Course Catalog Information (24-25)
ASAM 41
Introduction to Korean Popular Culture
Course Description
This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to contemporary Korean popular culture which explores modern Korean society across a wide range of themes such as identity, gender/sexuality, love/marriage, family and social value systems. It examines the multi-levels of the socio-construction of modern Korean society through TV drama (soap opera), film, and pop music. Also, it explores the unique patterns of Korean culture and Korean cultural issues related to contemporary Asian societies and global issues.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Identify the impact of social, historical, political contexts on visual and musical expression illustrated in the case of Korean popular culture.
- Analyze the Korean cultural concept of body in terms of gender/ sexuality and the various cultural dimensions of Korean value system through self, love/marriage, and family.
- Evaluate the historical and contemporary relations of power between Western influences and Korean/Asian culture and analyze the circumstances and conditions of the Korean diaspora/emergence of Korean American identity and culture.
Course Details
- Units
- 4 Units
- Hours
- Weekly Lecture Hours: 4
- Weekly Lab Hours: 0
- Gen Ed
- General Education Class
- Program Status
- Program Applicable
- Credit
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Transferability
- Transferable to both UC and CSU
- Grading Method
- Letter Grading
- Also Listed As
- HUMI 13
- Formerly Statement
- ASAM 41 was formerly INTL 13
Requisite and Advisory
- Advisory(ies)
- EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or ESL 5
- Prerequisite(s)
- Corequisite(s)
Limitations on Enrollment and Entrance Skills
- Limitation(s) on Enrollment
- Not open to students with credit in the cross-listed courses Also listed as HUMI 13.