K30Y Advenced Korean I

Call Number 5127/ 3credit

Instructor
Prof. Andrew Sangpil Byon
        Assistant Professor East Asian Studies Dept. HU 244
        State University of New York at Albany Albany, NY 12222
        E-mail: abyon@albany.edu
        Phone: (518) 442-2597 (voice)
                 (518) 442-4118 (fax)

Office hour:
        MW 2:30-4:00 or by an appointment

Class meetings:
        Time & location: M. W. F - 10:25-11:20 PM, BI- 0152

1. ABOUT GENERAL EDUCATION COURSES
2. OBJECTIVE & COURSE DESCRIPTION
3. STUDENT'S RESPONSIBILITY
4. COURSE REQUIREMENT & EVALUATION
5. INSTRUCTION ON PRESENTATION & ORAL PERFORMANCE

(1) General Education Information
       If approved, this course fulfills the General Education category of Oral Discourse

(2) Characteristic of 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.

(3) Characteristics of Oral Discourse Courses:
        Approved courses provide opportunities for students to develop the oral communication skills they need to participate more effectively in public and academic debates and discussions. Courses offer opportunities to participate in a variety of communication contexts and to reflect on the principles and theory relevant to specific oral communication activities.

This is the first semester of third year Korean, and is designed to advance students to greater strengths in oral communication competence and written skill. Moreover, as an Oral Discourse course, another important objective is to provide opportunities for students to develop the oral communication skills they need to participate more effectively in public and academic debates and discussions. The detailed instructional objectives and contents of the Advanced Korean course are three-fold:

1. To increase student language proficiency with heavy focus on oral communication skills, primarily thru student presentation, and student led group discussion.
2. Garammar and syntax instruction will be discussed and reviewed when relevant to the content of the reading material.
3. To enhance understanding of current social/cultural aspect of Korea via siscussion and presentation.

When confused, students are encouraged to ask questions to the instructor both in person and via email.

This is your opportunity to get the most you can out of this classroom experience. The professor assumes that all students are in this advanced class because their motivation is high. Such errors as excessive absence, tardiness, or homework not completed only detract from the learning experience and make it harder to complete the course successfully. This class will move quickly, and students are cautioned against falling behind.

Students are expected to attend ALL classes (every student has to sign his/her individual sign-sheet prior to class). NO unexcused absences will be permitted;there will be no review of material for students who miss class. Each unexcused absence will result in a reduction of the studentÕs final grade by one level (B+ becomes B), 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 counted as an absence.

The prepared work you bring to class counts in the form of daily preparation for reading, written essays, translations, quizzes and oral presentations constitute considerable portion of your grade. Turning in your assignments late will result in lower grades, and missing class is no excuse for not preparing an assignment. When absent, it is the student's responsibility to find out what has been assigned and to turn it in on the same day as the other students.

There will be a written midterm and final. If you know ahead of time you will not be able to sit for an exam, notify the professor before the exam, as this may lead to a makeup exam being scheduled if the reason for missing the appointed time is deemed acceptable.

Written task 60% + Oral performance task 40% = 100%.

A (1000-950) / A- (949-900) / B+ (899-870) / B (869-830) / B- (829-800) / C+ (799-700)
/ C (769-720) / C- (719-700) / D+ (699-670) / D (669-620).....

Topics for the student presentation: Students can refer to the topics and contents of the course-reader (main reading texts), or can choose whatever interests him or her: however, topics must be related to Korea and approved by the instructor prior to presentation.

Procedure: Each student presentation (a STAND-UP monologue presentation of a minimum 5-7 minutes) should be followed by presenter led group discussion (a minimum 5-10 minutes, where the presenter fields a succession of questions or asks a succession of questions). In addition, classmates are required to make 1 or 2 minutes (3-4 paragraph-length) contribution in the course of the discussion.

Evaluation: The following peer evaluation form will be filled out by classmates and instructor after the presentation, and the sum of the score will be reflected in your oral presentation grade: