Graduate Associate
Hyung Kwon Choi is a Ph.D student from South Korea. He received his B.A. in Chinese and M.A. in Chinese Film from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies(韓國外國語大學校). He studied comparative literature for 2 years in University of South Carolina and moved to the department of East Asian Studies in University of Arizona. His main research fields generally fall into Chinese film, Chinese pop culture, and Cultural studies.
Currently Teaching
KOR 101 – Elementary Korean I
This is the first of two half courses making up a full-year elementary level Korean course that is designed for learners of Korean with no previous (or very limited) knowledge of the language. The objective of the course is to help students to be active Korean language users who are linguistically and culturally equipped to communicate successfully in the 21st century. In order to do so, this course is designed around the five Cs: Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities. The course will be conducted using a communicative language teaching approach integrating all four language skills - listening, speaking, reading, and writing - and the five Cs by utilizing the required textbook, workbook, and authentic materials.
This course will first introduce the Korean Alphabet Hangul as well as the sound system of standard Korean. It will focus on writing the Korean alphabet and reading basic words, phrases, and sentences correctly. The latter part of this course will focus on grammatical patterns such as basic sentence structures and word order, assuming that students have no previous (or very limited) knowledge of Korean. In addition, students will be exposed to everyday life situations likely to be encountered in contemporary Korean society.
