Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
NNCS-0706
Organization's ID:
KORN3360
Location:
Hybrid
Length:
2 weeks (80 hours)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Upper-Division Baccalaureate 3 Korean Language and Culture
Description

Objective:

The course objective is for students to recognize and understand Korean colloquial
expressions; words, phrases, and aphorisms commonly encountered in written or spoken texts of level 2+
and higher. The students will be able to successfully participate in most social, practical, and professional
formal and informal interactions because of their enhanced socio-cultural competence.

Learning Outcomes:

  • analyze and discuss authentic discourse covering a broad variety of situations that refer to the culture such as history, politics, literature, tradition, and arts in South and North Korean societies with 100 percent accuracy
  • detect unfamiliar situations, including those involving taboos or emotionally-charged subjects, and compare and hypothesize reflecting native language culture
  • analyze and make appropriate use of words to demonstrate the regional dialect of the speaker, contractions, or examples of colloquial idiomatic expressions
  • engage in meaningful discourse discussions using inferences, subtleties, nuances, implications, and tone
  • evaluate and formulate colloquial discourse and texts connoting socio-cultural information on the lives and customs in South & North Koreas with 90 percent accuracy

General Topics:

  • New generation/family life
  • Confucianism
  • Korean work life
  • Life in North Korea
  • Korean collectivism/lookism
  • Korean college/school life
  • Multiculturalism in Korean society
  • Korean economy/materialism
  • Popular Korean talk shows
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Discussion
  • Learner Presentations
  • Practical Exercises

Methods of Assessment:

  • Examinations
  • Performance Rubrics (Checklists)
  • Presentations
  • Quizzes

Minimum Passing Score:

77%
Supplemental Materials