Korean

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.

This course for absolute beginners teaches to read and write Hangul proficiently. The course covers the fundamental system of pronunciation and how to correctly pronounce initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants; how to correctly apply fundamental sentence structure and syntax. The course also provides a good command of basic daily use of Korean: greetings, self-introduction, ordering food, purchasing goods, asking for directions, using public transportation, etc. Texts: YONSEI KOREAN I, YONSEI KOREAN READING I, and YONSEI KOREAN WORKBOOK 1. 

This course is for students who have completed level one or approximately 150 hours of Korean language study. This course teaches to read and write Korean in accordance with phonetic rules. Students can correctly construct complex and compound sentences and partially understand the organization of the Korean language and be able to speak informally using "banmal" (informal speech) in basic daily life conversation. Texts: YONSEI KOREAN 2, YONSEI KOREAN READING 2, YONSEI KOREAN WORKBOOK 2. 

This intermediate Korean language course is for students who have completed beginning Korean language or approximately 300 hours of Korean language study. Students learn to fluently read Korean dialogues and understand Korean pronunciation rules. This course teaches to correctly use various tenses and suffixes including causative and passive verbs. Students communicate with little difficulty in daily life and freely present opinions in sentences and words in both daily and formal situations. Texts: YONSEI KOREAN 3, YONSEI KOREAN READING 3, YONSEI KOREAN WORKBOOK 3.

This course improves Korean writing skills using the composing of simple paragraphs covering various topics that arise in daily life, and then writing a longer essay by the end of the course. The course also teaches students how to complete various official forms, improve basic Korean writing skills, practice various genres of Korean writing, and develop Korean written communication skills.