| Location: | Suwon, South Korea |
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| Hosting Institution: | University of Pennsylvania |
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| Language Offered: | Korean |
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| Levels offered and pre-requisite language study: | Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced
Beginning - No previous knowledge or study of Korean
Intermediate - Minimum requirement: completion of one year of college-level Korean, or its equivalent, prior to the start of the program.
Advanced - Minimum requirement: completion of two years of college-level Korean, or its equivalent, prior to the start of the program.
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| Dates of Program: | June 17 - August 17, 2009
Dates are inclusive of travel and pre-departure orientation in Washington, DC. Air travel will be arranged for participants after selection. Students are required to participate in the full program, including the pre-departure orientation. |
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| Curriculum Information: | Students will be required to attend all program activities, including classroom instruction and cultural excursions. Absences will only be excused for medical reasons.
Classes will be held on the Kyung Hee University Suwon campus.
The students will spend eight weeks in intensive language learning, involving four hours per day in class. Moreover, they will have access to much on-line materials in the Media Center, a taped version of each class accessible through Kyung Hee’s Cyber University, and a language tutor.
Students will continue their language instruction and lectures on Korean history and culture during a week’s study at a more remote site in the countryside—such as Hahoe, where there are many preserved traditional houses, as well as performances of folk dances, and other offerings of Korean cultural forms.
Students will also participate in a variety of cultural enrichment activities. These activities are an essential component of the language acquisition process and attendance is mandatory.
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| Housing and Meals: | Students will be housed in a special section of one of Kyung Hee’s dormitories, where meals will also be available.
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| Information on Hosting Institution: | The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) has partnered with Kyung Hee University, a private Korean university, to offer the Korean Summer Language Institute in Seoul. The Summer Language Institute is part of a larger enterprise, the Penn-Kyung Hee Collaborative, in which the two institutions engage in joint teaching, research, and service projects. Last summer, the partner institutions held the very successful inaugural summer program, which included the long-running Penn-in-Seoul Program, and a program of specialized courses in East Asian Studies and International Relations.
Penn has a very successful Korean Language Program, enrolling over a hundred students each semester, in classes from Elementary through Advanced, and including specialized courses in Advanced Readings, Current Korean Reading, and Business Korean as well. Kyung Hee has an excellent Korean Language and Culture Training Department, established in 1971. Funded by the ROK government as part of the Globalizing Korea Project, Kyung Hee’s Korean Language Program has been recognized as an Issuing Organization for Korean Teacher’s License, and is thus one of Korea’s top institutions for training specialists in teaching Korean. Kyung Hee educates more than 2500 foreigners per year in Korean language with a highly qualified staff of 70 professors and lecturers.
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| Student Testimonials: | 2008 CLS Participant, Undergraduate Student, University of California, Los Angeles
"I cannot be more thankful to have been a participant in the 2008 Summer Critical
Language program (Korean). Firstly, it allowed me to undergo language training which, without the scholarship, would have been difficult if not impossible for me to achieve otherwise at this point in my education… Particularly for those of us who practice disciplines other than East Asian Studies proper (Theater, Environmental Studies, etc.), the CLS program is a huge support to our pursuit of area studies and regional emphasis. I was so thankful for the diversity of applicants selected, and I am renewed in my belief that greater peace, cooperation, and collaborative productivity will be attained when international communication is achieved on multiple fronts—political, academic, professional, artistic, and social. Thank you so much for jump-starting my academic and artistic goals." |
