Colleges & Departments

The College of Natural Sciences led the establishment of the Bioscience Park to cultivate the health, beauty, and biological industries that are specialized regional strategic industries based on biological technologies. It also took the lead in creating the Jeju Science Park, one of the seven core projects promoted by Jeju Province to turn itself into a ‘Free International City’, in order to foster high-tech industries specializing in the information and biological technologies. In the process, the College of Natural Sciences actively helped advance the regional industries, generate new growth engines, create jobs, and add values to the local products.

The prominent faculty of the College of Natural Sciences have promoted domestic and international academic exchanges as well as research to educate highly specialized individuals which the local community requires. In order to solidify its status as the leader of a knowledge-based information society in the 21st century, it will keep pioneering the reform and ensure the students can attain a successful future.

Introduction

The Department of Physical Education was established within the College of Education in March 1972, and it was realigned with the College of Natural Science to cultivate the experts covering more diverse areas of physical education in March 1989. To solidify as an academic discipline the department was restructured into two majors, Physical Education and Leisure Sports, under the administration of the Faculty of Physical Education in March 2004. The department has affiliated itself with Horse Industry Convergence Majors as a subsidiary majors curriculum in 2012. It was renamed as the present department in March 2016, emphasizing field-centered and practical physical education.

Aims

- Cultivate well-rounded and mature persons

- Foster the creative sports leadership based on physical education knowledge and skills

- Nurture the sports leaders through diversified and specialized curricula

- Train practical physical education experts through field-centered education

- Build the professional leadership through career tailor-made curricula

Careers

Graduates of the departmental majors program find their careers as physical education administrators, professional sports managers, professional sports coaches, life sports instructors, youth sports instructors, health and fitness managers, sports therapists, sports management agents, sports reporters, sports researchers, etc. Some of them go on to further study at graduate schools to earn master’s and doctoral degrees for eventual careers as college professors and researchers. They also participate in the departmental employment program‘Vision G.G.’to explore their career choices through programmed goal achieving step training.