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Korean Communication 1A - KORE1000
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  Japanese and Korean Studies (School of Languages and Linguistics)
 
 
Course Outline: See below
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 6
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Excluded: GENT0431
 
 
Excluded: GENT0431
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Designed to provide beginners with practical language skills for effective communication. Emphasis is on use of the language in basic survival situations. Communicative methods are used to develop in students the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing, within a cultural context. The Korean script, Han-geul, is taught progressively.


Learning Outcomes

  • Be able to talk to Korean-speaking people using well-rehearsed language within the topics such as exchange greetings, buying and offering things, talking about one's likes and dislikes, telling and asking about the time, talking about one's daily lives, countries, interacting at the dinner table
  • Discriminate basic sounds and sound combinations
  • Identify short, simple examples of written Korean texts and understand some basic print conventions of those texts
  • Demonstrate awareness of some of the features of Korean culture
  • Write short texts using well-rehearsed language to convey simple messages.

Assessment

  • Performance in class - 10%
  • Homework - 20%
  • Oral test - 30%
  • Two written tests - 40%

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