Infusing Korean Studies in American Undergraduate Higher Education

Dates: July 8 - July 12, 2024

Location: East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai‘i

Infusing Korean Studies in American Undergraduate Higher Education is a one-week residential Institute for college and university faculty that will be hosted on the East-West Center campus in Honolulu by the Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP). The Institute will provide a multidisciplinary introduction to modern Korean culture and society and will equip participating faculty teams & individuals to develop curriculum materials and strategic plans for expanding undergraduate Korean studies offerings on their campuses. Click here to learn more about the Summer Institute.

Application Information

Deadline to Apply:
Applications must be submitted by March 28, 2024 5:00pm HST.

Applications are sought from humanities and social science teachers committed to infusing Institute content into their undergraduate courses and to developing Korean studies offerings on their campuses. Fifteen participants will be selected with a target of including four to five, 2- or 3-person institutional teams, and a small number of individual participants.

Applications should include (1) current CV and (2) an essay (up to 1,500 words) providing relevant information about your personal and academic background; your reasons for applying to this program; how you anticipate the Institute will impact your teaching and/or research; and a statement about how participating in the program will help further the growth of Asian studies at your school.

Team Applications: Each member of an institutional team must submit an individual application as described above, which should include a paragraph identifying fellow team members and the institutional goals of participating in the program.

The Application Process

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Program Costs

Successful applicants will receive housing on the East-West Center campus. For more details see the Infusing Korean Studies 2024 Summer Institute homepage.

Participant Expectations

Participants are expected to participate in the program on a full-time basis. Participant teams will be responsible for developing a draft strategic plan for developing Korean studies on their campuses and all participants will develop an individual curriculum development plan. The project is also expected to result in a paper, to be published in the East-West Center’s Occasional Paper Series, that will bridge the gap between academic specialist research and the needs of both undergraduate educators and an informed general public.

Infusing Korean Studies in American Undergraduate Higher Education has been made possible by a grant from the Academy of Korean Studies.