Course Information

Academic Year 2024 - 2025 Courses

This schedule is tentative and subject to change. Courses with * require a petition: How to Petition Courses
The email for petition submission: koreanstudies@ucsd.edu

For advising questions about the minor, please contact Korean Studies through the Virtual Advising Center (VAC). If your question is about a specific course, please contact the department offering the course. Korean Studies does not offer any courses.

Literature has a strong four-year Korean language program (through advanced reading). For inquiries about the language classes, contact the Literature department: More on UC San Diego’s Korean language program.

Fall 2024

Non-language Korean courses

LTEA 142 – Korean Film, Literature and Popular Culture: Pop Cultures of the Korean Peninsula (4)
LTEA 145 -Topics in Korean Culture: Developmentalism and Environmentalism on the Korean Peninsula (4)
HIEA 151 - The Two Koreas, 1945-Present (4)
VIS 103A. Contemporary Arts in South Korea (4)

Korean language courses

LTKO 1A. Beginning Korean: First Year I (5)
LTKO 2A. Intermediate Korean: Second Year I (5)
LTKO 130F. Advanced-Korean: Third-Year (4)

Graduate courses (department and faculty approval required)

GPPS 408. Korean Security (4)

Winter 2025

Non-language Korean courses

ANSC 101A - Korean Wave Media & Cultural Change (4)
HIEA 150. Modern Korea, 1800–1945 (4)

Korean language courses

LTKO 1B. Beginning Korean: First Year II (5)
LTKO 2B. Intermediate Korean: Second Year II (5)
LTKO 130W. Advanced-Korean: Third-Year (4)

Graduate courses (department and faculty approval required)

GPEC 485. The Korean Economy (4)

Spring 2025

Non-language Korean courses

*COMM 146 - Advanced Topics in Cultural Production: Global Cultures of K-Pop (4)
*HIEA 144. Topics in East Asian History: Queer Korea (4)

Korean language courses

LTKO 1C. Beginning Korean: First Year III (5)
LTKO 2C. Intermediate Korean: Second Year III (5)
LTKO 130P. Advanced-Korean: Third-Year (4)
LTKO 135. Readings in Sino-Korean Characters (4)

Summer Session I 2025

Non-language Korean courses

LTEA 142. Korean Film, Literature, and Popular Culture (4)

Summer Session II 2025

Non-language Korean courses

*HIEA 144. Topics in East Asian History: S. Korea in Global 1980s (4)
HIEA 154. Korean History Through Film (4)