Reviews for KORA212

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Younghi Ramsey
KORA212

Expecting an A
xcranberry
03/10/2011 		A nice enough woman... but this class (and the whole KORA dept at UMD) is a joke, unfortunately--despite the many Korean students here, we do not have a major, for instance. To be fair, not completely her fault. The heritage class is comprised of many different students at different levels of mastery, and so, if you are higher than the level that she teaches on most of the time, you will do pretty well. Exams are very fair, and she likes to great a bit more strictly than the class would prefer. As someone else mentioned, a nice TA helps a lot. But despite this, she does try...it just ends up not being very good. She notices those who score well on exams, but she does/will help those who ask for it. TAs grade quizzes, she grades the exams. One group presentation, but even if you do horribly on that, if you have good grades on the other assignments, you'd still do well enough overall. Basically, if you are above level at all, you learn nothing from this class. I am really poor at reading and writing, but I'm pretty above speaking-wise, and it was this way for me.
Younghi Ramsey
KORA212

Expecting an A
Anonymous
03/09/2011 		Overall, she is just a terrible teacher. She just makes students read straight from the book and randomly goes on tangents and expects you to know that material. She stops students in the middle of their sentences when they're speaking to interrupt with her own interpretation/translation, and she frequently pauses for at least 5 minutes to give an answer to a student who asks a question. It doesn't help that there are some students who are really good at Korean while there are others who can barely speak it, all in the same class. There were several korean minors who dropped their minors because of the horrible teaching system. If you are above the standard level of speaking, reading, and writing, don't expect to learn anything out of the class. It's an easy A, but you basically sit there and waste your time. If you need a Diversity core, go ahead, but reconsider if you are serious about learning the language.