Introduction

The principal goal of the Physics Education Majors is to cultivate the democratic and creative minded science (physics) teachers capable of leading the global and information-oriented society and contributing to the development of the regional community and the nation.

The educational objective recognizes that the physics and physics education majors are basic in understanding and teaching other scientific disciplines such as mathematics, chemistry, biology, earth science, and science education.

The majors curriculum encompasses the basic sciences such as physics, chemistry, biology, and earth science as well as those useful for further study of physics including dynamics, electromagnetism, quantum physics, applied mathematics, thermodynamics and statistical physics. It also covers contemporary physical sciences such as modern physics, atomic physics, nuclear physics, wave and optical physics, and solid state physics.

The curricular program is complemented with laboratory sessions of dynamics, electromagnetism, modern physics, and intermediate physics laboratory and seminars by means of experimental methods, equipment and their uses. Based on the curricular program, the department aims at cultivating the future teachers of science and physics who possess the personal attributes of creative mind and imaginative capacity for teaching secondary school youths.

Further, in response to the information age, the majors program provides the field education in computers and their applications in physics education. We also offer an environmental education in connection with computer and physics eduction program.

Careers

Upon graduation, the majors graduates earn 2nd degree teachers certificates for physics teaching at secondary schools in Jeju and beyond. They also go on to further study at graduate schools here at home or abroad for eventual careers with research and/or teaching at higher education and research institutions. Alternatively, government service and scientific administrative jobs are also open to the physics education majors.

History

1975: Established the Department of Science Education (Physics and Biology Education Majors)

1981: Separated into the Departments of Physics Education and Biology Education

1983: Established master’s degree program, Graduate School of Education (Physics Education Majors, Biology Education Majors)

1984: Merged with the Department of Science Education (Physics and Biology Majors)

1989: Admitted separately to physics Education Majors and Biology Education Majors