KOREAN LANGUAGE PROGRAM
DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

LTKO 1

LTKO 1A - Beginning Korean: First Year I

First year Korean 1A (5 units) is the first part of the Beginning Korean series. This course is designed to assist students to develop low-beginning level skills in the Korean language. These skills are speaking, listening, reading, and writing, as well as cultural understanding. This course will begin by introducing the writing and sound system of the Korean language. The remainder of the course will focus on grammatical patterns such as basic sentence structures, some grammatical points, and expressions. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to do the following in Korean:

• Speaking: Able to communicate minimally with learned material. Oral production is limited to several isolated words or expressions.
• Listening: Able to occasionally understand familiar words in limited social contexts.
• Reading: Able to identify a few words and/or phrases in context.
• Writing: Able to copy some Korean script in a recognizable fashion and perhaps write a few words, with errors.

LTKO 1B - Beginning Korean: First Year II

First Year Korean 1B (5 units) is the second part of the Beginning Korean series. This course is designed to assist students to develop mid-beginning level skills in the Korean language. These skills are speaking, listening, reading, and writing, as well as cultural understanding. LTKO 1B is designed for students who have already mastered the materials covered in LTKO 1A. This course will focus on grammatical patterns, such as sentence structures, some simple grammatical points, and some survival level use of the Korean language. Additionally, speaking, reading, writing, and listening comprehension will all be emphasized, with special attention to oral speech. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to do the following in Korean:

• Speaking: Able to communicate minimally with learned material. Oral production is often limited to repetition of input as well as some courtesy expressions. Content of speech may consist of common lexical items related to people, objects, and basic numbers.
• Listening: Able to understand some short learned utterances in familiar contexts although misunderstandings and pauses for assimilation are frequent.
• Reading: Able to identify a number of highly contextualized words and/or phrases, including some borrowed words, in very predictable texts, such as public announcements.
• Writing: Able to copy most Korean script accurately and write a limited number of familiar words with some inaccuracy. Can produce with inaccuracies a few very simple formulaic sentences consisting of learned material.

LTKO 1C - Beginning Korean: First Year III

First Year Korean 1C (5 units) is the third part of the Beginning Korean. This course is designed to assist students to develop high-beginning level skills in the Korean language. These skills are speaking, listening, reading, and writing, as well as cultural understanding. LTKO 1C is designed for students who have already mastered LTKO 1B. This course will focus on grammatical patterns such as sentence structures, some simple grammatical points, and some survival level use of Korean language. Additionally, speaking, reading, writing, and listening comprehension will all be emphasized, with special attention to oral speech. Upon completion of this course, students will become able to do the following in Korean:

• Speaking: Able to engage in basic communicative exchanges, mainly through recombination or expansion of learned material. Content is still limited to a few topics concerning the self and immediate surroundings, such as family and community.
• Listening:Able to partially understand very simple face-to-face conversations, including some questions, when strongly supported by familiar contexts. May require repetition, rephrasing, and/or slow, careful speech for comprehension.
• Reading: Able to derive some meaning on an inconsistent basis from simple connected texts, such as straightforward advertisements written for a wide audience. Even partial understanding may depend on context and/or extralinguistic knowledge.
• Writing: Able to write with partial success, a limited number of personal communications. Practical writing skills are beginning to emerge. Can recombine memorized material into simple statements or questions.

LTKO 2

LTKO 2A - Intermediate Korean: Second Year I

Second Year Korean 2A is the first part of the Intermediate Korean. Students in this course are assumed to have previous knowledge of Korean, which was taught in the Korean 1A, 1B, and 1C courses. Students in this course will learn low-intermediate level skills in the areas of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Korean, as well as expand their cultural understanding. Upon completion of this course, students are expected to acquire and use more vocabularies, expressions and sentence structures and to have a good command of Korean in various conversational situations. Students are expected to write short essays using the vocabularies, expressions, and sentence structures introduced. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to do the following in Korean:

• Speaking: Able to engage in some simple conversations such as introductions, greetings, invitations, expressions of likes and dislikes, and obtain information in order to fulfill immediate needs. Produces a limited number of simple sentences generally one or two at a time, using non-past and past verbals, common demonstratives and high-frequency classifiers. Able to ask and answer questions. Can combine known elements to say things with some spontaneity. Able to survive uncomplicated daily situations such as making a purchase and extending an invitation. Able to carry on conversations regarding family, friends, and everyday activities. Errors occur frequently, but with repetition the speaker can generally be understood by sympathetic interlocutors.
• Listening: Able to understand main ideas and/or some facts from simple conversations on familiar topics when they are supported by a context. Comprehension however is uneven. Repetition and rewording may be necessary.
• Reading: Able to understand main ideas and/or some facts from simple connected texts, such as advertisements, within the area of basic survival and social needs. Able to read texts that are linguistically noncomplex and have a clear underlying basic structure, so that the reader has to make only minimal suppositions.
• Writing: Able to write short communications with many errors. Topics are specific and closely tied to limited language experience, i.e., daily life, wants and needs, likes and dislikes.

LTKO 2B - Intermediate Korean: Second Year II

Second Year Korean 2B (5 units) is the second part of the Intermediate Korean. Students in this course are assumed to have previous knowledge of Korean, which was taught during the Korean 1A, 1B, 1C, and 2A courses. Students in this course will learn mid-intermediate level of standard modern Korean in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, as well as expand their cultural understanding. After the completion of this course, students are expected to acquire and use more vocabularies, expressions, and sentence structures and to have a good command of Korean in various conversational situations. Students are also expected to write short essays using the vocabularies, expressions, and sentence structures introduced. Upon completion of this course, students will become able to do the following in Korean:

• Speaking: Able to maintain a variety of uncomplicated conversations. Produces strings or lists of sentences, though speech still does not feature the cohesion or length of a paragraph. Improved accuracy in basic constructions and use of high frequency verbals and auxiliaries.
• Listening: Able to understand main ideas and/or some details from conversations related to a variety of contexts. Listening comprehension may extend beyond face-to-face conversations to include routine telephone conversations and simple announcements over the media, although understanding continues to be uneven.
• Reading: Able to understand main ideas and some details of simple connected written texts, such as advertisements. Reader has an ample vocabulary base and is able to infer meaning from most unknown vocabulary. Understanding is consistent.
• Writing: Able to write communications expressing simple feelings and desires, reporting on current activities, and asking for information. Writing is best defined as a collection of discrete sentences.

LTKO 2c - Intermediate Korean: Second Year III

Second Year Korean 2C (5 units) is the third part of the Intermediate Korean. Students in this course are assumed to have previous knowledge of Korean, which was taught during the Korean 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A and 2B courses. Students in this course will learn high-intermediate level of standard modern Korean in listening, speaking, reading, and writing, as well as expand their cultural understanding. After the completion of this course, students are expected to acquire and use more vocabularies, expressions, and sentence structures and to have a good command of Korean in various conversational situations. Students are also expected to write short essays using the vocabularies, expressions, and sentence structures introduced. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to do the following in Korean:

• Speaking: Able to handle, successfully, most uncomplicated communicative tasks and social situations, partially distinguishing appropriate polite and formal speech styles within these social situations. Able to narrate and partially describe simple activities and situations in connected speech using a variety of the more frequent conjunctions.
• Listening: Able to partially understand chunks of connected discourse related to a variety of contexts, i.e., a narrative about leisure or recreation. Comprehension may depend somewhat on contextual and subject matter knowledge, and understanding may be inconsistent due to failure to grasp cohesive cues (comparison, cause-effect, time sequence), pragmatic cues (speech styles and/or honorific expressions), and details.
• Reading: Able to partially understand texts of several paragraphs in length, such as news items featuring narration and/or description, when those texts feature a clear underlying structure and if expectations cued by the text are fulfilled. Understanding may depend somewhat on contextual and subject matter knowledge, and rereading several times may be necessary.
• Writing: Able to write some descriptions and narratives on familiar topics by using rudimentary connected discourse which features both simple and complex sentence structures.

LTKO 3

LTKO 3 - Advanced Korean: Third Year I (Fall)

Third Year Korean 3A (5 units) is the first part of the advanced Korean. Students in this course are assumed to have previous knowledge of Korean, which was taught in the Korean 2A, 2B, and 2C courses. Students in this course will learn low-advanced level skills in the areas of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Korean, as well as expand their cultural understanding. Upon completion of this course, students are expected to acquire and use more vocabularies, expressions and sentence structures and to have a good command of Korean in formal situations. Students are expected to read and understand daily newspapers and daily news broadcasts. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to do the following in Korean:

• Speaking: Able to satisfy routine social demands and school or work requirements and handle a wide variety of communicative tasks using appropriate speech styles. Can narrate and describe in paragraphs linking sentences together smoothly with cohesive devices. Can state an opinion, but not yet fully support it, on topics of general interest, such as current events, politics, and social issues. Can handle situations with a complication or an unforeseen turn of events, such as being stranded at an airport, losing documents, and being late for work. Errors rarely cause misunderstandings, even in communication with native speakers unaccustomed to interacting with foreigners.
• Listening: Able to understand main ideas and most details of connected discourse on a variety of factual topics beyond the immediacy of the situation. Texts include most face-to-face speech and factual radio and television reports involving description and narration and featuring interviews or short talks on familiar subjects.
• Reading: Able to understand main ideas and many details of texts of several paragraphs in length, such as news items featuring narration and/or description and a modest number of Chinese characters. Comprehension derives not only from contextual and subject matter knowledge but from control of the language.
• Writing: Able to write texts of several paragraphs in length, narrating, describing, and providing information on familiar, factual topics such as current events, social life, work, and leisure. Can perform additional tasks of expressing emotions and making thoughts adequately with some circumlocution. Native readers have no difficulty understanding writing at this level.

LTKO 3 - Advanced Korean: Third Year II (Winter)

Third Year Korean 3B (5 units) is the second part of the advanced Korean. Students in this course are assumed to have previous knowledge of Korean, which was taught in the Korean 2A, 2B, 2C and 3A courses. Students in this course will learn mid-advanced level skills in the areas of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Korean, as well as expand their cultural understanding. Upon completion of this course, students are expected to acquire and use more vocabularies, expressions and sentence structures and to have a good command of Korean in formal situations. Students are expected to read and understand daily newspapers and daily news broadcasts. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to do the following in Korean:

• Speaking: Able to satisfy routine social demands and school or work requirements and handle a wide variety of communicative tasks using appropriate speech styles. Can narrate and describe in paragraphs linking sentences together smoothly with cohesive devices. Can state an opinion, but not yet fully support it, on topics of general interest, such as current events, politics, and social issues. Can handle situations with a complication or an unforeseen turn of events, such as being stranded at an airport, losing documents, and being late for work. Errors rarely cause misunderstandings, even in communication with native speakers unaccustomed to interacting with foreigners.
• Listening: Able to understand main ideas and most details of connected discourse on a variety of factual topics beyond the immediacy of the situation. Texts include most face-to-face speech and factual radio and television reports involving description and narration and featuring interviews or short talks on familiar subjects.
• Reading: Able to understand main ideas and many details of texts of several paragraphs in length, such as news items featuring narration and/or description and a modest number of Chinese characters. Comprehension derives not only from contextual and subject matter knowledge but from control of the language.
• Writing: Able to write texts of several paragraphs in length, narrating, describing, and providing information on familiar, factual topics such as current events, social life, work, and leisure. Can perform additional tasks of expressing emotions and making thoughts adequately with some circumlocution. Native readers have no difficulty understanding writing at this level.

LTKO 3 - Advanced Korean: Third Year III (Spring)

Third Year Korean 3C (5 units) is the third part of the advanced Korean. Students in this course are assumed to have previous knowledge of Korean, which was taught in the Korean 2A, 2B, 2C, 3A and 3B courses. Students in this course will learn high-advanced level skills in the areas of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Korean, as well as expand their cultural understanding. Upon completion of this course, students are expected to acquire and use more vocabularies, expressions and sentence structures and to have a good command of Korean in formal situations. Students are expected to read and understand daily newspapers and daily news broadcasts. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to do the following in Korean:

• Speaking: Able to satisfy the requirements of a broad variety of everyday, school, and work situations. Can narrate and describe in paragraphs linking sentences together smoothly with cohesive devices. Can state an opinion on topics of general interest, such as current events, politics, and social issues. Can handle situations with a complication or an unforeseen turn of events, such as being stranded at an airport, losing documents, and being late for work. Errors rarely cause misunderstandings, even in communication with native speakers unaccustomed to interacting with foreigners.
• Listening: Able to understand partially texts on a range of abstract topics delivered in propositionally and linguistically complex extended discourse. Able to understand main ideas and most details of connected discourse on a variety of factual topics beyond the immediacy of the situation. Texts include most face-to-face speech and factual radio and television reports involving description and narration and featuring interviews or short talks on familiar subjects.
• Reading: Able to understand partially extended texts, such as editorials, which are conceptually abstract and linguistically complex, featuring quite a few Chinese characters. Comprehension derives not only from contextual and subject matter knowledge but from control of the language.
• Writing: Able to write about a variety of topics with precision and in detail. Can write most social and informal business correspondence, using conventional greetings, openings and closings. Can describe and narrate personal experiences well, and can write about the concrete aspects of topics relating to particular interests and special fields of competence. Has good control of a full range of grammatical structures and a fairly wide general vocabulary.