Korean

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.

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.