JEONBUK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Since 1978 when the department of sociology firstly accepted its students as an independent program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences of Jeonbuk National University, we have progressed along with the growth of the College of Social Sciences and the University for more than 40 years. As the sole department teaching sociology in the Jeonbuk region for the past four decades, we have assiduously continued to produce talented graduates who critically analyze contemporary Korean society and are able to propose an alternative imagination.
As a reflection of self-evaluations conducted twice in 1995 and 2005 respectively and in response to recent demands for more expertise in sociology, we have arranged for our students four specialized tracks: (1) quantitative research and social survey, (2) local society, (3) gender, and (4) multicultural society. Each track is designed not only to match up with relevant regular sociology courses, and but to correspond to various activities such as special lectures, student-led activities, field trip, and student conference. In addition, these four tracks aim to bring closer the relationship between the faculty and students.
Undergraduate students, graduate students, and professors in the department of sociology always endeavor to build an academic community in which one can learn and teach from another. In doing so, we do mature knowledge about society but also nurture people with intelligent muscle that makes social solidarity stronger.
As a reflection of self-evaluations conducted twice in 1995 and 2005 respectively and in response to recent demands for more expertise in sociology, we have arranged for our students four specialized tracks: (1) quantitative research and social survey, (2) local society, (3) gender, and (4) multicultural society. Each track is designed not only to match up with relevant regular sociology courses, and but to correspond to various activities such as special lectures, student-led activities, field trip, and student conference. In addition, these four tracks aim to bring closer the relationship between the faculty and students.
Undergraduate students, graduate students, and professors in the department of sociology always endeavor to build an academic community in which one can learn and teach from another. In doing so, we do mature knowledge about society but also nurture people with intelligent muscle that makes social solidarity stronger.
Academic Programs
Our program sets a goal to make students scientifically reason various social phenomena. In order for this, we particularly emphasize the combination of creative theorization with rigorous methods for systematic understanding and analysis of society.
Sociology students are recommended to take two introductory courses in their first year. The introductory courses are Contemporary Society and Cultural Studies and Sociology of Health and Wellbeing. In the second year in the sociology department, students are required to take two courses: history of sociology and social statistics. Aside from these two requirements, elective courses are also arranged such as Understanding Social Stratification and Class Analysis, Social Research and Method, Environment & Development, Sociology of Sexuality and Gender, Sociology of Social Media, Law and Society, Civil Society and Life Politics, Marriage and Family, Women and Work, Cooperation and Conflict in Human Societies, Understanding of Low Fertility, Aging, and Population Mobility, and Teaching Methods & Materials of Social. Because these courses can be regarded as a ground for other applied social sciences and might be relevant for other fields, we advise to take the courses for students who are interested in double majoring or in minoring in sociology.
For juniors and seniors, we offer in-depth courses covering diverse parts of sociology including labor, rural society, urban society, symbols and social space, survey research, education, localization and social change, social movement, multicultural society, qualitative methods, inequality and poverty, social psychology, life course, organization, gender and history, religion, East Asian ideologies, orientalism, social thoughts, and professions. In these specialized courses, students can not only expand their scope about but sharpen their skills to analyze social phenomena in which they are interested.
Sociology students are recommended to take two introductory courses in their first year. The introductory courses are Contemporary Society and Cultural Studies and Sociology of Health and Wellbeing. In the second year in the sociology department, students are required to take two courses: history of sociology and social statistics. Aside from these two requirements, elective courses are also arranged such as Understanding Social Stratification and Class Analysis, Social Research and Method, Environment & Development, Sociology of Sexuality and Gender, Sociology of Social Media, Law and Society, Civil Society and Life Politics, Marriage and Family, Women and Work, Cooperation and Conflict in Human Societies, Understanding of Low Fertility, Aging, and Population Mobility, and Teaching Methods & Materials of Social. Because these courses can be regarded as a ground for other applied social sciences and might be relevant for other fields, we advise to take the courses for students who are interested in double majoring or in minoring in sociology.
For juniors and seniors, we offer in-depth courses covering diverse parts of sociology including labor, rural society, urban society, symbols and social space, survey research, education, localization and social change, social movement, multicultural society, qualitative methods, inequality and poverty, social psychology, life course, organization, gender and history, religion, East Asian ideologies, orientalism, social thoughts, and professions. In these specialized courses, students can not only expand their scope about but sharpen their skills to analyze social phenomena in which they are interested.