For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
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| CEK4207 | Studies on Literature on Korean Philosophy | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | - | No | ||
| This course purposes to get the basic knowledges needed to analyze and classify the documents into the schools of each periods by examine the essential documents in Korean philosophy. | |||||||||
| CEK4208 | Lecture on Original texts of Korean Philosophy | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | Korean | Yes | ||
| This course aims to get basic knowledges of Korean Philosophy and develop the ability to understand original texts, by adapting and reading the works valued great achievements in History of Korean Philosophy. | |||||||||
| CEK4210 | Korean Philosophy Contents Development Seminar | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | Korean | Yes | ||
| 'Korean Philosophy Contents Development Seminar' is a course that aims to discover various forms of cultural archetypes inherent in traditional ideas and national culture by analyzing classical literature such as history books and literary collections and seek ways to develop contents featuring those forms of cultural archetypes. This course is carried out in two tracts. First, we discover materials from Korean philosophy that can be combined with major disciplines and issues in modern society such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, policy, psychology, management, and law. All the materials that covered in Korean philosophy such as figures, ideas, and philosophical concepts are subject to discussion. Next, we find ways to develop and utilize the contents of Korean Philosophy into various cultural contents such as publication, design, video, and broadcasting formats. In particular, we concentrate on developing source stories that can service as motifs for creative production. To achieve the above aim and objectives, this course combines theory classes and practical exercises. Also, a lecturer equipped with field experience is appointed to enrich the substance of the lectures. In this way, this course will not only expand the range of appreciating Korean philosophy in our daily lives but also be helpful for students who are looking for careers that make use of their major. | |||||||||
| CEK4211 | Confucian Self-cultivation and Actualization | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | - | No | ||
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Today, those who want to learn and practice Confucianism should learn what, how, and in what form should they realize themselves? Confucianism has been able to have a long history of more than two thousand years because it has evolved flexibly according to the demands of the times to present new knowledge systems and practices without being bound by existing concepts and methodologies,. In the newly modified |
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| CEK5001 | Practice in Li-ji | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The Liji is one of the major Confucian classics which records the rites and rules of the Zhou dynasty taken as the model of the moral life by Confucianists. The Liji is also famous as the original source of the Great Learning and the Doctrine of the Mean. Students are expected to know about the old rituals and understand the philosophical connotations underneath them. | |||||||||
| CEK5002 | Studies in Confucianism of Han-Tang Dynasty | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course offers a general introduction to the thoughts of major Han philosophers; Dong Zhongshu, Liu Xiang, Liu Xin, and Wang Chong, and discussions on the foundation of Confucianism as the national religion. And, for Tang, the era of the Buddhist conquest, students understand how important Confucianism was regarded and how Confucianism developed to give a birth to Neo-Confucianism. Important Confucian texts of Tang, such as those by Kong Yingda, Li Ao, and Han Yu would be read. | |||||||||
| CEK5003 | Studies in Confucianism of Qing Dynasty | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Huang Zongxi, who rebelled against the new dynasty during the era of transition from Ming to Qing, rejects the Study of Principle of Zhu Xi but he also argues to alter the Study of Mind of Wang Yangming. This course offers an introduction to the philosophy of Huang Zongxi, Kao Yanwu, and Wang Fuzhi and the foundation of the Study of Bibliography. | |||||||||
| CEK5004 | Studies in Masters Philosophy | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| There were a number of thinkers each of whom presented philosophical and/or political ideas to settle the turmoil of the Spring and Autum and the Warring States periods. Students study the major features of Hundred Schools and understand the characteristics of some thinkers. This is an opportunity also to understand the social situation of those times. | |||||||||
| CEK5005 | Studies in Yang-Ming Philosophy | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Yangming Studies, also referred to as the Philosophy of Mind, is an important philosophical tradition nearly equivalent to Zhu Xi Studies. This course offers an intensive reading of the Zhuanxilu, a collection of Wang Yangming edited by his close colleague Xu Ai. Students are expected to understand the important doctrine of Yangming philosophy; Mind is the principle, and thus no principle nor existence outside mind. | |||||||||
| CEK5006 | Studies in Ancient and Medieval Korean Confucianism | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course purports to introduce to the Korean Confucianism of the ancient period, commenced in Ancient Chosun and undertaken by the Three Kingdoms, and the Confucianism of Koryo, the era of Buddhist conquest. And this course also provides opportunities to understand the transformation of these old thoughts in Chosun in a severl respects such as the Study of Principle, the ritual studies, the study of Dao, and practical learning. | |||||||||
| CEK5007 | Studies in Modern Korean Confucianism | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| This course offers the paradigm of the development of the practical learning in late Chosun with readings of sayings and writings of some important thinkers for students to understand the spirit of the Korean practical learning, notably 'utilise the reality and seek for the truth.' In this course, students are also expected to investigate the relatedness of the practical learning and the attitude objecting the foreign culture and power to understand the practicality of Confucianism. | |||||||||
| CEK5008 | Topics in Confucian Ethics | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| In these course, students are purported to understand the Confucian ethics with focuses on rites and the five moral rules and discuss about the function of Confucian ethical system as the philosophical and religious doctrine to settle the society. | |||||||||
| CEK5009 | Topics in Korean Practical Science | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Characterising the practical learning established as a resistence to the dogmatism of the Study of Principle, this course offers readings of Yu Hyungwon, Yi Ik, and Chung Yakyong. Students are further expected to discuss about the social conditions of late Chosun that led scholars to Shixue. | |||||||||
| CEK5010 | Topics in Korean Yang-Ming Philosophy | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Students are first expected to the School of Mind of Lu-Wang which is established in the manner of rejecting the doctrine of the School of Principle. And students are expected to contemplate how the doctrine of Yangming Studies were combined with the Korean characteristics through reading the works of Jung Jaedu and some others. | |||||||||
| CEK5011 | Special Studies in Thirteen Chinese Classics | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| Each of the students are expected to give a presentation of a research paper on a particular topic adopted from the Thirteen Classics such as politics, economics, society, culture and art. A method of text criticism to approach the Thirteen Classics would be necessary and some translations and discussions are required. | |||||||||