For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOC5021 | Seminar in Sociology of Culture | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| This course deals with major up-to-date theoretical discussions and empirical results concerned with Sociology of Culture in terms of intensive discussions and independent researches. | |||||||||
| SOC5022 | Sociology of Art | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| This course deals with major up-to-date theoretical discussions and empirical results concerned with Sociology of Arts in terms of intensive discussions and independent researches. | |||||||||
| SOC5024 | Seminar in Sociology of the Family | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Main topics dealt with in this class vary from semester to semester. They are selected from family-related social problems that have drawn our attention lately either because they come to pick up significance as indicated by the theoretical trend in the sociology of the family or because there have been a rise of interests in them in our society as people come to label them as important social issues. Focusing on the chosen topics, students are expected to familiarize themselves with the current theoretical issues and research topics of each subject area. | |||||||||
| SOC5026 | Seminar in Political Sociology | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The aim of this seminar is to help students survery theoretical perspectives, issues, and achievement fo modern political sociology and cultivate the ability and skills needed for conducting research in the field. Especially for the purpose of the latter, a special topic might be selected. For instance, when election and voting behavior is the chosen topic, the seminar could start by examining major issues and research methologies according to Niemi and Weisberg(1984), and move on to research practices analyzing relevant phenomena of Korea and of other countries using available actual data sets. Participating students are required to submit their research papers before the end of the semester. | |||||||||
| SOC5028 | Seminar in Social Psychology | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| This class is a seminar course dealing with selected topics in social psychology. The topics will vary from semester and will be chosen in consideration with either the recent development in theoretical interests or social issues that call for social-psychological studies. | |||||||||
| SOC5031 | Seminar in Social Change | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This is a seminar course designed to deal in depth with some of the most important issues in social change. Examples of the issues include new theoretical orientations in the field of social change, the collapse of state socialism and the future of capitalism, reflexive modernization and postmodernism, and liberalism and the end of history. | |||||||||
| SOC5032 | Seminar in Social Movement | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course offers a critical evaluation of current theories of social and political movements and an analytical examination of some case studies. Topics to be covered include: general theories of social movements; processes of social movements and society's reaction to them; ideology, organization and social control of social movements. | |||||||||
| SOC5033 | Seminar in Comparative Sociology | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| An introductory course to the comparative analysis of different societies in terms of personality type, social stratification, educational and religious institutions, and economic and political systems. | |||||||||
| SOC5034 | Seminar in Historical Sociology | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Historical sociology is an effort to investigate into the past in order to understand how society moves and changes. It is an area of research that has been booming and accumulating a lot of noticeable works done by a variety of gifted minds such as Smelser, Eisenstadt, Lipset, Marshall, Bendix, Bloch, Elias, Polanyi, Thompson, Anderson, Moore, Skocpol, Tilly, Wallerstein, Braudel, Mann, Runciman, and Giddens. This seminar tres to review such remarkable development of the postbellum historical sociology, and to search out for the way how its perspecives and analytic methods could be applied to the historical understanding of Korean society. Participating students are required to submit their research papers before the end of the semester. | |||||||||
| SOC5036 | Seminar in Sociology of Development | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course examines some of the critical theories and issues related to the development of developing countries. The theories to be covered include theories of modernization and industrialization, various versions of dependency theory, and world system theory. The issues to be discussed include state structure, development policy, the agrarian question, forms of industrialization, the role of ideology, transnational corporations and a new international division of labor, globalization and a new international order. | |||||||||
| SOC5038 | Seminar in History of Social Thoughts | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Development of social thoughts from folklore to modern thoughts, with special emphasis on the formation of modern social thoughts and linkages to classical sociological thoughts. | |||||||||
| SOC5039 | Urban Sociology | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course is an introduction to the study of urbanization and urbanism from demographic perspective. Major topic included ⑴ the conceptual and empirical reviews for works concerning cities, urbanization and urbanism; ⑵ the origin and growth of cities in history; ⑶ the rise of the metropolitan community; ⑷ recent trends in urbanization in Korea including metropolitan and nonmetropolitan shifts, suburbanization, socioeconomic and regional segregation, and urban influences on the rural population; ⑸ urbanization in the other countries and ⑹ the relationship between policies and urbanization. | |||||||||
| SOC5041 | Study on Population | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The main objective of this course is to explore the nature of selected, current and controversial problems in the theory of population change. These problems are drawn from the areas of the population growth and ageing, fertility and nuptiality, mortality and health change, and the institution of households and families, resource and enviroment. | |||||||||
| SOC5042 | Seminar in Sociology of Knowledge | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Study of aspects of social conditions influencing the ideas of individuals or groups. Also emphasized is analysis of how himan thought influences social reality. | |||||||||
| SOC5043 | Seminar in Sociology of Religion | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| The class discussion focuses on such topics as the social functions of religion, the social-organizational features of religious institutions, and relations that religion has with other institutions. In this class, a specific emphasis will be given to explaining the specific feature of religions in Korea in both their functions and relations with other institutional spheres of social life. | |||||||||