Child Welfare Major

1138 Basic Statistics for Social Welfare (3/3) 기초통계 theory, basic divisional requirement

Course Goal

To provide students with some basic statistical concepts in descriptive and inferential statistics
To help students understand basic statistical methods commonly applied in social research
To help students have basic essential knowledge in both data analysis and statistical critical reasoning, thus, for themselves, producing meaningful data and interpreting correctly them and evaluating data produced by others
To help students have some working knowledge of SPSS, a widely used statistical analysis software package

Course Content

Nature of variables; Data presentation - frequency tables and graphs; Central tendency; Dispersion ;Probability, normal, chi-square and sampling distributions; Parameter estimation; Statistical hypothesis testings for one and two populations; Linear correlation; Simple linear regression; Analysis of variance(ANOVA), (non-parametric) Chi-square test and cross-tabulation.; SPSS lab.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Open to all. Recommended for the 1st- or 2nd-year students. Some mathematical and calculus knowledge preferred.

2790 Christianity and Social Welfare (3/3) 기독교와 사회복지 theory, basic divisional requirement

Course Goal

To help students know the biblical, historical, philosophical, ethical, practical knowledge of christian social work
To understand the basic concepts of christian philosophy of christian social work
To apply the theories, christian values and ideas in the field of christian social work

Course Content

Historical and biblical and philosophical foundations of christian social work
Methods, skills and programs for the individuals and groups and christian social work for handicapped, elderly, poor people, or juvenile, etc.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Open to all. Recommended for the 1st- or 2nd-year students.

2234 Child Welfare (3/3) 아동복지 theory, major requirement

Course Goal

To educate students to be effective and knowledgeable professional Child Welfaresocialworkerspreparedforpracticeinthetwenty-firstcentury.
To enable students to gain specific knowledge relating to the identification of childhood injuries or conditions that are possible indicators of abuse and/or neglect
To enable students to understand and evaluate a variety of service programming, gaps in current services, and the underlying values bases and history for these services
To help students to understand the role of social welfare policy in service delivery, practice, and the attainment of optimal individual and social well-being.
To explore the historical roots, and the social, political, and economic structures that currently form the foundation of social welfare programs and services

Course Content

About child maltreatment, including definitions, signs and symptoms, statistics and prevalence, types of child abuse and neglect, risk and protective factors
The role of social welfare policy in service delivery, practice, and the attainment of optimal individual and social well-being
Contemporary Korean social welfare policies
Various vulnerable populations, strategies of advocacy and social change -skills in policy research
Well-being of children and families by connecting child welfare, adoption and related professionals as well as concerned citizens to timely, essential information.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Open to all. Recommended for the 1st- or 2nd-year students.

2410 Mental Health (3/3) 정신건강론 theory, general elective

Course Goal

To help students to know the knowledge of psychological, biological, social, environmental reasons related to the mental health and mental problems.
To help students to understand the necessity of the study for preventing or curing ways of the mental problems, and understand the various behavior of the mentally ill people.
To help students to be able to apply the psychological, biological, medical and spiritual ways of theory of mental health to the people in need, more effectively and positively.

Course Content

the meaning of the mental health. the factors of mental disease. human development and mental health. mental health of the youth. the adults and the seniors. family mental health. principal of the good health. internet and mental health. the various mental diseases. the treatment of mental diseases. psycho therapy. how to deal with the stress. the secrets of the long-lived for the elderly, etc.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Open to all.

3896 Introduction to Child Care (3/3) 보육학개론 theory, major elective

Course Goal

To help students increase their knowledge about the essence of child care
To help students who want to become parent, preschool teachers attain a well-balanced understanding about character of infancy and early childhood & child care
To help students who want to become preschool teachers manage child care program

Course Content

Concept of child care, development of infancy, toddlerhood, and early childhood, child care programs, contents about child care programs, teacher's role and ability in child care institutions, child care environment, foreign country's child care, etc.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 1rd and 2th year students who have taken general education

1431 Child Development (3/3) 아동발달 theory, major requirement

Course Goal

To provide students with theories of child development in terms of developmental stages
To help students understand theories of Freud, Erikson, Piaget, Vygotsky, Skinner & etc.
To help students understand the cognitive development, socio-emotional development, physical development of children
To help students have basic knowledge of child development and apply to educational field

Course Content

Developmental stages: prenatal and infancy periods, toddler, preschool and kindergarten child, and elementary school child
Psychosexual theory, psychosocial theory, cognitive theory, social-learning theory, theories of Skinner, Watson, Vygotsky, Bronfenbrenner, Kohlberg, Bowlby, Ainsworth
Language acquisition, language development, maternal attachment, moral development, social cognition, children with special needs

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Open to all. Recommended for the 1st- or 2nd-year students

3982 Safety Management for Children (3/3) 아동안전관리 theory+practice, major elective course

Course Goal

To know about unintentional injuries that threat children's health and life
To have knowledge and general attitudes about children's safety
To be able to present safety instruction to children and their parents

Course Content

Overview of the field of safety concepts, the needs of safety education, safety tips with developmental character, school safety for children, consumer safety, motor vehicle safety, home safety, safe community, child abuse detection reporting, prevention of abduction, fire safety, sports safety, information about safety educational programs, First Aid for Infant and child

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students who have taken basic theological courses.

2852 Introduction to Early Childhood Education (3/3) 유아교육론 theory, elective course for major

Course Goal

To provide students with an introductory overview of the field of early childhood education for early childhood teachers
To help students understand educational philosophy of Comenius, Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Froebel, Montessori, Dewey
To help students understand the developmental theories of Freud, Erikson, Piaget, Vygotsky
To help students understand the curriculum, play, teaching strategies for young children, educational environment, learning centers, evaluation, parental education, early childhood special education
To help students have some knowledge of recent trends of early childhood education and apply to educational field

Course Content

Developmental theories of Freud, Erikson, Piaget, Vygotsky
Head Start Program, parental involvement
Developmental Appropriate Practices(DAP), integrated curriculum, Reggio Emilia, learning centers, physical facilities
The exceptional child: providing for children with special needs

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Open to all. Recommended for the 1st- or 2nd-year students.

3984 Play and Child Education (3/3) 놀이지도 theory, course of major, teacher credit course

Course Goal

To teach the students about the aspects of development through play. And also practical teaching methodologies.
To develop professionalism and confidence by showing the educational aspects of play that can be used in the real educational situation.

Course Content

Understand the special characteristic of play and its relationship to development according to age.
Teaching methods using play according to age and its influence on young children's development. After practicing various play techniques the students will make their own play materials and give presentations in class. In order to have the students gain the professionalism that is required, the students will learn origami so they can get the basic origami teaching license.
Perquisites/Requirements/Recommendations
Open to all. Recommended for the 1st- or 2nd-year students.

3897 Art Education for Children (3/3) 아동미술 theory+practice, elective course for major

Course Goal

To familiarize students with approaches to the creative arts in early childhood education.
To enable students to become familiar with developmentally appropriate activities in art that can be used with children ages birth to eight.
To educate students to be effective and knowledgeable about the relations between creative arts and children s development across domains.
To help students to gain an understanding of the role of the teacher in planning and implementing activities associated with the creative arts.
To enable students to design and share creative arts curriculum materials with their peers and children.

Course Content

About the visual arts, activities for young children and how creative arts foster total development.
The teachers role in planning developmentally appropriate creative arts curriculum
Design, implement, and participate in various creative arts projects.
Value of the Expressive Arts, Theory behind Creativity, Aesthetics, Stages of Art Development.
The Reggio Emilia Approach, Portfolio Assignment& Documentation
The Role of the Teacher in Creative Arts Curriculum

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for the 3rd- or 4th-year students.

1511 Early Childhood Curriculum (3/3) 유아교육과정 theory, elective course for major, teacher certificate course

Course Goal

To understand the importance of professionalism in planning early childhood curriculum that is inclusive cultural and special needs.
To develop resource lists of activities for teachers in each area of the early childhood curriculum.
To review the national curriculum and learn to plan and implement developmentally appropriate activities.
To learn to develop an integrated unit of study for young children.

Course Content

This course is designed to help future teachers of young children in planning an appropriate curriculum. Such a curriculum should address all areas of a child's development through an integrated approach.
The course will include a review the national curriculum including the 7th national curriculum and how it applies to early childhood education practices. Also include an overview of the curriculum for early childhood education, writing lesson plans and units, developing teaching aids and learning centers.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd year students who have taken basic courses on early childhood education and child development.

3983 Teaching Method for Young Children (3/3) 영유아교수방법론 theory, elective course for major, teacher certificate course

Course Goal

To describe in detail and compare the major learning theories and various discipline methods used with young children.
To explore appropriate activities and materials for use with children of varying learning styles and developmental levels
To design safe, healthy, and developmentally appropriate classroom settings and arrange standard materials, standard centers, supplemental thematic materials, and supplementary thematic centers into an appropriate room arrangement and schedule.

Course Content

This course is designed to explore an appropriate instructional methods for young children with an emphasis on learning as an interactive process. The instructor will model methods that are designed to meet students' educational purposes. Thus, prospective teachers will come to understand about activities and learning materials that are appropriate for children so they are equipped to design programs in which young children can make meaningful connections.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 2nd and 3rd year students who have taken Introduction to Early Childhood Education and child development courses.

1434 Counseling for children (3/3) 아동상담 theory, major elective

Course Goal

To review essential people, theories and organizations that shaped the history of the profession of play therapy.
To understand the developmental stages of children and children's play.
To demonstrate an understanding of the role of the child counselor.
To review essential child counseling process.
To demonstrate basic child counseling skills.
To be able to conceptualize a client's presenting problems developmentally and theoretically.

Course Content

Knowledge of theories, processes, and techniques of child counseling are applied to the diagnosis and treatment of children's problems.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4rd year students.

3986 Music Education for Children (3/3) 아동음악과 동작 theory+practice requirement course for major

Course Goal

In the system of music education for children, the purpose of teaching is not just for music education but is to make them improve in musical movement. With practical examination and theory, our goal is to use education that is belonging to children which build their own character.

Course Content

Main point to improve children's imagination, remembrance, concentration, creation and movement must follow. In order to achieve, we use following processes of course description. Vocal lesson, Nursery song accompaniment, learn about form of instrumental music, Play rhythm instrument, Conduction technique, Creates ideas, Method of music appreciation, Way to express an impromptu, etc. Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

3899 Health Education for Children (3/3) 아동건강교육 theory+practice, elective course for major, teacher certificate course

Course Goal

To understand the growth and development characteristics of young children and the structure and function of the comprehensive health program and the teacher's role.
To understand the basic factors considered to be necessary in the construction of practical lesson plans and be able to work within the designs of certain teaching methods.
To understand the various aspects of Physical fitness and the role of nutrition in our daily lives and how it relates to young children' physical and mental well-being.
To develop a lesson plan on specific health, nutrition and safty education topics and implement various teaching method.

Course Content

This course is designed for Early Childhood education and care majors who will be teaching young children. This focuses on helping prepare students to develop and teach health education lesson. This course will overview the variety of influences on children's health, and plan and implement the health and nutrition education and safety activities, methods, and materials appropriate for young children

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students who have taken basic theological courses.

2227 Physical &Movement Education for Young Children (3/3) 유아동작교육theory+student presentation, elective course for major

Course Goal

To help students increase their knowledge about a teaching method to enable young children to express their feelings and emotion. For this, the students will be taught on children's developmental stages and on basic principle and element of children's motion.

Course Content

Motion education of young children is an integrated education having special educational value to deal with their cognitive, physical and emotional development. In this course, the students will be taught about children's developmental characteristic by age categories, about basic principle and element of children's motion, and about teaching methods. After the course, the students can knows how to provide an opportunity for young children to search their ability and to re-organize of their creative and functional activities.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students who have taken basic related courses.

2044 Child Care Practicum (3/3) 보육실습 field training, teacher certificate course

Course Goal

To help students to have direct working with a pre-school, day-care, or nursery school situation
To enable students to review the process for setting up a practicum, forms used during practicum, understand child care licensing requirements
To help students to understand practicum expectations and responsibilities, methods of evaluation, and the importance of professionalism in the work place with emphasis on working with students on a one-to-one, small group or large group basis.
To enable students to plan learning experiences that promote physical, cognitive, and social and emotional development, and language and literacy skills in young children

Course Content

Organizing a file of educational materials for teaching at the early childhood education program
Written journal on observations
Methods of assisting the classroom teacher with student activities
Developing materials appropriate for classroom use.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 4th year students who have taken basic courses for Child Care Practicum

2046 Play Therapy (3/3) 놀이치료 unit, theory, major elective

Course Goal

To review essential people, theories and organizations that shaped the history of the profession of play therapy.
To understand the developmental stages of children and children's play.
To identify developmentally appropriate play therapy toys and materials that can be incorporated into play room for the purposes of both assessment and treatment.
To demonstrate an understanding of the role of the play therapist.
To demonstrate basic play therapy skills.
To be able to conceptualize a client's presenting problems developmentally and theoretically.

Course Content

This course provides an overview of the essential elements and principles of play therapy, including history, theories, modalities, techniques, applications and skills. And theories and practices of play therapy are understood and used to solve children's problems in the context of family life cycle, community and school setting.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4rd year students.

3900 Child Guidance (3/3) 아동생활지도 theory, elective course for major, teacher certificate course

Course Goal

To understand how the social environment and family affect the development of children.
To recognize issues of individual differences and diversity in child development and their implications for child behavior and guidance.
To compare and contrast the major theories of child guidance, and become familiar with the guidance practices and strategies for effective and positive discipline derived from these theories.
To review current literature on different topics of child guidance.
To devise a guidance plan for a specific problem/issue of child development.

Course Content

This course will present theoretical and practical aspects for helping and working with young children and their families, drawing from the major theories of child development. The course aims to provide the student with knowledge of the risk factors in child development as well as the techniques and strategies designed to help develop effective and positive guidance and discipline practices.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students who have taken basic theological courses.

3901 Studies of Child Behavior (3/3) 아동관찰 및 행동연구 theory, major elective

Course Goal

To understand the goals, benefits and uses of observation.
To demonstrate knowledge about and use of observation and other appropriate assessment tools and approaches.
To enhance awareness of the normal patterns of young children's behavior.
To understand importance of objective assessment when working with children.
To Provide multiple opportunities to practice objective observation.

Course Content

This course is designed to increase objectivity in observing and interpreting children's behavior, to observe developmental characteristics. Various observational research methods are introduced. Multiple opportunities to practice objective observation are provided.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4rd year students.

1524 Language Arts in Early Childhood Education (3/3) 유아언어교육 theory, major elective

Course Goal

To review theories of language development(emergence) for young children.
To demonstrate an understanding that reading, writing, and listening are interrelated and mutually reinforcing.
To identify appropriate skills in creating an environment where literacy flourishes.
To understand role of the teacher to develop language in young children.
To be able to use informal assessment strategies in language arts.

Course Content

This course focuses on the child's emerging literacy and exposure to language stimulation. The course fosters an understanding of how techniques and activities affect language and early literacy skills development in young children. The course review current theories of spoken and written language acquisition and learning.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4rd year students.

390201 Math&Science Education for Children (3/3) 유아 수, 과학지도 presentation, elective course for major

Course Goal

To help students increase their teaching ability for young children to solve problems by mathematic and scientific thinking.
To help students increase their teaching ability for young children to be logical by mathematic and scientific thinking.
To help students increase their teaching ability for young children to seek after persistently by mathematic and scientific thinking.

Course Content

Most parts of young children's daily life are good opportunities of their mathematic and scientific activities. After the course, the students can help young children to learn how to think mathematically and scientifically through their daily life. This course deals with various teaching methods, theories and practical programs about mathematic and scientific education.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students who have taken basic related courses.

2786 Parents Education (3/3) 부모교육 theory, major elective

Course Goal

To help students increase their knowledge about the meaning and necessary of parents education
To help students who want to become parent, preschool teachers attain a well-balanced understanding about character of fathering and mothering, preschool teacher's role
To help students who want to become preschool teachers communicate with parents and manage parents education program

Course Content

Concept of parents education, parents participation, modern society and parents, understanding about modern families, theories and programs of parents education, relationship between parents, early childhood education and local community, parents education in early childhood institutions, etc.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students who have taken basic child welfare courses

2217 Social Development of Young Children (3/3) 유아사회교육 theory+practice, elective course for major, teacher credit course

Course Goal

To help students increase their knowledge about the social development in childhood and the essence of social studies in early childhood education
To help students who plan to become teachers can make plans for the social studies related activities and get abilities that can be applied to the children in classroom situation

Course Content

Knowledge, skills and attitudes
Necessities for social development and social studies in early childhood education
Theories of development and socilization in childhood
Social skills: for productive problem solving and decision making / for assessing issues and making thoughtful value judgment and ect.
Understanding for diversities in clurture, sex, age and ect.: Anti-vias

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 2rd and 3th year students who have taken basic theological courses including developmental psychology

1041 Subject Matter Education (3/3) 교과교육론 theory+practice, teacher credit course

Course Goal

To help students acquire knowledge on the effective strategies in classroom teaching and learning
To help students learn various educational contents and teaching strategies
To help students choose and organize appropriate curriculum in educational institutions

Course Content

This course examines theories and practices of teaching and learning in the education for children. The students will be provided with opportunities for planning and implementing lessons based on curriculum. Effective ways for organizing classroom environment and educational activities, and various methods for applying teaching and learning strategies will be covered.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for Juniors and Seniors who have taken basic courses on child development and learning.

4820 Teaching of Logical Thinking and Writing Skills (2/2) 교과논리 및 논술교육 theory, teacher certificate course

Course Goal

To help students increase their knowledge about the subject logic and essay
To help students who want to become preschool teachers attain a well-balanced understanding about subject content and materials of preschool
To help students who want to become preschool teachers manage subject materials and use effectively

Course Content

Concept of subject education, subject logic, development of infancy, toddlerhood, and early childhood, creative construction for subject materials, practice for effective using subject materials, application teaching methods to diverse environments, etc.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students who want to have teacher certificate

4819 Instructional Strategies in Early Childhood Education (3/3) 교과별교수법 theory+practice, teacher credit course

Course Goal

To demonstrate an understanding of knowledge theoretical and developmental perspectives and application strategies in teaching
To design developmentally appropriate integrated curriculum for preschool and kindergarten aged children utilizing appropriate goals, concepts, and assessment.
To demonstrate knowledge of the connections areas of the preschool and kindergarten curriculum.
To differentiate between textbook, project, activity, learning centers, and computer?based instruction.
To demonstrate ability to assess young children’s development in the area of early childhood education curriculum

Course Content

This course is designed to introduce students to methods and
instructional materials used in the teaching/learning in early childhood education. Emphasis is placed upon how the child develops logical mental structures essential in learning theory to practice in teaching children ages 3?8. The course review how the teacher develops an integrated curriculum that includes appropriate content, processes, environment and materials, and child-centered choices.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students.

3895 Education of Exceptional Children (3/3) 특수아동지도theory, elective course for major

Course Goal

To develop an understanding on the principles and theories of special education, and enhance the ability to apply such knowledge in inclusive setting
To help students understand the physical, intellectual, and personality development of children with disabilities, and become capable of applying such knowledge to the educational process
To help students acquire the character and professionalism required as future educational supporter

Course Content

Understanding impairment, disability, handicap and children with development disabilities, Historical perspectives of special education, Identifying, characteristics, and terminology of children with mental retardation, learning disabilities, emotional and behavioral disorders, communication disorders, hearing impairment, visual impairment, orthopedic impairment,health impairment, autistic disorder and gifted children. Individualized educational plan. Inclusive education. Family and social issues.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students who have taken basic theological courses.