New York University

Provided Programs&Courses

Post-Secondary

1. Program (Korea-related degree offered) : Korean Language
   • Program Remarks - The Korean language courses at the East Asian Studies Department offers four levels of Korean from Elementary to Post-Advanced, 4th Year Korean. The program aims to construct a strong foundation for students who intend to pursue academic research or careers involving the Korean language.
   1. Korea-related Courses : Elementary Korean I, II
      • Course Remarks - First-year Korean. Designed to introduce the Korean language and alphabet, Hangul. Provides a solid foundation in all aspects of the language, including speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Students study the language's orthographic and phonetic systems, grammar, syntax, and vocabulary within social and cultural contexts.
   2. Korea-related Courses : Elementary Korean for Advanced Learners
      • Course Remarks - Covers first-year Korean material in one semester. Designed for students who can understand and speak basic to intermediate conversational Korean but do not have previous formal language training. Aims to develop correct pronunciation, grammatical accuracy, and overall competence in reading and writing.
   3. Korea-related Courses : Intermediate Korean I, II
      • Course Remarks - The Korean language at the second-year level: phonetics, grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. Emphasizes the development of communicative skills in speaking, reading, and writing. Develops the language's major social and cultural contexts. Requires students to write about and discuss various topics.
   4. Korea-related Courses : Intermediate Korean for Advanced Learners
      • Course Remarks - Covers second-year Korean material in one semester. Designed for students with intermediate-level speaking proficiency who can understand and produce—with near-standard pronunciation and without basic major grammatical errors—conversational Korean related to daily life situations and simple sociocultural topics, but who have reading and writing ability equivalent to a student who has completed elementary-level Korean. Aims to further strengthen correct pronunciation and intonation, grammatical accuracy, ability to understand differences in nuance, and overall competence in reading and writing.
   5. Korea-related Courses : Advanced Korean I, II
      • Course Remarks - Designed to assist third-year students of Korean language as they continue to learn skills in conversation, reading, and writing. Reading Korean newspapers and visiting Korean websites are integrated as part of instruction.
   6. Korea-related Courses : Media Korean
      • Course Remarks - Fourth-year Korean. This course is designed to improve students' understanding of written and spoken Korean through exposure to various media sources, such as film, magazine, newspaper, TV, Internet, and user-created content (UCC). Students will learn Korean sentence patterns and vocabularies from the sources, develop advanced communication skills in Korean, and discuss various topics related to contemporary issues in Korea. Class discussions help enhance students' speaking proficiency, as well.
   7. Korea-related Courses : Readings in Modern Korean
      • Course Remarks - This fourth-year level reading course provides students the opportunity to enhance their Korean literacy skills while doing some concentrated reading on issues, areas, and genres of their own interest. A wide range of texts is used in class, including fiction, poetry, social and cultural criticism, and journalism.