KOREAN
MINOR IN KOREAN NEW!
The East Asian Languages and Literatures Department offers a new minor in Korean:
Option 1 requires taking four 4-credits Korean language courses (16 credit hours) from Category I and two 3-credit non-language departmental courses (6 credit hours) taught in English from Category II as below. [Total: 22 credits]
Option 2, designed for heritage learners, requires taking two 4-credits Second or Third Year Korean language courses (8 credit hours) from Category I and two 3-credit non-language departmental courses (6 credit hours) taught in English from Category II as below. [Total: 14 credits]
CATEGORY I: Language Courses
KOREAN 0001/1001 First Year Korean 1 (4 cr.)
KOREAN 0002/1002 First Year Korean 2 (4 cr.)
KOREAN 0003/1003 Second Year Korean 1 (4 cr.)
KOREAN 0004/1004 Second Year Korean 2 (4 cr.)
KOREAN 0005/1005 Third Year Korean 1 (4 cr.)
KOREAN 0006/1006 Third Year Korean 2 (4 cr.)
CATEGORY II: Non-Language Courses
KOREAN 0070 World of Korea (3 cr.)
KOREAN 0075 Intro. to Korea through Films (3 cr.)
KOREAN 1060 Language and Society in Korea (3 cr.)
Contact the Korean Program Coordinator Dr. Ebru Türker at turker@pitt.edu or 412-624.5562 for more information.
Korean language courses have been taught for many years at Pitt. Since the mid-1990s, two years of Korean instruction have been offered in the Institute for Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL). Korean language and culture courses are now offered through our department, beginning in January of 2003.
 More and more students are studying Korean language and culture courses each year. This parallels the rising international profile of Korea, in acknowledgment of its growing economic influence and its pivotal position in East Asian security, just to mention a few of such factors. Korean is regarded as one of the most difficult languages, on a par with Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic, for most students in the United States. You may therefore find it surprising that so many students are interested in learning the language. This trend comes, in part, from the fact that, in each succeeding year, the University of Pittsburgh is attracting more and more high-caliber students who love the challenge.
Since the Korean language and culture program joined the department, Korean language is offered at four proficiency levels (called Korean I through Korean IV). The language courses are designed to teach “standard Korean,” the spoken language and written forms of the language used by educated Koreans. In the two-year language program, students will learn how to function orally in basic and increasingly more complex linguistic situations, learn fundamental grammar, learn how to read and write Hangul, and recognize some Chinese characters.
Asian Studies Certificate in Korean
Although our program does not yet offer a major in Korean language and culture, the University acknowledges your achievement in this area by issuing a certificate. When you successfully complete all the requirements for a certificate, it is noted in your academic transcript. More than 300 students are now enrolled in this certificate program in a variety of focal areas. For more information about enrolling in this program, contact Dianne Dakis at the Asian Studies Center.
Student placement
An advanced skill in any Asian language, including Korean, has long created a very favorable edge when looking for work. Our graduates from Chinese and Japanese programs have found work in various federal agencies and departments and private corporations. Any graduate-level work that pertains to Korea and East Asia in general will benefit greatly from the knowledge about the language and culture of the Korean Peninsula. Such relevance is more acutely felt in recent years when this region of the world has increasingly attracted attention not only for its cultural heritage but also for its economic power and relevance to international security issues.
That’s not all
About 12,000 undergraduate and more than 10,000 graduate students study at the Oakland campus of the University of Pittsburgh. For this reason, Pitt can offer a rich learning environment, formal, informal, or in between, for practicing and making use of your language skills. In addition, not a week passes without lectures, performances, and other events that relate to East Asia on campus and in Pittsburgh. Our nationally ranked East Asian Library holds one of the largest collections of East Asian language materials in the nation. There we have a small but growing collection of Korean materials. You should also know that more than 40 faculty members on campus teach and research on various aspects of China, Korea, and Japan. In the early 1990s, the Korea endowment was established to fund and promote Korea-related activities on campus. The newly formed Korea Council, a group of faculty members with like minds, actively teach, conduct research on, promote Korea studies on campus, and disseminate information about Korea to the community. These are just some of the many offerings that can enrich your language learning experience at Pitt.
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