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KORE 1
Elementary Korean (First Quarter)

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Course Description

This course teaches the Korean Hangul by applying the natural approach in the classroom. The materials are designed to encourage the students to interact in Korean as naturally and spontaneously as possible. It introduces vocabulary skills, decoding skills, and fundamental sentence structures in the present and past. Pronunciation, grammar, and everyday vocabulary are stressed as indispensable tools for comprehension and expression. Aspects of Korean culture and history are covered as well.

Student Learning Outcomes

• Develop reading the Korean alphabet, Hanguel and demonstrate a working command of essential vocabulary recognize and reproduce some 180 Korean words and expressions and language structure necessary to request and provide, orally and in writing, basic /simple information relating to high-freqeuncy situations in familiar contexts, such as greetings, introducing friends, locations, family, making requests, and describing people.
• Derive meaning from short, simple texts on familiar topics, relying on contextual clues to extract the gist and some detail.
• Compose comprehensible, simple phrases or sentences about familiar topics to reflect a working command of core vocabulary and language structures.
• Demonstrate a cursory grasp of social protocols and contributions of Korean-speaking cultures, by analyzing and comparing them to one's own cultures.

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Course Details

Units

5 Units

Hours

• Weekly Lecture Hours: 5
• Weekly Lab Hours: 0

Gen Ed

General Education Class

Program Status

Program Applicable

Credit

Credit - Degree Applicable

Transferability

Transferable to both UC and CSU

Grading Method

Letter Grading

Requisite and Advisory

Advisory(ies)

ESL 272 and ESL 273, or ESL 472 and ESL 473, or eligibility for EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or ESL 5

Prerequisite(s)

Corequisite(s)

Limitations on Enrollment and Entrance Skills

Limitation(s) on Enrollment

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