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COURSE DESCRIPTION
K201 is the first part of the second year Korean. The objective of the course is to equip students with communicative skills in speaking, reading, and writing at the intermediate level in Korean, such as expanding simple ideas into imposing various kinds of the speaker's stance, e.g. judgement, inference, and evaluation or subjective assessment of the ideas entertained, and expressing more complex relations between events, such as cause, reason, purpose, condition, concession, intention, background, etc. Skills for simple narration and written report will be enhanced. Students are expected to be able to and command a lengthy narrative discourse on personal experience.

Classes are divided into two parts: two hours of lectures by an instructor and three hours of drill sections conducted by an associate instructor (AI). Lectures will include explanations of 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 a variety of oral performances, reviews, and chapter quizzes. Besides chatper quizzes on Monday, vocabulary and dictation quizzes are given daily.

COURSE MATERIAL
You will need a main textbook and a workbook for this class (both available at the IU Bookstore and T.I.S.) as well as supplementary in-class material:

(i) Main textbook: Integrated Korean (Beginning Korean 2 L14 & 15, Intermedate 1 L1-6)
(ii) Workbook: Integrated Korean Workbook (Beginning Korean 2 L14 & 15, Intermedate 1 L1-6)
(iii) In-class Handouts (available through the web in the weekly schedule)

Students are expected to create simulated dialogues based on the main conversations in each lesson and to memorize set dialogues assigned for each task/function. Written assignments will also be given mainly from the Workbook. Students are responsible to read the main textbook including main texts (conversations and narrations), vocabuary (new words and expressions and notes), grammar notes, as well as culture notes.

LAB ASSIGNMENTS
Lab attendance 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 tape without written material to see 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 on the main texts.
(Strongly recommended to enhance your listening and writing skills as well as improving your spellings)

GRADING
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 & dictation Quizzes (daily)	10%
Midterm (TBA)	15%
Oral performance (Skits & oral reporting)	10%
Oral Final Exam (TBA)	5%
Written Final exam	20%

* Attendance check will be strictly enforced; extremely low attendance may further lower your final grade, unless written proof of inevitable circumstance is provided; More than 5 absences will result in one grade down, and more than 10 absences will result in two grades down from the actual score. No excuses are allowed unless a written proof of inevitable circumstances (e.g. doctor's notes, police reports, parents' notes, performance schedule, job interview schedule, etc.). In any circumstances, no more than 5 excuses will be granted.

Those who will not have missed any class 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.

** 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 as deadline.

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 a class is counted as a late homework.

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.

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.

K201 Second Year Korean I