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KOREAN 140B

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Description

Korean 140b is the second half of fourth-year Korean which is designed to enhance students’ language abilities beyond the high-intermediate level in reading, speaking, and writing in order to begin understanding the social, cultural, and historical issues of contemporary Korea. Hence, the aim of the course includes (i) comprehending authentic materials from a wide variety of topics and genres from contemporary Korean literature, movies, and dramas, (ii) understanding the essential points of oral and written discourses that are linguistically complex, (iii) discussing concrete topics relating to major issues of contemporary Korean society and culture through supporting opinions, refutations, hypotheses, and detailed explanations of ideas, and (iv) writing about a variety of topics in Korean culture and society in detail with significant accuracy in grammar and structure.

School Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits 4
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Course Component Lecture
Subject Korean
Grading Basis FAS Letter Graded
Course Requirements Prerequisite: KOREAN 140A or equivalent.
General Education N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data N/A
Divisional Distribution None
Course Level For Undergraduate and Graduate Students