Introduction of major courses

By comprehending the ways to classify and describe the structure of vocal organs and the sound of English, the students are to know the phonetic system and characteristic of English and understand actual English through phonetic system and characteristics of English.

After selecting representative works of English literature, by considering and reading the historic intercorrelations simultaneously and comprehending literary, psychological flow, the students can raise an appreciative power and the ability of critic interpretation.

In this lecture we study how English has been changed from ancient times to the present. In that process we are to observe mutual correlations between every factor such as politics, economy, society, religion, culture and English.

Through representative works of modern English writers including James Joyce, Conrad, Virginia Wolf. etc, we can grasp the modernity of modern English novel and raise the comprehensive power by criticism.

Generalizing the history of English & American Drama rooted in Greek tragedy, this lecture helps the students understand the principal concepts of English & American drama and the meaning of stage devices. You are to construct a basis to study major deeply by reading main works from Marlowe, Shakespeare to modern English & American drama writers.

By learning representative works of English romanticism including Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly, Keat. etc, and examining similarity and difference between English neoclassicism and romanticism, we will study the characteristic of romanticism and each poet.

Through the various works of English & American literature, you can comprehend ideological background and the very modern meaning of English & American literature.

In order to comprehend the language of a country, it is essential to understand the culture of that country. In this lecture we can observe the influence and meaning which this culture affects to ours through wide introduction and comprehension about English & American culture.

On the basis of the ability of English composition acquired from 「English Composition」in cultural course, this lecture helps the students to express specific subject fluently in English under the guidance of foreign faculty in high-grade process.

Learning the works of 19th century poets such as Tennyson, Browning, Arnold and Poe, we are to study the characteristic of the poetry of the English Victorian age and American romanticism.

After selecting representative works of American literature, by considering and reading the historic intercorrelations simultaneously and comprehending literary, psychological flow, this lecture can make the students understand characteristics of American literary works more deeply.

By comprehending the concept of transformational generative grammar of N. Chomsky and learning syntactical structure of English inclusively, you are to learn to analyze and understand English sentence structurally.

Comprehending representative works of English dramatist like Shaw, Synge, Pinter and Osborne, you are to learn the characteristic of the absurd play including Miller, Williams and Albee through a developing history of American play after O'Neill.

To heighten the level of English conversation acquired from English Conversation 1, 2 in cultural course, this lecture makes the students raise an ability to deliver and discuss their own thought about specific subject deeply and fluently under the guidance of foreign faculty in high-grade process.

On the basis of every theory of English education, dealing with teaching method and studying methodology which can be used in real education spot, the students can acquire the professional English teaching method, by which English education can be done systematically and scientifically.

By reading Shakespeare's major tragedies, comedies and appreciating the characteristic of play of Shakespearean Age and understanding the development of world view and the classical tragedy theory, the students can experience a variety of interpretation of Shakespeare works analyzed in various critical views in modern times.

On the basis of modern linguistic theory, you are to study the structure of word and phoneme in modern English synchronically and comprehend the phonologic system of English inclusively.

By comprehending the fundamental outline of the meaning of English vocabulary and sentence and the basic concept of semantics, the students can understand the whole English semantic system through various semantic analysis.

You can have an acquaintance with the masterpieces of English & American literary works through movies and also comprehend how the interpretation has been changed between the original and cinema in the process of filming of literary works.

By learning representative works of great masters in the early 20th century like Whitman, Hardy, Hopkins, Housman, Yeats, Robinson, Frost, Stevens, Pound and Eliot, you are to examine how their poetry is different from traditional poetry.

By summarizing from the root of English & American literary criticism, ancient Greek and Rome literary criticism to lots of recent and modern English & American literary criticism, you are to study literary theories of representative critics.

On the basis of the study of practical English in cultural and major course, you are to look into every problems in translation of English and Korean and raise an actual ability in mutual translation.