Korean

This course is designed for beginner-level foreign exchange students and undergraduate students to acquire Korean reading skills. In this course, based on learning beginner-level vocabulary and grammar, students will read and understand various genres of texts that cover everyday topics and familiar social topics. 

This is an independent research course with research arranged between the student and faculty member. The specific research topics vary each term and are described on a special project form for each student. A substantial paper is required. The number of units varies with the student’s project, contact hours, and method of assessment, as defined on the student’s special study project form.

Hangul is the name of the alphabet used to write the Korean language.  This course begins by learning the letters and pronunciation of modern Korean, as well as grammar points such as polite expressions that correspond to "desu, masu" in Japanese; designates that are roughly equivalent to the English be verb; existential verbs that express presence or absence of objects; interjections; proper number words; negative expressions, and past tense. 

No prior knowledge is required to take the course, but students are recommended to study the letters and pronunciation thoroughly, especially during the first month. 

By the end of this course, students are expected to write a simple diary during summer vacation.

What is the sound of Korea? This course explores Korean diasporic music and sound from Korean traditional folk songs (minyo) to BTS (K-Pop). This interdisciplinary course looks at Korean music, sound, and culture through historical, political, and cultural lenses, exploring them as visual and sonic narratives without boundaries. The course provides fresh perspectives by utilizing performances, music videos, archives, urtext music scores and bilingual text (Korean and English). Furthermore, students engage broadly not only with music and sound but also with Korean visual arts, philosophies, film, and literature.  

This course addresses how to translate original Japanese historical sources and academic literature written after the Meiji period into Korean. Students will understand the exact meaning of the original Japanese text and discuss how to express it in fluent Korean.  

This elementary Korean course continues to focus on proficiency-based Korean learning, further developing students’ overall Korean language ability established in Korean I.1. On completion of the course, students will be able to participate in simple conversations related to daily life, and will have acquired a general knowledge of the written forms of the Korean language.

The objective of the course is to equip students with communicative skills in speaking, reading, and writing at the intermediate level in Korean, such as expanding simple ideas into imposing various kinds of the speaker's stance. e.g. judgement, inference, and evaluation or subjective assessment of the ideas entertained, and expressing more complex relations between events, such as cause, reason, purpose, condition, concession, intention, background, etc. 

This course develops basic Korean language skills and is intended for students without any prior knowledge of the Korean language. This course covers the Korean alphabet, first level vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and sentence structure. 
 

This course focuses on enhancing advanced Korean language skills through newspaper and magazine articles, and texts on the society, culture, and history of Korea. During the first half of the course, it covers topics related to Korean orthography and grammar. In the second half of the course, focus is on academic writing in Korean. Students practice analyzing, summarizing, and orally presenting their responses to a variety of Korean texts including newspaper articles, and practice writing diverse texts related to college life such as study/research plans, self-introductions, and academic papers.

This is an advanced course in Korean reading. Students practice reading texts by function (for information transmission and comprehension, literary response and expression, and critical analysis and evaluation). The course examines Korean reading strategies and provides information and knowledge necessary for advanced academic performance. Through analytical reading activities, students also deepen their understanding of Korean society.