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School of Counseling Psychology and Social Welfare
Course Name Spring Fall Credits

Introduction to Psychology

In this course, we will study a set of topics from various areas of psychology. The course will be based on lectures by the instructor and class activities (including giving a presentation/showing a video) that students are encouraged to participate in.

  O 3

Theory & Practice of Counseling

This course is designed to survey the major concepts and practices of the contemporary therapeutic systems and addresses some ethical and professional issues in counseling practice. It is also designed to equip students to begin to develop their own theory and practice of counseling.

  O 3

Personality Psychology

This course provides an overview of major theories and research evidence in personality psychology.

O   3

Social Problems

This course covers theoretical approaches to social problems and various social problems in the world, particularly South Korea. We will learn about several problems such as global issues, inequality, urban problems, institutional problems, and deviant behaviors. In addition, we will discuss potential solutions for the social problems.

O   3

Statistics in Social Welfare

Since the evidence-based practice is a key principle in social welfare practice, the knowledge and skills related to statistics and research is important to become a competent social welfare practitioner. For this, this course covers from understanding the basic concepts of statistics to writing statistical analysis results. Thus, students will enhance their capacity related to not only understanding academic papers, but also writing papers.

O   3

Program Development and Evaluation for Social Welfare

This course is designed to provide a knowledge base of the key concepts of the Logic Model, need assessment, program evaluation, and program performance in various social service fields. In this course a Logic Model will be used as a powerful tool for program planning through evaluation.

O   3

Psychological Statistics

O   3

Capstone Design

O   3

Family Counseling & Family Thearapy

This course provides an overview of family counseling (a.k.a. marriage and family therapy; MFT). This course will review the history of family therapy development and the major leaders in the MFT history. Core and unique concepts and terms, as well as traditional and modern theoretical models in MFT will be taught in this course.

O   3

Social Welfare Policy

This course is designed to enable students to increase their understanding of social welfare policy and to analyze existing Korean social welfare policies. An analytic framework will be presented to assist students in assessing social welfare policies. Students will analyze social welfare policies or propose new social welfare policies and programs for a project.

O   3

Individual Study

O   3

Clinical Psychology

This course is designed to introduce students to Clinical Psychology by portraying the field as a health profession that uses cognition, emotion and somatic principles to help understand, assess and modify health showcasing the field in its reality.

O   3

Developmental Psychology

This course focuses on understanding human development throughout the lifespan, from birth to later life. Students will learn core concepts and theories to understand the process of human development

  O 3

Counseling Practicum 1 (LAB)

The course is designed to equip students as an effective counselor, who is sensitive to ethical issues and multicultural issues in counseling.

  O 3

Research Design and Methods

Research Methods is a critical thinking skills class in which the main goal is to help you become a better consumer of information both in psychology and in the real world. You will learn how to systematically evaluate the validity of different claims that you might encounter in a future psychology textbook, in a psychology research article, in the media, or in casual conversation. This class will also teach you how to plan psychological research that can test different claims. You will learn to articulate the pros and cons of different research choices and plan research that optimizes these pros and cons.

  O 3

Social Welfare Administration

This course draws on materials from management and human relations, especially from the social work arena. It integrates basic principles, concepts, and processes from management with relationships and skills among executives and staff. The human relations focus is emphasized in particular in the administrative process.

  O 3

Research Methods for Social Welfare

  O 3

Psychologiclal Seminar

  O 3

Psychology of Cognition

This course provides a basic exploration of human cognition, focusing on both classic and current issues. Topics will include attention, perception, multiple memory systems, encoding and retrieval processes, the role of knowledge, language, and reasoning. Given the wide variety of topics in cognitive psychology, the major objective for this course is to help you understand those topics and to enhance your ability to think critically and scientifically about cognitive problems so that you can try to generate effective solutions for yourself.

  O 3

Social Welfare History

  O 3

Neuropsychology

Behavioral Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary field that examine how our brain works and how it affects our behaviors and Experience. We will be exploring questions, such as: Why do we dream? What makes us eat? How do we form memories? Why do we have visual illusions?

At the end of this course, you will know the functions of the brain structures, principles governing the neuronal activities, and how brain interacts with the environment and body to give rise to our subjective experiences.

  O 3

Industrial and Organizational Psychology

This course will introduce the field of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (I-O Psychology). This field of psychology focuses on human behavior at work, including the major theories, their application in the workplace, and research investigation of both.

  O 3

Career Counseling

This course provides the study of career development theories and the application of theoretical propositions to career interventions. The course will emphasize the practical application of career development concepts for diverse client populations across the lifespan, so we can assist our clients in finding a sense of meaning and empowerment through the world of work.

  O 3

Social Security

  O 3
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