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Korean Contents Major Course Descriptions
▶ K-contents Korean Intermediate A
This course emphasizes vocabulary, grammar, discourse, writing, pronunciation, and culture. Students will be able to confidently speak in most everyday and slightly complex language situations. They will be able to read and understand intermediate-level texts on formal topics.
▶ K-contents Korean Intermediate B
This course emphasizes advanced language use in reading, conversation, and writing. Students will improve their language skills by expanding their vocabulary in reading and writing and consolidating their knowledge of vocabulary and grammar to reach Level 4 on the Korean Language Proficiency Test. Students will also enhance their speaking and listening skills by listening to and understanding the news and Korean dramas.
▶ K-contents Korean High-Intermediate A
This course focuses on intermediate-high level language skills, allowing students to understand discourse in some professional and formal situations, and to speak appropriately. Students will be able to understand the logical flow of texts, distinguish between main points and details, and write short reports with a logical structure and basic format.
▶ K-contents Korean High-Intermediate B
This course emphasizes language skills needed to engage in discourse related to society and one's work or studies, and is generally equivalent to the 5th level of the Korean Language Proficiency Test. Students will be able to read and write social and professional texts and perform communicative functions such as reporting work progress, discussing, relaying organized information, and understanding and expressing opinions.
▶ K-contents Korean Advanced A
This course focuses on advanced-level language skills that enable students to understand formal discourse in most professional situations. Students will be able to logically express their opinions with valid reasons, write formal texts that are appropriate for the situation, and read texts with a logical structure as well as literary works with uncomplicated structures.
▶ K-contents Korean Advanced B
This course emphasizes language skills that enable students to participate in discourse in professional or academic settings and to speak formally. Students will be able to read or write texts with specific social and cultural issues or of academic nature, achieving an overall proficiency equivalent to Level 6 on the Korean Language Proficiency Test.
▶ Korean Pronunciation Practice
This course aims to provide both theoretical and practical contents necessary for accurately and fluently pronouncing Korean. Students will learn the correct pronunciation of Korean vowels and consonants and practice pronunciation of syllables, phonological variations, and intonation in order to naturally pronounce Korean in actual speech.
▶ Korean Vocabulary Practice
This course aims to provide the theoretical and practical contents necessary to systematically acquire Korean vocabulary. By learning words that are related phonologically, semantically, and syntactically, students will improve their knowledge and ability in using vocabulary.
▶ Korean Grammar Practice
This course aims to provide the theoretical and practical contents necessary to accurately understand the meaning and usage of essential Korean grammar items and use them naturally. Students will briefly review beginner-level Korean grammar and gain complete mastery of intermediate-level grammar items.
▶ Advanced Korean Grammar
This course aims to provide the theoretical and practical content necessary to accurately understand the meaning and usage of advanced Korean grammar items and use them naturally. Students will master intermediate and advanced grammar structures, including similar grammar forms.
▶ Understanding Korean Videos
In this course, students will watch and understand movies, documentaries, news, and internet videos in Korean. This will build a foundation for improving listening skills and understanding spoken Korean.
▶ Reading Korean News
This course focuses on reading and understanding news related to politics, economics, society, and culture in Korean. The course helps develop students' ability to understand written Korean and improve their reading skills.
▶ Korean Culture Experience 1
This course aims to provide the necessary Korean language skills to understand various aspects of contemporary Korean culture, such as Korean music, dramas, food, and movies, while directly or indirectly experiencing them. Students will also learn vocabulary and expressions that reflect Korean lifestyles and ways of thinking.
▶ Korean Culture Experience 2
This course aims to provide the necessary Korean language skills to understand Korean lifestyle and traditional culture while experiencing Korean culture directly and indirectly. Students will also learn vocabulary and expressions that reflect Korean lifestyles and ways of thinking.
▶ Korean Contents Experience 1
This course aims to understand Korea on a practical and experiential level by utilizing Korean contents. Students will deepen their understanding of Korea and improve their cultural knowledge by learning about Korean culture through Korean contents.
▶ Korean Contents Experience 2
This course aims to understand Korea on a practical and experiential level by utilizing Korean contents. Students will develop a foundation for creating new Korean contents by deepening their understanding of Korea and improving their cultural knowledge.
▶ Exploring Korean Contents Trends
As an introductory course to Korean contents, this course explores the concept, development, and characteristics of contents across various fields such as music, movies, dramas, games, and webtoons. Students will understand the latest trends in Korean contents and analyze cultural phenomena from multiple perspectives.
▶ Korean Society and Cultural Contents
This course helps students understand the characteristics of modern Korean society through the study of cultural contents. Students will explore the universal and specific features of Korean cultural contents.
▶ Korean Cinema and Visual Storytelling
Students will watch Korean films and TV dramas to grasp the characteristics of modern Korean culture portrayed within them. They will explore visual storytelling to understand the visual grammar embedded in Korean contents.
▶ Korean Fairy Tales and Character Contents
This course focuses on traditional Korean tales and modern fairy tales. Students will explore the characteristics of characters in media industries and understand the industrial value of Korean character contents.
▶ Exploring Multicultural Contents
This course introduces students to various contents that aim for community-based communication based on the concept of cultural diversity and an understanding of an ideal multicultural society. Through this course, students will contemplate the qualities and attitudes needed by the members of a multicultural society.
▶ Korean Lyrics and Music Contents
Students will explore lyrical genres that capture Korean sentiments and examine traditional, classical, and fusion music used in media such as films, advertisements, and games. The course examines the scalability of various Korean music contents.
▶ Korean History and Storytelling
Students will examine the relationship between historical imagination and storytelling through contents based on historical time and space and strengthen their ability to analyze them. Students will also practice storytelling based on specific historical events.
▶ Modern Korean Literature and Contemporary Contents
Students will study modern Korean literary works that capture the essence of contemporary Korean culture, along with films and dramas based on these works. Students will understand the close connection between literary works and Korean contents by studying media adaptation processes.
▶ K-webtoons and Korean Comics
This course aims to read representative works of K-webtoons and understand the characteristics of K-webtoons. Students will also review the history of Korean comics, which were popular before K-webtoons, and examine the status of K-webtoons and Korean comics as Korean contents.
▶ Korean Cultural Elements and Contents
Students will understand cultural elements based on Korean spiritual culture, such as "Jeong," "Han," and "Shinmyung." The course also provides a foundation for contents planning that can create new values based on Korean cultural elements.
▶ Korean World Heritage
This course deepens students' understanding of Korean culture by studying historical backgrounds, geography, art, and relics related to cultural heritage. It also strengthens students' global competence by analyzing the characteristics and significance of Korean World Heritage based on the concept of UNESCO World Heritage.
▶ Understanding K-Pop
This course examines the development of K-pop as part of the popularization of Hallyu. By reviewing the history of Korean popular music since the early 20th century, students will understand the characteristics of Korean contents reflected in the K-pop phenomenon.
▶ Business Korean 1
This course aims to provide practical Korean language skills that are useful for the Korean business world. By studying intermediate-high level Korean, students will improve their skills for writing emails, making phone calls, and following linguistic etiquette, all of which are necessary for successful communication in corporate settings.
▶ Business Korean 2
This course aims to provide practical Korean language skills that are useful for the Korean business world. By studying intermediate-high level Korean, students will improve actual skills required in business, such as writing reports, making presentations, interpreting and translating, and creating graphs and tables.
▶ Korean Contents Interpretation and Translation Practice 1
This course teaches students how to translate and interpret Korean contents into other languages and vice versa. Students will lay a foundation for translation and interpretation centered around the Korean language.
▶ Korean Contents Interpretation and Translation Practice 2
This course deepens students' skills in translating and interpreting Korean contents into other languages and vice versa. Students will establish the core aspects of translation and interpretation centered around the Korean language.
▶ Korean Classical Literature and Contents
This course explores various aspects and analyzes characteristics of contents based on Korean classical literature, such as myths, pansori, mask dance, and classical novels. Students will explore the value of classical literature as a source of contents creation and lay the groundwork for cultural contents creation.
▶ Korean Contents Planning Practice
Students who have completed the Korean Contents Studies curriculum will select a genre of contents they wish to produce and materialize their ideas for the production process. Students will practice content planning by organizing the actual production process of Korean contents into a storyboard.
▶ Musicals and Korean performing arts
In this course, representative works of Korean musicals will be reviewed and trends in performing arts such as concerts and b-boying will be examined in general. Students will understand the contemporary cultural characteristics of Korean contents shown in musicals and the trend of Korean performing arts.
▶ Korean Language and Language Education Technology
This course focuses on learning technologies such as chatbots and ChatGPT, which can be applied to language education, particularly for teaching the Korean language. The course aims to provide students the foundation for understanding language education technology.
▶ Korean Language and Natural Language Processing
This course teaches methods to efficiently convert natural human language, particularly Korean, into artificial language that machines can understand. Students will develop a foundational understanding of the engineering methods used for processing natural language.
▶ Korean E-sports and Game Industry
This course explores the concept and history of E-sports and examines the sociocultural characteristics of E-sports as Korean contents. Students will understand global trends in the E-sports industry and anticipate the future of the Korean game industry.
▶ Korean Wave Culture Theory
This course analyzes the history of Hallyu and various discourses surrounding it. Based on the analyses, students will conduct in-depth studies on the current status and future direction of Hallyu and its related contents.
▶ Korean Media and IT Industry
This course compares the characteristics of traditional Korean media and emerging new media in the 21st century. Students will understand the innovation of Korean contents by understanding the development of the Korean IT industry and changes in media since the late 1990s.
▶ Korean Contents Capstone Design
This course offers students that have completed the Korean Contents curriculum an opportunity to improve their problem-solving skills. Students will work step-by-step to achieve the specific goals of their designated task and submit the final outcome of their Korean contents project.
▶ Korea Through Big Data
This course provides students with an understanding of the dynamic changes in Korea and Korean contents based on big data available from online platforms. Students will learn how to use big data to understand Korea and explore various methods for utilizing various data.
Korean Contents Curriculum
