EAK102L Elementary Korean 2
Spring 2008
Call Number 2042 / 5
credit
Professor: Dr. Andrew Sangpil Byon
Assistant
Professor
East
Asian Studies Dept. – HU 244
E-mail:
andrewbyon_ualbany@yahoo.com
(518)
442-2597 (voice)
(518)
442-4118 (fax)
http://www.albany.edu/eas/byon.html
Office
Hour: MF 1130-1230 or by an appointment
Associate Instructor: Jinyoung Kang Mason M.A.
Office: HU-283 (phone 442-2601)
E-mail: jkmason@albany.edu
Office Hour: TBA
Class
meetings:
Class: MWF
Characteristics of all
General Education Courses
1.
General Education
courses offer introductions to the central topics of disciplines and
interdisciplinary fields.
2.
General Education
courses offer explicit rather than tacit understandings of the procedures,
practices, methodology and fundamental assumptions of disciplines and
interdisciplinary fields.
3.
General Education
courses recognize multiple perspectives on the subject matter.
4.
General Education
courses emphasize active learning in an engaged environment that enables
students to be producers as well as consumers of knowledge.
5.
General Education
courses promote critical inquiry into the assumptions, goals, and methods of
various fields of academic study; they aim to develop the interpretive,
analytic, and evaluative competencies characteristic of critical thinking.
Learning Objectives for General
Education Foreign Language Courses
Basic proficiency in the
understanding and use of an ancient or modern human language other than English
as demonstrate by:
1.
the satisfactory
completion of the first college
semester (i.e.,
level Elementary II) of foreign language study or its equivalent; or
2.
passing a Regents “Checkpoint B” Examination or a Regents-approved
equivalent with a score of 85 or above; or
3.
demonstration of
competency in a language other than English, including languages not currently
offered for formal instruction at this university; or
4.
satisfactory
completion of at least one college semester in a study abroad program in a country where English is
not the primary language of instruction.
1. Course Description
Elementary Korean II is the second part of
First Year Korean. The objective of the course is to equip students with
communicative skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing at a basic
level in Korean; students will learn how to express simple ideas such as
attributes, identities, locations, time, daily activities, weekend plan,
desires, as well as how to combine simple ideas in various ways.
Classes are divided into two
parts: two hours of lectures conducted by Prof. Byon, and three hours of drill
sections conducted by Ms. Jinyoung Kang Mason. Lectures (both in Korean and English) will include explanations of those conversational
patterns in grammatical and pragmatic terms.
Drill sections (entirely in Korean) will provide the students with opportunities to
practice in actual communicative situations with various tasks and activities.
Listening activities and weekly quizzes will be primarily on Friday. Besides
weekly quizzes, there are occasional vocabulary and/or dictation quizzes.
2. Textbooks
3.
Requirements
Extremely
important basic requirement: Attendance and Class activities:
You are supposed to attend each class
(both lecture and recitation). Attendance check will be strictly enforced;
extremely low attendance may further lower your final grade, unless a written
proof of inevitable circumstance is provided; Each absence beyond five will result
in a reduction of the student’s final letter grade by one level (A becomes A-), and this continues for each successive absence as well.
Tardiness is also not acceptable and considered inappropriate behavior in a
university classroom. Three repeated lateness will be counted as an absence.
Please be aware of this
strict attendance policy. You should also actively participate in class
activities, such as short conversation skits in a paired group based on each
lesson in the textbook.
4. Grading:
Your final course grade will be based on the results of the following:
A two-hour
final-exam……………………. 30%
Two mid-terms (10% each)…………..…… 20%
Homework assignments..….……………… 10%
Independent listening
assignments…..………5%
Weekly quizzes & oral
performances……… 35%
The grading will be standard (not based on a curve).
93 - 100 A 76
- 79.9 C+
90 - 92.9 A- 73
- 75.9 C
70
- 72.9 C-
86 - 89.9 B+
83 - 85.9 B 69 - 69.9 D+ 63 – 65.9 D 60 – 62.9 D-
80 - 82.9 B- 59.9 - 0 E
* The percentage of each
category may be adjusted a little but not drastically, if the instructor will
find it necessary and reasonable to do so.
* No make-up will be allowed in any part of this course / assignments
submitted late will receive only partial credits.
* Students taking the course on a CR/NC basis must achieve at least 70% overall
average to receive credit (CR).
There will be no make-up exam unless provided with a written proof for a justifiable
reason. In case a make-up exam is granted, it must be done
within a week from the original exam date. Students’ progress will be monitored
and considered for the final grade, especially for the border line cases.
5.
Independent listening assignments:
Independent listening
activity is required. For your convenience, the audio material from the
textbooks and the workbook is available on-line in the web. Go to our UAlbany Korean Studies
site (www.albany.edu/korean) and
find a link.
In
order to take advantage of the lab material effectively the following
procedures are advised:
6. Class Rule