KRN 101: Elementary Korean I

Section 000 Bae MW 8:30-9:20 and TT 8:30-9:45 Limit 15

4 credits

Content: This is the first semester of two elementary courses of Korean. The course is designed to develop basic communicative skills in Korean. All four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) will be emphasized and learned in communicative context. By the end of this semester, students are expected to 1) conduct simple conversations in Korean on subjects concerning their daily life; and 2) understand and produce simple narratives about daily activities.

Texts:
Yonsei Korean 1, English version (Audio CDs are included in the book)

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KRN 103: Elementary Korean for Heritage Speakers I

Section 000 Bae MW 3:00-3:50 and TT 2:30-3:45 Limit 15
4 credits

Content: This is the first semester of two courses of Korean for heritage learners who already possess basic speaking skills of Korean but need to improve spelling, reading, grammar and writing skills. Students are expected to submit a short composition in almost every class hour to acquire correct grammar. (The speed of 103 is twice faster than that of 101.)

Texts: Yonsei Korean 1 and 2, English version (Audio CDs are included in the book) and  other supplementary material.

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KRN 201: Intermediate Korean I

Section 000 Bae MW 10:40-11:30 and TT 11:45-12:45 Limit 15

4 credits

Content: This is the first semester of two intermediate courses of Korean. By increasing students’ vocabulary and their knowledge of sentence patterns, the course focuses on speaking and writing in coherent and well-formed paragraphs. By the end of the semester students should be able to (1) carry out rather fluent conversation about daily activities, (2) write compositions of 200-300 words on subjects of their daily life and personal experiences.

Texts:
Yonsei Korean 3, English version (Audio CDs are included in the book)

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REALC 375 : Modernity and Social Change in East Asia

Section 000 Lee TT 2:30-3:45 Limit 6
Same as EAS 385 Limit 6
Same as SOC 389 Limit 6
4 credits

Content: The basic objective of this course is to understand modern transformation in East Asian Countries (primarily China, Japan, Taiwan, South and North Korea). This course will examine political, economic and cultural development of such countries from a comparative perspective. Throughout this course students could find out the commonality and differences among them. In the first half of the course the historical makings of societies in the region mostly from a macro-perspective will be compared. In the second half, the current shape of everyday lives and cultures from a micro-perspective will be compared based upon the understanding of historical and macro context. In those works students could understand how and why they diverged in their
historical path to modernity, and what still remains to be common among them. This course is not aimed to survey a general history of those countries, but to discuss major issues in social change and cultural patterns in the region from a comparative perspective.

Texts: TBA

 

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