EAK 202Y Intermediate Korean II

Call #: 2043

Times and Places
     * MWF  10:25-11:20 AM at HU-032
     * TTH    10:15-11:10 AM at HU-032

Instructor:
     * Jinyoung Kang Mason, MA
     * Office: HU-283
     * Email: jkmason@albany.edu
     * Phone: (518) 442-4120
     * Office Hours: T TH 11:30-12:30 and by appointment

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

I. Course Description:

EAK202Y is the secondt half of the second year Korean.The course provides students further conversational & grammatical skills beyond those learned in the first semester. The objective of the course is continuing to work further on studentsÕ speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills at the intermediate level. The course introduces various kinds of authentic materials such as audio/ video clips, songs, childrenÕs 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. command a lengthy dialogue regarding various topics such as describing buildings and interiors, giving and asking for directions, giving and responding to complaints, hair style and fashion, traditional holidays, marriage, jobs, etc; 2. express their ideas into written language with more accurate spellings and punctuations ; 3. understand better on culture and cultural aspects of Korea; 4. type Korean letters

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, oral performances, watching cultural audio/video clips and movies, and learning Korean culture and cultural aspects.

II. Textbook

1. Required Textbook & Workbook:
Integrated Korean Intermediate 1: Textbook, University of Hawaii Press
Integrated Korean Intermediate 1: Workbook, University of Hawaii Press
Integrated Korean Intermediate 2: Textbook, University of Hawaii Press
Integrated Korean Intermediate 2: 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. Late RW Homework will not be accepted and it will be considered as an absence for the specific date.

*** 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 .

**** Oral Performance There will be two student's projects: PowerPoint Presentation and video project (skit). Detailed guidelines and samples will be discussed in the class.

*** 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 grades in vocabulary & dictation quizzes and 1 lowest grade in chapter quizzes for your final grade.

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., doctorÕs original note); Five absences will result in one lower grade than the actual score (e.g., A to A-), and will continue every 4 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 20 pts of Extra credit (about 2% of the total grade); if your absence is zero due to the excuses granted, the number of excuses multiply 2 will be deducted from the extra credit points. 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.

V. Course schedule (tentative)