Korean Course Information

KOR 1501 - Beginning Course in Korean I

The goal of this course is to prepare you to use the target language appropriately in the Korean culture and society. In other words, the course is aimed at helping you to be able to communicate in the language instead of merely knowing information about it. Thus, course content is focused on using Korean in various contexts to accomplish common tasks, and it is important for students to prepare and review carefully for each session.

By the end of the course, students will be familiar with basic language usage in Korean and they will have developed basic linguistic strategies to convey meaning and express themselves in everyday situations. Furthermore, you will have learned a considerable amount of information about the Korean culture, including topics related to the way of life.

KOR 1502 - Beginning Course in Korean II

This course is designed for students who finished KOR 1501. The goal of this course is to prepare you to use the target language appropriately in the Korean culture and society. In other words, the course is aimed at helping you to be able to communicate in the language instead of merely knowing information about it. Thus, course content is focused on using Korean in various contexts to accomplish common tasks, and it is important for students to prepare and review carefully for each session.

By the end of the course, students will be familiar with basic language usage in Korean and they will have developed basic linguistic strategies to convey meaning and express themselves in everyday situations. Furthermore, you will have learned a considerable amount of information about the Korean culture, including topics related to the way of life.

KOR 2301 - Second Course in Korean I

This course is designed for students who finished KOR 1502. The goal of this course is to enhance the knowledge and skills acquired in KOR 1502 and achieve intermediate low-level proficiency in the four skills of speaking, writing, listening, and reading in modern Korean by the end of the semester.

The Course objectives are:
a) to enhance knowledge and skills of formal/informal spoken/written expressions in modern Korean,
b) to extend knowledge and skills of Korean vocabulary,
c) to achieve knowledge and skills of extended grammar rules in the modern Korean language,
d) to enhance understanding of the Korean language in a cultural context

KOR 2302 - Second Course in Korean II

This course is designed to further develop communicative skills in Korean as well as insights into Korean culture for those who have successfully completed KOR 2302. Students will practice using Korean appropriately in given contexts and attain proficiency that is equivalent to the first-year level of Korean. It is a proficiency-oriented course, covering all the four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing.

CMLL 2306 - World Cinema: Korean Cinema

This course introduces the analysis of Korean films & K-Dramas both as works of art, approachable in formal terms as meaning-producing aesthetic structures, and as situated cultural productions, demanding to be understood in their historical, social, and political contexts. Incorporating a substantial amount of group discussion within a lecture format, the course aims to create opportunities to identify, contextualize, interpret, and reflect critically on a wide range of social, ethical, political, philosophical and psychological issues and problems that face the modern world citizen and are represented in Korean cinema and K-dramas.