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Sotirovic KOREA Description of Course Unit in English
Sotirovic KOREA Description of Course Unit in English
1.
Course unit title
Code
Department(s)
Institute of Political Sciences
Faculty of Politics and Management
Mykolas Romeris University
3.
Cycle of course unit
First
Mode of delivery
Language of instruction
4.
Class room
English
5.
Study requirements
Co-requisites:
Prerequisites:
No prerequisits
No co-requisites
6.
Recommended optional programme components
No recommended optional programme components
7.
Number of ECTS
credits allocated
ECTS
Students workload
hrs
hrs
Independent work
hours
hrs
8.
Purpose of the course unit: programme competences to be developed
Course content:
This course presents the fundamental development of the Korean society and
culture from historical perspective and contemporary politics dealing with
the most important features of historical, social, cultural, political and
economic aspects of Korean people. The people of Korean Peninsula were
traditionally mostly peasants with a low living standard. Nevertheless, today,
this is no longer true for the South Korea, which has emerged as one of the
leading global industrial nations. The course places the political and
economic contemporary regional development of Korea in the changing
nature of the national politics and economies, especially its fast integration
into the global system of values, regulations and standards.
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Teaching and
learning methods
Lectures
Independent
studies
Individual and
group work
Vladislav B. Sotirovic
Assessment
methods
Students work
achievement is
evaluated within
the framework of
the 10-point scale
following
publically
Case studies
Learning and
organization work
at the Moodle
electronic-study
system
Co-operative
learning method
announced
assessment criteria,
methods and
procedure by the
Mykolas Romeris
University
Assessment
methods
examination
(frontal,
individual),
individual
presentation
evaluation and the
integral test of
theoretical and
practical
knowledge
9.
1. Historical
context
of
Korean
Peninsula and Korean people
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Independent work
hours
Independent work
hours and tasks
Tasks
Internship
Laboratory work
Training exercises
Seminars
Lectures
Topics
Consultations
Course contents
Contact work hours and planned
learning activities
To read the
literature
To study
within the
framework
of the
electronic
(Moodle)
system
Vladislav B. Sotirovic
To read the
literature
To study
within the
framework
of the
electronic
(Moodle)
system
1
To read the
literature
To study
within the
framework
of the
electronic
(Moodle)
system
To read the
literature
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Weighting
percentage
40%
To study
within the
framework
of the
electronic
(Moodle)
system
Period or
date of
assessment
Session
period
Assessment criteria
Vladislav B. Sotirovic
Individual self-work
during the semester
period
40%
Semester
period
20%
Semester
period
11.
Required reading
Ch. K. Armstrong, The Koreas, New YorkLondon: Routledge, 2014
D. Oberdorfer, R. Carlin, The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History, New York: Basic Books, 2014
Recommended reading
V. Cha, The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2013
D. Tudor, J. Pearson, North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps,
Dissenters and Defectors, Tuttle Publishing, 2015
A. Lankov, The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia, OxfordNew York:
Oxford University Press, 2014
J. K. Oh, Korean Politics: The Quest for Democratization and Economic Development, IthacaLondon:
Cornell University Press, 1999
D. Tudor, Korea: The Impossible Country, Tuttle Publishing, 2012
D. McDougall, Asia Pacific in World Politics, Lynne Riennep Pub., 2006
M. Beeson, Regionalism and Globalization in East Asia: Politics, Security and Economic Development,
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
D. Ch. Shin, Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia, CambridgeNew York: Cambridge
University Press, 2012
S. Kim, Confucian Democracy in East Asia: Theory and Practice, New York: Cambridge University Press,
2014
D. A. Bell, Ch. Li (eds.), The East Asian Challenge for Democracy: Political Meritocracy in Comparative
Perspective, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013
B. Gilley, The Nature of Asian Politics, New York: Columbia University Press, 2014
A. Anagnost, A. Arai, H. Ren (eds.), Global Futures in East Asia: Youth, Nation, and the New Economy in
Uncertain Times, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013
T. Haseqawa (ed.), The Cold War in East Asia, 19451991, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011
R. K. Schoppa, East Asia: Identities and Change in the Modern World (1700 to Present), Pearson, 2007
P. Ebrey, A. Walthall, East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History, Wadsworth: Cengage Learning,
2014
Ch. Holcombe, A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century,
CambridgeNew York: Cambridge University Press, 2011
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