[KS] New Harvard Summer Course

[David McCann]

Korea @ 2100, a course offered for the first time this summer at 
Harvard, is part of the intensive four-week program, June 25 – July 20. 
Four credits. Course instructor, Professor David R. McCann.

The course seeks to develop an informed sense of the distinctive 
features of Korean culture, present and past. Part I examines Korea's 
contemporary place in the world, with a focus on the Korean Wave; Part 
II, the twentieth century, issues of modernity, the Japanese colonial 
occupation, Liberation, Division, the Korean War, and rapid social 
political change; Part III, the historical past(s) as case studies. 
Final project consists of team reports on Korean culture and the 
interplay of the contemporary and the past.

For additional information, contact the Summer School: 617 495 4024, or 
www.summer.harvard.edu