Department of Social Welfare
| Introduction to the Department and Strengths |
The Department of Social Welfare aims to cultivate professionals who practice desirable social change and social justice based on practical knowledge required in social welfare practice settings, systems and practice skills, and an understanding of various elements of human behavior and the social environment and their interactions. The Department of Social Welfare at this university was established in 1996, together with the opening of the university. Through the department’s specialized learning and employment support programs, a member of the first graduating class was appointed as a university professor. Many graduates are also active as social welfare public officials, including appointments by Gwangju Metropolitan City in 2014, and as school social workers. Graduates have advanced into Korea’s leading social welfare professional fields, such as ChildFund Korea and World Vision, and are recognized as outstanding talents.
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| Educational Goals |
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“To cultivate professional social workers responsible for the welfare of the people” |
Course Descriptions
| No. | Course | Description |
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| 01 | Children’s Art |
This course provides experiences that enable students to effectively use creative arts education media for infants and young children. Students develop the ability to evaluate and analyze the developmental stages of art education based on the growth and development of infants and young children. In addition, students develop the ability to plan and implement expressive activities appropriate for the developmental stages of infants and young children. |
| 02 | Introduction to Social Welfare |
As a basic course for studying social welfare, this course explains fundamental concepts, basic philosophies, values, and major areas of social welfare. It also explains, step by step, the differences from and relationships with social work, as well as relationships with other social science theories. |
| 03 | Human Behavior and the Social Environment |
As a basic course for understanding the principles of human behavior, this course examines changes in human personality, basic needs, and emotions according to the social environment. By analyzing the causal relationships between these psychological mechanisms and the environment, students learn their applications to social welfare. |
| 04 | Mental Health |
This course examines various stressful situations arising in the living environment of modern society and explores individual and social measures necessary for maintaining mental health. |
| 05 | Children’s Rights and Welfare |
This course helps students easily understand child welfare by identifying important contents of child welfare and including recent theoretical trends, child welfare-related laws, changes in child welfare policies, research data, and statistics. |
| 06 | Introduction to Child Care and Education |
Introduction to Child Care and Education is a basic course that helps students gain a fundamental understanding of childcare and an insightful perspective on childcare as a whole. In particular, it is the most basic subject for understanding the concept of childcare as childcare teachers. It is the first course taken among subjects required to obtain childcare teacher certification, and it guides students at a general level so that anyone can easily develop a mindset for childcare. |
| 07 | Theories of Social Work Practice |
This course helps students learn the basic purposes, values, and foundational knowledge of social work practice from an integrated perspective, as well as theories of relationships, interviews, processes, and various theories in social work practice. |
| 08 | Social Welfare Administration |
This course helps students understand the principles of administration in organizations, administrative principles in social welfare institutions, technical issues, and the duties and responsibilities of administrators. It focuses on examining the distinctiveness and practice of social welfare administration. |
| 09 | Skills and Techniques for Social Work Practice |
This course focuses on various practice skills, techniques, and guidelines that social workers must understand in order to improve the social functioning of individuals, families, and groups. In particular, through case studies and role practice, the course emphasizes practice in applying skills, techniques, and guidelines to clients, actually intervening, and evaluating the process. |
| 10 | Research Methods for Social Welfare |
This course focuses on learning the basic concepts and foundational theories of social welfare research as a scientific method. After gaining a basic understanding of science, scientific methods, and social science methods, students learn basic theories and techniques according to the general procedures of social welfare research, including selection of research problems, hypothesis setting and concept definition, research design, sampling, development of measurement tools, data collection, and generalization of data analysis. |
| 11 | Case Management |
This course presents basic matters concerning social welfare practice methods and case studies, and distinguishes between macro-level and micro-level practice methods to analyze and apply practice cases. |
| 12 | Education Curriculum |
This course consists of content that establishes the overall framework of childcare. Through the course, students learn the philosophical foundations, goals, and structure of the childcare curriculum, the contents of standard childcare curriculum, and actual operation. |
| 13 | Social Welfare for the Disabled |
This course aims to help students develop a proper perspective on persons with disabilities, acquire theories and skills for disability welfare practice, and develop professional practice abilities as social workers in the field of disability welfare. |
| 14 | Community Welfare and Practice |
This course helps students understand major concepts, history, and basic theories of community welfare, and cultivates a critical perspective on key matters and implementation systems for community welfare practice. |
| 15 | Social Welfare Policy |
This course establishes the concept of social welfare policy and examines its relationship with adjacent fields. Students understand the welfare state as an outcome of social welfare policy and learn about various ideologies that influence social welfare policy. The course also examines social welfare policies related to the background of the emergence of social welfare policy. |
| 16 | Program Development and Evaluation |
This course enhances the professionalism of social workers by helping them learn content related to program planning, operation, and evaluation so that they can deliver services efficiently and effectively through programs. |
| 17 | Data Analysis for Social Welfare |
As a field of applied social science, social welfare requires knowledge and skills for analyzing social welfare research data in order to enhance its scientific characteristics in both theory and practice. Social welfare research data include qualitative and quantitative data, but this course introduces statistical analysis methods for quantitative research data. |
| 18 | Childcare Teacher Education |
Based on an understanding of the qualities and competencies required of childcare teachers in modern society, this course explores methods for developing competencies through the roles of childcare teachers and related knowledge. |
| 19 | Social Welfare and Law |
As a basic perspective on social welfare law, this course examines the concept of social welfare law, the right to existence, the values and purposes of social welfare, and general principles. After understanding the formation process, scope, and structure of social welfare legislation, students learn the contents of Korean social welfare laws by field and improve their ability to apply legal contents in social welfare practice. |
| 20 | School Social Work |
As a social welfare practice method for solving student problems such as school violence and delinquency, this course cultivates the professional abilities of school social workers centered on schools as practice settings by helping students understand the necessity and concept of school social work, practice targets and methods, and institutional practice methods and systems. |
| 21 | Social Work Supervision |
This course helps social workers with considerable knowledge and experience in providing social welfare services at social welfare institutions acquire the skills and knowledge needed to supervise beginning social workers or field practicum students in their institutions. |
| 22 | Social Work Field Practice |
This course enables students to go into social welfare field settings, acquire social welfare practical knowledge and practice skills through field practice experiences, and learn duties required as future social workers. |
| 23 | Teaching Method for Young Children |
This course helps students acquire basic theories of teaching methods and media appropriate for the developmental processes of infants and young children through observation and analysis of interactions among infants and young children and between infants and young children and childcare teachers. |
| 24 | Language Arts for Young Children |
Through in-depth exploration and practical experience in the structure and operation of various language education programs, this course helps students develop the ability to plan, implement, and evaluate desirable language education curricula for infants and young children that can be applied in early childhood education settings. |
| 25 | Mathematics in Early Childhood Education |
This course examines theories and studies related to the development of children’s mathematical knowledge and mathematics education, and explores effective methods for organizing and operating an integrated children’s mathematics curriculum appropriate for development. |
| 26 | Social Work Ethics and Philosophy |
This course lectures on the basic values, philosophy, and ethics necessary to understand social welfare, and based on this, helps students understand the values and ethical perspectives required as professionals in practice settings. |
| 27 | Child Care Practice |
Through practice in fields related to childcare for infants and young children, this course enables students to apply theories related to child development and education to practice and broaden their understanding of the field. |
| 28 | Safety Education for Children |
This course helps students learn specific contents and methods of indoor and outdoor safety education for forming and maintaining children’s healthy development and safe living. |
| 29 | Child Observation and Behavioral Research |
This course teaches the importance of observation for understanding children’s behavior. Based on sufficient understanding of children’s development, it helps students conduct proper observations in classrooms. |
| 30 | Infant and Toddler Development |
This course teaches the developmental processes and characteristics of infants and young children and various factors that influence them. |
| 31 | Social Work with Families |
This course helps students understand families that change according to various social conditions in modern society by studying family structure, family relationships, family functions, family life cycles, and family problems. It also examines family welfare policies and services. In addition, the course teaches target groups for family welfare services, assessment of family problems, and therapeutic approaches. |
| 32 | Social Welfare Policy, Elderly Welfare |
This course provides general knowledge necessary for elderly welfare activities. Students understand changes in physical, psychological, and social factors caused by aging and problems of the elderly, and study general elderly welfare policy programs and practice skills based on this understanding. |
| 33 | Play Guidance |
This course helps students recognize the importance of play in children’s lives and learn types and methods of play that can support children’s holistic development. |
| 34 | Human Rights and Elderly Welfare Practice |
This course emphasizes the urgent need to shift the framework for understanding older adults and to seek ways to truly protect the human rights of older adults beyond passive human rights protection policies centered on preventing and resolving elder abuse. |
| 35 | Elderly Housing Policy and Management |
This course aims to help students learn systems that enable older adults to live healthy and comfortable lives in housing that is economically affordable and in indoor and outdoor spaces designed according to their physical and psychological characteristics. |
| 36 | Elderly Consultation |
This course aims to help students learn various counseling techniques that reflect the growing elderly population and their needs. |
| 37 | Education for the Elderly |
This course approaches the issue of how to enter and spend old age meaningfully and with dignity through formal and informal education. |