Politics in East Asia, 5 ECTS

Organiser: University of Jyväskylä

Teacher: Pekka Korhonen + friends

Goal: Provide students with an understanding of the developmental and conflictual dynamics of East Asia within the world political structure.

Application Period:
12.-23.11.2012

Time:
7.1.-8.2.2013

Content: The lectures deal with various conceptualizations of East Asia in history and in recent politics, concentrating, however, on the traditional triangle of Korea, Japan, and Chinese polities. Parts of the lectures analyze the region with traditional theoretical tools of international politics, but the perspective is widened to economic cooperation, demographic changes, and rhetorical politicking, which are useful perspectives for understanding the region as it is nowadays.

Target Group: The MA level courses are aimed for students who already have aquired some knowledge about Asia or on the specialty of the particular course.

These courses are free for all students who hold a valid study right in one of the University Network's member universities.

The study fee for students from Finnish non-member universities is 50 euro per credit.

(Students from University of Jyväskylä should register to the course using their own web registration system.)

Taken as:
 - Lectures and readings
 - Essay(s)

Grading: on a scale of 1-5

Home page: http://users.jyu.fi/~pkonen/PekkaKorhonenJYU/Etusivu.html

Application for the course: Application period 12-23 November 2012. A maximum of 40 students will be accepted to the course in the order of application.

Before enrolling on the course the students should check with their own home department that this course can be accepted as part of their degree in their own university.