Welfare for the Elderty Major

1555 Understanding of Human Welfare (3/3) 인간복지의 이해 theory, basic divisional requirement

Course Goal

To help students attain basic understanding on social welfare in general and child welfare, youth studies, welfare for elderly and for disabled in particular
To provide students knowledge and experience they need to decide their major and career goals

Course Content

Basic concepts of social welfare; basic concepts and theories, policies and administration, current issues and practice in the areas of child welfare, youth studies, welfare for elderly, and welfare for disabled, etc.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for first semester students majoring areas in Social Welfare Division

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.

2584 Gerontology (3/3) 노년학 theory, elective course for major

Course Goal

To students can understand the old people by learning about characteristics of old people and aging process, especially from psychological and sociological perspectives.
To students can get more balanced knowledge and ideas about the aging world and understand the various problems of this aging world.

Course Contents

Gerontology is a study about the old people and the aging process. Especially, this course focuses world aging process in the light of demographic changes and its diverse aspects of societies and personal lives.
Social, psychological, and physical aspects of aging, such as ageism, caregiving, sexuality, retirement and jobs, death and dying, health, long-term care, marital relationship and freindship of elderly couple and elderly abuse, will be dealt in this class.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 1st and 2nd year students

2844 Social Welfare for the Elderly (3/3) 노인복지론 theory, elective course for major

Course Goal

To provide theoretical and practical knowledge on the elderly and welfare.
To explore an overview of public policies at the national level that have particular relevance to the elderly and the aging within the life course.
To improve the quality of students as professionals in the field of gerontology.

Course Content

We will focus on concepts, themes and issues related the followings: successful aging, economic security, medical insurance, care of elders in families and institutions, housing policy, home-bound welfare service, elder abuse and neglect, voluntary programs of the elderly, death and dying, welfare policies related to the aged, etc.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 1st and 2nd year students

4675 Care Work (3/3) 케어복지론 theory, credit course for major

Course Goal

To help students increase their knowledge about elderly care
To help students who want to become social worker or care manager attain a more effective knowledge and practice skills of elderly care

Course Content

Care welfare theories and principles
Specifically focus on following issues ; the concept of care welfare, practices of care services, community care and institutional care, professional and ethical issue, etc
Apply comparative analyses on elderly long term care insurance in Korea and other foreign countries

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 1st and 2nd year students

2047 Volunteerism (3/3) 자원봉사론 theory, elective course for major

Course Goal

To examine the theoretical, historical, practical and political aspects of volunteerism.
To recognize dimensions of and effective practices in the field of volunteerism.
To prepare students to serve as leaders of volunteers, volunteer administrators and coordinators of volunteers in a variety of social work settings.

Course Content

We will focus on concepts, themes and issues related the followings: the history of volunteerism, the field of volunteerism, motivation of volunteers, building communication skills, developing a volunteer program, evaluation of volunteer program, exploration of service learning theory and practice, center for volunteer service, prospects of volunteerism in Korea, etc.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 1st and 2nd year students

2041 Social Work with Family (3/3) 가족복지론 theory, elective course for major

Course Goal

To help understand the fundamental and specific issues of 'family'
To guide in analysing the characteristics and problems of families today.
To guide specific and organized approach to social work with families

Course Content

This course focuses on understanding family, definition, roles, living patterns, transformation of families today and the newly raised issues.
We study the goal of social work with families, practices, methods, legal and administrative approach, service approach.
We aim to understand and develop way to help different family groups - divorced families, single parent families, unwed families, adoptive families, multi-cultural families, refugee families from DPRK(Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea: North Korea), families with physically challenged members, families with both parents working, families with grandparents raising grandchildren etc.
We try to estimate the changes and the tasks of social work with families.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 1st and 2nd year students

4306 Community Care (3/3) 재가복지론 theory, elective course for major

Course Goal

To help students increase their knowledge about community care
To help students who want to become social worker in community welfare center for providing elderly services attain a more effective knowledge and practice skill

Course Content

Understanding elderly care system in community care
Understanding knowledge and skills for community elderly care service
Apply effective and efficient analyses on elderly care programs
Care management and social work practice for elderly in community care

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students

4300 Family Life Education (3/3) 가족생활교육 theory, elective course for major

Course Goal

To identify the theories, principles, domains, ethics and methods of family life education.
To help students use family life education theories and methods to design, implement and evaluate family life education programs.
To prepare students to serve as professionals in a variety of agencies and organizations serving families.

Course Content

We will focus on concepts, themes and issues related the followings: the characteristics, principles and domains of FLE, formats for FLE program, FLE program development, FLE program implementation, FLE program evaluation, and adapting programs for diverse settings, etc.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 1st and 2nd year students

4303 Gender and Families (3/3) 성과가족 theory, elective course for major

Course Goal

To define the sex, gender and sexuality, and to look over the meaning and basic concepts of sexism, gender-role, sex- stereotypes, sex-identification and attitudes toward sex in the light of gender and equality perspectives. To find out how people , including sutudents themselves, have distorted thoughts about sex-related ideas and behaviors.
To help students understand the world is composed of male and female who are totally equal but biologically different and apply this concept to their daily lives.

Course Contents

This class looks over several basic concepts, such as difference and discrimination by sex, sex-stereotypes, sex-identification and attitudes toward sexes. Also, though the course, students study about many issues related to the sex-system in this society, such as sexuality and love, marriage, marital relationship and conflicts in the gener perspectives, gender role issues of family and society and others(trans-gender, homosexuality. Students watch several movies and discuss about what they watch.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 1st and 2nd year students

4676 General Medical Science (3/3) 의학기초 theory and practice, elective course for major

Course Goal

To offer an introduction to the major concepts, principles, and issues involved in the study of general medical science.
To provide an overview of the philosophy, purpose, history, and organization of public health practice increasing students' knowledge of disease prevention/control, health protection, and health promotion over diverse health topics.
To provide students with basic medical knowledges of adapting to the elderly with health problems.
To learn preventing and promoting knowledge and skills for health promotion practices in elderly population.

Course Content

Human body and physiologic mechanism, Aging theory, Development and aging, Health behaviors(drinking, smoking, physical activity, and stress) and chronic disease, Prevention of chronic disease(hypertension, stroke, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, dementia, and arthritis), First aid treatment, CPR etc.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd year students

4653 Elderly Counseling and Psychology (3/3) 노인상담심리 theory, elective course for major

Course Goal

To understand the elderly and that period of life. See their problems and needs from different aspects and find way to help them.
To gain knowledge and skill for in depth field work with the elderly.

Course Content

Understanding the society today and the elderly
Basics to counseling the elderly
Theory and technic to counseling the elderly
Investigating and counseling different kinds of problems that the elderly face : depression, sexual issues, divorce after long marriage, different kinds of abuse, preparing death, relationships (with children, in-laws, neighbors etc.)

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students

2590 Case Management (3/3) 사례관리론 theory, elective course for major

Course Goal

To help students increase their knowledge and skills about case management as one of social work practices
To help students who want to become social worker or case manager attain a more effective knowledge and practice skills needed in various social work settings

Course Content

Theories and principles of case management
Specifically focus on following issues ; definition of case management, objects of case management, various models of case management, role of case manager, case management methodology and skills, etc

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students who have taken basic courses in social work practice and skills. However, anyone interested in case management is welcome.

1599 Social Work Practice with Disabilities (3/3) 장애인복지론 theory elective course for major

Course Goal

To guide the students understand the theories of social work practice with Disabilities and social environment.
To foster the students the general knowledge of theories and strategies in each stage of social welfare practice with Disabilities.

Course Content

This course is designed to introduce social welfare policies for disabled people in society. Concepts of social integration and normalization are examined and connected to practical approaches for actualizing such principles. Emphasis is on increasing student's understandings about disabled people's lives and welfare policies to promote their quality of life. Finally, this course examines social measures and service programs that can strengthen social integration.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 2nd and 3rd year students

4679 Program Development and Evaluation (3/3) 프로그램개발과 평가 theory and practice, elective course for major

Course Goal

To learn to develop programs to give individuals a chance to look back at their lives for self-integration.
To learn to develop programs to manage harmonious relationships with family, neighbors and social activities.
To learn to develop programs to enhance health, leisure, religion activities, volunteer work etc.

Course Content

Theoretical background to self-integration and reflection of life.
Program structure
Program process
Program analysis
Program evaluation

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students who interest have

3626 Social Facilities for the Elderly (3/3) 노인주거 및 시설복지론 theory, elective course for major

Course Goal

To help students increase their knowledge about elderly facilities
To help students who want to become staffs in elderly care facilities attain a more comprehensive knowledge and practice skill

Course Content

Understanding the meanings of human service Institution
Understanding the traits of elderly residents
Elderly care facilities management
Apply social work theological and practical analyses on elderly resident care

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students

4652 Care Skills (3/3) 케어기술론 theory and practice, elective course for major

Course Goal

To help students understand the elderly and a disabled person who have care needs.
To help students achieve knowledge and principles about the care.
To help students accomplish the ability to provide practical skill for clients in the field

Course Contents
Theories and principles of care skill
Apply care skill for following items: communication skill, Environment assessment, vital sign, assistant of wheelchair walk and cruch walk, position change, ROM exercise, restrain, help to eat, feeding, oral care, perineal care, colostomy care, wound care, bathing, sore care, care for dementia clients, hospice, back massage, etc.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students who have taken basic medicine course

4301 Health Management for the Elderly (3/3) 노인건강관리론 theory, elective course for major

Course Goal

To provide students with basic concepts of physical, social, and psychological changes accompanying the human aging process, emphasizing the holistic view of nursing care for the health needs of the elderly.
To seek for students to understand the ageing phenomenon in a biological, psychological and sociological view, examining the ageing problem in its tangible aspects.
To encourage students' understanding on the unique characteristics of aging and diverse health problems related to aging.
To assist students to find ways of implementing a health management program for elderly in the community.

Course Content

Assessment and health promotion for the elderly population, Welfare and caring for elderly, Body system(integumentary system, immune system, nervous system, circulatory system, digestive system, respiratory system, urinary system, skeletal system, muscular system, endocrine system, reproductive system etc.) Process of aging, Nutrition and health, Rest and health, Safety and health, Sex of elderly, Death and the last developmental stage.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd year students

1299 Social Security (3/3) 사회보장론 theory, elective course for major

Course Goal

To study the basic ideas and meaning of social security policies, which are representative social welfare policies in industrialized society.
To understand importance and position of social security system in welfare states.
To learn the methods of analysis for social security system in different counties.

Course Content

This course treats the issues on experiences, the present situations, the problems, and the prospects of our country and a developed welfare state.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students

4651 Care Practicum (3/3) 케어현장실습 Practicum, elective course for major

Course Goal

To give students full of experiences in the practical fields of the elderly social welfare such as nursing home, community elderly welfare center, or hospitals etc.
To learn practical knowledge and skills and to enhance students'understaning applied to the caring work for the elderly by sharing field experiences

Course Contents
Each of the students taken this course should apply a place to practice for at least three weeks. It can be done during vacation before the semester the class opens or during the semester. Each of students gives a presentation about all the experiences in class and discusses with the class mates and professor. Feed back each other and get some better ideas for future practices.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students who have taken care work and care skills courses

4302 Practical Activities for the Elderly (3/3) 노인활동실천론 theory and practice, elective course for major

Course Goal

To learn how to make good and appropriate programs for the elderly, in terms of contents, structures and procedures.
To enhance their knowledge about fields and clients in different settings through the practices

Course Contents
Students study the purpose and functions of activity programs in the practical field of elderly social welfare areas. And the basic structure and principle of the programs are taught. Several important skills such as music therapy, dance therapy, drawing therapy, some applicable group activities are introduced to the students.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students

4678 Food and Nutrition (3/3) 영양학 theory, elective course for major

Course Goal

To understand nutritional problems of aging adults and develop nutritional programs to maintain, promote, and improve health based on such factors as health status, disease and age.
To help students understand the assessment of nutritional needs of the aged, process of nutritional care, modification of diet, mode of nutrition delivery, and nutritional education to maintain and improve health for elderly.
To assist students accomplish the knowledges of special nutrition issues at different periods of the life cycle.
To encourage study students the role of diet in the prevention and management of various chronic diseases.
To help students understand nutritional assessment in various populations, research on the causal relationships between dietary factors and diseases.

Course Content

Process of aging and or the problems of aged people, Basic principle of nutrients, Nutritional management for elderly population, Nutritional problem in the aged, Relationship between dietary intakes and chronic disease(hypertension, stroke, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, dementia, and arthritis) etc.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students

4304 Hospice (3/3) 호스피스 theory and practice, elective course for major

Course Goal

To learn how to treat patients with character and dignity at last moment of life, and help them prepare for death with a peaceful mind.
To learn to help patients accept death as a part of life, and help them spend the last moments meaningfully for oneself and the close ones.
To learn to help the families of the patients accept the patient's death in physically, mentally, socially and spiritually peaceful state.

Course Content

Understanding hospice and related concepts : definitions, history, sectors, principles, team approach, wholistic care
Understanding death : approach related to psychology, religion and discipline
Understanding cancer and pain management
Guide to bereavement care and helping the bereaved family according to different phase and group
Understanding the patient, family and mediation between them.
Funeral tradition and practices
Writing wills and legal understanding
Principle of hospice volunteer work

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students

4308 Silver Industry (3/3) 실버산업 theory, elective course for major

Course Goal

To analyze the characteristics of the aging society, the concept and necessity of the silver business, the programs of the silver business in the advanced society, and the domains of supply of goods and services in the elderly market.
To propose the policy alternatives, both private and public sector, for the activation of the silver business in Korea.
To improve the quality of students as professionals in the field of elderly market.

Course Content

Concept of silver industry: its social background and prospect various fields of silver industry: housing business, health and care business, finance business, recreation business, and goods for the aged, etc.
Developmental implications for social welfare policy for the aged

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students who interest have

3627 Music and Art Therapy for the Elderly (3/3) 노인음악예술치료 theory and practice, elective course for major

Course Goal

To understand music function, music therapy principle and music therapy diagnose, process and method
To experience of different music therapies
To gain music therapy knowledges and skills for the field work

Course Content

Understanding the music therapy theory
Understanding music therapy technics (goal, effect, approach method for the elderly)
Exprience of different music therapy skills with practice in class

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students who interest have

4677 Rehabilitation Therapy (3/3) 작업치료 theory and practice, elective course for major

Course Goal

To understand the rehabilitation therapy function, principle and diagnose method, process
To experience of different rehabilitation therapies
To gain rehabilitation therapy knowledges and skills for the field work

Course Content

Understanding the rehabilitation therapy theory
Understanding rehabilitation therapy technics (goal, effect, approach method for the elderly)
Exprience of different rehabilitation therapy skills with practice in class

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students

4817 Practical Care Activities for the Elderly (3/3) 노인요양실천론 theory and practice, elective course for major

Course Goal

To introduce and compare long-term care systems and services in different countries including Korea.
To learn the characteristics of Korean long-term care activities.

Course Contents

Several long-term care systems in the different countries such as United-States, Germany, Japan, Sweden, Australia and Korea will be introduced and compared each other. Practical knowledges about caring the olds and the disables, such as feeding, bathing, toileting, are taught through the experimentation. Some effective skills such as communication with the olds and the disables, recording and assessments are also taught.

Prerequisites/Requirements/Recommendations

Recommended for 3rd and 4th year students