[KS] distance learning program in Korean Studies or Korean literature

[Michael Pettid]

Dear Sonja and others,

Certainly no offense was meant to those working on premodern Korean literature in Europe or Australia at the SNU conference (indeed Grace Koh of SOAS was with us).  It was more of a general comment/ wisecrack about the overall state of studies in premodern Korea (and not just literature either) in North America.  We do seem to have a significant problem in the number of young scholars focusing on premodern Korea when compared to those working on the last century or so.

To the original question, a number of years ago I did offer an online class through Ewha that covered Korean literature from the premodern to modern periods.  I am not sure if the course is still being taught though.

Best wishes,

Michael Pettid


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 From: Chusonja <chusonja at arcor.de>
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Subject: Re: [KS] distance learning program in Korean Studies or Korean literature
 
I do not know who was at this small meeting at SNU, but the joke reminds me
of "the frog in the pond". Pre-modern Korean literature has traditionally
been a strong field of studies in Europe and there are still a lot of
specialists in Sankt Petersburg, Prague, Bochum, London etc., also among the
young generation.
As to the initial question, however, I am not sure whether any of these
schools offers a distance learning program in Korean literature. 

All the best,
Sonja Haeussler


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Indeed, I was at a small meeting at SNU last August where we joked, were the
roof to cave in, the entire field of premdern Korean literature outside of
Korea would be killed off. I think it was Michael who made the joke!

On Nov 28, 2011, at 4:33 PM, Clark W Sorensen <sangok at u.washington.edu>
wrote:

> Chris,
> 
> Pre-modern Korean literature is not yet well-established in North America.
I would refer you to Michael Pettid at SUNY Binghamton as one of the few who
works on pre-modern Korean literature in the US. A second person would be
David McCann at Harvard.
> 
> Prof. Sorensen
> 
> On Sun, 27 Nov 2011, H. Chris Chang wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> I would like to know if any school offers a distance learning program in
Korean literature
>> (pre-modern) or has plans to do in the near future. 
>> Thank you,
>> H. Chris Chang
>> 
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