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Advanced Korean Language Training: Reading

Course
2014-2015

This is a temporary course description.
The final description follows.

Admission requirements

MA Asia Studies students: Korea Studies (120 credits); East Asian Studies (60 credits) – Korea track; and others with sufficient Korean language skills.

Description

This course aims to develop advanced level of reading competence in Korean. The course material covers various text-types from cartoons on current affairs, news articles, literary works and academic articles. Students will also have the chance to read some primary and secondary source materials written in Korean on the subject of the seminar “The Politics of Culture in North Korea”.

Course objectives

  • Improving reading skills and strategies – Retaining a broad lexical repertoire – Understanding a wide range of long and complex texts likely to be encountered in social, professional, or academic life

Timetable

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Mode of instruction

Seminar

Course Load

Total Workload: 140 hours
Contact hours (2h/week for 13 weeks): 26 h
Preparing lessons and assignments (7 h/week for 13 weeks): 90 h
Preparing exams: 24 h

Assessment method

Individual and Group Assignment and Presentation (60%)
Written examinations (40%)

Blackboard

Yes, see for more info Blackboard

Reading list

To be announced on blackboard.

Registration

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Contact

Drs.A.R.Nam

Mw. A. R. Nam
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