KWANGJU WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY

Department of Martial Arts and Protection

Department of Martial Arts and Protection

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Introduction to the Department

  • The Department of Martial Arts and Protection at Kwangju Women’s University is the first department of its kind established at a four-year women’s university in Korea, with the goal of “cultivating protection and security experts and martial arts instructors who advance from being the first to becoming the best.”

  • Our department uses the Kwangju Women’s University Universiade Gymnasium, an international-level on-campus facility that successfully hosted the 2015 Gwangju Summer Universiade, as well as the department’s exclusive martial arts studio and security screening practice room. The department operates a practice-oriented curriculum focused on basic physical fitness development, martial arts ability, protection knowledge, and security screening practice, and provides education to cultivate practical protection and security experts and martial arts instructors required in related industry fields.

  • In addition, through the university’s MAUM Education, our department aims to cultivate female protection and security experts and martial arts instructors who will be responsible for safety in the 21st century. Based on the spirit of sacrifice and service, which modern people can easily lack, and women-centered education rooted in Hyo, filial piety, Ji, wisdom, and Ae, love, the department helps students develop harmonious human relationships and a positive view of society.

  • A Guaranteed Future for Our Department

  • Increasing Demand for Female Protection and Security Professionals with Martial Arts Ability: As people’s desire for safety increases, demand is growing for professional female personnel equipped with protection and security abilities based on martial arts skills in order to properly prevent and respond to various dangerous situations that may occur in modern society.

  • Increasing Demand for Female Security Screening Professionals: As international terrorism has recently continued to increase, security screening is being strengthened not only at international and domestic airports but also by individual airlines. In addition to general security screening, special security screening and secondary security screening are increasing, including random screening of aircraft passengers, passengers’ belongings, and checked baggage. Accordingly, demand is increasing for female professionals specialized in security screening.

  • Expansion and Preferential Recruitment of Women in Protection and Security-Related Public Service Positions: Security screening requires greater delicacy, which is often considered more advantageous for women than men. As a result, this is a job field favorable to women, and the recruitment of female personnel is being preferentially expanded both domestically and internationally. Demand for female personnel is therefore increasing. In particular, recruitment and preferential hiring of female personnel are being expanded in fields such as security management units at courts, protection positions at the Prosecutors’ Office and correctional institutions, custody officers at juvenile detention centers, and special judicial police officers.

Educational Goals / Vision

  • Korea’s first and only Department of Protection Martial Arts at a four-year women’s university
  • A cradle for cultivating female protection and security experts and martial arts instructors who can develop practical situational judgment and practical abilities
  • Cultivation of female protection and security professionals who will lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution
  • Cultivation of female martial arts professionals equipped with glocal competencies
  • Cultivation of practical talents using the Kwangju Women’s University Universiade Gymnasium, martial arts studio, and security screening practice room

Course Descriptions

01

Introduction to Security Science

This course aims to help students understand various social phenomena related to protection and security. Students acquire knowledge of the legal basis of protection systems, protection organizations, methods of performing protection duties, protection attire and equipment, protocol for protection, and the protection environment. In addition, the course helps students develop the qualities required to respond effectively to the diversification of society and the increase in crime, and to become protection and security experts capable of ensuring the absolute personal safety of protected persons. Furthermore, as a second-stage course for the nationally certified Security Instructor qualification, this course also prepares students to obtain the qualification.

02

Physical Training

This course aims to help students majoring in martial arts and protection develop the basic physical strength required in the field and learn scientific exercise methods for this purpose. Physical fitness development necessarily requires the acquisition of basic theories, physical strength, and mental strength. Therefore, through systematic training, students improve their physical fitness and athletic ability and learn how to strengthen their current physical condition through appropriate training methods.

03

Introduction to Law

This course aims to help students understand the overall field of law as an academic discipline for establishing theoretical legal systems, practical application, and ideological evaluation. Students learn basic legal theories, including the concept and ideals of law, forms of legal existence, application and interpretation of law and its effects, legal systems and legal families, rights, duties and legal relations, changes in law, and the rule of law. Furthermore, as a required first-stage course for the nationally certified Security Instructor qualification, this course also prepares students to obtain the qualification.

04

Guard Business Law

This course aims to help students understand the Guard Business Act, the Special Judicial Police Act, and other security-related laws that form the basis for security guards and persons involved in security duties to perform security work in the private security industry. Students systematically understand the overall field of protection and security law, explore theoretical grounds, and study problems in current laws and their future directions. Furthermore, as a required second-stage course for the nationally certified Security Instructor qualification, this course also prepares students to obtain the qualification.

05

Security Martial Arts Basics

This course aims to help students acquire various self-defense and control techniques using the basic techniques of martial arts so that they can develop the ability to protect themselves in various emergency situations. By using techniques from judo, taekwondo, hapkido, kendo, and other martial arts, students develop the necessary physical strength and acquire situational response abilities and physical abilities required for performing protection duties.

06

Security Winter Sports

This course aims to help students acquire various situational response abilities and physical abilities necessary for workers in the protection industry to perform their duties. Through winter sports such as alpine skiing and mountain skiing, as well as mountain survival training, students develop the physical ability to take immediate action in unexpected situations and improve the situational judgment and practical abilities required for performing protection duties.

07

Private Security Theory

This course aims to provide students with a basic and comprehensive understanding of the private security industry system. To enhance the professionalism of the private security industry and the quality of security services, this course covers the current status of private security in countries around the world, the private security environment, private security organizations and duties, and basic principles of security and facility protection, thereby cultivating professionals in the private security industry. Furthermore, as a required first-stage course for the nationally certified Security Instructor qualification, this course also prepares students to obtain the qualification.

08

Protection Law

This course helps students learn basic legal theories and fundamental issues that protection personnel should know, and apply them to actual protection field settings. Through this, students learn how to perform protection duties and solve legal issues based on legal grounds when related situations occur. In particular, students understand and study protection-related laws, including the Act on the Security of the President, regulations of the Presidential Security and Safety Measures Committee, and the Act on the Performance of Duties by Police Officers.

09

Security Judo

This course aims to help students acquire judo-based techniques and apply them in actual field settings according to the characteristics of protection duties, which vary depending on various situations and changes in the surrounding environment. Students understand efficient judo training methods and improve the physical strength, mental strength, judgment, and concentration required of protection personnel through continuous repetitive learning and systematic practice of simulated and practical techniques centered on judo.

10

Security Summer Sports

This course aims to help students acquire various situational response abilities and physical abilities necessary for workers in the protection industry to perform their duties. Through summer water sports such as survival swimming and scuba diving, as well as mountain survival training, students develop the physical ability to take immediate action in unexpected situations and improve the situational judgment and practical abilities required for performing protection duties.

11

Terrorism Theory

This course aims to help students understand terrorism that threatens safety and methods for responding to it. In modern society, where rapid internationalization has occurred through the remarkable development of national industries, terrorism targeting citizens poses enormous risks and causes severe human and material damage, requiring a more systematic understanding. Students first learn basic theories of terrorism, including its history, concepts, types, response methods, and new forms, and then study detailed theories related to terrorism.

12

Aviation Security Theory

This course aims to provide a theoretical understanding of security issues related to aviation. Students acquire knowledge of the concept, responsibilities, and roles of aviation security; security measures for passengers and baggage; aircraft security measures; operation of in-flight security officers; air cargo security measures; security measures for in-flight meals and aircraft maintenance facilities; education and training; and quality management.

13

Security Guard Shooting

This course aims to cultivate basic knowledge of shooting and improve practical shooting skills suited to unexpected situations. Students improve their abilities as prospective protection personnel by practicing shooting improvement methods and training according to individual shooting techniques. In addition, through the course, students strengthen mental power accompanied by a high level of concentration and undergo various related physical training to improve advanced protection shooting skills, thereby acquiring the ability to perform protection duties without error.

14

Security Taekwondo

This course aims to help students acquire taekwondo-based techniques and apply them in actual field settings according to the characteristics of protection duties, which vary depending on various situations and changes in the surrounding environment. Students understand efficient taekwondo training methods and improve the physical strength, mental strength, judgment, and concentration required of protection personnel through continuous repetitive learning and systematic practice of simulated and practical techniques centered on taekwondo.

15

Mechanical Guard Theory

This course aims to help students understand the components of mechanical security systems and learn how to operate them. In addition, students study the overall structure of mechanical security systems in which each component is organically integrated, as well as practical areas of mechanical security, including planning, design, installation, operation, and customer management. The course enhances practical competencies for employment in fields related to mechanical security and also prepares students for the national qualification examination for Mechanical Security Instructor.

16

Security Law

This course helps students learn basic legal theories and fundamental issues that security professionals should know, and apply them to actual security management field settings. Through this, students learn how to perform security management duties and solve legal issues based on legal grounds when related situations occur. In particular, students understand and study security-related laws, including the Industrial Technology Protection Act, Trade Secret Protection Act, Small and Medium Enterprise Technology Protection Act, Defense Industry Technology Protection Act, and Personal Information Protection Act.

17

AI Security Check Equipment Operation Theory

This course helps students learn how the contents studied in Aviation Security Theory, Terrorism Theory, and related subjects are actually operated in airports, cruise facilities, ports, landing and takeoff facilities, facilities for passenger and cargo transportation, auxiliary facilities, and support facilities. In particular, students learn actual practices carried out in industrial field settings in the security field, including designation of protected areas, issuance and management of access passes, security guarding and access control, practical operation of security screening, operation of security guarding systems and security screening systems, aviation quality management measures, security contingency plans, and response measures.

18

Security Hapkido

This course aims to help students acquire hapkido-based techniques and apply them in actual field settings according to the characteristics of protection duties, which vary depending on various situations and changes in the surrounding environment. Students understand efficient hapkido training methods and improve the physical strength, mental strength, judgment, and concentration required of protection personnel through continuous repetitive learning and systematic practice of simulated and practical techniques centered on hapkido.

19

Crisis Management Theory

This course aims to cultivate talents who can play a central role in the safety field within local communities through comprehensive thinking, while equipped with expertise to efficiently manage various crises that may occur in dangerous and disaster situations. In addition, based on theories of crisis management and business continuity in public institutions and private companies, students examine crisis management processes centered on the stages of prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery, as well as crisis management systems, including comprehensive security and types and categories of national crises. Students also examine procedures for asset identification, importance and damage analysis, threat analysis, vulnerability assessment, and priority setting through risk analysis.

20

X-ray CBT Reading

This course aims to help students understand the types and categories of items permitted and prohibited in places requiring entry control, such as airports and ports, and learn appropriate procedures. In addition, students cultivate practical competencies to detect prohibited items by interpreting images displayed through X-ray screening equipment. The course focuses on improving students’ ability to skillfully perform CBT education and training techniques through curriculum model contents entered into computers and simulators produced using computer software.

21

Security Martial Arts Application

This course aims to help students systematically learn martial arts and develop the ability to apply them more effectively in protection field settings. Based on the spirit of martial arts, which emphasizes patience, loyalty, self-control, and morality, students improve the physical abilities needed in crisis situations and required of protection personnel. Students understand the strengths and characteristics of various martial arts, including judo, taekwondo, hapkido, special martial arts, and kendo, and learn how to apply them to actual crisis situations.

22

Drone Security

This course teaches students about the drone security industry, which combines the drone industry, a future transportation equipment industry and a core technology of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, with the security industry, which controls risks and maintains a safe state. Drones are gradually evolving into a popular technology platform that anyone can use, and cases of misuse in crime and terrorism are increasing day by day. Therefore, students understand and utilize the concepts and characteristics of drones and security, and explore ways to strengthen security against crime and terrorism at various nationally important facilities and private facilities.

23

Industrial Security

In the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the importance of security for protecting tangible and intangible assets held by national institutions, companies, and other organizations is increasing. Preventing the leakage of industrial technology also has a significant impact on the national economy. This course helps students learn methods for efficiently preventing losses from physical, managerial, and technological perspectives by analyzing the status and vulnerabilities of technology management in industries in order to protect tangible and intangible assets from various security threats and crimes.

24

Safety Education Theory

This course aims to cultivate the ability to protect oneself from rapidly increasing accidents and disasters in daily life and to maintain physical, mental, and social health. To this end, students understand the basic principles and knowledge necessary for maintaining a safe life, including causes of various safety hazards that threaten life and safety in modern living environments and methods for solving them. The course also aims to establish safety awareness that respects not only one’s own life but also the lives and safety of others, thereby forming a desirable safety culture.

25

Security Methodology

This course aims to help students learn the procedures and methods required to perform protection duties. Students understand essential contents of protection operations, including threat analysis and response measures through intelligence and information collection, methods for preparing protection plans, site inspections and safety measures, procedures for responding to unexpected situations, evaluation of results after protection operations, and report writing. Furthermore, the course develops professional protection and security competencies by combining theory and practice in the protection field.

26

Responses for Crisis Situation

This course aims to help students majoring in martial arts and protection learn how to respond to crisis situations that may occur when they advance into related industries in the future. In particular, students set crisis situations themselves and, based on the theories and techniques acquired in the department’s major courses, independently create manuals for response plans and response methods. After peer evaluation and supplementation among students, students ultimately cultivate self-directed crisis response abilities that can be applied in practice.

27

Security Management Theory

In the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the management systems of protection and security companies must also change in response to the rapidly changing social environment. Therefore, this course helps students learn the operation and management of protection and security companies with expertise in protection organizations and functions, business management, and office management. In addition, students learn work related to marketing, personnel management, and accounting suited to the characteristics of protection and security companies, thereby developing expertise to manage organizations stably and efficiently.

28

Detective Science

This course teaches students about detectives who, upon request from individuals or companies, perform private investigation work within the scope permitted by law in matters where public authority does not reach, such as private incidents or accidents, by collecting information and materials about individuals or companies and verifying facts. Students learn the concept, role, duties, and detective systems of major countries, and, in practical areas, study contents related to criminal investigation.

29

Rescue and First Aid

This course aims to help students acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to protect lives and perform rescue and first aid in preparation for accidents that may occur anywhere. Furthermore, by understanding the overall emergency medical system and acquiring accurate knowledge of emergency patient treatment and transport systems as well as various emergency situations, students learn and understand the basic principles required for first aid, including techniques needed in emergency situations, and cultivate the ability to respond to emergencies.

30

Arrest and Self-defense

Based on the basic physical strength developed through Physical Training, this course aims to help students learn how to subdue and arrest suspects or offenders in moments requiring response to crime scenes. Students learn arrest techniques that use the body or equipment safely and effectively. In addition, they learn self-defense techniques, including striking, kicking, locking, and throwing, to ensure their own safety when attacked by others, thereby developing the ability to protect themselves.

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