Elementary
Korean I is the first part of First Year Korean. The course provides students
with basic conversational & grammatical patterns, assuming that the
students have no or little previous background knowledge of Korean.
The objective
of the course is to equip students with communicative skills in speaking,
listening, reading, and writing at a basic level in Korean; students
will learn how to express simple ideas as well as
how to combine simple ideas in various ways. At the end of the semester, students should be able to introduce themselves, describe their family, narrate on their daily and school activities, and weekend activities including both past and future events.
Classes
are divided into two parts: two hours of lectures conducted by Prof.
Lee, and three hours of drill sections conducted by an associate instructor
(AI). Lectures will introduce new material and provide explanations on those conversational patterns
in grammatical and pragmatic terms.
Drill sections
will provide the students with opportunities to practice in actual communicative
situations with various tasks and activities. Among the three drill
sessions, Monday will be designated mainly for reports on weekend, oral performances, and chapter quizzes. Besides chapter quizzes on Monday, there
are vocabulary and/or dictation quizzes daily.
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Students will be evaluated for the final grade based on the following percentage.
| Class
attendance * |
10% |
| Class
participation** |
5% |
| Assignments*** |
10% |
| Chapter
Quizzes |
15% |
| Vocabulary (Tuesdays and Thursdays) |
5% |
| Dictation Quizzes (Wednesdays and Fridays) |
5% |
| Midterm
(Oct. 8, Monday) |
15% |
| Oral performance
(Skits & oral reporting) |
10% |
| Oral
Final Exam (Dec. 10, Monday) |
5% |
| Written
Final exam: 12:30-2:30, Tuesday, Dec. 11 |
20% |
*
Attendance check will be strictly enforced; extremely low attendance
may lower your final grade further, unless a written proof of inevitable
circumstance is provided; no more than 5 excuses will be granted; more than 5 absences will result in one grade scale down, and more than 10 absences in lectures and drill sections all together will result in an F for the course. Extra-credits will be given for excellent attendance record and participation in Korean events in campus.
Those who have the perfect attendance record (no unexcused absence) will get awarded 5 days of Extra credit (about 1% of the total grade); if your absence is zero due to the excuses granted, the number of excuses will be deducted from the 5 days of extra credit.
Participating in Korean events such as Korean Conversation Club, Korean film showing, cultural events, etc. will also be awarded extra-credits upon submitting a report. The report for each event must be submitted within a week from the day of the event attended. The extra-credits , however, will NOT erase the number of absences for the penalty.
** Your
performance in each drill section will be monitored and
graded by your AI each day. The grading criteria not only includes your Korean
language performance, but also your attitude, cooperation, preparation and participation.
*** Homeworks are due at the beginning of the class of the day specified for due date.
Late homework must be handed in within a week from the deadline: the maximum point for late homework will be 10% less for each day delayed; the homework submitted after the class is counted as late homework.)
Grades will
be assigned based on the following scale:
|
97+ |
A+ |
93+ |
A |
90+ |
A- |
|
87+ |
B+ |
83+ |
B |
80+ |
B- |
|
77+ |
C+ |
73+ |
C |
70+ |
C- |
|
67+ |
D+ |
63+ |
D |
60+ |
D- |
|
below 60 |
F |
There
will be no makeup exam unless provided with a written proof for
a justifiable reason. In case a make up exam is granted, it must be done within a week from the original exam date. Students' progress will be
monitored and considered for the final grade, especially for the border
line cases.
Written assignments will be graded on your efforts as well as on your performance.
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Lab activity is required. For each week, you are expected to do the assigned
lab material at least for 1 hour. Writeup assignments will also be given
regularly on the lab material.
In order
to take advantage of the lab material effectively the following procedures
are advised:
- Step 1. Listen to the audio without written material. Check how much you could
understand.
- Step 2. Listen to the same part again, with the written material
- Step 3. Repeat after the model for each utterance (avoid using
the written material as much as you can).
- Step 4. Go over the material again without written material. Make
sure you understand the material thoroughly.
- Step 5. Give yourself a dictation test for the main texts (conversations
and narrations).
- Step 6. Check your answers with the textbook.
(Steps 5 and 6 are strongly recommended to enhance your listening and
writing & spelling skills)
Recording your voice:
A number of assignments may be given to record your lab activites.
Testing:
- Go to: http://lingtlanguage.com/hyoslee and select K101.
- Click"Testing."
- Click "Choose Mic" among the top-right menus and set up your recording device.
- Click the blue speech balloon to listen to the inpiut recording.
- Click the white speech ballon and wait till it becomes light brown to record your own.
- Click the light brown speech balloon to stop recording; the ballon becomes dark brown.
- Click Submit and follow the instruction.
Using Korean language facebook (optional):
Every week, a topic will be posted on Korean language K101 group in Facebook. You will get extra-credits for your participationgrade to post a message in Korean.
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