Syllabus(2018-Summer) Course Title North Korean Society and Culture Course No. TBA Department/ Major Korean Studies, Division of International Studies Credit/Hour s TBA Class Time/ Classroom TBA Instructor Name Dima Mironenko E-mail: dima.mironenko@post.harvard.edu Department Division of International Studies Telephone TBA Office Hours/ Office Location By appointment 1. Course Description An intensive undergraduate seminar course on North Korean history, society, culture, and i nternational relations. Students will be introduced to major scholarship and issues in North Korean studies. No prior knowledge of Korea or Korean language is required to take this co urse. 2. Prerequisites None 3. Course Format 1
Lecture Discussion/Presentation Experiment/Practicum Field Study Other 30% 50% % 20% (Instructor can change to match the actual format of the class.) Explanation of course format: This course uses a combination of lectures, film screenings, and group discussions. For thei r midterm evaluation, students will submit working bibliography papers. A review of a book from a list approved by the instructor is due at the end. 4. Course Objectives The course aims to develop students critical thinking, textual and visual analysis, academic writing, and argumentation skills. 5. Evaluation System Midterm Exam Final Exam Quizzes Presentation Projects Assignments Participation Other 20% 40% % % % % 30% 10% (Instructor can change to match the actual format of the class.) * Evaluation of group projects may include peer evaluations. Explanation of evaluation system: Midterm bibliography paper 20% Discussion participation 30% 2
Film reviews (x2) 10% Final book review 40% Ⅰ. Course Overview Ⅱ. Course Materials and Additional Readings 1. Required Materials See list of assigned readings below. All readings will be available as PDF. 2. Supplementary Materials TBA 3. Optional Additional Readings None. Ⅲ. Course Policies * For laboratory courses, all students are required to complete lab safety training. 3
Ⅳ. Course Schedule Day Date Topics & Class Materials, Assignments Day 1 (06/27) LECTURE: Revolution and Postcolonial Modernity Day 2 (06/28) READINGS: Constructing Culture (Armstrong), Domestic Revolution (Kang) Day 3 (07/02) LECTURE: The Korean War & the Cold War Day 4 (07/03) Day 5 (07/04) FILM: Crossing the Line (Daniel Gordon, 2006) / READING: The Korean War (Cumings) LECTURE: Postwar Reconstruction / READING: North Koreans at the Movies (Mironenko) Day 6 (07/05) READING: Let s Go to the Moon (Zur) Day 7 (07/09) LECTURE: The 1960s & 1970s / READING: Aquariums of Pyongyang (Kang) Day 8 (07/10) READING: Human Rights (Morris-Suzuki) Day 9 (07/11) LECTURE: Personality Cults in Modern History / READING: The Barrel of a Gun (Kwon & Chung) Day 10 (07/12) LECTURE: North Korea and the World / READING: Breaking out (Armstrong) Day 11 (07/16) READING: Soldiers on the Cultural Front--selections (Gabroussenko) Day 12 (07/17) FILM: Pulgasari (Shin Sang-ok, 1985) / READING: Split Screen (Chung) Day 13 (07/18) READING: Let Morning Shine over Pyongyang (Burnett) Day 14 (07/19) LECTURE: Contemporary Issues / READING: Marketisation (Smith) Day 15 Makeup Classes 1 (07/23) READING: Korean Historical Tales (1) / WRAP-UP (mm/dd) 4
Day Date Topics & Class Materials, Assignments Makeup Classes 2 (mm/dd) Ⅴ. Special Accommodations * According to the University regulation #57, students with disabilities can request special accommodation related to attendance, lectures, assignments, and/or tests by contacting the course professor at the beginning of semes ter. Based on the nature of the students requests, students can receive support for such accommodations from the course professor and/or from the Support Center for Students with Disabilities (SCSD). * The contents of this syllabus are not final they may be updated. Marsha Haufler, Mosaic Murals of North Korea, in Exploring North Korean Arts, ed. Frank Rüdiger (Nürnberg: Verlag für modern Kunst, 2011), 241-275. Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Refugees, Abductees, Returnees : Human Rights in Japan-North Korea Relations, in North Korea: Toward a Better Understanding, ed. Sonia Ryang (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009), 129-156. Bruce Cumings, The Corporate State in North Korea, in State and Society in Contemporary Korea, ed. Hagen Koo (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993), 197-230. Suk-Young Kim, Hybridization of Performance Genres & Acting Like Women in North Korea, in Illusive Utopia: Theater, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), 33-59, 205-259. Johannes Schönherr, Godzilla Goes to North Korea: An Interview with Kenpachiro Satsuma, in Film out of Bounds: Essays and Interviews on Non-Mainstream Cinema Worldwide, ed. Matthew Edwards (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007), 205-220. Charles K. Armstrong, Breaking out: Engaging the First and Third Worlds, 1972 79, in Tyranny 5
of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950 1992 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013), 168-207. Charles K. Armstrong, Constructing Culture, in The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003), 166-190. Kang, Chol-hwan, and Pierre Rigoulot. The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in a North Korean Gulag. Translated by Yair Reiner. (New York: Basic Books, 2001), 1-34. Dafna Zur, Let s Go to the Moon: Science Fiction in the North Korean Children s Magazine Adong Munhak, 1956 1965, Journal of Asian Studies 73:2 (2014): 327 351. [Heonik Kwon and Byung-Ho Chung, in North Korea: Beyond Charismatic Politics (Lanham, ND: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012] Heonik Kwon and Byung-Ho Chung, The Barrel of a Gun and Gifts to the Leader in North Korea: Beyond Charismatic Politics (Lanham, ND: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012), 71 99, 127 150. Lisa Burnett, Let Morning Shine over Pyongyang: The Future-Oriented Nationalism of North Korea s Arirang Mass Games, Asian Music 44:1 (2013): 3 32. Korean Historical Tales (1). Old Sonhwa and Ulji Mundok (Pyongyang, DPRK: The Foreign Language Magazines, 1988). Dima Mironenko, North Koreans at the movies: cinema of fits and starts and the rise of chameleon spectatorship, Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema 8:1 (2016): 25 44. Steven Chung, The Split Screen: Sin Sang-ok in North Korea in North Korea: Toward a Better Understanding, edited by Sonia Ryang (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2009), 85-107. Tatiana Gabroussenko, Soldiers on the Cultural Front: Developments in the Early History of North Korean Literature and Literary Policy (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2010). Hazel Smith, Marketisation from below & The Marketisation of the Social Structure in North Korea: Markets and Military Rule (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 211-234, 279-293. 6