Department of Beauty Science
Introduction to the Department
Differentiation and Specialization of the Department of Beauty Science
- The first four-year Department of Beauty Science established in Korea in 1999
- The first in the world to establish undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral programs in beauty science
- Producing the largest number of beauty high school teachers, 76 teachers, and professors nationwide
- Securing full-time faculty members by major field, 16 professors
- Operation of major courses and major track systems
- Securing one research laboratory, four skin care practice rooms, four hair practice rooms, and four makeup practice rooms
- Producing the largest number of master’s and doctoral degree holders in beauty among beauty-related departments nationwide
Educational Goals / Vision
- To improve job competencies related to beauty through specialized beauty knowledge
- To cultivate convergence-type creative thinking competencies with self-directed ability to apply professional knowledge
- To improve job application abilities and practical problem-solving abilities in the field through industry-linked education
- To cultivate community-friendly leadership with communication skills based on consideration and understanding
Course Descriptions
- 01
Introduction to Cosmetology
By studying the overall fields of beauty, this course helps students acquire theories and basic processes related to hair beauty, skin care, makeup, and nail beauty, and enables them to understand and apply major courses.
- 02
Human Anatomy and Physiology
This course helps students understand the anatomical structure and physiological functions of the human body, acquire basic knowledge of anatomical terms and physiological functions used in beauty, and apply them in beauty field settings.
- 03
Basic Beauty Makeup
Through basic theories and practice of makeup, students analyze face shapes, skin tones, and image types, and learn makeup expression techniques suitable for each. Students gradually acquire skills from basic skin expression to color makeup, cultivating the basic job performance abilities required in beauty field settings.
- 04
Cosmetics
This course teaches basic scientific theories on the functions, effectiveness, and side effects of ingredients used in products in the beauty industry, including oily ingredients, surfactants, moisturizers, sunscreens, antioxidants, fragrances, and colorants.
- 05
Blow Dry and Iron
This course helps students understand hair characteristics according to heat and moisture, shampoo techniques and principles, tool characteristics and proper usage, and requirements, precautions, and techniques based on the principles of curl and wave formation. Students acquire techniques for creating waves and curls using various tools and develop the ability to apply hairstyling according to customer information.
- 06
Basic Facial Treatment
This course explores the concepts and knowledge of skin care, helps students learn basic abilities and practical skills for skin management, and enhances convergent thinking by studying beauty foundations and advanced job competencies.
- 07
Colorology
This course helps students understand the physical and psychological characteristics of color and theories of color harmony, and learn how to apply them to the overall beauty field, including makeup, nail, hair, and fashion. Students systematically improve their color sense and color coordination abilities, strengthening design competitiveness.
- 08
Beauty Education Basic Practice
For prospective beauty teachers, this course teaches teaching and learning theories, lesson plan writing, and practice guidance methods necessary for operating beauty subject classes. Students systematically acquire basic class design and student guidance competencies required in school education settings.
- 09
Disinfection and Epidemiology
Based on basic scientific knowledge that must be applied in beauty field practice, this course teaches theories and practical contents necessary for beauty practice, including microorganisms that cause disease and disinfection and sterilization methods to prevent them.
- 10
Basic Nail Art
This course teaches basic theories and practice of nail beauty, focusing on nail care, hygiene management, coloring, and basic art techniques. Through field-centered practice, students cultivate both nail service performance abilities and professional ethics.
- 11
Self-Diagnosis and Career Exploration
For major career exploration, students diagnose themselves through comprehensive self-understanding, including interests, values, aptitudes, and personality. They understand occupations and occupational information, learn the processes and methods of career decision-making, ways to cope with career barriers and improve problem-solving abilities, and methods for setting, managing, and implementing goals.
- 12
Basic Hair Cut
This course helps students understand the basic concepts of basic haircuts, use cutting tools, and develop the ability to perform and finish basic haircut techniques and basic haircut forms, including one-length, graduation, and layered haircuts.
- 13
Beauty Logic and Statement
This course cultivates logical and writing abilities in order to develop the creative thinking skills required of future teachers. Through problem-solving through inquiry, application of principles, and use of various materials, students acquire logical thinking and writing abilities and develop basic competencies as prospective beauty teachers.
- 14
Public Health
This course teaches theories and practical contents necessary for beauty practice, including health and environmental issues related to various methods for health promotion and disease prevention in community public health, as well as types and prevention of diseases.
- 15
Theories of Beauty Education
This course helps students understand the background of the 2022 revised curriculum and learn the nature of the curriculum, directions for curriculum organization, design and operation of school curricula, standards for curriculum organization and operation by school level, and contents of school curriculum support.
- 16
Beauty Teaching Materials and Method
This course helps students understand the format and writing methods of teaching and learning lesson plans. Based on beauty fundamentals, beauty safety and health, and major practical processes, students learn to prepare lesson plans by considering teaching and learning process plan writing methods and mock class procedures. As prospective beauty teachers, students cultivate the qualities and abilities to design and conduct classes appropriate to class topics.
- 17
Education Practicum, Beauty
Students participate in actual beauty subject classes in secondary school education settings and experience class observation, assistant teaching, and student guidance. Through this, students establish their teaching aptitude and awareness of the role of teachers.
- 18
Basic Hair Permanent Wave
This course helps students understand the basic concepts and principles of hair permanent waves, learn basic winding, and develop the ability to prepare, perform, and finish actual permanent wave procedures.
- 19
Men’s Hair Cut
This course helps students understand the basic concepts of men’s haircuts and head structure, learn how to use cutting tools and basic cutting techniques, and develop the ability to perform men’s haircuts and complete finishing styling.
- 20
Hair Dye and Bleach
Based on the principles of hair dyeing and bleaching and the basic concepts of hair coloring, this course teaches the basic processes and techniques of dyeing and bleaching.
- 21
Applied Hair Cut
Based on basic haircut forms, this course helps students understand and apply the concepts of factors that change haircuts, and develop the ability to complete haircuts and hairstyling by reflecting customer needs, external characteristics, and trends.
- 22
Up Style
This course cultivates students’ ability to use basic up-style techniques in design and to create formative up-style designs suited to customers’ internal and external information.
- 23
Creative Salon Hair Design
This course helps students analyze customer requirements and various customer conditions, acquire processes and methods for making proposals to customers, and learn applied methods for actually applying hairstyles.
- 24
Stage Performance Makeup
This course helps students understand the characteristics of stage environments such as plays, musicals, and performances, and learn stage makeup techniques appropriate for lighting, costumes, and character settings. It focuses on exaggerated expression and image delivery abilities.
- 25
Applied Makeup
This course teaches applied makeup techniques suited to various situations, including weddings, parties, broadcasting, and concept photo shoots. Based on trend analysis, students strengthen makeup design competencies that meet customer needs.
- 26
Special Effect Makeup
Through deep observation of subjects and a sense of color and form, this course studies character depiction. Students are guided to create special effects through understanding specialized materials used in special effect makeup, technical expression, and acquisition of new techniques.
- 27
Media Makeup
This course teaches makeup expressions suitable for broadcasting, video, advertising, and SNS content production environments. Students understand makeup differences according to camera lighting and screen composition, and improve practical application abilities.
- 28
Nail Trend Design
This course analyzes domestic and overseas nail trends and plans and produces creative nail designs reflecting them. Students strengthen design sensibility and practical competitiveness that reflect market trends.
- 29
Beauty and MAUM Sharing Regional Services
Through beauty volunteer activities for local communities, students practice major knowledge as actual services. They cultivate social responsibility and empathy and grow as beauty talents connected to the local community.
- 30
Beauty Psychology
Based on understanding customer types according to principles of perceptual psychology and familiarity with the beauty service process, this course teaches proper character and service mindset. Students develop qualities and perspectives through role play covering all field processes, including workplace etiquette, handling customer complaints, front desk response, telephone counseling, proper language expression, and proper posture.
- 31
AI-Integrated Beauty Content Production
This course uses AI technology to plan and produce beauty images, videos, and SNS content. Students systematically strengthen their ability to produce beauty content based on digital platforms.
- 32
Mix Media Nail Art
This course teaches mix media nail art that combines various materials and expression techniques, improving students’ experimental and creative nail design abilities.
- 33
Education Practicum, Beauty
Students conduct long-term field practice in beauty industry settings and improve job performance abilities and organizational adaptability. The course supports employment linkage and career planning.
- 34
AI-Integrated Personal Color Practice
Using AI-based personal color diagnosis technology, students develop practical abilities to analyze individual skin and image characteristics and apply them to makeup and styling.
- 35
AI-Integrated Hair Solution
Through AI data analysis, students learn the ability to diagnose face shape, scalp, and hair condition and propose personalized hairstyles and care solutions.
- 36
AI-Integrated Personalized Skincare
This is a practice-oriented course that uses skin data and AI analysis technology to design and apply skincare programs suited to individual skin types.
- 37
Art and Body Painting
This course uses the human body as a medium for artistic expression and teaches the formative qualities and creativity of body painting. It also expands into exhibition and performance applications.
- 38
Skin Care by Devices
This course teaches the basic electrical principles, usage methods, and effects of skin care devices, and helps students learn how to scientifically apply them to facial skin care.
- 39
VR-Based Body Design
Based on anatomical basic theories of the human body using VR, including the skin, musculoskeletal system, and circulatory system, this course helps students learn how to effectively perform full-body care.
- 40
Oriental Therapy
This course focuses on meridian and acupoint theories, which are core elements of Korean-style skin care, as well as facial and full-body meridian care techniques. Students learn specialized care techniques for promoting the circulation of qi and blood and improving skin function.
- 41
3D Obesity and Body Shape Management
Using AI devices and 3D analysis, this course professionally teaches systematic obesity management and the principles of body shape correction through the latest obesity management techniques.
- 42
Reflex Zone Therapy
This course helps students acquire in-depth professional knowledge of related fields in order to care for body parts that appear reflexively according to anatomical variations of the internal organs, and learn stimulation methods and manual techniques for reflex zones.
- 43
Lymph Drainage and Aromatherapy
This course combines lymphatic system theory and aromatherapy to teach specialized care techniques that support body circulation and improve skin health.
- 44
Beauty Salon Technique 1
As a basic stage of advanced major learning, this course cultivates job competencies needed in employment field settings to improve industry practical abilities by job category in hair, skin care, makeup, and nail fields that can be applied to customers.
- 45
Beauty Salon Project 1
As a basic stage of advanced major learning, this course cultivates job competencies needed in employment field settings to improve industry practical abilities by job category in hair, skin care, makeup, and nail fields that can be applied to customers.
- 46
Beauty Salon Technique 2
As an applied stage of advanced major learning, this course cultivates job competencies needed in employment field settings to improve industry practical abilities by job category in hair, skin care, makeup, and nail fields that can be applied to customers.
- 47
Beauty Salon Project 2
As an applied stage of advanced major learning, this course cultivates job competencies needed in employment field settings to improve industry practical abilities by job category in hair, skin care, makeup, and nail fields that can be applied to customers.
- 48
Capstone Design
This course integrates theories and practice acquired in the beauty major and carries out team-based projects. It aims to produce creative outcomes centered on problem-solving.