Admission requirements
Only students who have started their Bachelor in 2024-2025 and have successfully completed all BA1 Koreastudies courses are eligible for this course.
Description
This course is an elective language course for which students attend an intensive Korean language program at Seoul National University. This course has significantly higher class hours than other language courses of Korean Studies program and require students to spend a considerable amount of time self-studying for preparation and revision everyday. In this course, students develop their speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills through an integrated approach. Students are expected to reach Level 3 proficiency after 4 hours of classes per day, 5 days a week, for 10 weeks. Through this study abroad program, students are expected to make substantial and fast progress in linguistic competence (overall proficiency, grammar, lexis, oral-aural skills and fluency), in sociolinguistic competence (sensitivity to social conventions), and in pragmatic competence (functional use of linguistic resources).
*It should be noted that this course is not a compulsory. Students with special circumstances or/and concern for heavy workload or living abroad are advised to consider taking ‘Korean 3’ instead on Leiden campus.
Course objectives
This course aims to develop communication skills necessary for daily social activities and to provide opportunities to experience Korean culture.
Learners will acquire sufficient vocabulary, Sino-Korean words, and idiomatic expressions to engage freely in everyday conversations.
They will be able to express themselves on a variety of topics such as finding housing, moving, getting a broken TV fixed, making holiday plans, using parks, traveling, and participating in plays.
Through hands-on activities like Korean cooking classes, visits to cultural facilities, and poetry appreciation, learners will deepen their understanding of Korean culture.
(by LEI SNU https://lei.snu.ac.kr/mobile/kr/klec/regular/curriculum.jsp)
Timetable
Information from Seoul National University.
Mode of instruction
Seminar
Assessment method
Grade conversion
To pass this course, students must obtain a Level 3 or higher proficiency certificate from Seoul National University, which requires:
a final overall grade of 7.0 or above, and
an attendance rate of at least 80 percent.
However, students who do not receive the certificate can still pass the course if they:
score 6.0 or higher in each of the four skills (reading, listening, writing, and speaking), and
meet the attendance requirement in accordance with Seoul National University standards.
In this case, students will still pass the course but will not be eligible to receive the official certificate from Seoul National University.
Resit
Students who do not receive the Seoul National University certificate but have scored 6.0 or higher in all four skills do not need to take a resit and will be considered to have passed the course.
Students who have not received the certificate and have scored below 6.0 in any of the four skills may take a resit for only those specific skills in Leiden in January.
Skills in which a student has already scored 6.0 or higher cannot be retaken.
Students will pass the course if they achieve 6.0 or higher in the resit(s).
Reading list
The course books are as follows:
Language Education Institute, Seoul National University. SNU Korean+ 3A Student’s Book. (Seoul National University Press, 2023) ISBN: 9788952131553
Language Education Institute, Seoul National University. SNU Korean+ 3A Workbook. (Seoul National University Press, 2023) ISBN: 9788952131522
Language Education Institute, Seoul National University. SNU Korean+ 3B Student’s Book. (Seoul National University Press, 2023) ISBN: 9788952131560
Language Education Institute, Seoul National University. SNU Korean+ 3B Workbook. (Seoul National University Press, 2023) ISBN: 9788952131539
Registration
Enrolment through MyStudyMap is mandatory.
General information about course and exam enrolment is available on the website
Contact
For substantive questions, contact the lecturer listed in the right information bar.
For questions about enrolment, admission, etc, contact the Education Administration Office Herta Mohr
Remarks
None.