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Class meetings:
Lectures (section 1794/1796): T, R 10:10 - 11:00 Woodburn Hall (WH) 006
Drill Section (section 1795/1797): MWF 10:10 - 11:00 Woodburn Hall (WH) 203

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 and three hours of drill sections conducted by Ms. Kyoim Yun. 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 reports on weekend, reviews, and weekly quizzes. Besides weekly quizzes on Monday, there are occasional vocabulary and/or dictation quizzes.

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 handouts:

(i) Main textbook: Integrated Korean (Beginning 2, Intermedate 1)
(ii) Workbook: Integrated Korean Workbook (Intermedate 1)
(iii) In-class Handouts (available through the web)

K201 will cover lesson 14 and 15 of Integrated Korean (Beginning 2) and Lesson 1-6 of Integrated Korean (Intermediate 1). 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.

For your convenience, the audio material from the textbooks and the workbook is available on-line in the web. Go to: http://languagelab.bh.indiana.edu/Korean2.html

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)

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GRADING
Students will be evaluated for the final grade based on the following percentage.

Class attendance*
10%

Participation
10%

Assignments**
10%

Weekly Quizzes
15%

Vocabulary & dictation Quizzes (Occasional)
5%

Midterm (Oct 21, Tue)
15%

Oral performance (Skits & oral reporting)
5%

Oral Final Exam (Dec. 8, Mon)
10%

Written Final exam (Dec. 18, Thu, 10:15-12:15)
20%

* Attendance check will be strictly enforced; extremely low attendance may further lower your final grade, unless written proof of inevitable circumstance is provided (Note: no more than 10 excuses will be granted); more than 5 absences in lectures and drill sections will result in one grade down, and more than 10 absences will result in an F.

** Late assignments will be graded, but with less maximum score: 90% maximum when submitted within a week of the original deadline.

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. 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:
*++ (10 points), *(++) (9.5), *+ (9.0), *(+) (8.5), * (8.0), *(-) (7.5), *- (7.0), *(--) (6.5), *-- (6.0)

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