Spring 2027

Second Semester Korean

Second Semester Korean covers essentials of modern spoken and written Korean, focusing on basic communication skills and cultural comparisons.

offering recorded4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Steven Gagnon

Summary

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Past student reviews · Jaerin Ahn

Success required attending lectures, discussions, and completing assigned homework. Students noted that lecture notes were important, but keeping up with these consistent requirements was manageable for those who attended regularly.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate communication skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing at a basic level using contemporary Korean.

  • Describe past experiences, future plans and preferences related to daily life and hobbies in spoken and written Korean.

  • Identify and interpret key information from short written texts, and dialogues in Korean.

  • Compare basic cultural practices, greetings, and social interactions between Korean culture and students’ own cultural backgrounds.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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ASIALANG 105 or placement into ASIALANG 106

ASIALANG 106 used by

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.74 GPA, 84.6% A/AB (n=39 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.78 GPA, 87.0% A/AB (n=46 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JAERIN AHN is recorded teaching in Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

STEVEN GAGNON is recorded teaching in Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
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LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 200
LEC 003Classroom Instruction0 / 200

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Jaerin Ahn

Students found the Korean course engaging and easy to follow, with lectures that balanced Korean and English. Past instructors were described as kind and knowledgeable, making the material accessible despite the language's difficulty.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.85 GPA, 93.0% A/AB (n=71 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.74 GPA, 84.6% A/AB (n=39 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.78 GPA, 87.0% A/AB (n=46 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Jaerin Ahn

Success required attending lectures, discussions, and completing assigned homework. Students noted that lecture notes were important, but keeping up with these consistent requirements was manageable for those who attended regularly.

Past student reviews · Jaerin Ahn

One student appreciated that the instructor was easy to contact outside of class and was understanding of individual circumstances. This accessibility helped them feel supported while navigating the language learning process.

Topics

  • Modern spoken and written Korean
  • Daily life, hobbies, past experiences, and future plans
  • Cultural practices, greetings, and social interactions

Skills

  • Basic communication skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing using contemporary Korean.
  • Describing past experiences, future plans, and preferences related to daily life and hobbies in spoken and written Korean.
  • Identifying and interpreting key information from short written texts and dialogues in Korean.
  • Comparing basic cultural practices, greetings, and social interactions between Korean culture and students' own cultural backgrounds.

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
ASIALANG 106 · Spring 2027

Second Semester Korean

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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