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Course Introduction

Course Introduction — Information provided in the order of course name and course description
Course Course Description
Korean Language and Culture (I) A foundational course for foreign students beginning life in Korea, covering basic Hangul reading and writing, pronunciation, and essential vocabulary and expressions. Develops everyday communication skills such as self-introduction and greetings, and supports understanding of basic Korean lifestyle and culture.
Korean Language and Culture (II) Building on basic Korean, this course expands expressions used across daily life. Improves communication skills centered on real-life situations such as transportation, shopping, hospitals, and public institutions, and develops basic sentence-construction ability.
Aging and Health Promotion Provides a scientific understanding of the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial change mechanisms that accompany aging, and explores strategies for preventing major late-life diseases and supporting healthy aging. Analyzes the physiology and progression of key geriatric conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, cerebrovascular disease, and Parkinson's disease, and presents personalized health-management strategies through nutrition, exercise, sleep, medication, and lifestyle modification, cultivating evidence-based practical competencies that contribute to improving the quality of life of older adults.
Korean Language and Culture (III) A course that deepens Korean language skills to enable students to respond to a variety of everyday situations. Expands basic grammar so students can briefly express experiences and opinions, and supports adaptation to Korean society through understanding of public life and social norms.
Korean Language and Culture (IV) A course that deepens Korean language skills to enable students to respond to a variety of everyday situations. Expands basic grammar so students can briefly express experiences and opinions, and supports adaptation to Korean society through understanding of public life and social norms.
Long-Term Care and Daily Living Support (I) Covers the essential communication skills and emotional-support competencies that certified care workers must possess. Focuses on building trust with care recipients, effective conversational techniques, and understanding the emotional characteristics of older adults, professionally cultivating the ability to form stable relationships and provide psychological support in care settings.
Long-Term Care and Daily Living Support (II) Addresses the basic daily-living-support duties of certified care workers — including recording, reporting, meal assistance, and elimination support — and teaches related knowledge and skills with a practice-oriented approach. Cultivates the professional competence to safely support the daily lives of older adults through accurate documentation, systematic reporting procedures, nutrition and hygiene management, and elimination-support practicums.
Situation-Specific Care Techniques (I) Covers care techniques specialized for caring for individuals with dementia. Based on understanding the causes, symptoms, and progression of dementia, students learn daily-living support, responses to behavioral problems, effective communication strategies, and family-support techniques through both theory and practice, strengthening the expertise and empathy required for dementia care.
Korean Language and Culture (V) A course that strengthens the Korean communication skills needed in everyday life and social situations. Develops the ability to understand and use relatively complex sentences and expressions, and to speak and write about one's own thoughts and experiences on topics related to workplaces, public institutions, and community life.
Care Work and Human Rights Covers the competencies in human-rights protection, professional ethics, safety management, and self-care required in the practice of long-term care. Cultivates the judgment to practice ethical caregiving grounded in sensitivity to the human rights of older adults, while also addressing strategies for the physical and emotional health management of care workers and the enhancement of their professional competencies.
Long-Term Care and Daily Living Support (III) A practice-centered study of the physical-activity-support domains of care work (personal hygiene, position changes, mobility assistance, infection prevention, environmental management). Strengthens practical caregiving ability by mastering safe assistive techniques appropriate to changes in older adults' physical function and the use of assistive welfare equipment.
Long-Term Care and Daily Living Support (IV) Covers the practical skills required for housekeeping and daily-living support — food hygiene, home-environment management, clothing care, laundry, and accompanying outings. Systematically addresses the management principles and practical strategies needed to maintain a safe and comfortable living environment.
Situation-Specific Care Techniques (II) Covers the understanding and practical skills of end-of-life care. Students learn to understand the physical and emotional changes of dying individuals and their families, and acquire caregiving attitudes for a dignified death, communication, and recording/reporting procedures through theory and practice, strengthening professional end-of-life care competencies.
Korean Language and Culture (VI) A course that strengthens the Korean communication skills needed in everyday life and social situations. Develops the ability to understand and use relatively complex sentences and expressions, and to speak and write about one's own thoughts and experiences on topics related to workplaces, public institutions, and community life.
Situation-Specific Care Techniques (III) Focuses on strengthening emergency-response and infection-control competencies. Through theory and practice, students learn first aid, CPR, AED use, and infection-prevention and management procedures, securing the ability to perform care safely.
Practicum at Elderly Care Facilities An integrated practicum course in which students perform the actual duties of a certified care worker at an elderly care facility, strengthening their field competencies. By experiencing and applying recipient care, communication, basic daily-living support, and safety management in the real field, students improve their job-performance ability.
Practicum at Home-Based Elderly Welfare Facilities A practicum focused on duties performed in home-based care environments such as in-home visiting care. Students integrate in-home caregiving, family support, safety management, and communication skills, and, building on the techniques acquired in the facility practicum, strengthen customized caregiving competencies suited to home environments.
Career Path and Self-Exploration Covers self-understanding activities, career-aptitude assessments, understanding of changes and characteristics in the world of work, and methods of setting and designing career goals, cultivating the competencies students need to proactively plan their futures and make rational career decisions.
Introduction to Social Welfare An introductory course that systematically presents the concepts, values, history, institutions, and practice areas of social welfare. In consideration of international learners, the course uses easy-Korean and bilingual native-language materials, and applies a cross-cultural approach reflecting diverse cultural backgrounds so that students gain an integrated understanding of the universality and specificity of social welfare. Learners study key welfare systems such as social insurance, public assistance, and social services, acquire knowledge of practice areas by target population (older adults, families, persons with disabilities) and the roles and ethics of social workers, and form a multi-layered understanding of the welfare system through case analysis, audiovisual materials, and discussion.
Human Behavior and the Social Environment Analyzes the characteristics of each stage of human life-span development and the influence of surrounding social, psychological, and environmental factors on human behavior. Organized around theories of human understanding required in social-welfare practice, the course uses case-based explanations, visual materials, and easy-Korean teaching methods to support international students' understanding.
Social Welfare and Cultural Diversity Addresses multicultural phenomena in Korean society and social-welfare approaches to them. Students gain an understanding of diverse groups including multicultural families, immigrants, refugees, and North Korean defectors, and strengthen international sensitivity and professionalism by learning communication and practice skills grounded in cultural competence.
Theories of Welfare for Older Adults Studies the issues of older adults in an aging society and the systems of policies and services for elderly welfare. Designed for international students, the course uses bilingual easy-Korean / English materials so that students can analyze elderly welfare in Korea and in their home countries from a cross-cultural perspective. Through the integrated study of theory and cases, the course strengthens students' understanding of how to improve older adults' quality of life and provides a practice-based foundation.