Korean

This course provides students with the following intermediate Korean language skills: ability to ask questions; answer questions and engage in discussion; ability to comprehend mass media; ability to conduct intermediate level everyday conversation; and ability to write an intermediate level document. Students learn a variety of useful expressions commonly used in questioning, answering, and discussing in a class, and practice how to use those expressions. They also study lots of useful expressions frequently used in mass media such as radio, TV and movies, and practice how to comprehend those mass media. 

This course is designed for students with basic knowledge in Korean, and expand their vocabulary and grammar for everyday conversation. Students engage in a variety of activities in speaking, listening, writing, and reading to improve their communication skills in Korean. By the end of the course students should be able to understand the fundamental rules of sentence structure and syntax in Korean; have basic conversations in Korean on various topics including sports, transportation, food, hobbies, shopping, weather, etc.; and use various connective suffixes, sentence-ending suffixes, and particles.

This course instructs on intermediate-level Korean language vocabulary, grammar and expressions in all skill areas including reading, writing, listening, and speaking. 

This course provides the basic knowledge on the vocabulary and the grammar of Korean Language. Students learn Korean alphabet, words, and basic grammars, and engage in a variety of activities in speaking, listening, writing, and reading to improve their communication skills in Korean. 

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

1) Communicate in Korean at an advanced level in formal discourse;  

2) Understand newspaper and newspaper articles on politics, economics, society, and culture and provide one’s opinion on given topics; and,  

3) Understand Korean culture through idioms, proverbs, etc.  

This course is to learn Korean language through various projects and games. Data compiled from the weekly quests will be analyzed to create algorithms using generative AI to train our NPCs for our Survival Korean MMORPG game. This is also part of the "Generative AI in Education APRU Project" supported by Microsoft. It focuses on “real life challenges” and acculturation while empowering language learners at the most elementary level using gaming and digital technologies/platforms like CHATGPT and COPILOT to generate interest.

This course teaches basic Korean language skills, including pronunciation, speaking, and writing. Topics include greeting, self-introduction, calling, dating, seasons and weather, and other topics related to daily conservations. It also covers commonly used grammatical forms such as add-ons, endings, connecting endings, time-based endings, and various other formats and basic sentence patterns.