Undergraduate
Curriculum
Educational Objectives
To cultivate globally competitive professionals in health policy and management who will play a key role in improving public health and advancing the healthcare industry.
Major educational competencies
| Major Competencies |
[Basic Competency] Fundamental qualities in health policy and management |
Develop the humanities, social science, and natural science literacy required of a professional leader in health policy and management, enabling a multidimensional understanding of public health issues in society. |
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[Convergence competency] Integrated methodologies in health policy and management |
Acquire and apply diverse perspectives and methodologies for addressing public health issues, developing the ability to solve complex health problems in an integrated manner. | |
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[Creative Competency] Health policy and program planning, implementation, and evaluation |
Develop the ability to design, manage, and operate optimal healthcare systems using advanced medical science and social science approaches. | |
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[Leadership Competency] Healthcare Organization Management and Operation |
Develop the ability to establish, manage, and operate optimal healthcare systems using advanced medical science and social science methods. | |
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[Global Competency] Global health leadership |
Build competencies as global health policy professionals by analyzing theories, methodologies, and case studies needed to understand and address major international health issues. | |
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[Communication Competency] Communication and Collaboration |
Develop communication skills to collaborate with diverse stakeholders and ensure effective communication in healthcare settings as an inclusive and empathetic leader. |
Curriculum
| Core Education Competency | Relevant Course Name | |||
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Fundamental qualities in health policy and management (Basic Competency) |
Society and Health | Healthcare Management | Environment and Health | |
| Health Justice Theory | Human and Life | Practicum for Training Healthcare Professionals | ||
| Public Health | Introduction to Medicine for Public Health Students | |||
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Integrated approach (Convergence Competency) |
Introduction to Health Policy and Management | Law and Health Policy Management | Health Insurance and Medical Security Systems | |
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Health Policy Management Methodologies (Convergence Competency) |
Introduction to Biostatistics | Introduction to Epidemiology | Social Epidemiology | Chronic Disease Epidemiology |
| Health Data Analysis – R Basics | Health Data Coding – Python Basics | Health Survey and Research Methods | Health Policy and Management Capstone | |
| Intermediate Biostatistics | Health Economics | Epidemiology and Policy | Healthcare Data Science | |
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Policy and Program Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation (Creative Competency) |
Health Policy | Infectious Disease Control Policy | Social Policy and Health | |
| Health Promotion | Health Policy Analysis and Evaluation | Community Health Promotion Practicum | ||
| Health Policy Change Theory | Health Program Planning and Evaluation | |||
| Chronic Diseases in Modern Society | Healthcare Laws and Regulations | |||
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Healthcare Organization Management and Operation (Leadership Competency) |
Healthcare Organization Management | Medical Financial Management | Healthcare Human Resource Management | |
| Healthcare Information Management | Healthcare Service Quality Management | Strategic Management in Healthcare | ||
| Medical Accounting and Cost Management | Comparative Healthcare Systems | |||
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Understanding and Management of Health Industry (Leadership Competency) |
Healthcare Informatics | Oral Health | U-Healthcare | |
| Teeth and Health | Healthcare Business Intelligence | Health Industry Studies | ||
| Health Information Systems | Health Databases | |||
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Global Health Leadership (Global Competency) |
Global Health | Health Demography | Global Health Governance | |
| Sustainable Development and Environment | Case Studies in Global Health | |||
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Communication and Collaboration (Communication Competency) |
Health Equity Studies | Health Communication | ||
| Healthcare Marketing | ||||
| Classification | Course Code | Course Name | Credits | Hour(s) | Semester | Prerequisites | ||
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| Theory | Experiment (Hands-on Experiment) | Performance | ||||||
For field training courses, courses offered by the Field Training Support Center (course codes starting with COOP) may be recognized as major credits up to a maximum of 12 credits.
Curriculum Table
| Category / Description | Course Code | Course Name | Credits (Hours) | 1st Year | 2nd Year | 3rd Year | 4th Year | |||||
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| Ⅰ | Ⅱ | Ⅰ | Ⅱ | Ⅰ | Ⅱ | Ⅰ | Ⅱ | |||||
| Required liberal arts | Exploration of the World of Knowledge | GELI005 | Exploration of the World of Knowledge I | 3(3) | ● | International undergraduate students admitted from 2024 onward must take GELI007 Exploration of the World of Knowledge I (International Class) and Writing (International Class) | ||||||
| Writing | GEWR002 | Writing | 3(3) | ● | ||||||||
| Academic English | IFLS800 | Academic English I | 2(2) | ● | Students who submit official English test scores meeting the advanced exemption 기준 are exempt from taking Academic English I | |||||||
| First-Year Seminar |
GEKS007 GEKS008 |
[Career·Startup] First-Year Seminar I [Career·Startup] First-Year Seminar II |
1(1) 1(1) |
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| Digital & SW | GECT002 | Basic SW Programming | 3(3) | ● | ||||||||
| GECT003 | Data Science and Artificial Intelligence | 3(3) | ● | |||||||||
| BT | GEBT001 | World of Life Science | 3(3) | ● | ||||||||
| Elective liberal arts | 7 | There are no fixed designated courses; students may choose freely | ||||||||||
| Total liberal arts credits | 26 | |||||||||||
| Foundations of discipline | KHPM101 | Society and Health | 12 | 12 credits in foundational courses are required | ||||||||
| KHPM102 | Public Health | |||||||||||
| KHPM104 | Healthcare Management | |||||||||||
| KHPM107 | Global Health | |||||||||||
| KHPM109 | Health Justice | |||||||||||
| Basic Major | Required | 3 | ||||||||||
| Elective | 33 | |||||||||||
| Total | 36 | |||||||||||
| Advanced Major | Required | - | ||||||||||
| Elective | 30 | |||||||||||
| Subtotal | 30 | |||||||||||
| General Electives | Remaining credits required to reach 130 credits after completing liberal arts and major requirements | |||||||||||
| Total Graduation Requirement Credits | 130 | |||||||||||
| Notes |
1) KHPM109 Health Justice is recognized as major-related liberal arts for students enrolled up to the class of 2020. 2) According to Article 7 of the “Enforcement Regulations on Academic Management for International Undergraduate Students,” students admitted from the second semester of the 2017 academic year onward are exempt from foreign-language course requirements and from submitting certifications in foreign language proficiency, Korean language proficiency, and Chinese character comprehension. 3) Students admitted through the Overseas Koreans admission track follow the domestic curriculum, and must additionally submit Korean language proficiency scores as part of graduation requirements. |
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