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Korean Popular Culture and Language - ARTS3662
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of Languages and Linguistics
 
 
Course Outline: School of Languages and Linguistics Course Outlines
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: ARTS3661
 
 
Equivalent: KORE3310
 
 
Excluded: KORE3300, KORE5007
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Subject Area: Korean Studies

Using selected contemporary Korean dramas, films, songs and TV shows, this course explores language use and underlying salient cultural values in contemporary Korea. Promotes systematic grammar knowledge, which empowers learners at this level to continuously cultivate their Korean language skills. Special attention is paid to how transactional meanings such as identities, politeness, solidarity, and affection are exchanged in this language and what constetutes, and how t account for, strategic language use in contemporary Korea.

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