Korean (KORE) 1 KOREAN (KORE) 100 Level Courses Additional Course Details: Taught in Korean KORE 101: Intro to the Korean Language. 3 credits. KORE 202: Intermediate Korean II. 3 credits. Offered by Modern & Classical Languages (http://catalog.gmu.edu/ Continuation of KORE 201. Online and lab work required. Offered by colleges-schools/humanities-social-sciences/modern-classical- Modern & Classical Languages (http://catalog.gmu.edu/colleges- languages/). Limited to three attempts. Equivalent to KORE 102, schools/humanities-social-sciences/modern-classical-languages/). KORE 110. Limited to three attempts. Schedule Type: Lecture Recommended Prerequisite: KORE 201, appropriate placement score, or Grading: permission of instructor. This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale. (http:// Schedule Type: Lecture catalog.gmu.edu/policies/academic/grading/) Grading: Additional Course Details: Taught in Korean This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale. (http:// KORE 102: Intro to the Korean Language. 3 credits. catalog.gmu.edu/policies/academic/grading/) Offered by Modern & Classical Languages (http://catalog.gmu.edu/ Additional Course Details: Fulfills Frgn Lng requirment, Taught in Korean colleges-schools/humanities-social-sciences/modern-classical- languages/). Limited to three attempts. Equivalent to KORE 101, 300 Level Courses KORE 110. KORE 300: Korean Culture and Society. 3 credits. Recommended Prerequisite: KORE 101 and 102 must be taken in Provides a broad overview of Korean people, society, and culture, sequence. mainly focusing on basic culture codes. Starting from the ways of Korean people's interaction, the course explores distinctive features Schedule Type: Lecture of expression such as joy, excitement, sadness, frustration, and anger. Various authentic materials and course books will offer the framework Grading: for students to understand unique Korean cultural phenomena and their This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale. (http:// sociohistorical background. Offered by Modern & Classical Languages catalog.gmu.edu/policies/academic/grading/) (http://catalog.gmu.edu/colleges-schools/humanities-social-sciences/ modern-classical-languages/). May be repeated within the degree for a Additional Course Details: Taught in Korean maximum 9 credits. KORE 110: Elementary Korean. 6 credits. Specialized Designation: Topic Varies Introduces elements of grammar, vocabulary, oral skills, listening comprehension, and reading. Offered by Modern & Classical Languages Schedule Type: Lecture (http://catalog.gmu.edu/colleges-schools/humanities-social-sciences/ modern-classical-languages/). Limited to three attempts. Equivalent to Grading: KORE 101, KORE 102. This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale. (http:// catalog.gmu.edu/policies/academic/grading/) Schedule Type: Lecture KORE 301: Advanced Korean Language and Culture. 3 credits. Grading: Develops advanced level Korean language skills and cultural This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale. (http:// awareness in interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational modes catalog.gmu.edu/policies/academic/grading/) of communication. Offered by Modern & Classical Languages (http:// catalog.gmu.edu/colleges-schools/humanities-social-sciences/modern- Additional Course Details: Taught in Korean classical-languages/). Limited to three attempts. 200 Level Courses Recommended Prerequisite: KORE 202; appropriate placement score; or KORE 201: Intermediate Korean I. 3 credits. permission of instructor Continuation of basic Korean listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Online and lab work required. Offered by Modern & Classical Schedule Type: Lecture Languages (http://catalog.gmu.edu/colleges-schools/humanities-social- sciences/modern-classical-languages/). Limited to three attempts. Grading: This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale. (http:// Recommended Prerequisite: KORE 102, KORE 110, appropriate placement catalog.gmu.edu/policies/academic/grading/) score, or permission of instructor. Additional Course Details: Taught in Korean Schedule Type: Lecture KORE 305: Business Korean. 3 credits. Grading: Develops intermediate- to high- level Korean reading, writing, listening and This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale. (http:// speaking skills while increasing culture awareness in Korean business catalog.gmu.edu/policies/academic/grading/) settings through authentic materials and hands-on projects with people in the Korean business community. Offered by Modern & Classical 2 Korean (KORE) Languages (http://catalog.gmu.edu/colleges-schools/humanities-social- Grading: sciences/modern-classical-languages/). Limited to three attempts. This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale. (http:// catalog.gmu.edu/policies/academic/grading/) Recommended Prerequisite: KORE 202, appropriate placement score, or permission of instructor. KORE 321: Korean Proficiency through Visual Culture. 3 credits. Develops Intermediate-high level Korean reading, writing, listening, and Schedule Type: Lecture speaking skills while increasing understanding of Korean culture through authentic Korean visual culture such as films, TV dramas, commercials, Grading: and music videos. Students who complete the course will gain an This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale. (http:// understanding of local and global Korean visual culture as well as acquire catalog.gmu.edu/policies/academic/grading/) upper level Korean linguistic proficiency. Offered by Modern & Classical Additional Course Details: Taught in Korean Languages (http://catalog.gmu.edu/colleges-schools/humanities-social- sciences/modern-classical-languages/). May be repeated within the KORE 310: Traditional Korean Literature in Translation. 3 credits. degree for a maximum 6 credits. Develops students’ advanced knowledge of traditional Korean literature and culture through exploration of pre-modern Korean literary texts (those Recommended Prerequisite: KORE 202, appropriate placement score, or written before 1900). Students will gain a fundamental understanding of permission of instructor. Korean literature and culture and gain a deeper perspective on Korean Schedule Type: Lecture cultural products by reading traditional Korean literary genres and learning about their social, historical, and cultural backgrounds. Offered Grading: by Modern & Classical Languages (http://catalog.gmu.edu/colleges- This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale. (http:// schools/humanities-social-sciences/modern-classical-languages/). May catalog.gmu.edu/policies/academic/grading/) be repeated within the degree for a maximum 6 credits. Additional Course Details: Taught in Korean Specialized Designation: Topic Varies KORE 325: Major North and South Korean Writers. 3 credits. Recommended Prerequisite: ENGH 101; or permission of instructor Introduces students to major contemporary and twentieth-century Korean writers from both South and North Korea. Students acquire a balanced Schedule Type: Lecture knowledge about North and South Korea’s representative writers and Grading: their influential literary texts along with sociohistorical backgrounds This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale. (http:// of each society. Offered by Modern & Classical Languages (http:// catalog.gmu.edu/policies/academic/grading/) catalog.gmu.edu/colleges-schools/humanities-social-sciences/modern- classical-languages/). May be repeated within the term for a maximum 6 KORE 311: Modern Korean Literature in Translation. 3 credits. credits. Offers an overview of South Korean literature in the twentieth and twenty-first century. Examines the literary representations of modern Specialized Designation: Topic Varies Korean histories and investigates the origins and evolvement of modern Recommended Prerequisite: ENGH 101; appropriate placement score; or Korean literary genres. Offered by Modern & Classical Languages (http:// permission of instructor catalog.gmu.edu/colleges-schools/humanities-social-sciences/modern- classical-languages/). Limited to three attempts. Schedule Type: Lecture Mason Core: Literature (http://catalog.gmu.edu/mason-core/) Grading: This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale. (http:// Recommended Prerequisite: ENGH 101; appropriate placement score; or catalog.gmu.edu/policies/academic/grading/) permission of instructor. KORE 331: Special Topics in Advanced Korean Reading. 3 credits. Schedule Type: Lecture This course introduces students to advanced-level reading materials. Grading: Topics will vary. This course is designed for students who have a high- This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale. (http:// intermediate level of Korean proficiency and the goal for this course is catalog.gmu.edu/policies/academic/grading/) developing advanced level Korean proficiency, literacy, and acquiring sociohistorical knowledge of Korean society. Offered by Modern & KORE 320: Korean Popular Culture in a Global World. 3 credits. Classical Languages (http://catalog.gmu.edu/colleges-schools/ Develops students' critical understanding of transnational and global humanities-social-sciences/modern-classical-languages/). May be perspectives of culture flow using various cultural products and art forms repeated within the term for a maximum 9 credits. of Korea. Provides students with the understanding of the histories and social contexts of Korean popular culture. Offered by Modern & Classical Specialized Designation: Topic Varies Languages (http://catalog.gmu.edu/colleges-schools/humanities-social-