Advanced Korean II is designed for students who have completed at least two years of Korean instruction at the undergraduate level or who already possess a sufficiently high level of fluency. Classes are conducted in Korean. Reading materials, including excerpts from modern Korean literary works, journals, magazines and newspapers, will be explored and discussed. Other topics such as ancient Korean literature will also be discussed. Through this course students are expected to enhance their ability to grasp the import of literary and academic texts by learning to identify essential points and lines of argument as well as enhance their vocabulary, particularly Sino-Korean terms, and knowledge of idiomatic usage of Chinese-Korean graph dictionaries, including a knowledge of the basic structure of graphs and of the most common component radicals, in their original and abbreviated forms. Students will also learn to research in Korean for their term paper.