KOREA 103ALearning Sino-Korean Characters
Korean · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Course 103A or Korean placement test is requisite to 103B; course 103B or Korean placement test is requisite to 103C. Does not replace and may be taken concurrently with Korean 100A, 100B, and 100C. Sino-Korean vocabulary and characters necessary for advanced and superior level of knowledge in Korean. Sino-Korean characters are used differently from same Chinese characters used in contemporary China in terms of pronunciation, meaning, and word formation. Professional-level Korean speakers need to be able to read at least 1,800 Sino-Korean characters. Reinforcement of collocation patterns and semantic association of Sino-Korean vocabulary.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: Korean 6 or 6A or Korean placement test.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
KOREA 103A
- KOREA 6Intermediate Modern Korean
- KOREA 5Intermediate Modern Korean
- KOREA 6AIntermediate Korean for Korean Speakers
- KOREA 5AIntermediate Korean for Korean Speakers
2 direct requisites. Showing 6 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
KOREA 103A
- KOREA 103BLearning Sino-Korean Characters
- KOREA 103CLearning Sino-Korean Characters
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.