Colleges & Departments

Jeju National University established the College of Arts & Design in 2012 to concentrate on educating specialized talents that are not only skilled in the artistic expression, creation, and theories, but also possess a strong personal style and knowledge.

The Faculty of Music educates the functional aspect of music performances and provides stability through music. It also runs courses for full-time teachers, contributes to the artistic activities in the local communities, and further matures and develops the creativity and artistic instincts at international level. The ambition of the Faculty of Music is to serve a pivotal role in the musical revitalization and emotional advancement of the entire nation.

The Faculty of Fine Arts offers majors in Korean Painting, Painting, and Sculpture. It offers educational courses on the overall theories of arts and their applications to foster intellectual and creative artists and art educators. The basic training courses of the Faculty of Fine Arts help improve the individual creativity and expressiveness and learn about the interrelations in the studies of sculpture to improve the artistic skills, and eventually promote the experimental attitudes, unique expressions, and comprehensive artistic understanding. The Faculty of Fine Arts also offers holistic education that incorporates the pursuit of truth and social demand through the formative arts. The Major of Multimedia Design of the Faculty of Industrial Design offers courses on the design analysis, design planning, design concepts, and design realization to activate ‘Capstone’ designs, run regional design projects, participate in the domestic and international contests, and offer on-site training for more job opportunities in the specialized fields, including public, environmental, visual, product, UX, 3D, and CG designs. The wide array of educational methods and the multidisciplinary courses of the Major of Multimedia Design nurture ‘creative designers’ suitable for the contemporary era. The Major of Culture & Formative Design offers educational courses on fiber design, metal design, ceramic design, and product design, as well as the converged courses on the afore-mentioned techniques, for the development of the cultural and tourism industries. Students majoring in Culture & Formative Design can have uniquely tailored experiences using a variety of materials and will better understand the culture and industries.

Introduction

The newly established Department of Music Education in the College of Education began producing the music teachers for junior high schools in 1981. It was reorganized as the Department of Music Education in the College of Humanities in 1987 and the program continued not only for training the skilled musicians, but also for promoting the artistic interest of the regional community and globalizing activities until 2008. In response to an increasing demand of the regional society for cultural arts, the Department separated from the College of Humanities in 2009 and the Faculty of Music emerged with the newly established College of Arts and Design in 2012.
The Faculty of Music plays a leading role in various regional musical events such as experimental stages through which the pool of music loving public expands and the direction where the regional society’s music is headed can be suggested.
The educational program of the Faculty of Music offers both theories and performances in all areas of music. To produce well-educated musicians, the theory part covers history, philosophy, structure and analysis of sound and others that are essential and available at other major university music departments. In particular, the performance part focuses on enhancing the sensibility and technique of recitals through a one-on-one student to teacher paired training in five majors areas including composition, vocal, piano, and orchestral (wind and string) music. For better basic understanding of the traditional Korean music, introductory Korean classical music and recitals will be established, thus broadly educating the students in both occidental and oriental music, while musical specialties are emphasized.
For training the skilled performing musicians, in addition to the balanced theory and laboratory education, recitals are included in the curriculum for each student to acquire the sensibility in stage performance this starts at the sophomore level.
A Masters program involving diverse research activities was established in the Graduate School of Education in 1997. To train the specialized musicians, the MA degree courses were opened in the university-wide Graduate School in 2005.

Aims

The program aims not only at teaching technical skills in the performing music, but also at promoting the emotional maturity through music as well as training qualified music teachers. While the program’s goal is to contribute to the arts activities of the regional community, it also aims to globalize the musical activities. The Faculty of Music is dedicated to play a leading role in furthering the musical creativity and activating the artistic sensibility of citizens.

Careers

Recognition of a specialty musician comes with a completion of the required courses. It offers a variety of opportunities as a performing artist at musical and institutional organizations. Also, employment at a broadcast or journalistic establishment in charge of the music program
may also open up for a music major. A teaching job is available at various schools. One can also opt for an advanced research overseas or at a graduate school in Korea. There are many other positions for which a music graduate is well qualified for employment.

History

1981: Established the Department of Music Education
1987: Department of Music, College of Humanities
1996: Initiated MA degree program in Music Education, Graduate School of Education
2005: Initiated Masters program, Graduate School
2009: Faculty of Fine Arts (Majors in composition, vocal and piano, and orchestral music)
2012: Reorganized as Faculty of Music, College of Arts and Design