Curriculum
Course Number | Summary | English |
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ELC701 | Theories of Culture | |
Modern society consists of various cultures. Our students are expected to recognize in detail the multifaceted cultural phenomena of the globe and view them from specific theoretical perspectives for the purpose of understanding the relations between modern subjects and the structures of society in terms of socio-economic and cultural terms. Theorists such as Stuart Hall, Bourdieu, Adorno, Benjamin, Agamben, the film critic, Laura Mulvey, etc. will be studied in the seminar. | ||
ELC702 | Psychoanalysis and Culture | |
This course will deal with cultural phenomena from psychoanalytic perspectives. We will study how British-American society is controlled by its members’ desire in the forms of social ideologies and how cultural and political phenomena are products of these desires. Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan will be studied along with other theorists such as Foucault who deals with medical history of the mental clinics. | ||
ELC703 | Narrative Theory | |
This course will examine fundamental tenets of narrative theory and will study re-emergence of "story-telling" as important contemporary sociological phenomenon. | ||
ELC704 | Postcolonial Theory | |
This course aims to study the basic premises and historical background of the emergence and institutionalization of post-colonial theories. Students will read the works of Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak. This course then will move on to the study of subsequent development and current status of the post-colonial theory in relation to the emergence of globalization as a theoretical concept. | ||
ELC705 | Feminism and Queer Discourses | |
Feminism and queer movement aim at transforming dominant social, political, economic, and cultural institutions that have turned the difference in gender and sexual orientation into the signs of social discrimination and inequality. This course will examine their respective basic theoretical and political positions through reading representative theoretical works, and also study how they have affected cultural studies. | ||
ELC706 | History of Literary Theories | |
This course aims at surveying the tradition of philosophical reflections on the nature of literary texts and the art of producing them in the light of aesthetics. Aesthetic values of literary texts are considered in the different critical angles arranging from classical poetics and rhetoric to modern New Criticism, Structuralism & Post-structuralism, Psychoanalytic Criticism, and Marxist literary theories. | ||
ELC707 | Performance Theory | |
This course will study the works of seminal scholars in performance theory, such as Richard Schechner, Victor Turner, and Judith Butler. By examining various forms of “performance” that take place both inside and beyond theatrical spaces, we will look at relationships among performance and cultural identities (race, gender, class, nationality, sexuality), and analyze the political and aesthetic value of performance art forms. | ||
ELC708 | History of Western Performing Arts | |
Performance art, which has its roots in religious rituals, is the oldest form of art and “play.” In this class, we will examine the historical development of performance art, starting from the early beginnings of Western civilization until now. By analyzing specific works of performance art, we will analyze various aspects of culture, in which dominant ideologies collide or compromise with discourses of resistance. | ||
ELC709 | Critical Theory | |
Study of critical issues in contemporary theoretical debates, with particular attention to structuralism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, poststructuralism, feminism, and postcolonialism. | ||
ELC710 | Introduction to Linguistics | |
This course intends to increase students' understanding of basic theories and concepts in linguistics and applied linguistics and covers morphology, phonetics, phonology, semantics, syntax, pragmatics, etc. | ||
ELC7108 | Error Analysis & Feedback in ELT | |
aguThis course engages students in analyzing language data through comparative research methods and deals with ways to treat EFL learner errors effectively by using appropriate feedback strategies.ulga | ||
ELC711 | Syntax | |
This course furnishes students with a basic and introductory understanding of English sentence structures. It covers the fundamental concepts of constituency, phrase structure, complements and adjuncts, subcategorization, and empty categories. Students will be also familiarized with different theoretical perspectives. | ||
ELC712 | English Phonetics | |
This course covers phonetic classifications and descriptions of English sounds, articulation, and suprasegmental features and includes both fundamental theories and concepts and practices that are key to teaching English sounds effectively in class. | ||
ELC713 | Phonology | |
This course studies sound systems of language. It introduces both principles of organization of sound systems and major kinds of phonological structures found worldwide. It provides extensive practice in applying phonological principles to data analysis. | ||
ELC715 | Pragmatics | |
This course explores fundamental concepts of pragmatics, including theories of communication and meaning, representation, conversational implications, speech acts, and discourse structure. | ||
ELC716 | Digital Game-based Language Learning(DGBL) and Teaching | |
This graduate level course explores the way in which computer and mobile based games are utilized in the language classroom. Through this course, the students will learn the learning theories, teaching methods and task design related to DGBL. The course also focuses on enhancement of learner motivation, interest and creativity in DGBL. The course will help pre-service teachers select games for their teaching and improve academic ability in this field. | ||
ELC717 | Topics in Semantics | |
This course surveys and introduces major topics of current semantic studies. Topics to cover will vary but will typically be selected from definiteness and specificity, possessives and relational nouns, genericity, aspectual class and Aktionsart, adjectival meanings, tense and modality, and negation and polarity items. | ||
ELC719 | Applications in Corpus Linguistics | |
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the compilations and applications of English corpora, a systematic collection of naturally occurring language examples electronically. The course will help students understand language patterns in relation to lexical and grammatical features and their actual use in communication. | ||
ELC721 | Sociolinguistics | |
This course studies how society affects and shapes language. It deals, among others, with dialectal differences, relations between prestige dialects and stigmatized dialects, and how people utilize the code switching mechanism. | ||
ELC722 | Teaching Pronunciation & Vocabulary | |
The course examines theoretical backgrounds and pedagogical implications in teaching pronunciation and vocabulary. The course emphasizes a scientific approach to teaching pronunciation and vocabulary using effective lexical and collocation teaching approaches. | ||
ELC723 | Pedagogical Grammar for ELT | |
This course examines various issues and teaching methods related teaching grammar and helps student find ways to link grammar teaching to four skills through the use of meaningful and contextualized activities in real classrooms. | ||
ELC731 | Rise of the Novel and the Modernity | |
Modernity is a typical term for characterization of the Western society. The western society invented the modern political system of democracy based on its intellectual legacy of the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment phenomena also brought forth scientific innovations in the form of industrial revolution. These technological innovations allowed people to have more free time, which caused them to turn their attentions to their inner world and write diaries and novels eventually | ||
ELC732 | Marxism and Literature | |
This course is designed to approach literature from the perspective of Marxism. Marxism is a useful to approach the relations between the humans and their environment. Marxist perspectives are schematic tools to view these relations and focus on how literature reflects the humans’ struggles with institutions outside them. Georg Lukacs and Karl Marx will be used for the understanding of class consciousness of the people in British-American literature. | ||
ELC733 | Literature and Modernism | |
Modernist artists made an attempt to disrupt the line of demarcation between temporal and spatial dimensions of reality. This course will offer a picture of the modernists who rejected the reality based upon rationality and drew their attention to fantasy and dream as part of the reality. In the course, the modernist narrative techniques will be examined: multiple points of view, stream of consciousness, montage, collage, and juxtaposition. | ||
ELC734 | Literature and Postmodernism | |
This course is designed to analyze literature since World War II from the perspective of postmodern epistemology. Postmodern critical approaches ranging from reader-response to deconstruction are applied in interpreting literary texts, in particular, questioning the authorship of a literary text and rethinking the relationship between the author and the reader. | ||
ELC735 | Asian American Literature | |
This course is designed for studying historical developments of Asian American literature including its major writers and works. | ||
ELC736 | Utopian and Dystopian Fiction | |
Utopian and dystopian fiction deals with a vision of an ideal society and the reality of its ironical nowhere. This course puts on the critical stage satirical elements in utopian and dystopian fiction. Utopian and dystopian fiction has various subgenres such as ecotopian fiction and feminist utopias. In dealing with various sociopolitical issues concerned with utopian and dystopian fiction, critical theories proper to them will be considered. | ||
ELC737 | Afro-American Literature | |
British-American literature covers not only classic fictions such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville but also many novels written by Afro-American writers such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Samuel Delany, etc. This course is designed to read these colored people’s novels and see the American society as a whole by reading these novels. | ||
ELC738 | British-American Critical Tradition and Rhetoric | |
Everything written in language is itself rhetoric. This course is designed to see the British-American criticism in terms of rhetoric, specifically, in terms of theories of language. Starting from New Criticism, other theoretical perspectives dealing with language, for example, theories of Jacques Derrida and other poststructuralists will be studied in this seminar. | ||
ELC739 | Poetry and Rhetoric | |
This course covers poetry either since World War II or before, bringing into critical analysis its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major poets. Diverse forms of literary criticism will be applied to examining the poetry, such as gender, historical, biographical, socio-cultural, or ecological criticism. | ||
ELC740 | English Drama | |
This course is designed to understand the major characteristics of English drama, by studying the dramas ranging from the works of Shakespeare to those of Harold Pinter and appreciate the essence of English drama and the ways of thought, speech styles and modes of life depected in English drama. | ||
ELC741 | Commonwealth Literature and Postcolonial Theory | |
This course will study major literary works coming from Anglo-phone commonwealth countries, or major works written in English outside of England and America, from the perspective of post-colonial theory. Countries include Canada, South Africa, Anglo-phone Caribbean countries, Australia, and India. | ||
ELC743 | SF Fantasy and Narrative | |
Technological developments of today made cyborgs and androids not special but mundane everyday phenomena at least in media cultures. This course is designed to study SF Fantasy in novels and how these novels are written and deliver thematic ideas relaying on their unique narratives. Arthur C. Clarke, Phillip K. Dick, Samuel Delany, etc. will be read in this seminar for our understanding of the present technological society called a post-human society. | ||
ELC744 | Melodrama and Romance | |
The term melodrama refers to a dramatic work that exaggerates plot and characters in order to appeal to readers'/viewers' emotions. It is usually based around having the same character structure, for example a hero, a heroine, a villain and villain's sidekick Romance makes the romantic love story or the search for strong and pure love the main plot focus. Various forms of obstacles that threaten the union of main characters' love constitute its central plot. Melodrama and romance have served as two narrative forms that satisfy female audiences' psychological need most well. This course will analyze their generic features, historical changes, and modes of correspondence with female audiences through reading various forms of romance novels and movies. | ||
ELC749 | A Study of Minority Literature | |
Minority literature presents the way in which a minority reveals their own aboriginal, underprivileged, or alienated sentiment not by their minority language but a major language such as English, German, French and any other major European languages. This course examines the experience of ‘becoming minor’ by subversively mimicking a majority’s unquestioned cultural, political, and social stereotypes. | ||
ELC751 | History and Film Narrative | |
As traditional ideas and methodologies of historiography are brought into question, history has expanded its borders to incorporate formerly excluded elements, such as memory, testimony, nostalgia, gaps in the archive, and spectral presences. This course will reconsider these topics, and also think about the critical, social, cultural, and ethical issues that arise when history is represented or reenacted through the cinematic medium. Other issues to be discussed include how reality is represented in visual media, whether it is possible to retain an “objective” perspective in writing history, and how historical films can depict those who have been formerly written out of history. | ||
ELC752 | National Cinema | |
Film scholars and critics often use the term “national cinema” to describe a group of films produced by a particular nation, even as they continue to debate its definition and the necessity of assigning films with a specific national identity. This course will examine various ways to define national cinema in economic, industrial, cultural, historical, geographical terms, and study how the notion of nationhood is still relevant today, despite the rise of international co-productions and transnational collaborations in film industries. | ||
ELC753 | Digital Narrative and Culture | |
This course will explore how the development of digital media has brought about comprehensive changes in contemporary modes of storytelling, communication, and self-expression. We will also study the relationship between digital narratives and various media formats, and particularly focus on new possibilities emerging in multimedia storytelling, as well as innovative forms of non-linear and interactive digital narratives. | ||
ELC754 | Studies on Horror | |
Horror is a narrative form seeking to elicit a negative emotional reaction from readers/viewers by playing on their primal fears. What elicits fears are not only psychological but also social; they are related with sexual, racial, class others exceeding the subject's social and symbolic order, which often appear in displaced forms such as ghosts, monsters, zombies, aliens, and vampires. This course explores the socio-political effects and functions of horror narrative from the perspectives of psychoanalysis, gender theories, and postcolonialism. | ||
ELC755 | Understanding Animation | |
The aim of this course is to understand the history of animation and its relation to modernity in terms of popular culture | ||
ELC756 | Studies on TV Soap Operas | |
The purpose of this course is to understand the context of British and American TV soap opera and the reception of it to the Korean popular culture. | ||
ELC757 | Globalization and Cultural Democracy | |
This course will study theory and phenomenon of globalization and the possibility of cultural democracy through globalization. Students will also examine cultural instances of globalization overseas and in Korea. | ||
ELC759 | British and American Musical | |
This course will explore the genre of musical, which is one of the most popular and enduring forms of performance art. We will examine both musical theater and films, focusing on how the contemporary musical is produced in English-speaking cultures. We will also conduct analyses of musical texts and audiences, and study how the musical has moved from Broadway to Hollywood, i.e., from theater to film. | ||
ELC761 | Asian Cultures in English | |
This course is designed to study "Asia" as a region and concept in its relation to the West. One thread of study is Asian American literature/culture and another thread is contemporary literature/culture from Asia in relation to the West. | ||
ELC762 | Studies on Cultural Translation and Trans-cultural Literature | |
This course aims to study Cultural Translation as concept and practice. We will study Walter Benjamin’s theory of translation and Naoki Sakai’s theory of cultural translation and will read Teresa Hakkyung Cha's Dictee as its example. We will then explore instances of cultural translation in Korean cultural and intellectual history in relation to the West, especially America. | ||
ELC763 | Shakespeare in Cultural Industry | |
As the division between traditional concepts of high culture and popular culture are increasingly blurred, it is becoming more important to study the domain of cultural economy. One of the most successful and “lucrative” products in economies of performance art and film is Shakespeare. Can we attribute this success to the enduring power of the source material, or is it the result of effective marketing strategies? In this class, we will analyze how classical works of literature are reinvigorated through modern technologies and new forms of media. By situating these trends of consumption in the larger context of humanities and cultural industries, we will examine the possibilities, limitations, and future developments of the Shakespearean cultural economy | ||
ELC764 | Popular Culture Issues 1 | |
This course aims to approach the cultural forms through theoretical frameworks, and explores the theoretical points to analyze the formal logic of cultural issues. | ||
ELC765 | Popular Culture Issues 2 | |
This course aims to approach the cultural forms through theoretical frameworks, and explores the theoretical points to analyze the formal logic of cultural issues. | ||
ELC771 | Writing for publication | |
This is to help those who want to produce a research paper to publish in an academic journal and covers specific procedures and process of writing and revising a paper in order to submit it to scholarly journals at the end of semester or afterwards. | ||
ELC772 | Language, Culture&English Teaching | |
This course purports to examine important theories and research culture teaching in relation to second and foreign language teaching and also look into ways to develop effective pedagogical practices which link TL and its culture. | ||
ELC781 | Curricular Evaluation & Development in ELT | |
This graduate level course is designed to develop students’ methodology, skills, and techniques for curriculum and material development anchored in SLA theories. Students will also develop their own curriculum and/or materials for their own needs and interests. | ||
ELC784 | Research Methods in ELT 1 | |
Students will learn key quantitative and qualitative research methods used in the field of English language teaching and learning(ELT&L) and engage in writing a proposal and a seminal research project based on their interests. This is a prerequisite for Research in ELTⅡ. | ||
ELC785 | Critical Pedagogy in ELT | |
This course is to offer in-depth study of problems and limitations of current practices of teaching skills or functions in CLT and look into what is implicated in such a narrow definition of ELLC and practices based on it. Students will engage in critical research and practice by looking into various historical, political, sociocultural, and economic ramifications of current policies and practices imposed to EFL learners and share ways to develop counter-hegemonic teaching practices. | ||
ELC786 | Thesis Writing for Linguistics I | |
This course will help students write an MA thesis or doctoral dissertation. The course includes selecting a thesis topic, reviewing literature, citing reference, and collecting and analyzing data, etc. | ||
ELC791 | Theories & Issues in TESOL | |
This course covers SLA theories and research which will inform you of various teaching practices in the context of TEFL, TEIL, TEGL along with a plethora different spectrums of issues related to ELLC. In doing so, it is expected that you will engage in a broad and yet focused investigation of key linguistic, political, sociocultural, educational, and/or economic issues of your own interests to understand the present and future of English and English teaching and learning. | ||
ELC792 | Introduction to SLA | |
This course includes Second Language Acquisition(SLA) theories and research which are fundamental in teaching English to different types of learners in different contexts. | ||
ELC794 | Research Methods in ELTⅡ | |
This course expands various research methods and techniques covered in Research in ELT I and covers specific steps or processes of engaging in in-depth research using actual data students collect. | ||
ELC796 | Studies on British and American Authors II | |
This course is designed to read the works by a particular author. One of the benefits from comprehensively covering the major works by an author is to reach the profound knowledge of the author’s literary style, theme, and symbolism, tracking down the mainstream of his/her literary thoughts. | ||
ELC797 | Language Learning & Technology I | |
This course intends to promote students digital and technology literacy as well as understanding of related theories. Through hands-on technology activities, students will experience diverse technologies, including AI, virtual reality, augmented reality, context-aware technologies, mobile apps, and games. Students will explore cutting-edge EdTech cases and learn how to apply these technologies in foreign language education. The students will also create and/or design creative tech-enhanced language teaching contents. | ||
ELC798 | Understanding Gamification in Language Teaching | |
The concept of gamification is related to development of quality contents in which game elements such as competition, rewards, and missions are reflected in order for learners to immerse themselves and acquire target language and contents in an efficient and effective manner. Accordingly, this course covers basics and actual applications of the concept of gamification in teaching and developing relevant instructional materials. Based on theories on game elements and mechanism and methods of applying gamification to various domains of teaching and learning, learners will also engage in projects according to designated and self-selected topics in a gradual manner to share in and outside class. | ||
ELC799 | Language Learning & Technology II | |
"This course provides students with a fundamental understanding of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) theories as well as hands-on activities of CALL curriculum and task design. The topics include technologies for language skills, theory connections, and CALL design. In this course students will explore cutting-edge EdTech cases and learn how to apply these technologies in foreign language education. While LLT 1 explores CALL in terms of technology types, LLT 2 investigates CALL in terms of language skills and areas. *LLT I is NOT a prerequisite." | ||
ELC810 | Syntactic Theories & Applications | |
This course introduces students to many recent syntactic theories, and encourages them to apply them to particular languages. | ||
ELC811 | Phonological Theories & Applications | |
This course introduces students to recent developments of many phonological theories, and encourages them to apply them to particular languages. | ||
ELC812 | Semantics | |
This course provides a theoretical and practical study of meaning in natural language. It considers both semantic theories and semantic phenomena from diverse languages | ||
ELC822 | Seminar in Linguistic Analysis | |
This course helps students develop specific analyses for specific interesting topics; different linguistic theories will be chosen each semester. | ||
ELC831 | Studies on British and American Authors I | |
This course is designed to read the works by a particular author. One of the benefits from comprehensively covering the major works by an author is to reach the profound knowledge of the author’s literary style, theme, and symbolism, tracking down the mainstream of his/her literary thoughts. | ||
ELC842 | Topics in Pragmatics | |
This course deals intensively with significant pragmatics issues such as politeness, speech act theory, reference, implicature, topic and focus | ||
ELC845 | Language and Culture | |
This course introduces the study of language and culture, developed within the related fields of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology | ||
ELC846 | Discourse Analysis | |
This course offers a survey of various discourse-analytic approaches to language use, which include conversation analysis, speech act theory, and functional linguistic theory. Focus is given to enhancing understanding of language in use through the practice in analyzing various types of authentic English discourse. | ||
ELC851 | Studies on Media Convergence | |
Digital technologies are bringing about a convergence among different media (e.g., broadcast media, film, mobile technologies). This new cultural phenomenon called “media convergence” enables cultural content to move across multiple media forms and texts, generates a considerable amount of revenue in ancillary markets, and also creates new ways of consuming media. This course will examine how media convergence is changing modes of production, distribution, and circulation in popular culture. | ||
ELC852 | Technology and Visual Culture | |
This course aims to examine the close relationship between technology and visual culture. We will begin with a survey of technological innovations throughout film and media history, and then move on to explore how the development of other types of media (TV, VHS, digital media) affected techniques and cultures of visual media. In this class, we will examine how technology brings about changes in media texts, cultures, and industries, and also study relationships among various types of media. | ||
ELC853 | Studies on Technocultures | |
This class will examine the role technology plays in society, with particular emphasis on how it affects various forms of popular culture. This course will examine different attitudes toward technology in popular perception (technophilia, technophobia, techno-savvy, etc.), and analyze the discursive intersections of science, technology, and media. We will also study how technology is depicted and deployed in popular forms of visual media, and how it is often conflated with concepts such as democracy, empowerment, and revolution. | ||
ELC857 | Studies on Subculture | |
A subculture is a group of people within a culture that differentiates themselves from the larger culture to which they belong, and the cultures they adopt for expressing their group identities. This course will study various forms of subcultures, including urban and sexual ones, and their complex relationship with mainstream culture. | ||
ELC858 | Body and Sexuality | |
Body has not been dealt with as a rightful subject of cultural studies, though it is an essential part of human life and culture. Body is not just a material given but cultural representations in which social meanings are invested, negotiated, and transformed. Specifically sexual body, marginalized and repressed by rational discourses, is what contemporary consumer culture most ardently takes advantage of. This course tries to examine how the human body and sexuality are imagined, perceived, interpreted, and represented in contemporary society. Various body discipline apparatuses such as diet and body maintenance, and capitalist body industry will be studied. | ||
ELC870 | Teaching approaches & Methods in ELT | |
Student will examine a variety of teaching methods in ELLC and their classroom applications through case studies and mini lessons. This course emphasizes practicum which includes class observations, micro-teaching, etc. | ||
ELC871 | English Materials Evaluation & Development | |
This course investigates important issues and factors in selecting or designing more appropriate materials for diverse English learners, who have different interests and needs. Students will also engage in materials analysis and activities of using diverse ELLC materials as well as modifying and supplementing existing materials based on their own teaching context. | ||
ELC872 | Crosscultural Communication & ELT | |
This course explores culture in language education. The goals of the course are to enhance student cultural awareness of TL and understandings of people from different cultures, to promote intercultural communicative skills, and to discuss teaching methodologies in teaching culture in class. | ||
ELC874 | Teaching Listening & Speaking | |
Students will learn and discuss how to teach listening and speaking effectively and this course will include learning theories and SLA theories related to teaching listening and speaking with practical applications. | ||
ELC875 | Teaching Reading & Writing | |
This course will explore ways to motivate EFL learner to engage in diverse reading and writing activities in and outside class based on their age, proficiency levels, learning goals, needs and interests. In this course, students will also study various reading strategies and how to do error analysis and provide appropriate feedback to learners while being encouraged to engage in practical projects or mini-lessons to find ways to integrate reading and writing along with other skills. | ||
ELC877 | Integrated Approaches in Teaching Skills | |
Students will discuss how to effectively promote four language skills through a integrated and multi-skills or whole language approaches. Student will explore theoretical backgrounds and pedagogical implications for classroom teaching for various levels of English learners. | ||
ELC879 | Task-based English Language Teaching(TBLT) | |
Students will learn basic concepts of TBLT and its applications in classrooms and design TBLT lessons and activities based on specific lesson objectives and learners' needs. The course also helps students to modify and evaluate TBLT activities using concrete activity models. | ||
ELC881 | Assessment in ELT | |
This course is designed to provide students with opportunities to examine limitations of standardized tests and possibilities of alternative or supplementary assessments such as portfolio assessment, performance-based evaluation, or other qualitative-oriented tools | ||
ELC883 | Thesis Writing Ⅰ | |
This course will help students write an MA thesis or doctoral dissertation. The course includes selecting a thesis topic, reviewing literature, citing reference, and collecting and analyzing data, etc. | ||
ELC884 | Thesis Writing Ⅱ | |
This course is specifically to help graduate students to write and publish a thesis. The goal of the course is to facilitate students' writing skills and strategies so that they can produce academically valuable research papers | ||
ELC885 | Critical English Language Teaching | |
Students will learn key theories and concepts related to critical theory and pedagogy and examine limitations of traditional teaching practices grounded in linguistics, applied linguistics, and TESOL. The course is designed to expand current ELLC theories and practices to sociocultural, political, and economical dimensions and exemplify more progressive teaching and research methodologies. | ||
ELC894 | Discourse Analysis & Language Teaching | |
This course help students understand discursive features existing in real conversational data and explore ways to engage in further research on discourse as well as utilize them in teaching EFL learners. |