Course General Description

The university’s Department of Art and Industrial Design and Department of Visual Communication Design have been integrated into the Department of Design. The goal of this department is to integrate design research and design education to produce graduates with the expertise necessary to meet social demand. Our department was established to pursue a living culture system based on creativity and emotional intelligence. Through integrated education, we have been training the professionals’ modeling power, scientific thinking, and innovation. In order to train talented individuals with a global vision, the Department of Design has a long-term goal of a world 60 large design department approach,” which was set as a target to characterize the strengthening of international competitiveness for social enterprises. The characterization strategy for the educational and legal validity is to expand the opening of specialized seasonal semester and regular semester English subject courses that are meant to achieve a higher level of internationalization. The department also aims to develop systematic teaching methods in various fields of speciality.

School General Description

Set up at the same time as the establishment of the Republic of Korea in 1910, the South Korean capital’s third largest university has been reorganised several times as Gyeongseong Public Industrial School, then Gyeonggi Technical College, and then Gyeonggi Open Industrial University, before being renamed the Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech) in 2010, to celebrate its centenary year. Specialising in technology, engineering and design, it has remained a leading light in these fields since it was conceived, and also boasts stellar business and education programs, as well as a globally distinguished ceramics program. Alongside Seoul National University, it is the only four-year national general university in the Seoul metropolitan area. The urban campus, located in the North East Tereung area of Seoul, is about 40 minutes by subway from central Seoul and comprises six colleges; engineering, information communications, bioenergy, design, humanities and social sciences and management technology. There are also seven graduate teaching institutions. Facilities include a state-of-the-art library (housing over 600,000 volumes), a press and broadcasting centre and an Institute for Language Education and Research, operated by 20 native-speaking English teachers.