INTEGRATED ENGLISH | In this course, students are expected to study integrated reading, listening, speaking and writing in order to develop their English proficiency to the required level for English-major students. |
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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. |
INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION | This course aims at preparing students for producing translated material which help facilitate international communication in accordance with translation purpose and environment. |
UNDERSTANDING BRITISH & AMERICAN LITERATURE | In this course, major literary works of various forms and genres are 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. |
INTRODUCTION TO NEW MEDIA NARRATIVE STUDIES | Now, studying media is indispensable as scholars in English studies havecontested its ideal boundaries somewhere between literature and culture.This course attempts to suggest some possible ways in which students inEnglish studies appreciate new media with historical and theoreticalangles. |
UNDERSTANDING THE REGIONAL STUDIES OF ENGLAND AND THE USA | This course aims to study the processes in which England and the USA have been formed into the nations and, further, the multi-layered aspects that have been developed in those process, such as cultural, historical, political, geographical, economic, and ethnic aspects, from the perspectives of regional humanities that combine regional studies and humanities. |
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. |
HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDING OF AMERICA★ | This course will explore the relationship between American society/culture and American international policies from the colonial period up to the present. |
BUSINESS COMMUNICATION TRANSLATION | This course is designed to equip students with basic knowledge, expertise, and resources necessary to provide basic translation services for companies in fields such as entertainment, language services, banking, healthcare, manufacturing, IT etc. to facilitate efficient internal and external communication. Students will learn how to translate Korean business texts including company website, reports, press releases, PPT slides, emails, various online contents and newsletters into English. |
ENGLISH THROUGH DRAMAS★ | This course offers opportunities to enhance students' English language skills through reading and performing dramas. |
HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE | This course provides a general survey of masterpieces by american writers and poets from a postmodernist point of view. We will begin with Edward Taylor and work our way up to today's major literary figures. |
FILM GENRES IN ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES | Artists have developed cinematic techniques and genres to capturepolitical, historical, and cultural ambiences they are situated in sincethe late nineteenth century on. This course examines films in English-speaking countries focused on genre categories (romance, horror,detective, SF, war movies, animation, documentary, among others). |
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, cultureand a series of identities. |
ENGLISH PROFICIENCY AND SELF LEADERSHIP★ | This course is 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 intoa new way of thinking, viewing and acting and finally be able to transform into self-leaders. The course is offered in English. |
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN ENGLISH AND CREATIVE LITERACY | This class aims to study how to teach English Children's Literature to children and young adolescents. This class looks at not only the practical methods for English teaching but also examines more diverse approaches in the teaching of English stories, including the cultural, psychological and social aspects of story telling. |
ENGLISH PHONOLOGY | Studies of the sound pattern of English and its interrelation with for ms 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. |
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. |
GENDER, SEXUALITY, LITERATURE | What is sex? What is gender? What is sexuality? What does it mean that one "becomes" a woman or a man in a society? How is becoming a woman or a man related to culture? This course will introduce you to feminist theories as well as British and American literature on gender and sexuality, and help you explore how gender and sexuality are socially and culturally constructed. |
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. |
TRANSLATION IN THE ERA OF INDUSTRY 4.0 | This course will introduce students to the basic concept of software localization and IT translation tools, and examine sentence style, correct usage of Korean language and other related issues, which are all important in technical translation. Guest speakers will be invited to provide students with a real sense of actual workplace. |
GLOBAL HEALTHCARE INTERPRETATING AND TRANSLATION | This course deals with two areas of medical interpreting: first, community based interpreting assisting immigrants adjusting in the Korean society; second, medical tourism related interpreting and coordinating assisting foreign patients with the overall process from arrival in the country to departure. By the end of a semester, students will be equipped with interpreting skills, medical knowledge, administrative knowledge, cultural sensitivity as well as field knowledge gained through volunteering and internship at the hospital. |
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. |
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. |
REALISM | Reads such major novelists as Defoe, Austin, Dickens, Bronte, and others and studies the tradition of English realism that began in the mid-eighteenth century and culminated in the mid-nineteenth century. This study explores how the relation between individual and society was constructed and reflected in the realist novel. |
MULTIMEDIA TRANSLATION | Globalization has become one of the most important tasks for global business, initiated by the development of Internet and IT technology. With the practical understanding of the nature of Globalization, students are expected to study and practice the translation of internet clips, flash, promotional video, and other various multimedia materials. |
LITERARY TRANSLATION | This course aims to examine the unique characteristics and functions of literary texts with a basic overview of the methodology of literarytranslation. One of the effective approaches to literary translation in this course is the comparison and analysis of a single source text in English with different kinds of translated texts into Korean as well as the review of its transfer process. Also, this course will involve practice in translating various types of literary texts. |
BRITISH AND AMERICAN SF AND FANTASY LITERATURE | This course explores the relationship between literature and popular narrative by examining the theory and practical analysis of popular narratives. It also aims at enhancing students' English proficiency by appreciating major works of British and American popular narratives. |
READINGS IN ENGLISH PROSE AND WORLD PERSPECTIVE | The primary goal of this course is to develop students' ability to read English prose and to explore its relationships to the larger world through the lenses of multiple perspectives: the social, the political, the philosophical, the artistic, the literary. Prose includes essays, fictions, nonfictions, articles and so on. Students will read widely to gain a critical and enlightening world view that is essential to live in a global age. |
TRANSLATION 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 |
ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF KOREAN CULTURE | Community translation is translation services that enable the residents of an area who are not fluent in the official language of a residing country to communicate with public services providers in order to facilitate their equal access to legal, health, education, government, and social services. This course is designed to educate and train students to become efficient volunteer community translators who can help foreigners adjust to life in Korea. |
MODERN BRITISH & AMERICAN POETRY | Selectively and closely reads works of major poets who represent imagism, modernism, and postmodernism, and studies formal and thematic characteristics of British and American poetry. Such poets as Yeats, Eliot, Stevens, Dickinson, Plath, Atwood, John Yau, and other contemporaries will be dealt with. |
MINORITY LITERATURE IN THE UNITED STATES | This course explores the literature of the minority experience in the United States, whether the minority be racial, sexual, ethnic, or of " class." The students will gain a multi-cultural cartography with the group of minor writers and representative works, develop critical understandings of the literature and its relations to a particularized American experience, and increase his/her skill in reading literature and writing about it. |
UNDERSTANDING SHAKESPEARE AND ENGLISH DRAMA | We will read Hamlet and The Taming of the Shrew this semester. We will pay special attention to how social (and political in Hamlet) and economic systems organize familial and love relations, how conflicts between individuals and social codes are worked out (or not, depending on one's viewpoint), through strategies of genre (tragedy or comedy), and marriage in The Taming of the Shrew and death and revenge inHamlet. Some relevant video clips will be shown. |
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION★ | This course provides understanding of applied areas of linguisticsincoconnection with second language learning and teaching, Education,Psychology, Anthropology, and Sociology and examines their practicalapplication in a wide variety of contexts. The course also focuses onthe influence of related academic disciplines based on theacknowledgement of contribution of linguistics to understanding of humanmind. |
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM | The course surveys diverse literary theories including Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Modernism, Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Marxism, and Post-Colonialism in order to acquire their worldviews, politics, and inherent problems. Further, based on the acquired theories, the discussion will follow concerning how to analyze and criticize literary texts. |
ENVIRONMENT AND LITERATURE IN ENGLISH | The purpose of this course is to explore literature in English from the environmental perspective. This course will improve your understanding of the ecological issues with which the writers of the past and the present have been dealing. You will also have a chance to read and discuss the literary texts which deal with nature, chosen from the classics to the contemporary literature in English. |
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 is a truly student-centered class which focuses on helping studentsbuild their global English speaking competence through interactive andtransactional tasks. The entire class is planned about having studentsperform real-world tasks designed and arranged according to the ACTFLProficiency Guidelines. Tasks are custom designed for the students inthe class on the basis of a detailed needs analysis, so the studentsengage in tasks that not only interest them but which they also need topractice to improve their proficiency. In this class the students willbe generating large amounts of language that will be closely monitoredby a cadre of trained teachers so that helpful feedback can be provided. |
UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL MEDIA★ | Global media, represented by such names as CNN, BBC, ESPN and MTV, playan increasingly important role in the world politics, economy andculture of the 21stcentury.The course looks into their operations as well as their positive andnegative impacts on the global village. |
TRANSLATION IN THE GLOBAL AGE | This course is designed to introduce students to the basic concepts of communication in the global age focusing on multi-culturalism, cultural exchange, power disparity, global issues, immigration, and globalization. Students will learn how to translate texts used in multinational companies, NGOs, and international organizations. |
TRANSLATION THEORY & PRACTICE | Intensive study of translation theories; structure, vocabulary, and techniques of written translation and oral interpretation. Analysis of stylistic techniques of contemporary English prose writers. |
ADVANCED ENGLISH SPEAKING AND WRITING★ | This is an English course focusing on expanding the students’ composition and conversation skills. Students taking this course are expectedto have completed both Expeditions 1-Discussion and Presentation and Expeditions 2-Writing and Reading. This course picks up where those courses leave off and expands on what was taught in those courses. The writing is more challenging and the expectations are higher. At the same time, students have the chance to explore their creative side a little more. In the conversation component of the course, the class looks at how to have a more guided discussion and gives students the confidence to have conversations about various topics in English. |
ROMANTICISM | Studies works of poetry and prose by the nineteenth century British romantic poets, such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, and Keats and examines how those romantic poets tried to correct or revise the eighteenth century literature. |
MEDIEVAL EUROPE★ | A survey of the major developments in the political, social and religious history of Europe during the Middle age. |
HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | This is an introductory survey course designed to expose students to a selection of literary works across genres and periods. Students will be introduced to social and historical backgrounds for literary analysis. |
TRADITION OF ENG. & AMERI. LITERATURE BY WOMEN | 'Tradition' in literary history has been used as a male-centered term. Does feminist literature exist, indeed? And is there anything like tradition even in feminist literature? This course was initiated with aconviction that feminist literature and its tradition do exist. A chance will be given to each student to appreciate various colors of feminist authors who have cultivated a literary wasteland only with a pen and to realize a necessity of establishing a new literary tradition that will enhance the feminine pride as well as include the feminist authors. |
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. |
FAIRY TALES AND ANDROGYNOUS LEADERSHIP | This course focuses on exploring the androgynous leadership in the various kinds of English children's stories for the students who have basic knowledge of English Children's Literature. Through reading and discussing the interesting stories, and even performing by themselves, the course will help the students to learn the androgynous leadership for the egalitarian wonderful future, and the teaching method for the young learners so that they will be both great women leaders and great mothers. |
INTRODUCTION TO INTERPRETATION | This course will provide basic knowledge and skills English-Korean interpretation. The students are required to improve analytical ability of the source material and fluent delivery of the target material. |
SOME ESSAYS ON ENGLISH LINGUISTICS | The course is designed to make students read intensively some recent interesting essays on English linguistics and their further applications to other various fields of study. Based on their basic theoretical linguistic knowledge regarding phonology and morphology as well as syntax, students are encouraged to broaden their own perspectives and think more creatively by reading and discussing the required essays. |
DIGITAL MEDIA TRANSLATION | In this course, students are expected to study and practice the translation of game, software, and other various Internet-based advanced multimedia materials. On-site training opprotunities will be provided. |
LOCALIZATION PRACTICE | This course aims at experiencing localization with a variety of sample IT related texts related to computers, software, laws, games, images, web sites, etc. It provides tips on dealing with text styles, codes, and tags. Case presentation by field expert is included. |
HISTORY OF LITERARY CRITICISM | This course will survey a history of major critical texts and cultural movements from the Greeks to the present, examining a wide variety of critical theories and practices. We will study the political and philosophical discourses central to the Western cultural tradition in order to deepen our understanding of English and American Literature. |
INTERPRETATING AND TRANSLATION OF CULTURAL CONTENTS | With cultural tourism emerging as a growth industry in Korea, there is a need to train interpreters and translators who can deal with a wide variety of differentiated and high-quality contents.The subjects of interpreting and translation in this course include beauty, wellness, medical tourism, food, sporting events, drama/TV, K-pop, game, event, famous attractions. Students will be equipped with the knowledge on the channels. |
TRANSLATION CAREER MANAGEMENT | This course aims to provide students with the firsthand experiences of the localization industry focusing on the work scope and environment of the people involved in localizaton process such as project managers, in-house and freelance translator, editors, quality assurance specialists. |
SPEACIALS TOPICS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE | Selects some characteristic themes of British and American literature and reads the works of each literary period that best represent those themes. A variety of themes would be chosen such as love, satire, adventure, nature, imagination and society, religion and virtue, and so on. By examining how those themes are embodied according to different authors and literary periods, this course studies the tradition of British and American literature. |
BRITISH AND AMERICAN CULTURAL CRITICISM | After introducing what cultual criticism is, this course examines different aspects and theories of British cultural criticism, which is often considered a center of cultural criticism, so as to reevaluate ourunderstanding of cultural criticism. The students are to increase their critical awareness and knowledge on our own society while getting used to British cultural criticism. |
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 offers an informed discussion of how the role of English as an international language (EIL) should be understood in international contexts in which cultural issues are inevitably involved. Providing critical and social views of trying to understand other cultures inrelation to one's own, the course also reflects on how to promote EILperspectives in establishing English language learners' cultural identity. That is, while seeing the world through the other's eyes without losing sight of him or herself, individual Englishg language learners will understand how effective communication can be achieved throughthe medium of EIL in multicultural environments. |
COMICS AND VISUAL NARRATIVE STUDIES | We tend to define narratives narrowly within the traditional literarygenres such as poetry, drama, and novel due to the power of languagethat structures our thoughts. This course enables students to explorethe history of visual narratives in British and American media in anattempt to understand the ways in which text and image work and clash tocreate new narrative forms. |
POSTCOLONIALISM AND FEMINISM | This course examines the impact of postcolonial feminist thought and introduces some major writers and theorists resulting from that impact. Readings from Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Chandra Mohanty, Toni Morrison, bell hooks, and others provide a foundation for writing assignments and class discussion that combine personal reading experience with critical theory. |
BRITISH AND AMERICAN DRAMA IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL LITERACY | Students in this course read British and American drama, mostly fromancient Greek, medieval, early modern, and contemporary dramas. Studentswill also be exposed to neighboring media, such as television series,movies, or computer-based forms as a part of/as an extension ofperformance traditions. |
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE | Reads a variety of so-called major and minor works of the nineteenth century American literature including those of American Renaissance of the 1850s and examines how those texts have been (non-)canonized, what such literary canonization suggests ideologically, and how American society and identity have been constructed and explored in them. |
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 From a Buick 8, Michael Crighton's Prey, Matthew 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. Any idea of a single primary American culture is a nostalgic device, whose functions are defensive, anxious, and conservative. One function of bestsellers may be to support this traditional nostalgia while exhibiting major threats to it. In other words, reading American best |
APPROACHES TO BRITISH AND AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE | This course explores the relationship between literature and popular narrative by examining the theory and practical analysis of popular narratives. It also aims at enhancing students' English proficiency by appreciating major works of British and American popular narratives. |
READING GENDER IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN CULTURE | This course will explore the relationship between gender and culture by looking into how women are represented in British and American culture. Dealing with cultural materials like music, advertisement, film, TV program, and literature, we will understand the ways gendered and sexual norms and practices are constructed and reinforced by culture. |
WORLD LITERATURE IN AN AGE OF GLOBALIZATION | This course intends to introduce the multi-disciplinary discussions of globalization in the fields of economics, sociology, cultural studies, etc., and raise the global literacy by studying the new modes and features of world literature and reading its representative works. Reading world literature would be encouraged as a necessary approach to understanding the cultural diversity of an age of globalization and exploring the possibilities of literary/cultural communication across cultural difference. Included are the literary texts written or translated in English and, if necessary, the original texts of Korean literature. |
TEACHING MATERIALS AND TEACHING TECHNIQUES OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE | 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★ | This is a truly student-centered class that focuses on helping studentsbuild their global English writing competence through a range ofdifferent tasks created specifically for the students based on theirneeds. The entire class is planned around having students perform real-world writing tasks designed and arranged according to the ACTFLProficiency Guidelines. The class employs a flexible-grouping,collaborative writing approach that engages students with their peersand special group leaders. For the most part, the class will involve thestudents in a variety of tasks focused on meaning and purpose. Input inrelation to the ACFL scale will be provided by a cadre of trained |
INTEGRATION OF TECHNOLOGY AND CONTENT ON ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES | This course aims to help students to understand various significant features of English-speaking countries and to enhance insight into humanities by exploring current issues and characteristics of history, education, culture, and technology of those countries. Besides, there is a serious attempt to integrate technology and contents on humanities by conducting big data analysis of various social aspects of English- speaking countries. |
READINGS IN ENGLISH ESSAYS | This course is designed to read and analyze various essays created in English and American cultures. Mapping understanding and feeling is to enhance critical capabilities reflecting on her own self and the outside world. Major themes of this course consist of self-identity, love and death, and life with nature. Readings in essays pursue every aspect of human life in such a way as to provide the essential tools to live with in the world. |
ENGLISH ADOLESCENT LITERATURE AND SOCIETY | This class is designed to help students widen their knowledge and understanding on adolescent literature. This class will deal with some different types of adolescent texts and discuss ideas of adolescent (adolescence) and adolescent literature. Through this course, students are invited not only to enjoy adolescent novels as literary text, but also understand the issues related to adolescent literature and to challenge their thinking about adolescent (adolescent literature) and society. |
LITERATURE IN ENGLISH AND HEALING | This course will investigate the therapeutic aspects of literature which relate to the author's creative writing process of the literary texts and reader's reading activity. |
CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN INTERPRETING AND TRANSLATION | This course will investigate the therapeutic aspects of literature which relate to the author's creative writing process of the literary texts and reader's reading activity. |
INTRODUCTION TO PRAGMATICS | In this subject, the characteristics of language use and the meaning oflanguage in context are considered. Pragmatic knowledge is a keyknowledge for the development of artificial intelligence that canprocess human languages, and through this, it can develop the ability toattempt convergence with IT technology based on language domainknowledge in the future. |
INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE★ | This course is focused on understanding of creative engineering design. Engineering design is introduced with processing engineering data,problem solving procedures, engineering estimations, dimensions, and units. How to use teaming and problem-solving skills to achieve a high level of competitiveness are served in this course. |
ARTIFICIAL NTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING★ | In this course, we learn about the basic concepts of artificialintelligence, knowledge expression for problem solving, and variousexploration techniques. In addition, we learn about machine learning, atechnology that builds models based on experiences through interactionwith the environment and solves problems based on the models. Inparticular, among machine learning techniques, we focus onclassification and regression models on supervised learning. |
DATA ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS★ | The goal of this course is to study data analysis techniques andapplications based on open source platforms. We practice distributedprogramming skills and algorithms to analysis big data based on emergingdistributed platforms such as Hadoop MapReduce platform and Spark In-Memory platform. In addition, we learn various applications andcommercial cases using data analysis techniques. |
(★ refers to other major courses)