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)
*LTWL 155. Gender Studies: Food in East Asian Media and Beyond (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)

Academic Year 2025-2026 Courses

Fall 2025

Non-language Korean courses

COMM 148. Global Cultures of K-Pop (4)
HIEA 153. Social and Cultural History of Twentieth-Century Korea (4)
LTEA 143. Gender and Sexuality in Korean Literature and Culture: Masculinities in Korean Literature and Culture (4)
LTEA 145. Topics in Korean Culture: Developmentalism and Environmentalism in Modern Korea (4)
*LTCS 130. Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Culture (4) with Professor Joo Ok Kim

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)

GPEC 485. The Korean Economy (4)

Winter 2026

Non-language Korean courses

ANSC 101A. Korean Wave Media and Cultural Change (4)
HIEA 152. Histories and Cultures of the Modern Korean Diaspora (4)
LTEA 141. Modern Korean Literature in Translation from 1945 to the Present: Multiethnic South Korea (4)
LTEA 142. Korean Film, Literature, and Popular Culture: Horror in South Korean Film and Drama (4)
*LTEN 181. Asian American Literature (4) with Professor Joo Ok Kim

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)

Spring 2026

Non-language Korean courses

HIEA 154. Korean History through Film (4)
LTEA 144. Korean American Literature and Other Literatures of the Korean Diaspora: Diasporic Korean Cultures in the Global Contexts (4)
VIS 103A. Contemporary Arts in South 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)