The department was established with the objective of developing students?
professional knowledge, methods and capacities for more effective use in the practical field of social welfare. To meet the demands of our rapidly-changing society and its social welfare policy, the department provides the students with theories, skills, and the underlying philosophy of social welfare studies and its practical application. Taking courses, students learn problems and possible solutions to various problems in social welfare systems and policy, in an analytic and scientific way, and prepare themselves to be specialists in a variety of sub-categories, such as, Social Welfare for the Aged, Social Welfare for the Youth, Social Welfare for Handicapped, and Social Welfare Administration and Policy, and Clinical Social Work. The department? education is conducted through intensive major courses and practical field work projects in order to fulfill aims such as:

The Cultivation of Specialists in Practical Locales of Social Welfare Institutions;
The Cultivation of Leadership in Social Welfare;
The Re-education of Social Workers and Executive Officials.




The Department of NGO Studies was established in 1998 to offer graduate training in the NGO field. The department is a unique academic institution in many ways. Not only is it the first university institution of its kind in Korea, but it has been at the forefront of bridging the world of
practitioners with that of scholars. Since its inception, the department has generated keen interest from both academia and the public alike. Belonging to the Graduate School of Civil Society & Welfare, the focal point of the department is a Master? course in NGO studies.
The aim of the degree course is to provide students with exposure to current issues and oncerns in NGO activity around the world; to help students theorize what they may already have acquired in their own NGO activities; and to equip them with the necessary skills in the NGO field which will place them ahead in today? radically changing world. In addition, the wide-ranging representation of NGOs among the student body will enable them to establish a powerful network of information and contacts which would be hard to achieve elsewhere. In a nutshell, students are expected to become professional and forward-looking leaders of the NGO community in the future.