EAK102L Elementary Korean II

Call Number 2017 / 5 credit

Class meetings:
         Class: MW 9:20-10:15AM (HU-019)
                   TTH 8:45-10:05AM (HU-019)

Instructor
Professor: Dr. Andrew Sangpil Byon
                 Office: HU- 244
                 Phone: (518) 442-2597 (voice) / (518) 442-4118 (fax)
                 Office hour: MF 11:30-12:30 or by appointment
                 E-mail:andrewbyon_ualbany@yahoo.com
Associate Instructor: Jinyoung Mason., M.A.
                                Office: HU 283
                                Phone: 442-4120
                                Office hour: MW 11:30-12:30 and by apponitment
                                E-mail: jkmason@albany.edu

1. Course Description
2. Textbooks
3. Requirements
4. Grading
5. Independence Listening Assignments
6. About General Education Courses
7. Class Schedule (tentative)

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 (Monday & Wednesday) conducted by Prof. Byon, and two and half hours of drill sections (Tuesday & Thursday) 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 speaking and listening tasks and activities. Listening activities and weekly quizzes will be primarily on Tuesday or Thursday. Besides weekly quizzes, there are occasional vocabulary and/or dictation quizzes.

*Main textbook: Sogang Korean 1B: available at the campus bookstore.
*Workbook: Sogang Korean IB: available at the campus bookstore.

* Quiz: You will take these quizzes regularly by the end of each lesson. Sometimes, this quiz will be substituted into a homework assignment or oral performance, when necessary.

*Mid-terms: There will be two mid-terms after every two or three lessons. This mid-term will be one hour written exam.

*Final examination: There will be one final examination. The exam consists of a two-hour written.

*Homework assignment: Only partial points will be given for the late assignments.

Extremely important basic requirement: Attendance and Class activities:
Students are expected to attend all classes. Attendance will be taken. If you fail to sign the attendance sheet (passed around at the start of each class meeting), you will be considered absent for that day. Four absences are allowed without penalty. An additional two class cuts beyond the allotted four absences will result in a “plus”/”minus” reduction in the final grade. In other words, if you cut six classes and earn a “B” in the course, your final grade will be B-; eight class cuts would get you a C+, and so on. 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.Ê You should also actively participate in class activities; activities such as short conversation skits in a paired group based on each lesson in the textbook.

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/ assignments submitted late will receive lnly partial credit.

* 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.

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 and find link 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.
Step 2. Listen to the same part again, with the written material
Step 3. Repeat after the model for each utterance (avoid using the written material as much as you can).
Step 4. Go over the material again without written material. Make sure you understand the material thoroughly.
Step 5. Give yourself a dictation test for the main texts (conversations and narrations).
Step 6. Check your answers with the textbook. (Steps 5 and 6 are strongly recommended to enhance your listening and writing & spelling skills)

1. the satisfactory completion of the second 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.