Korean

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.

This advanced intermediate course is for students who have completed intermediate Korean language study. This course teaches how to speak Korean naturally despite pronunciation and intonation; how to speak in various tenses easily and have a good command of ending-connective style; understand of expression methods according to speaker and listener and Korean ways of thinking and Korean culture. Each day's instruction has two segments, one based on the textbook and one on the reader, each with a different instructor. Texts: YONSEI KOREAN 4, YONSEI KOREAN READING 4, YONSEI KOREAN WORKBOOK 4.

This course instructs on Korean language and culture in order to communicate with Korean people.  It covers Beginning Korean language skills: the Korean Alphabet (hangul); pronunciation, as well as reading, writing and speaking in a variety of situations. The course also introduces Korean traditional culture and the recent Korean wave, including K-pop or K-drama.

By the end of this course, students are expected: 
1. To know how to read and write Hangul (Korean Alphabet) as well as practice correct pronunciation.
2. To have acquired basic grammar as well as the basic sentence structure.
3. To have acquired basic conversation skills in ordinary situations such as self-introduction, shopping, and ordering in restaurants, etc.
4. To have acquired basic writing skills: emails, letters, and diary, etc.
5. To have acquired the socio-cultural knowledge to understand communication in a variety of settings in a Korean society.

This course examines world literature along with the characteristics of Korean literature. It compares literary works from around the world and promotes an understanding of human beings and society, history and ideology, and culture and civilization in a macroscopic manner through literary works.

Through an integrated curriculum of vocabulary, grammar, speaking, listening, writing, and reading, this course enables students to: 

1)To make complex sentences using various connective endings;

2)To have basic conversations in Korean on the range of topics including learning Korean, making a phone call, food, shopping, hobby, etc.; and,  

3)To have conversations using반말(informal style between friends) appropriately. 

This is a beginning language course for students with no prior knowledge of the language. This is an integrated course that will help students achieve novice proficiency in the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing), grammar and vocabulary (including Hangul, the Korean alphabet) for personal interaction and communication in authentic situations.

This is the first semester of advanced Korean, and is designed to advance students to greater strengths in oral communication competences and linguistic knowledge of Korean. Students read selected texts related to daily life, society, culture, nature and other common topics. It aims to help students achieve high levels of proficiency not only in interpersonal but also in presentational communication.

Assessment: Attendance & Participation (20%), Assignments (30%), Speaking Assessment (30%), Take-home Achievement Assessment (20%)

Prerequisite: Intermediate Korean (2) or equivalent

This course provides a study of Korean famous prose written in Chinese characters. Intellectual and historical Korean writing is based on Chinese Characters. The course focuses on reading and exploring prose in the original language. However, since students may not be familiar with Chinese characters, the lecture focuses on reading the original text, but also exploring the text’s originality.