EAK 201Y Intermediate Korean

Call #: 1803 / 5 credit

Times and Places:
     * MW    10:25-11:20 AM  at HU-027
     * TTH    10:15-11:35AM   at HU-027

Instructor:
     * Jinyoung Kang Mason, MA
     * Office: HU-283
     * Email: jkmason@albany.edu
     * Office Hours: T TH 1:00-2:00 PM or by appointment

Table of Content
1. Course Description
2. Textbook
3. Course Requirements
4. Grading Scale
5. Course schedule

I. Course Description:

EAK201Y is the first half of the second year Korean. The objective of the course is continuing to work further on students' speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills at the intermediate level. The course introduces various kinds of authentic materials such as audio/ video clips, songs, children's books, internet articles, etc. in addition to the required reading materials in order to help students acquire Korean and its culture.

At the end of the semester, the Students would be able to: 1. express more complex relations between events, such as cause, reason, purpose, condition, concession, intention, background, etc. ; 2. command a lengthy narrative discourse on personal experience; 3. express their ideas into written language with more accurate spellings and punctuations ; 4. understand better on culture and cultural aspects of Korea .

The class will be devided into two tracks depending on the students' language skills and necessities: Track 1. Language Track.(LT) and Track 2. Reading and Writing Track. (RWT).  Tuesday classes will focuss only on speaking and listening practices for the LT students , and grammer and writtings practices for the RWT students.

II. Textbook

1. Main textbook: New 서강 한국어 Student's book 2A (with a supplimental Grammar & vocab. book)
2. Workbook: New 서강 한국어 Workbook 2A
3. In-class handouts

III. Course Requirements

* Participation: The students are expected to participate actively in a pair and small group activities. Your performance will be monitored and graded by your instructor each day. The grading criteria not only includes your Korean language performance, but also your attitude, cooperation, preparation and participation.

In addition, students will be required to participate an interview with the instructor outside of the class in order to monitor and better understand the students progress. The date & time will be further discussed at the class.

** Homework Assignments are due at the beginning of the class as the day specified as deadline. Each workbook homework must be handed in a separate sheet; please make sure you put the HW #, date/day, as well as you name. Only a partial credits will be given to the late submission of the homework.

Late homework will be given only a partial credits, and it must be handed in within a week from the deadline: the homework submitted after a class is counted as a late homework.

*** Quizzes:  There will be a vocab. & dictation quiz for every chapter.

**** Oral performance: There will be two oral performances for the class.

1. PowerPoint Presentation: cultural exploration - 5%
You can work on any topics on Korea/Korean. Guidelines and samples will be given to you in class. You are required to discuss a topic with the instructor prior to your presentation in order to avoid duplicate topics with your classmates

2. Skit: 10
- You will work with a group of 3 people to act out a script that you have made.
- Try to use as many new vocabulary and grammar points as possible. Refer to the Skit Presentation Guideline for more details at www.albany.edu/Korean/skit201.html

***** Composition: There will be a final composition as a part of final exam. This is a take-home portion and the topic will be given in advance.

IV. Grading Scale

Important Class Policies

Attendance : Attendance check will be strictly enforced; extremely low attendance may further lower your final grade, unless a written proof of inevitable circumstance is provided(e.g., doctor's original note); More than 5 absences will result in one lower grade than the actual score (e.g., A to A-), and will continue every 5 absences after that. NO extra credit works for making-up your absences will be granted.

Please be aware of this strict attendance policy. A sign-sheet is distributed in each class. Make sure you sign the attendance sheet.

Those who have the perfect attendance record (no absence) may get awarded 50 pts of Extra credit (about 5% of the total grade).

There will be no makeup exam unless provided with a written proof for a justifiable reason. Any makeup exam must be taken within one week from the day the student resumes to class.

For the detailed course schedule for the semester, refer to the class website at www.albany.edu/Korean/eak201.html . Please visit the website periodically to check if there are any changes in the schedule(e.g., quiz dates, assignment deadlines, etc.)

V. Course schedule (tentative)