ED 350 - Global Studies and K-pop
Credit(s): 3
Trends toward globalization and inclusion are bringing together individuals with an ever-widening array of skills, languages, nationalities, and cultural experiences. However, quite often such diversity has been treated as an obstacle to remove rather than a strength to develop. In this context, this course is designed for Millikin students and offers an opportunity to explore the concepts of global citizenship from theoretical, cultural, and political perspectives and challenges students to think critically about what global citizenship can and should mean. This course, therefore, focuses on helping students recognize the value of diversity in the United States and assist in developing important cross-cultural understanding. At the heart of the course will be an interdisciplinary exploration of Korean popular music, which is mostly known as K-pop through readings and discussion of film, social theory, and social scientific research. Investigating and locating K-pop within the continuously shifting global popular culture will be a trendy guide for students to enhance awareness of global citizenship.
Students would be encouraged to embrace, celebrate, and critique cultural differences through the sustained, but often shifting, theoretical trajectories of issues related to global citizenship and democratic participation. The most rewarding aspect of this course is when students can also critically identify sparks of commonalities in the midst of differences. The construction of a series of assignments could be further sharpened to encourage students to go beyond the presentation of facts on the one hand and emotive discourse on ethical issues on the other. While developing a research paper, students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of the ethical problem through a well-positioned argument and make a clear ethical judgment about some aspect of a global issue. So, the goal of the course is to show how even in the context of open students are engaged in constructing and reconstructing their identity as global citizens.
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