Department Of Saemaul Studies And International Development

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  1- 1	PRACTICAL ENGLISH The aim of the course is to help students develop basic English verbal skills in real life situations. The course will be co-taught by Korean and Native English instructors. Korean instructors will provide students with basic English structure, vocabulary, and expressions, and students will be encouraged to practice speaking English utilizing basic English structures. Students will further practice expressing themselves in English with native English instructors.
  1- 1	SEMINAR FOR ACADEMIC LIFE 1. Summary of the course This course is to assist university freshmen in CRM designing to adapt university life well through the instruction and counselling of supervising professor. (This course is composed of self analysis, personality type test, career research, instruction for the success of university life, career plan and direction setting, CRM designing method and CRM designing. The course should be teaching in classes of the students by supervising professor.) 2. Course objectives This course is to motivate the students before the mid term exam and provide students with self analysis, personality type test (MBTI or TCI) and career research (YAT test). Also, this course shall has a plan to instruct the students to enhance the efficiency of university life through career and time management. In addition, this course is to make a chance for the students to have practical assistance to university life by providing study method, report designing strategy and the information on academic system and various kinds of internal programs of the university. After the mid term exam, the students will be instructed to set the direction of career designing through continuous counselling of supervising professor and the students will be able to establish CRM designing and execution plan.
  1- 1	UNDERSTANDING OF SMART SOCIETY The course will understand the concept of smart society, explore the direction and strategy of smart society at home and abroad. Students will understand the smart society through the platform of city, discuss what digital environment of future society is and identify the appropriate type of community. It also introduces various discussions about smart cities, which often appear in the development of existing cities and new cities.
  1- 1	INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WELFARE This is a module to introduce overall knowledge and values regarding academic research and practice in social welfare for students major in this study. After students understand the concepts and the motivations, values and ideologies in practices and policies of social welfare, and its historic development, then methods of practice and policies as well as various areas of practice in social welfare, and social welfare as a profession are reviewed, and, finally, issues and perspective of social welfare in Korea are discussed.
  1- 1	UNDERSTANDING INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION This course ties to understand what is the Official Development Assistance(ODA) that has been aided to grow the developing countries and to reduce the poverty level. The main purposes of this course are to enhance knowledge on the educational background of ODA, experiences and the needs of international development cooperation to build better world. This understanding course of ODA is offered to students as well as anyone who is interested in learning basic principles of ODA and international development assistance. By giving Korean nationals a proper understanding of development cooperation, the academy draws public participation and support in the elimination of poverty and promotion of peace around the world. Korea, the first nation to turn into an aid-donor from an aid-recipient country upon joining the OECD DAC, is becoming an active participant in the formation of international standards and rules for international assistance. Korea will try to play a leading role in global cooperative efforts to eliminate poverty and to promote welfare in the developing nations.
  1- 2	CONVERGENCE- AND INTEGRATION-BASED THINKING AND WRITING The ability of analyzing and solving problems is emphasized as one of the conditions for survival in the 21st century and one of the core elements of creative capabilities. This course was designed to cultivate convergence- and integration-based creative capabilities, which are integrated problem-solving capabilities to collect, analyze and process knowledge and information by reinforcing the ability of analyzing and solving problems, recreate it in a synthetic fashion, and express it effectively through speech and writing. The course will help the students cultivate their synesthesia thinking and communication skills based on sympathy with other human beings, understanding of the community, and positivity or Gongseong that is sought after by Yeungnam University. Its ultimate goals are to promote the students' creative knowledge development and reinforce their writing capabilities consistently through "convergence- and integration-based thinking and writing as a problem-solving approach."
  1- 2	SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION AND SERVICE This course is to cultivate community sense as members of society and the global village for students in order to develop the basic knowledge required as global citizens. Especially, this course is to foster the spirit of cooperation, sharing, service, and creativity and study the social contribution and leadership to solving the challenges the global community faces. As a liberal arts course, it is centered to nurture a leader having the global capability to contribute to community development through learning the knowledge and the case on the value & logic of social responsibility focused on environmental preservation, social contribution, and good governance(ESG). This course aims to foster a generous mind, learn knowledge and technology and build the capacity to contribute to building a society towards a safer and happier world through the study of theory and practice.
  1- 2	SOFTWARE AND AI Software and AI (Artificial Intelligence) course aims to educate the basic concepts of software and computational thinking to use them in various applications. It allows students of various majors to experience the core technologies of the 4th industrial revolution, such as big data, machine learning, and AI. It also introduces various applications of AI so that students can easily apply these technologies to their field of study. This course classifies the lecture types into three categories, and adjust the lecture difficulty according to the student's academic ability.
  1- 2	UNDERSTANDING SAEMAUL STUDIES AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT This is to develop general understanding of SAEMAUL UNDONG and SAEMAUL study. Therefore basic theories and characteristics of SAEMAUL study are introduced. SAEMAUL spirit should be developed accordingly to changed circumstance and reality in order to establish foundation of SAEMAUL study. In this context, not only initial three key spirits of SAEMAUL UNDONG, hard working, self-help, cooperation are understood, but the value of volunteering and creativeness is also discussed for SAEMAUL sprit in 21st century. In addition, Korean community development model is explored through comparative research between SAEMAUL study and various community development models.

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  2- 1	VOLUNTEERISM In this course, students learn professional jobs for volunteering. This course is to study the roles of volunteer's manager by understanding such as the technical skills, educating, training, arrangement and supervision as supervisors and the roles of volunteers for civil society.
  2- 1	INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENGLISH The objective of this class is to improve students’ communication skills and ability in international development arena. Through this class students will get familiar with technical terms and expressions often used in development field.
  2- 1	INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY This course ties to understand the policy affairs of Official Development Assistance(ODA) of S. Korea. This course focuses the characteristics and policy process of Korean ODA.
  2- 1	INTRODUCTION TO REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT This course examines the basic concepts of regional development, including theory, thought,planning, and practice.
  2- 1	THEORIES OF SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE The course in to look over social work in practice in order to promote social functions of individual, group and family. (DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND HOUSING STUDIES - From 2008) The course covers to overview social work in practice in order to promote social functions of individual, group and family.
  2- 1	UNDERSTANDING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT The main goal of this class is to have student equipped with the basic knowledge on economic development. Why some countries show high speed of development, whild others staying stagnant for long period of time? What are the factors of economic development? What are the appropriate policy measures for promoting economic development? Those issues are to be discussed.
  2- 2	INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE This course is about understanding the projects and characteristics of various international organizations and learn practical skills for planning and operating international conferences. Thereby, cultivating student’s capacity as an international development expert.
  2- 2	LEADERSHIP THEORY AND PRACTICE This is to study leadership theories and develop leadership qualities, which are necessary to examine, analyse, and resolve community problems and to encourage potentials of community residents and their participation. Therefore, in this course, leaderships of world leaders are studied; application of them to different community environment is discussed; and alternatives to manage and resolve conflicts in community, and to tackle problems in community are presented. In this process, characteristics of leader are advanced to present how the community should be developed.
  2- 2	SOCIAL WORK WITH THE AGED(ELDER CARE) This course deals with various problems of the old and constitution of the social welfare service in Aging society, especially the situation and prospect in elder care service.
  2- 2	STATISTICS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT The purpose of this course is to give you an introduction to some of the major analytic techniques currently in use among social and behavioral scientists. This is a hands-on course that will give you a good start as a data analyst. Especially, this course will be very useful for the students are planning to study in abroad by experiencing the research methodology and computer programs in advance.
  2- 2	POVERTY AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION This course aims to understand the cause, present condition, and problems of poverty in the international society and seek ways to overcome it by sharing Korea’s development experience with the world.

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  3- 1	DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF SOCIAL WELFARE SERVICE PROGRAMS The purpose of this course is to plan, manage and evaluate a social service program. This course try students to specialize in a program of social welfare and understand the whole process which are finding problems, assessment of needs, investigation of plans for intervening, implementation and evaluation to develop a service programs satisfiable the clients with their needs.
  3- 1	INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION Exploration of the challenges related to verbal and nonverbal communication among persons from various cultures with the goal of exchanging meaningful information in a manner that emphasizes respect.
  3- 1	RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES IN SOCIAL WELFARE This course teaches techniques to scientifically diagnose and analyze the regional community. Specifically, learning the basic concepts and theories of regional research and variety of techniques related to design, collect, process and analyze the community. The objective of this course is to help students to understand the various challenges and changes faced by the community and exploring ways to foster community development as experts equipped with theories and practice.
  3- 1	SMART RURAL DEVELOPMENT Rural areas need to develop differentiating strategy from urban and even other rural regions by developing and utilizing tangible as well as intangible resources and values in the rural area. This course includes inheritance and development of regional traditional cultural resources; development of rural experience programmes from natural resources; and revitalization of regional economy. Therefore, successful direction of rural development is presented based on case analysis of rural development in advanced countries of agricultural industry. In order to make sustainable development of rural community whilst securing originality, the role of leaders to lead the development is vital. In this reason, education system needs to be established to train leaders who are able to lead regional development and redesign rural community relevant to modern circumstance.
  3- 1	UNDERSTANDING OF GLOBAL ECONOMY This course teaches the principle of international economics; how the global market works. Specifically, the following issues are to be discussed; the reason for the international trade, the benefit of free trade, trade policy, working mechanism of foreign exchange market, structure of global financial market, capital movements across countries.
  3- 1	URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING This course is designed to provide the student with the application ability of planning strategies to solve urban and regional problems encountered in professional practice as well as theoretical foundations of urban and regional planning. Topics include methods and techniques for securing and analyzing relevant data, identifying goals and objectives, formulating proposals, formulating strategies to implement proposals, and presentation of findings.
  3- 2	CITIZEN PARTICIPATION & NGO This course is designed to learn the policies of the contribution of community organizations to community development and of building up collaboration systems between these organizations, thereby enabling students to improve their leadership of community.
  3- 2	COMMUNITY WELFARE This course presents theories of community and community welfare and means of analyzing the issues that communities face in development planning. Additionally, it presents a range of policies and services that can be used for addressing the common needs of community residents in development and integration. This includes discussing the meaning, processes, and practices of social welfare as a means for improving the conditions within a community.
  3- 2	ECONOMIC ANALYSIS FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT This course discusses economic analysis methods and theories used in the area of international development. Students will learn development-related theories and will examine issues such as public goods, infrastructure and environmental problem.
  3- 2	GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS This is a course to study the GIS techniques utilizing diverse geographical information, data processing and practice to foster the capability to apply GIS to planning and location analysis for community development.
  3- 2	GLOBAL ISSUE AND SAEMAUL DEVELOPMENT This course presents and discusses case studies and theories drawn from Korea’s Saemaul Undong in order to examine development problems and suggest developmental policies. Additionally, this includes introducing the concept of a Global Saemaul Undong and talking about the issues it faces as well as plans for improvement. Accordingly, students will be able to suggest models of a Global Saemaul Undong and ways of sharing successful experiences based upon it.
  3- 2	SAEMAUL DEVELOPMENT THEORY This is to do research on practices of SAEMAUL UNDONG and develop practical skills to be used in the community, based on SAEMAUL UNDONG theories and methods. Students are to be empowered as SAEMAUL leaders by applying SEMAUL UNDONG skills into the community and studying various roles of experts in practice. In addition, SAEMAUL UNDONG practice model is developed suitable to different countries and communities based on theoretical studies and development SAEMAUL UNDONG skills and techniques.

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  4- 1	CAPSTONE DESIGN OF SAEMAUL ODA PROJECT Focusing on global issues, it is aimed to analyze and understand the trends of international development cooperation and especially ODA project of international community and present its development plans. As a course focused on on-the-field training to educate Saemaul international development experts, students analyze and design ODA projects in the international community, including Korea, based on the theories related to ODA as well as Saemaul development, and ultimately develop the competency as a Saemaul International Development experts.
  4- 1	GLOBAL SOCIETY AND CULTURE 1 This course is an introduction to global diversity through the discipline of Cultural Anthropology, which offers a way of understanding both the similarities and differences of human societies. Culture influences the way we think, act and view the world around us on a daily basis. We will explore the tremendous variety of worldviews, traditions, and social organizations through readings, lectures, class discussions, and multimedia.  It is difficult to cover all global diversity in one semester. Therefore, we will explore Global Society and Culture over two semesters beginning in the Spring (A) and continuing in the Fall (B).  Course A Topics: What is Culture, Fieldwork & Ethnography, Language & Communication, Race & Gender, Marriage & Family, Magic & Religion, Ethnomusicology
  4- 1	KOREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT This course covers theories of community development and provides opportunity to learn the basic principles and process, methods, factors of success and issues of cases of Saemaulundong which has been introduced as a successful model of Korean community development. The contribution of Saemaulundong to the community development of developing countries is considered.
  4- 1	ODA PROJECT DESIGN This course puts emphasis on the logic, decision making process, and project structure depending on various types, and characteristics of international development ODA projects. Through this course, students can develop and cultivate their knowledge on designing, planning, and evaluate international development projects.
  4- 1	SOCIALWORK PRACTICUM AND SEMINAR This course is about to teach the social work techniques used by the social welfare system and to acquire the knowledge of social welfare system and the social service methods.
  4- 1	SAEMAUL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION THEORY This course studies the theories of Saemaul development, understands the objectives of Saemaul education by target and topic, and analyzes the curriculum and contents of Saemaul education. Based on learning about Saemaul education, this course aims to develop curriculum of Saemaul education and teaching methods suitable for local conditions by country, target and topic and to develop the capacity as a Saemaul leader.
  4- 2	CAPSTONE DESIGN OF SAEMAUL STUDIES AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT This course aim to practice the rural development ODA project. This lecture includes understanding of PDM(Pr이ect Design Matrix), process of ODA project, planning, implementation, evaluation of the project. Saemaulrural development strategy will be applIed into the rural ODA project. This course oriented problem solving leaning and practicing by letting the students try to find what the problems are in the community and what are the best alternatives to solve the matters and practice the plans.
  4- 2	CASE MANAGEMENT THEORY Case management has recently been used as a key method in public and private practice. In this subject, we intend to enhance our understanding of the basic understanding of case management and its relationship with social welfare practice, educate on the basic knowledge and skills required for case management practice, and enhance our ability to intervene in case management of various types of cases by developing the ability to select or design case management practice models suitable for the social welfare practice. By doing so, we will be able to improve our job competency by fostering understanding and problem-solving skills at the social welfare practice field.
  4- 2	CITY AND COMMUNITY REGENERATION The course will explore the necessity and concept of urban and regional regeneration theoretically. We will review the existing urban development projects, and learn more about cities and local regeneration cases, especially those that have been attracting attention recently. And recent institutional change and foreign case analysis are also parallel.
  4- 2	GLOBAL SOCIETY AND CULTURE 2 This course is an introduction to global diversity through the discipline of Cultural Anthropology, which offers a way of understanding both the similarities and differences of human societies. Culture influences the way we think, act and view the world around us on a daily basis. We will explore the tremendous variety of worldviews, traditions, and social organizations through readings, lectures, class discussions, and multimedia.  It is difficult to cover all global diversity in one semester. Therefore, we will explore Global Society and Culture over two semesters beginning in the Spring (A) and continuing in the Fall (B).  Course B Topics: Subsistence & Economics, Migration & Class, Power & Politics, Art & Media, Health & Illness, Change & Global Challenges, Ethnocinematology
  4- 2	GAME AND BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT The purpose of this class is to have students understand the basic concepts of game theory and behavioral economics. Huge amount of international aid has been provided to the developing countries for the past six decays, but still poverty eradication remains a challenging task. This course help students understand why many international development programs have failed or been ineffective. Understanding strategic behavior and behavioral characteristics of human being will help design more effective international development program.
  4- 2	ODA PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND PRACTICE The purpose of this class is to apply the logic models’ theories being used in the fields of international development projects in order to figure out a logic model and project design matrix (PDM) for development projects. This course presents logical processes of development in order to draw a PDM of rural development project, and the existing projects based on causal relationship between these logical processes of development, which is sub-goal of the class. This course expect to give more practical understanding and effective management of ODA projects to the students.