![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Duncan also taught the graduate course on early modern Korean history. The Korea Foundation, an agency based in South Korea that promotes Korean studies education and research abroad, gave UCLA more than $200,000 to pioneer and host this e-school program for the 2011-2012 year, said John Duncan, director of the UC Center for Korean Studies. “Most of the time, it felt like just like any other class,” Pinto said. There were a few technical difficulties at first, but these were quickly fixed by the technology support staff, Pinto said. The courses are taught across continents through videoconferencing technology, or Skype. Pinto said she heard about the class through a professor who brought her and other students to the Korean art exhibition. The course, titled “International Politics in Northeast Asia: Korea in Its Regional Context,” was one of two courses offered in fall 2011 by the UCLA Center for Korean Studies to 27 students at three Latin American universities ““ National Autonomous University of Mexico, Colegio de México and National University of La Plata in Argentina. Grecia Pinto first discovered her interest in Korean studies when she visited a Korean art exhibition at the Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico.Ī few days later, Pinto, a fourth-year international relations student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, enrolled in an online Korean politics course offered by UCLA via Skype.
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