Fall 2008
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Call Number 1906/ 5 credit Class meetings: Instructor |
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Table of Contents
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1. Course Description |
1. Course Description
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Elementary Korean I is the first part of First Year Korean. The course provides students with basic conversational & grammatical patterns, assuming that the students have no or little previous background knowledge of 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 a various way. Classes are divided into two parts: two hours of lectures conducted by Prof. Byon, and three hours of drill sections conducted by an associate instructor (AI). Lectures will include explanations of those conversational patterns in grammatical and pragmatic terms. Drill sections 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 Mronday. Besides weekly quizzes, there are occasional vocabulary and/or dictation quizzes. |
2. Textbooks
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* Main textbook: Integrated Korean (Beginning 1) |
3. Requirements
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Independent listening assignment : Students are expected to listen to the tapes regularly at least two or three times a week, and spend thirty minutes or one hour for each time, depending on their speaking and listening comprehension abilities. Students should keep the record of their own listening. We will collect the listening sheets of each student by the end of semester (Minimum 20hrs). Students can listen to these tapes through INTERNET. Go to the Links page. Quizes: You will take these tests regularly.he end of each lesson. Sometimes, this test will be substituted into a homework assignment or oral performance, when necessary. Mid-term : There will be two mid-terms after every two or three lessons. This mid-term will be one hour written exam.Ê Mid-terms cannot be made up. Final examination : There will be one final examination. The exam consists of a two-hour written.ÊThe exams cannot be made up for whatever reason. Homework assignment: Only partial points will be given for the late assignments. 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 (eg., A to 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 considered as as absence. |
4. Grading
Final course grade will be based on the results of the following:
The grading will be standard, and not based on a curve.
* 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. * Students taking the course on a CR/NC basis must achieve at least 70% overall average to receive credit (CR). There will be no makeup 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.
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5. Independent Listening Assignments:
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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 the Links page. In order to take advantage of the lab material effectively the following procedures are advised: Step 1. Listen to the tape without written material. Check how
much you could understand. |
6. About General Education Courses
i) 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. |
ii) 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:
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1. the satisfactory completion of the second college semester (i.e.,
level Elementary II) of foreign language study or its equivalent;
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7. Class Schedule
Week # |
M |
T |
W |
TH |
F |
1 |
8/25 |
8/26 Introduction to Korea |
8/27 Pre-lesson |
8/28 |
8/29 |
2 |
9/1 |
9/2 |
9/3 |
9/4 |
9/5 |
3 |
9/8 |
9/9 |
9/10 |
9/11 |
9/12 |
4 |
9/15 |
9/16 |
9/17 |
9/18 |
9/19 |
5 |
9/22 |
9/23 |
9/24 |
9/25 Ch.2 |
9/26 |
6 |
9/29 |
9/30 |
10/1 |
10/2 |
10/3 |
7 |
10/6 |
10/7 |
10/8 |
10/9 |
10/10 |
8 |
10/13 |
10/14 |
10/15 |
10/16 |
10/17 |
9 |
10/20 |
10/21 |
10/22 |
10/23 |
10/24 |
10 |
10/27 |
10/28 |
10/29 |
10/30 |
10/31
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11 |
11/3 |
11/4 |
11/5 |
11/6 |
11/7 |
12 |
11/10 |
11/11 |
11/12 |
11/13 |
11/14 |
13 |
11/17 |
11/18 |
11/19 |
11/20 |
11/21 |
14 |
11/24 |
11/25 |
11/26 |
11/27 |
11/28 |
15 |
12/1 |
12/2 |
12/3 |
12/4 |
12/5 |
12/8 |
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12/16 |
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