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Younghi Ramsey KORA101 Expecting a W Raikou-Neko 12/14/2011	I dropped this course after the first 3 weeks. Irksomely, I'll get a W, but it's better than fighting through the craziest class ever. By our 3rd week, she expected us, non-heritage speakers, to be able to listen to Korean words and write them in Hangul. Anyone who knows Hangul knows there are overlapping vowels, so unless you know the spelling of the word, you have to guess. Which makes it even harder because we were not really taught the meaning of the words to begin with. The textbook was designed for high school students and we had to order it through an obscure Korean book website, meaning that I cannot return them. I ended up giving them to a friend who planned on taking the class next year. I loved the TA, but Ramsey could never make up her mind on what she wanted us to know. She say one thing and our quiz the following class would have it on there plus a bunch of other things we hadn't studied for (because she changed her mind and didn't tell us). The homework was similar, she'd change her mind 2 or 3 times and so several students always had the wrong assignment. There wasn't a syllabus that accurately state assignments. This class, as mentioned previously, was highly unorganized and a joke to college courses. I honestly feel that the only reason she is the teacher for the entire Korean department is because her husband is the department chair.