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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Certificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    yesCoursera

    The Syllabus

    Videos
    • Welcome from SKKU
    • Course overview
    • What makes up a philosophy?
    • Universality and particularity
    • Western philosophy meets East Asian philosophy
    • From Philosophy to cross-cultural philosophies
    • Chinese vs Korean philosophy
    • The introduction of Chinese characters (Hanja) into Korea
    • Revisiting the content for week 1
    Readings
    • Course introduction
    • Reading materials for week 1
    assignment
    • What have you learnt this week?
    discussion prompts
    • Self-Introduction
    • Diversity in philosophy

    Videos
    • Influence and innovation5m
    • Adaptive and disruptive innovation across cultural boundaries
    • The influence of Confucianism on Korean traditional thought
    • Sungkyun, “Learning to be a better person”
    • The meaning of Sungkyun
    • Hangeul, the Korean alphabet
    • Writing systems before Hangeul
    • Three important ingredients of Hangeul
    • Revisiting the content for week 2
    Reading
    • Reading materials for week 2
    assignment
    • What have you learnt this week?
    discussion prompt
    • Let’s think of 'Cultural innovations’ in your culture!

    Videos
    • Affectionate Koreans vs argumentative Koreans
    • Reason and emotion in the East and West
    • The Four-Seven debate
    • The history of Neo-Confucianism
    • More details on the Four-Seven debate
    • The Horak debate 
    • More details on the Horak debate
    • Revisiting the content for week 3
    Reading
    • Reading materials for week 3
    assignment
    • What have you learnt this week?
    discussion prompts
    • The Four-Seven debate, which side do you agree with?
    • The Horak debate, which side do you agree with?

    Videos
    • Zoom on Maum, mind or heart? 
    • Recap on the topics discussed so far
    • Resistance to dichotomy in the Korean language
    • Different chunking through the Uri-self
    • A closer look at Uri
    • More tips for Korean philosophy
    • Revisiting the content for week 4
    • Continuing your journey in Korean philosophy
    Reading
    • Reading materials for week 4
    assignment
    • What have you learnt this week?
    • [Final Test] What have you learnt in this course?
    peer review
    • The Korean way of thought in contemporary culture
    discussion prompt
    • Congratulations on completing your first steps into Korean philosophy!

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