| INTRODUCTION TO TESL | This course offers to freshmen of Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) for the orientation and introduction to the field of TESL. The course guides the course takers to major issues and concerns of what the field of TESL is about from the theoretical and practical points of view. |
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| INTEGRATED ENGLISH★ | In this course, students are expected to study integratedly reading, listening, speaking and writing in order to develop their English proficiency to the required level for English-major students. |
| INTENSIVE ENGLISH★ | This course intends to develop and enhance students' English speaking and writing proficiency in order to satisfy the required level of proficiency for their English-major related studies. |
| INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE★ | An introduction to the different fields of linguistics for the study of English; survey of the sound systems, grammatical systems, historical development; and social environment of English language. Empirical study of the sounds and structures of English; phonetics and phonology; syntax and semantics; applied linguistics; linguistic universals. |
| UNDERSTANDING BRITISH & AMERICAN LITERATURE★ | In this course, major literary works of various forms and genres and selected, read, and discussed so that students may understand the basic ideas and structures of literature. Since this is an introductory course to British and American literature, basic literary terms and approaches are introduced in class. |
| ENGLISH GRAMMAR★ | Intensive review of contemporary English grammar. Descriptive analysis of grammatical structure from the viewpoint of traditional linguistics; parts of speech; phrase and clause patterns; various types of complex sentences. |
| UNDERSTANDING THE BACKGROUND OF ENGLISH LITERATURE★ | Studies the two great roots of English literature, Hellenism and Hebraism, and their views of world, history, and man through the Bible and the Greek mythology, works that represent the two spirits. This course also explores in a feminist perspective how the universality and particularity of the Western culture and literature could be related with the Korean woman who will meet the twenty-first century. |
| TEACHING PRONUNCIATION | This course focuses on practicing and guiding English pronunciation from a teaching-learning perspective. Students can learn various ways to conceptualize the phoneme system of English, and deal with various theories and models about pronunciation. Finally, it deals with specific issues related to the teaching of English pronunciation in the Global English period. Through this course, students can gain the expertise of various perspectives in the English pronunciation system, and develop effective methods for teaching English pronunciation based on modern theories and models. |
| ENGLISH THROUGH DRAMAS | This course offers opportunities to enhance students' English language skills through reading and performing dramas. |
| TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LANGUAGE TEACHING | This course introduces a variety of technology applications for pedagogical use. Students will explore the language learning benefits of blogs, wikis, and instant messaging systems. Additionally, students will have opportunities to evaluate and produce multimedia materials for language classrooms. The goal of the course is to develop students' technological literacy skills and provide practical ways to apply technology to learning in principled ways. |
| BUSINESS START-UP I★ | This course aims to develop a business model that is actually sustainable, and to establish an enterprise. Students will take on various roles within the company, including the CEO, depending on their respective competencies and interests. Credit is given according to actual corporate operating results such as sales and net profit, and is a player's course to take Business Startup II. |
| CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN ENGLISH★ | Reads major works of children's literature, like Peter Pan, Cinderella, Alice' Adventures in Wonderland, and so on, and studies the influences they have on the process in which children acquire language, culture and a series of identities. |
| ENGLISH PROFICIENCY AND SELF LEADERSHIP | This course designed to help the students who will make professionals and leaders in the 21st century by providing reading and discussion as well as authentic opportunities to practice communication skills in English that functions as a global language. While expanding their horizons, the students are supposed to observe themselves getting into a new way of thinking, viewing and acting and finally be able to transform into self-leaders. |
| ENGLISH PHONOLOGY★ | Studies of the second pattern of English and its interrelation with forms and meaning; exercises in pronunciation and transcription; generative phonology; examination of various phonological theories and their application in English. Attempts to discover general principles that underlie the patterning of sounds in human language. |
MODERN BRITISH & AMERICAN FICTION★ |
Reads works of major British and American novelists from the late nineteenth century through our contemporary period and examines major trends of modern novels, theories of the novel, and British andAmerican cultures. |
| MEDIA LITERACY | In this course, students will develop knowledge and ability to make critical analyses of what they see and read in the new media flow and how TV and film businesses promote certain ideologies. Through the analysis of selected reading materials and TV and digital media, students will examine and evaluate how images and ideas are expressed in the media and how they affect the way they think. |
| ENGLISH-KOREAN TRANSLATION IN DIGITAL ERA★ | This course is designed to help students analyze various kinds of problems encountered in the process of English-Korean translation, and enhance students' ability to tackle translation problems effectively. The understanding of the correct and logical use of Korean language is required. |
| MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT AND USE | This course focuses on the development and evaluation of various types of materials for English education. Students will have many opportunities for hands-on-exercises and workshops. |
| TEACHING LISTENING AND SPEAKING | As the name implies, this course centres around the many different aspects related to the teaching of listening and speaking. Students in the course will be furnished first with some of the underlying systems related to the skills of listening and speaking. This includes both linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects. They will then be given opportunities to review methodologies and approaches for the different aspects of teaching listening and speaking. By the end of the course students should be well-versed in the underlying aspects of listening and speaking as well as many of the most modern approaches and methods for developing the skills in students of different ages and levels. |
| ENGLISH AND TRANSCREATION★ | This course is developed for those who would like to improve and refine their English debating proficiency with various topics which shouldbe relevant to college-level students' academic and social interest and concerns as well as their psychological aspects. The course also guides the students in doing research for debating topics in order to make themselves powerful debaters well equipped with analytical skills and critical thinking. The course is offered in English. |
| HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE★ | Synoptic presentation of the development |
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION |
In this course, students will attempt an integrated study to identify the interdisciplinary application area based on linguistics, and apply various theories to real situations. Students will also analyze the possible influence on adjacent studies based on their understanding of human beings in linguistics. |
| PRACTICES IN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING | This course will provide students who wish to learn and teach English as a second language with information on the results of their recent study of second language learning. It will also improve learning and teaching methods in depth through task-oriented language learning. |
| LOGIC AND WRITING FOR ENGLISH★ | This course will help the students be able to understand the sentence structures and analyze texts. As they are practicing the cognitive and structural logicality of English, they will acquire effective techniques for developing English composition. |
| TEACHING MODELS OF ENGLISH★ | Preparative course for would-be teachers, focusing on the enhancement of teaching method and classroom management skills. |
| ENGLISH IN ACTION SPEAKING | This course is a student-centered class that focuses on developing global English conversation skills through interactive tasks. The whole course of this class is designed with actual task performance according to ACTFL guidelines, and the tasks carried out in class are provided based on detailed requirements and analysis. Students not only participate in interesting tasks, but also carry out tasks to improve their English skills. Students will become extremely proficient in language and receive helpful feedback from experienced professors. |
| REDING CULTURE AND ARTS★ | In this subject, various fields of culture and arts, such as performance, sight, modernity, and tradition, are introduced through field learning, focusing on basic related theories. You can build up basic skills to understand the culture and arts world in general. |
| MEDITATION AND ENGLISH EDUCATION | This subject focuses on researching and developing English learning methods and English education programs under the theme of meditation on specific purpose teaching methods, including communication teaching methods. This subject examines meditation based on major theories and research results of brain science and psychology and psychological linguistics, and provides activities to develop by applying it to English education programs. |
| LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY·SOCIETY IN LANGUAGE | This course explores the relationship between language, society and culture. Considering the interesting phenomena surrounding language function and language in social culture, students will be asked and answered various questions. How do dialects in each language come into being? What factors influence language use? How are perceptions of standard language and dialect speakers different? What are the differences in language usage between men and women? In the process of finding answers to questions, students have a new understanding of their views on language. |
| LANGUAGE AND PSYCHOLOGY | This subject introduces linguistic theory from the perspective of cognitive psychology. In addition to background knowledge in linguistics and cognitive psychology, related research such as communication system of non-human species, language acquisition, bilingualism, language and memory, language and thought are also considered. Through this course, students will have various theoretical knowledge of how people can acquire, use and understand language, understand the experimental different evidence supporting these theories, and have knowledge of the main experimental skills of exploring the language processing process. |
| LEARNING ENGLISH VOCABULARY | This subject focuses on analyzing aspects of English vocabulary components for teaching and leading purposes, and learning to effectively use online corpus. Through this course, students will learn about the function of words in a broader context and the effective use of various tools for word guidance. |
| ADVANCED ENGLISH SPEAKING AND WRITING | This course aims to train for quality English oral presentation skills and to develop the ability to express knowledge in the field of major in writing. Students can establish functional basic courses of learning through lectures and discussions, presentations and writing. All lectures are conducted in English, with special emphasis placed on English Speech and Rhetoric Writing. |
| ENGLSIH AS AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE | In the age of internationalization, English is widely used as a common language. In this course, students will look at the status of English as an international language, and the social, cultural, linguistic phenomena and arguments that arise around it. |
| ENGLISH THROUGH MULTIMEDIA | This course is designed to offer students opportunities to practice English listening, speaking, reading, and writing while they watch TV or work on internet. Students will have many opportunities to practice English in interesting, meaning ways. |
| ENGLISH MORPHOLOGY★ | An introduction to the study of mental dictionary and word formation; the system of categories and rules involved in word formation and interpretation with special reference to English. |
| READING GUIDANCE★(Digital Storytelling) |
In this subject, students learn understanding of children and youth literature and the selection, evaluation and program of reading guidance materials. Students also study services for children and teenagers in the library. |
| KOREAN-ENGLISH TRANSLATION IN DIGITAL ERA★ | This course is designed to help students analyze various kinds of problems encountered in the process of Korean-English translation, and enhance students' ability to tackle translation problems effectively. The understanding of the correct and logical use of Korean language is required. |
| ENGLISH SYNTAX★ | Principles of modern theories of grammar with special reference to English sentence formation. Consideration on the system of rules and categories that underlie English phrases and sentences. |
| ENGLISH AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION | This course provides a scientific discussion of how English as an international language can play a role in multidisciplinary communication, where many problems arise due to cultural differences. It also contributes to establishing the cultural identity of English learners by providing them with a critical and social view of other cultures from their own cultural perspectives. In other words, it will enhance the ability to look at the world by understanding personal and other people's perspectives together, and help to examine how effective cross-cultural communication can be achieved through English as an international language. |
| READING AMERICAN BESTSELLERS★ | This course will survey American popular literature and culture after 9.11 to the Present. We will read the most recently published bestsellers: Dan Brown's The Davinci Code, Stephen King's Form Buick 8, Michael Crighton's Prey, Mattherw Pearl's Dante's Club. Contemporary America consists of a variety of subcultures, co-operating, competing, and compromising within shifting valences of political and economic leadership. |
| APPLIED LINGUISTICS | This course provides understanding of applied areas of linguistics in co connection with second language learning and teaching. Education, Psychology, Anthropology, and Sociology and examines their practical application in a wide variety of contexts. The course also focuses on the influence of related academic disciplines based on the acknowledgment of contribution of linguistics to understanding of human mind. |
| BILINGUALISM | This course has two main focuses. First, it seeks to introduce students to the field of bilingualism and theories related to the development of bilinguality in individuals. Secondly, it seeks to take this information initially presented and extend it so that students will get a good idea of the many ways that bilinguality can be developed in individuals. Thus, by the end of the idea of the many ways that bilinguality can be developed in individuals. |
| TEACHING MATERIALS AND TEACHING TECHNIQUES OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGNLANGUAGE★ | This course will provide a comprehensive overview of the major linguistic theories including those of generative grammar. The course will help the students examine psychological realities of each theory as well as focus on the theories of teaching methodologies relevant to the processes of language acquisition. |
| ENGLISH IN ACTION WRITING | It is a student-centered class that focuses on developing students' global English writing skills through various tasks. The entire class is designed as a practical writing task and planned according to ACTFL guidelines. Students' flexible groupings, and students' participation through special group representatives, give them access to collaborative writing. Most of the classes will be involved in a variety of tasks focused on meaning and purpose. Students will receive ACFL-related inputs from experienced professors. |
| PHILOSOPHIES IN TESL | This course promotes in-depth understanding of the TESL major by discussing various theories, ideas and philosophical logic covered by the TESL major. Students will develop creative skills to present new teaching methods, learning methods, and evaluation forms. |
| CREATIVITY IN ENGLISH EDUCATION | While fostering creative talent is currently a global issue, the reality of education in Korea is still weak in this regard. In this course, students will explore the academic definitions of creativity and character and study the practical methods and theoretical background on how to use them in language education and cognitive development. |
| TESL YOUTUBE PROGRAM ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT | In this course, students will find popular English education videos or videos that can be used for English education on YouTube sites, analyze them based on theories related to English education, and learn how to post YouTube English education videos in creative ways. This is aimed at helping students act as leaders in creative English education in a rapidly changing digital age. |
| INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION | This course provides major concepts and types of translation. The course aims at preparing students for producing translated materials which help facilitate international communication in accordance with translation purpose and environment. |
| INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH SYNTAX | This is an introductory course to English syntax inspired by Chomskyan theory. It helps students acquire fundamental concepts of sentence structure and understand relationships among forms, functions, and meanings. Further, it is hoped that students raise ability to make syntactic analysis of sentences through logical argumentation. |
(★ refers to other major courses)
※ Students majoring in TESL must take courses in English to be recognized for grade. However, Korean language lectures are recognized only when the four subjects below are not opened in English during the semester.
1. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE
2. ENGLISH MORPHOLOGY
3. ENGLISH SYNTAX
4. ENGLISH PHONOLOGY