units

ATS2174

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 22 November 2024
Monash University

Undergraduate - Unit

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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LevelUndergraduate
FacultyFaculty of Arts
Organisational UnitKorean Studies
OfferedClayton Second semester 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)Dr Young A Cho; Dr In Jung Cho

Notes

The unit requires a language placement test. For further information go to http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/korean/korean-placement-test/

Synopsis

This unit seeks to develop further communications strategies acquired in ATS2173. Students will also be introduced to expressions in different registers in the spoken and written language and the social and cultural aspects of Korean society necessary to understand them. In addition, students will be able to develop those skills required to access, select, analyse, evaluate and apply various tools and information needed to identify key cultural issues in ways that lead to sensitive and meaningful cross-cultural communication.

Outcomes

Upon completing this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Communicate competently in everyday social situations;
  2. Understand expressions from different genres;
  3. Write competently on simple or familiar topics;
  4. Develop the ability to identify possible cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication gaps,and effectively deal with them.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 60%
Exam: 40%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Young A Cho

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Korean studies

Prerequisites

ATS2173 or equivalent

Prohibitions

ATS1174