Third Year Korean I

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This third year Korean is fifth in a series of Korean language courses offered at the University of Notre Dame and is designed for students who have successfully finished EALK 20212 or who have gotten permission from the instructor after taking a placement test. This course aims to develop functional proficiency in Korean at the intermediate-high level in listening, speaking, and reading and writing. Students will develop competence in fluency, grammatical accuracy and socio-linguistic/cultural appropriateness through a variety of activities and assignments. In addition, students will learn to communicate with more sophisticated grammatical structures and advanced vocabulary on various topics. This course will integrate Korean cultural themes with language learning to enhance students' learning of Korean language and to deepen their understanding of Korean culture. The specific themes that we are going to explore this semester are 1) appropriate pragmatics when apologizing, requesting, and denying, 2) the difference between indigenous language and Sino-Korean, 3) the Koreans' way of thinking which is reflected in language, and 4) social relation of Korean people, and so on. The course focuses on exploring 5Cs (Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities) through more in-depth studies of Korean language and culture. Third Year Korean I is a 4 credit course; students should enroll in both EALK 30311 and EALK 31311 -01.