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This course is designed for students who intend to use Korean as a working language for professional or research purposes. The aim of this course is to develop the students’ knowledge and skills to use Korean required in their fieldwork, their field of research and/or Korean working environments. It focuses on academic text reading based on the students' field of research. This course also trains students in writing professional e-mails, job applications and resumes. In addition, students will acquire practical skills required for their research such as drafting and conducting interviews, conducting searches in different academic and media databases and assessing materials.

Grading: On a scale of 0-5. 
Assignment 40%, essay 40%, attendance and participation 20%.

Zoom meetings 08.09.2023 - 10.11.2023 

Lectures Friday 10–12, Private teachings with agreements

After completing the course, students will be able to plan, prepare and deliver presentations related to their molecular medicine research-track studies. They will be able to identify the elements of effective scientific presentations; design media-rich presentations, accounting for the needs of different audiences; use information-literacy skills to cite and reference sources orally and in visuals; design visual aids using assertion evidence techniques and present these visuals effectively; evaluate and give constructive feedback on peer presentations and self-evaluate based on video recordings.

The lecture series focuses on the representations and narratives of the “Great Patriotic War” of the Soviet Union against the Nazi Germany. The primary emphasis in on cultural history of warfare, both in the political construction of wartime narratives and the cultural resonance of wartime narratives in subsequent politics in the USSR and the present-day Russia. The lecture series covers the construction of war propaganda and wartime narratives in 1941–1945, their significance in the Soviet era and their exploitation in the memory politics by the Putin regime, especially in the present-day invasion of Ukraine, where old images and narratives have been deliberately revived.

The lecture series aims to illustrate to the students such matters as the role of the Great Patriotic War as the cornerstone of Soviet patriotism comparable to the Revolution and as the paramount cornerstone of subsequent post-Soviet Russian patriotism; intersections between Soviet patriotism and Russian nationalism and their resonance to this day; importance of war propaganda and demonization of the enemy to the culture of war; significance of gender in the construction of wartime heroic myths and images; and the impact of the memory of war on the fault lines between loyalists and dissidents and its ability to transcend these fault lines.