Lower Division Courses

1. Elementary Modern Korean. (5)  Lecture, two hours; discussion, three hours. Not open to students who have learned, from whatever source, enough Korean to qualify for more advanced courses. Introduction to standard spoken Korean and Korean writing, with emphasis on conversation. P/NP or letter grading.

1A. Elementary Korean for Korean-Heritage Speakers. (5)  Lecture, two hours; discussion, three hours. Not open to students who have learned, from whatever source, enough Korean to qualify for more advanced courses. Designed for Korean-heritage learners who have very limited knowledge in Korean language or have had no formal instruction in it. Emphasis on spelling, basic grammar, reading, writing, and daily conversation. P/NP or letter grading.

2. Elementary Modern Korean. (5)  Lecture, two hours; discussion, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 1 or Korean placement test. Not open to students who have learned, from whatever source, enough Korean to qualify for more advanced courses. Continuation of course 1. P/NP or letter grading.

2A. Elementary Korean for Korean-Heritage Speakers. (5)  Lecture, two hours; discussion, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 1A or Korean placement test. Not open to students who have learned, from whatever source, enough Korean to qualify for more advanced courses. Designed for students who are from Korean-speaking family background and have some limited knowledge of Korean. Emphasis on formal aspects of standard Korean (basic grammar, reading, daily conversation, polite forms, basic writing). P/NP or letter grading.

3. Elementary Modern Korean. (5)  Lecture, two hours; discussion, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 2 or Korean placement test. Not open to students who have learned, from whatever source, enough Korean to qualify for more advanced courses. Continuation of course 2. P/NP or letter grading.

3A. Elementary Korean for Korean-Heritage Speakers. (5)  Lecture, two hours; discussion, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 2A or Korean placement test. Not open to students who have learned, from whatever source, enough Korean to qualify for more advanced courses. Continuation of course 2A. P/NP or letter grading.

4. Intermediate Modern Korean. (5)  Lecture, five hours. Enforced requisite: course 3 or Korean placement test. Not open to students who have learned, from whatever source, enough Korean to qualify for more advanced courses. Continuation of course 3. Conversation, composition, and readings with structural analysis in modern Korean. P/NP or letter grading.

4A. Intermediate Korean for Korean Speakers. (5)  Lecture, five hours. Enforced requisite: course 3A or Korean placement test. Not open to students who attended elementary school in Korea for more than one year or who have learned, from whatever source, enough Korean to qualify for more advanced courses. Designed for students who seek training in written components of standard Korean (spelling, reading, writing, and grammar) at intermediate level. Continuation of course 3A. P/NP or letter grading.

5. Intermediate Modern Korean. (5)  Lecture, five hours. Enforced requisite: course 4 or Korean placement test. Not open to students who have learned, from whatever source, enough Korean to qualify for more advanced courses. Continuation of course 4. P/NP or letter grading.

5A. Intermediate Korean for Korean Speakers. (5)  Lecture, five hours. Enforced requisite: course 4A or Korean placement test. Not open to students who attended elementary school in Korea for more than one year or who have learned, from whatever source, enough Korean to qualify for more advanced courses. Designed for Korean-heritage learners. Emphasis on four skills (spelling, grammar, readings, and conversation in modern Korean). P/NP or letter grading.

6. Intermediate Modern Korean. (5)  Lecture, five hours. Enforced requisite: course 5 or Korean placement test. Not open to students who have learned, from whatever source, enough Korean to qualify for more advanced courses. Continuation of course 5. P/NP or letter grading.

6A. Intermediate Korean for Korean Speakers. (5)  Lecture, five hours. Enforced requisite: course 5A or Korean placement test. Not open to students who attended elementary school in Korea for more than one year or who have learned, from whatever source, enough Korean to qualify for more advanced courses. Designed for Korean-heritage learners. Emphasis on four skills (spelling, grammar, readings, and conversation in modern Korean). Continuation of course 5A. Completion of course 6A is equivalent to completion of course 6. P/NP or letter grading.

8. Elementary Korean: Intensive. (15)  Lecture, 10 hours; discussion, 10 hours. Not open to students who have learned, from whatever source, enough Korean to qualify for more advanced courses. Intensive course equivalent to courses 1, 2, and 3. Introduction to fundamentals of standard Korean, including pronunciation, grammar, and Korean characters, with emphasis on all four basic language skills--speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing. Offered in summer only. Letter grading.

10. Intermediate Modern Korean: Intensive. (15)  Lecture, 10 hours; discussion, 10 hours. Enforced requisite: course 3 or Korean placement test. Not open to students who have learned, from whatever source, enough Korean to qualify for more advanced courses. Intensive course equivalent to courses 4, 5, and 6. Conversation, composition, and readings with structural analysis in modern Korean. Offered in summer only. Letter grading.

50. Korean Civilization. (5)  Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Knowledge of Korean not required. General survey of development of Korean culture within context of political, social, and economic history. P/NP or letter grading.

60. Introduction to Korean Religions. (5)  Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Knowledge of Asian languages not required. General survey of history of religions in Korea--Shamanism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Christianity, Tonghak, and some new religions--with focus on religious doctrines, practices, Korean characteristics, and social impacts. P/NP or letter grading.

Upper Division Courses

100A-100B-100C. Advanced Modern Korean. (4-4-4)  Lecture, five hours. Enforced requisite: course 6, 6A, 10, or Korean placement test. Course 100A is enforced requisite to 100B, which is enforced requisite to 100C. Not open to students who have learned, from whatever source, enough Korean to qualify for more advanced courses. Continuation of courses 6/6A. Readings of modern prose and poetry, with emphasis on grammar and Sino-Korean. P/NP (undergraduates), S/U (graduates), or letter grading.

101A-101B-101C. Advanced Readings in Modern Korean. (4-4-4)  Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 100C or Korean placement test. Course 101A or Korean placement test is enforced requisite to 101B; course 101B or Korean placement test is enforced requisite to 101C. Advanced readings and discussion for students planning to do advanced coursework or research on Korea. Topics selected from magazines, journals, and books related to humanities and social sciences. P/NP (undergraduates), S/U (graduates), or letter grading.

102A-102B-102C. Advanced Korean Conversation. (4-4-4)  Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 100C or Korean placement test. Course 102A or Korean placement test is enforced requisite to 102B; course 102B or Korean placement test is enforced requisite to 102C. Not open to students who attended elementary school in Korea for more than two years or who have learned, from whatever source, enough Korean to qualify for more advanced courses. Reading and discussion of modern Korean authors, designed to further improve spoken proficiency. P/NP or letter grading.

103A-103B-103C. Readings in Sino-Korean Characters. (4-4-4)  Lecture, two and one-half hours. Requisite: course 100C or Korean placement test. Course 103A or Korean placement test is requisite to 103B; course 103B or Korean placement test is requisite to 103C. Sino-Korean vocabulary and characters necessary for advanced and superior level of knowledge in Korean. Sino-Korean characters are used differently from same Chinese characters used in contemporary China in terms of pronunciation, meaning, and word formation. Professional-level Korean speakers need to be able to read at least 1,800 Sino-Korean characters. Reinforcement of collocation patterns and semantic association of Sino-Korean vocabulary. P/NP or letter grading.

104A-104B-104C. Korean Writing for Advanced Learners. (4-4-4)  Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 100C or Korean placement test. Emphasis on academic writing in Korean, including rhetorical conventions, argument construction and coherence, and development of prose style. Readings include representative examples of diverse genres selected from magazines, journals, and books. Each course may be taken independently for credit. P/NP (undergraduates), S/U (graduates), or letter grading.

C105A-C105B-C105C. Reading Korean Academic Texts. (4-4-4)  Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 101C or Korean placement test. Intended to improve reading skills for students who have studied Korean to advanced level, with coverage in Korean of materials on Korean history, culture, and society. Each course may be taken independently for credit. Concurrently scheduled with courses C205A-C205B-C205C. P/NP or letter grading.

106A-106B-106C. Superior Korean. (5-5-5)  Lecture, five hours. Requisite: course 101C or Korean placement test. Course 106A or Korean placement test is requisite to 106B; course 106B or Korean placement test is requisite to 106C. Preparation of students to function at American Council on Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) superior proficiency level in Korean in three modalities: speaking, listening, and reading. Use of speaking, listening, and reading skills to participate effectively, or understand without difficulty any practical, social, and professional topics, whether those topics are familiar or not. P/NP or letter grading.

107A-107B-107C. Professional/Academic Korean. (5-5-5)  Lecture, five hours. Requisite: course 101C or Korean placement test. Course 107A or Korean placement test is requisite to 107B; course 107B or Korean placement test is requisite to 107C. Development of professional and academic proficiency in oral and written Korean to understand many sociolinguistic and cultural references as well as variety of styles and forms pertinent to professional needs, meet demands of professional interactions, and carry out professional-level tasks in student specialization areas. Special attention to vocabulary development on professional level. Development of both interactive and noninteractive listening. Research projects to be assigned according to student interests. P/NP or letter grading.

CM120. Structure of Korean. (4)  (Same as Linguistics M177.) Lecture, three hours. Recommended preparation: two years of Korean, or one year of Korean and some knowledge of linguistics. Discussion of major syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics of Korean in light of linguistic universals, with brief introduction to formation, typological features, and phonological structure of Korean. Concurrently scheduled with course C220. Letter grading.

CM127. Contrastive Analysis of Japanese and Korean. (4)  (Same as Japanese CM127 and Linguistics M178.) Lecture, three hours. Recommended preparation: two years of Japanese or Korean, one introductory linguistics course. Critical reading and discussion of selected current research papers in syntax, pragmatics, discourse, and sociolinguistics from perspective of contrastive study of Japanese and Korean. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Concurrently scheduled with course CM227. Letter grading.

130A-130B. Readings in Modern Korean Literature. (4-4)  Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisites: course 100C or Korean placement test, English Composition 3 or 3H or one course from Comparative Literature 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D. Readings and discussion of major modern Korean literary texts. Each course may be taken independently for credit. Letter grading.

150. Korean Literature in Translation: Classical. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or one course from Comparative Literature 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D. Knowledge of Korean not required. Survey of premodern Korean literature from beginning to 19th century. P/NP or letter grading.

151. Korean Literature in Translation: Modern. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or one course from Comparative Literature 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D. Knowledge of Korean not required. Survey of Korean literature of 20th century. P/NP or letter grading.

155. Topics in Korean Cinema. (4)  Lecture, three hours; film viewing, four hours. Knowledge of Korean not required. Historical and critical survey of Korean cinema, examining intersection between 20th-century Korean history, politics, and filmmaking. P/NP or letter grading.

C160. Korean Buddhism. (4)  Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Knowledge of Korean not required. Introduction and development of Buddhism in Korea, interactions between indigenous Korean culture and Sinitic traditions of Buddhism, Korean syntheses of imported Buddhist theological systems and meditative techniques, and independent Son (Zen) schools of Korea. Concurrently scheduled with course C260. Letter grading.

165. Introduction to Korean Buddhist Texts. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Recommended requisite: course 100A or Chinese 110C or Korean placement test. Introduction to reading premodern Korean Buddhist texts written in Sino-Korean and taken from indigenous doxographic materials and philosophical writings, Korean Buddhist apocryphal scriptures, native exegetical commentaries, and Son (Zen) texts. Coverage varies. Texts may be read in either Sino-Korean or literary Chinese. May be repeated with consent of instructor. Letter grading.

172. Topics in Korean Christianity. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Knowledge of Korean not required. Historical development of Christianity in Korea, beliefs and practices, impact of Christianity on modern Korean culture and society. Coverage varies. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Letter grading.

175. Introduction to Traditional Korean Thought. (4)  Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Knowledge of Korean not required. General survey of Korean thought from earliest records to 19th century, including shamanism, Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity, and neo-Confucianism. Korean traditions and those found in India, China, Japan, and West. P/NP or letter grading.

176. Introduction to Korean Confucian Texts. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 100C or Chinese 110C or Korean placement test. Reading in premodern Koryo and Choson texts on politics, society, and culture. Coverage varies. Texts may be read in either Sino-Korean or literary Chinese. May be repeated with consent of instructor. P/NP or letter grading.

177. Introduction to Modern Korean Thought. (4)  Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 50. Knowledge of Korean not required. Survey of Korean thought in late 19th and 20th centuries, including religious thought, political thought, feminism, nationalism, and economic thinking and practice. P/NP or letter grading.

178. Introduction to Modern Korean Historiography. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 101A or C105A or Korean placement test. Introduction to major Korean language historiographical works on Korean history in modern period. Coverage varies. May be repeated with consent of instructor. P/NP or letter grading.

180A-180B-180C. Cultural History of Korea. (4-4-4)  Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 50. Knowledge of Korean not required. Examination of evolution of Korean culture and society within context of political and institutional industry. Consideration of both higher and popular culture. P/NP or letter grading. 180A. Through 1259; 180B. 1260 through 1876; 180C. Since 1876.

181. Reading Korean Cultural Landscape. (4)  Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Knowledge of Korean not required. Introduction to Korean culture from historical/geographical perspective. Examination of human cultural imprint on land in religious, linguistic, rural, and urban landscapes. Letter grading.

183. Korean Folklore. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Survey of Korean folklore and its perspectives and methods--oral literature, performing folk arts, social folk custom, and material culture. P/NP or letter grading.

187. Popular and Folk Religion in Korea. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Knowledge of Korean not required. Introduction to history, forms, and scholarship concerning folk religion in Korea. Exploration of forms of popular and folk religion in Korea, including shamanism, ancestor worship, and contemporary religions. Consideration of fortune-telling, geomancy, and spirit belief. P/NP (undergraduates), S/U (graduates), or letter grading.

191A. Variable Topics Research Seminars: Traditional Korea. (4)  Seminar, three hours. Research seminar on selected topics of interpretation in Korean history from earliest times through mid-19th century. Coverage varies from term to term and includes such topics as state formation, international relations, or 'sprouts of capitalism' thesis. Reading, discussion, and development of culminating project. May be repeated for credit. Letter grading.

191B. Variable Topics Research Seminars: Contemporary Korean Society and Culture. (4)  Seminar, three hours. Requisite: course 177 or 180C. Research seminar on selected topics in modern Korean history. Reading, discussion, and development of culminating project. May be repeated for credit. Letter grading.

197. Individual Studies in Korean. (4)  Tutorial, to be arranged. Limited to juniors/seniors and graduate students who desire more advanced or specialized instruction in Korean. Individual intensive study, with scheduled meetings to be arranged between faculty member and student. Assigned reading and tangible evidence of mastery of subject matter required. May be repeated for credit. Individual contract required; see undergraduate adviser. P/NP or letter grading.

Graduate Courses

200. Bibliography and Methods of Research in Korean. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Requisites: course 101C, Chinese 110C. Review of basic Western and modern Korean reference books, with concentration on Korean literature and language, and survey of basic bibliographical material. In addition, introduction to most important primary sources in student's field of specialization. Letter grading.

203. Variable Topics in Korean Culture. (4)  Seminar, three hours. Advanced course that explores Korean culture through in-depth reading of Korean-language texts and/or visual documents. Topics include literature, religion, folklore, cultural history, language, and society. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.

C205A-C205B-C205C. Reading Korean Academic Texts. (4-4-4)  Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 101C or Korean placement test. Intended to improve reading skills for students who have studied Korean to advanced level, with coverage in Korean of materials on Korean history, culture, and society. Each course may be taken independently for credit. Concurrently scheduled with courses C105A-C105B-C105C. S/U or letter grading.

210. Thought and Society in Korea. (4)  Readings/discussion, three hours. Preparation: reading knowledge of Korean. Designed for graduate students. Readings in Korean intellectual history and its social, political, and economic background from rise of neo-Confucianism in 14th century to 20th century. Letter grading.

211. Thought and Society in Modern Korea. (4)  Discussion, three hours. Preparation: reading knowledge of Korean. Designed for graduate students. Critical examination of list of books central to field of modern Korean history, including such topics as Korean capitalism and communism, intellectual history, social movements, and Korean War. Letter grading.

212. 19th-Century Korea. (4)  Seminar, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 180B or 180C. Proseminar covering crucial period from coronation of Sunjo in 1800 to annexation of Korea by Japan in 1910, including major historical scholarship on political, diplomatic, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural history. Letter grading.

215. Korean Literary History. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Designed for graduate students. Critical history of development of traditional Korean literature, with emphasis on canon and ideology, literary systems, hierarchy of genres, rise of literary kinds and forms, periodization, and critical issues in literary history. One particular area of focus to be nationalist canon that governs literary studies in Korea and West. Letter grading.

C220. Structure of Korean. (4)  Lecture, three hours. Recommended preparation: two years of Korean, or one year of Korean and some knowledge of linguistics. Discussion of major syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics of Korean in light of linguistic universals, with brief introduction to formation, typological features, and phonological structure of Korean. Concurrently scheduled with course CM120. Letter grading.

224A-224B. Seminars: Selected Topics in Korean Linguistics. (4-4)  Seminar, three hours. Critical reading and discussion of selected topics in Korean functional linguistics (grammaticalization, discourse, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, syntax, morphology) and pedagogy. In Progress (224A) and letter (224B) grading.

225. Korean Corpus Linguistics and Language Pedagogy. (4)  Seminar, three hours. Introduction to corpus-based discourse and grammatical analysis using Korean corpora and concordancing programs. Special emphasis on development of corpus-based activities for language teaching and curriculum design. S/U or letter grading.

CM227. Contrastive Analysis of Japanese and Korean. (4)  (Same as Japanese CM227.) Lecture, three hours. Recommended preparation: two years of Japanese or Korean, one introductory linguistics course. Critical reading and discussion of selected current research papers in syntax, pragmatics, discourse, and sociolinguistics from perspective of contrastive study of Japanese and Korean. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Concurrently scheduled with course CM127. Letter grading.

230A-230B. Seminars: Literary Translation from Korean. (4-4)  Seminar, three hours. Preparation: reading knowledge of Korean. In consultation with instructor, students select works to be translated. Devoted to skill of producing accurate and readable translations, with emphasis on problems and techniques unique to poetry and prose. At end of term, students expected to produce publishable translations. May be repeated once with consent of instructor. In Progress (230A) and letter (230B) grading.

235A-235B. Seminars: Topics in Modern Korean Literature. (4-4)  Seminar, three hours. Preparation: at least five years of Korean. Recommended: reading knowledge of Chinese or Japanese. Limited to graduate students. Study of selected period, movement, theme, or author of 20th-century Korean literature, with critical review of secondary works in Western and Korean languages. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. In Progress (235A) and letter (235B) grading.

240A-240B. Seminars: Classical Korean Fiction. (4-4)  Seminar, three hours. Preparation: reading knowledge of Korean. Formal and thematic study of tales of marvelous, romance, satirical stories, diaries, and p'ansori fiction. Status of fiction in society and culture, fiction as imaginative representation of writer's relationship to real conditions of existence. Latest Western theory of narratology applied in analysis. In Progress (240A) and letter (240B) grading.

243. Translation Workshop: Premodern Korean Texts. (2)  Seminar, two hours. Requisite: course 200. Translation, grammatical analysis, and discussion of selections from premodern Korean texts. S/U grading.

245A-245B. Seminars: Classical Korean Poetry. (4-4)  Seminar, three hours. Preparation: reading knowledge of Korean. Critical reading and analysis of classical Korean poetry, including discussion of literary and cultural contexts of poetic genres. Nature of codes, conventions that make meaning possible. Review of latest Korean scholarship. May be repeated once with consent of instructor. In Progress (245A) and letter (245B) grading.

C260. Korean Buddhism. (4)  Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Knowledge of Korean not required. Introduction and development of Buddhism in Korea, interactions between indigenous Korean culture and Sinitic traditions of Buddhism, Korean syntheses of imported Buddhist theological systems and meditative techniques, and independent Son (Zen) schools of Korea. Concurrently scheduled with course C160. Letter grading.

265A-265B. Seminars: Korean Buddhist Texts. (4-4)  Seminar, three hours. Selected topics in Korean Buddhist texts. Coverage varies. In Progress (265A) and letter (265B) grading.

295A-295B. Seminars: Topics in Traditional Korean Cultural History. (4-4)  Seminar, three hours. Preparation: reading knowledge of Korean or literary Chinese. Discussion and research on major topics in Korean cultural history, such as Confucianization of Korean society, Practical Learning movement of late Choson dynasty, or Korean reactions to West in Eastern learning and enlightenment movements of 19th century. May be repeated for credit. In Progress (295A) and letter (295B) grading.

296A-296B. Seminars: Topics in Modern Korean Cultural History. (4-4)  Seminar, three hours. Preparation: reading knowledge of Korean. Designed for graduate students. Graduate research seminar on selected topics in modern Korean history. In Progress (296A) and letter (296B) grading.