EAK 201Y Intermediate Korean

Call #: 1907 / 5 credit

Times and Places:
     * MWF  10:25-11:20 AM at HU-019
     * TTH    10:15-11:10 AM at HU-019

Instructor:
     * Jinyoung Kang Mason, MA
     * Office: HU-283
     * Email: jkmason@albany.edu
     * Phone: (518) 442-4120
     * Office Hours: T TH 11:30-1:00 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 medium of the class is mainly Korean, and English translation will be given when it is necessary. Monday through Thursday classes consist of lectures and oral drills. Friday classes will be designated mainly for weekly quizzes, tests, students' presentations, oral performances, watching cultural audio/video clips and movies, and learning Korean culture and cultural aspects.

II. Textbook

1. Required Textbook & Workbook:
Integrated Korean Beginning II: Textbook, University of Hawaii Press
Integrated Korean Beginning II: Workbook, University of Hawaii Press
Integrated Korean Intermediate 1: Textbook, University of Hawaii Press
Integrated Korean Intermediate 1: Workbook, University of Hawaii Press

2. English-Korean dictionary (optional)

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.

Late homework must be handed in within a week from the deadline: the homework submitted after a class is counted as a late homework.

*** Quizzes include chapter quizzes on Friday and vocabulary/ & diction quizzes on mid weeks. Chapter quizzes will be on the materials covered up to that point (ie. vocab + grammar points). You may drop 1 of your lowest grade in each vocabulary & dictation quizzes and grammar quizzes for your final grade.

**** 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

***** Independent listening activity : Students are required to practice the listening assignments in workbook to enhance their listening skill. Please submit the assignment within a week after each chapter is finished. For your convenience, the audio material from the textbooks and the workbook is available on-line, and there is a link in the class webpage at www.albany.edu/korean/links.html .

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)