Hyejoo Back
Associate Professor of the Practice in East Asian Studies
Fisk Hall, 313860-685-3453
BS Busan National University
MED Busan National University
PHD SUNY at Albany
Hyejoo Back
Hyejoo Back is Associate Professor of the Practice in East Asian Studies and Korean Language and the Co-Curricular Coordinator. She recently finished two grant projects (Five College Innovative Language Teaching Grants as a part of the Mellon Foundation Grant) on Korean pre-modern history and Korean modern history for advanced Korean learners. Her research and teaching interests include content-based instruction of language with a focus on history and culture, pedagogy in language teaching, motivation, curriculum and instruction, and testing and measurement. She is currently working on a book on Korean culture for advanced Korean learners.
She received her Ph.D. in Instructional Psychology for Science Teaching from the University at Albany, State University of New York. She has been teaching and developing the Korean curriculum for all levels at Wesleyan. Before coming to Wesleyan, she had been teaching courses on Educational Psychology, Instructional Media, and Special Education at the graduate school at Quinnipiac University. She also taught the same curriculum at both the undergraduate and graduate level at the University of Hartford.
Academic Affiliations
Office Hours
Fall 2021
Wednesdays 2-4 p.m. in Fisk Hall 313 and by appointment
Courses
Spring 2023
KREA 154 - 01
Elementary Korean II
KREA 154 - 02
Elementary Korean II
KREA 206 - 01
Intermediate Korean II
Fall 2023
KREA 153 - 01
Elementary Korean I
KREA 153 - 02
Elementary Korean I
KREA 256 - 01
Exploring Korea (CLAC)