Collingwood College Outreach Program 2024

Collingwood College 2024 Report

Continuing our successful short course outreach programme which aims to bring Korean language and culture into the wider Melbourne community earlier this year, Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub (MUKSRH) ran a Korean Language and Culture class at Collingwood College from 24th October to 12th December 2024. This course followed on from previous successful Korean language and culture classes organised by MUKSRH at Hampton Park Library and on the Monash MBA programme. The class materials were organised and taught by our MUKSRH student teaching assistant Larissa Carberry and MUKSRH Hub Coordinator Sandy Nguyen. A total of five classes were taught during this program, covering a range of topics including Sound Shifts, Restaurants, Directions and Transportation, Present Tense of Verbs, Calendar dates and Korean Public Holidays. With a variety of fun activities (including role plays, Kahoot quizzes, heads-up, matching cards) students were able to memorise essential vocabulary and phrases. Most popular was the restaurant lesson and the students can now order food at Korean restaurants 100% in Korean with phrases like: “두 개 주세요.” The feedback was enthusiastic and the classes saw an incredibly consistent number of 10 high school students in attendance each week.  MUKSRH looks forward to continuing its short course programme into 2025.

This work was supported by the Core University Program for Korean Studies through the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and Korean Studies Promotion Service of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2023-OLU-2250001).