, after decades of intermittent warfare, the Kory\u014f dynasty of Korea capitulated to the Mongols, inaugurating a century of Mongol domination on the Korean peninsula. This period, which saw Korea’s integration into the Mongol empire, also witnessed a number of changes, both subtle and dramatic, in Korea’s society, religion, political relations, and intellectual culture. Social transformations among the Kory\u014f elite helped set the stage for rise of a new dynasty, Chos\u014fn. Relations with the Mongol empire established some of the core institutions that guided Korea’s later relations with the later Ming and Qing empires of China. Neo-Confucianism was introduced to Korea and became the dominant intellectual strand in Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This course will focus on the history of Korea between 1260\u20131876, roughly the period corresponding to the late Kory\u014f and Chos\u014fn dynasties, beginning with the Mongol period and ending with Chos\u014fn’s entry into the modern international system. It will introduce students to the major historical and historiographical issues surrounding this period, while allowing students to experience first hand the process of historical inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COURSE OBJECTIVES<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

NOT YOUR TRADITIONAL LECTURE COURSE!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are looking for a passive educational experience, this course is NOT FOR YOU.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Korean studies, especially premodern studies in the West is an underdeveloped field with few, accessible resources, especially for beginners. This is made worse by the general “ivory tower” problem where the state of knowledge within the academy is often inaccessible to a broader, interested audience. So for instance, while university students rely heavily on open-source internet resources, such as Wikipedia, to complement their learning process and to study for exams, these resources are sometimes quite poorly curated. We see this in the English-language Wikipedia articles concerning Korean history, where the bulk of the articles are low-quality and rely on low-quality source materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem is not unique to Korean studies, or even the humanities. In the sciences, cutting-edge research is often behind a paywall, Science too faces this problem of misrepresentation in the media or poor communication across boundaries, but science majors usually get to work hands on in lab experiments and pursue meaningfully in the process of scientific knowledge production. In the Humanities, however, students are often asked to do projects, write research papers as classroom assignments, but are not actually given the chance to PARTICIPATE and IMPACT the direction of public scholarship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This course will change that. In this course, students will engage with the forefront of research in Korean history. They will make their own contributions to the field by communicating this research to a wider audience in their final projects. Students will therefore be encouraged to make their final projects public (optional).<\/p>\n\n\n\n