For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| COV7001 | Academic Writing and Research Ethics 1 | 1 | 2 | Major | Master/Doctor | SKKU Institute for Convergence | Korean | Yes | |
| 1) Learn the basic structure of academic paper writing, and obtain the ability to compose academic paper writing. 2) Learn the skills to express scientific data in English and to be able to sumit research paper in the international journals. 3) Learn research ethics in conducting science and writing academic papers. | |||||||||
| COV7003 | Academic Writing and Research Ethics 3 | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | SKKU Institute for Convergence | Korean,English | Yes | |
| This course trains graduate students to become more effective, efficient, and confident writers. This is a hands-on course that emphasizes interactive examples and practice. In the first four weeks, we will review principles of effective writing, examples of good and bad writing, and tips for making the writing process easier. In the second four weeks, we will examine issues specific to scientific writing, including: authorship, peer review, the format of an original manuscript, and research ethics. Students will complete editing exercises, write two short papers, and edit each others’ work. The primary audience is graduate majors, graduate students in any disciplines, and professional scientists. | |||||||||
| ERP4001 | Creative Group Study | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | - | No | ||
| This course cultivates and supports research partnerships between our undergraduates and faculty. It offers the chance to work on cutting edge research—whether you join established research projects or pursue your own ideas. Undergraduates participate in each phase of standard research activity: developing research plans, writing proposals, conducting research, analyzing data and presenting research results in oral and written form. Projects can last for an entire semester, and many continue for a year or more. SKKU students use their CGS(Creative Group Study) experiences to become familiar with the faculty, learn about potential majors, and investigate areas of interest. They gain practical skills and knowledge they eventually apply to careers after graduation or as graduate students. | |||||||||
| GSP4001 | Policy Science: Theory & Korean Smart Policy Framework | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | English | Yes | ||
| As the 21st century unfolds, we are living in a chaotic and turbulent society. Speed of thought becomes very important as information and knowledge is the most critical factor of national competitiveness. To achieve national competitiveness, thereby building a great and strong nation, effective policymaking is crucial to achieve government innovation and national transformation. How these kinds of enormous change and innovation, swirling from the high-technological environmental changes such as the SMART revolution and the INDUSTRIAL revolution, will impact the academic discipline of policy science, effective policy-making specifically? What should be the new theoretical principle and philosophy of policy science to break-away the so-called criticism of the ‘impoverished professionalism’ facing the science of public administration? And how could we then academically link the theoretical principles of the knowledge-created Smart e-Government with the traditional Policy Science? This lecture concentrates on the attempt to answer these kinds of academic as well as practical questions, searching for a new paradigm of the policy framework to presenting the most appropriate strategy facing the developing countries in this 21st century. | |||||||||
| GSP4002 | Case Study for the Collaborative Governance | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | - | No | ||
| This course aims to provide an opportunity to learn institutional diversity for solving new social problems and to critically explore its feasibility. We learn various theoretical lenses on the diversity of ‘wicked’ problems, governance, and collaborative governance. Based on this theoretical discussion, students have the opportunity to analyze the limitations of the current solution for social problems and present creative alternatives. It also offers students the chance to learn and practice research methods for governance, such as case studies, so that they can give presentations at academic conferences. | |||||||||
| GSP4003 | e-Government and Policy Development: A Case Study on the Local Development in Korea | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | - | No | ||
| The purpose of the seminar is to examine the main economic, political, cultural, legal and technical forces generated by Information and Knowledge Revolution, for which new e-Policy must be developed. In this seminar, we will discuss the theoretical as well as strategic dimensions of knowledge-based society, Information Policy and its Strategic implications. Also This lecture concentrates on the local development cases(Saemaul Undong etc.) in Korea. | |||||||||
| GSP4004 | Information Policy and Policy Development: A Case Study on the Local Development in Korea | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | - | No | ||
| This lecture concentrates on the rapid developments in the telecommunications and information fields that play a major role in shaping future political, economic and human dimensions in the 21st century. The purpose of the seminar is to examine the main economic, political, cultural, legal and technical forces generated by Information and Knowledge Revolution, for which new e-Governance must be developed. In this teaching, we will discuss the theoretical as well as strategic dimensions of knowledge-based society. And we will concentrates on the local development cases in Korea. | |||||||||
| GSP4005 | Regional Economy and Financial Management | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | - | No | ||
| This course is intended to explore strategies and policies for regional development in the area of fiscal management and educate students to be a competent policy maker. Drawn from microeconomic perspectives on revenue and expenditure, we introduce relevent theories and analytic frameworks. The topics include Tiebout model, cost-effectiveness analysis, rent seeking, median voter model, economic development. | |||||||||
| GSP4006 | Sustainable Community Development | 3 | 6 | Major | Bachelor/Master | Korean | Yes | ||
| This course aims to provide an understanding of methods to activate local communities in a sustainable manner. Students will discuss the concept of community and the significance of assets within the community. They will acquire knowledge of the sustainability of communities, the process of community development, and the roles of relevant organizations in community development. Additionally, students will engage in discussions about the impact and roles of essential human, social, physical, financial, environmental, political, and cultural capital in community development. They will explore various cases related to these community assets and strategies for activating sustainable local communities. | |||||||||
| GSP5001 | Public Values and Statesmanship | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| Governing the government is different from managing the business, since it pursues the realization of public values, not profit-maximization. People working for and in the government requires higher integrity than the general public. This class teaches the concepts and theories of public interest and ideals for public administration, using cases from the Korean history and other countries. | |||||||||
| GSP5004 | Organizatinal Theory | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| This course introduces macro-organization theory as the theoretical foundation of Public Administration. It discusses the effective organization models and its contexts, such as organization goals and strategies, organization environments, organization technology, organization size and life cycle, and organization culture. Expecially, it emphasizes the uniqueness of public organization, and its innovation. | |||||||||
| GSP5005 | Advanced Theories in Policy Sciences | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course provides a working knowledge of the theories of policy sciences through the review of its objectives, paradigms, conceptual frameworks, approaches, ethical nature, and theoretical development. The course also encourages students to apply the policy sciences theories for their intellectual and practical policy purposes. | |||||||||
| GSP5006 | Local Government and Public Administration | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| This course deals with varions topics such as the structures and function of the local government, intergovernmental relation(IGR), local government-citizen relations, metropolitan governance etc. Many topics will be discussed from the political-economy perspective. | |||||||||
| GSP5007 | Urban Administration and Planning | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | - | No | |
| This course aims to learn theoretical concepts and approaches regarding urban management and planning issues. It covers a wide range of urban issues: urbanization and suburbanization, urban governance, geographic information systems, urban regeneration and renewal, public service location, housing, land use, transportation, the environment, and municipal finance. | |||||||||
| GSP5008 | Organizational Behavior | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Korean | Yes | |
| This course introduces micro-organization theory as the theoretical foundation of Public Administration. It explains employee's performance in organization, looking at individual variables (perception, motive, learning, attitude, personality), group variables (group structure and composition), and organization variables (leadership, organization culture). Based on these theoretical backgrounds, it touches some management tools, including management-by-objectives, pay-for-performance, and empowerment. | |||||||||