Courses Abstract

Human Geography

· This course deals with the geographical and spatial analysis of politics, economy, society, and culture. The purpose of this course is to help students develop geographical skills that students may use to better understand and appreciate the place where students live and places around the world as well as the interconnections among them.

Physical Geography and Field Survey

· Physical geography and field survey is a subfield of geography that focuses on the systematic study of patterns and processes within the hydrosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, and lithosphere. It aims to understand the physical layout of the Earth, its weather and global flora and fauna patterns. Many areas of physical geography make use of geology, particularly in the study of weathering and erosion. The geology of other planets is discussed at geological features of the solar system. Physical geography as a scientific discipline is usually contrasted with and complemented by its sister science human geography

Geomorphology and Field Survey

· Geomorphology and field survey is the study of landforms, including their origin and evolution, and the processes that shape them. Geomorphology seek to understand landform history and dynamics, and predict future changes through a combination of field observation, physical experiment, and numerical modeling. The discipline is practiced within geology, geodesy, geography, archaeology, and civil and environmental engineering. Early studies in geomorphology are the foundation for pedology, one of two main branches of soil science. Landforms evolve in response to a combination of natural and anthropogenic processes. The landscape is built up through tectonic uplift and volcanism. Denudation occurs by erosion and mass wasting, which produces sediment that is transported and deposited elsewhere within the landscape or off the coast.

Study of Geographic Education

· This course aims to prepare students to gain expertise and skills of geography education in secondary schools. For this purpose, students study the characteristics of geographical subjects, pedagogical content knowledge, teaching and learning methods, assessment, and curriculum.

Regional Geography of Asia

· This course explores Asia from a regional perspective. Through a comparative and systematic geographical approach, students learn about the regional problems and policies affecting the major countries of East, Southeast, South, and Southwest Asia.

Environmental Geography

· Environmental geography covers the issues of environmental degradation, quality of the global environmental, and the condition of human life. It is actually made up of many fields of geography including physical geography, human geography, regional geography, economic geography, and others that deals with different pars of the environment, human population, land use, and interrelations. Students can be educated environment problems, other organisms, environmental change by the human activities in three topics.

Rural Geography

· This course seeks to understand the locational factors, developmental processes, distributions, sizes, and functions of rural settlements. Through this understanding, we will grasp the geographical characteristics of rural settlements.

Environment and Geography

· Environment and geography is subject that identify and understand the processes and causes of environmental problems in the region that are caused by human activities, and seek alternatives to prevent or reduce their negative effects. Various alternatives method has been researched and developed to prevent or to reduce the negative effect, and these will be compared and analyzed. Through this subject, students will search the possible way to solve the environmental problems, and can propose countermeasures suitable for specific regions or countries.

Economic Geography

· In this course students will learn and analyze the principles and processes of changes in location, spatial system performed in both regional and global dimensions. The following themes will be discussed in the course : 1) Issues and changes in global economic orders, and problems of resources and environments in the world 2) Spatial aspects of money and capital 3) Spatial organization of labor power and market.

Climatology

· This syllabus includes all aspects of the interaction between the atmosphere, the ocean and the earth. Particularly examines mechanism and characteristics of the general circulation, airmass, climatic change, etc. and recognize possible effects of human activities on the environment.

Political Geography

· This course aims to study the relationships between physical structure and politics. In addition, this course deals with political-spatial patterns through the historical approach, hermeneutic approach, and quantitative approach.

Quantitative Geography

· This course deals with laws, principles, and theories regarding spatial regularities and spatial structures using quantitative research methods. This course covers basic quantitative techniques in geographical and social science contexts. It treats quantification as an integral part of social science research, and examines the application of standard statistical methods, including sampling techniques, descriptive and inferential statistics to spatial data.

Regional Geography of America

· America represents one of the richest and most complex regions in the world in terms of culture, history and politics. This syllabus is to examine each nation's physical and human geography, regionality and particularly, is to understand in the context of its language, religion, industrial patterns and social inequality etc.

Disaster and Human Life

· It identifies the patterns and distribution of various disasters on the surface, and captures changes in human life.

Structural Geomorphology and Field Survey

· Structural geomorphology and field survey is the science of surface features and landforms including the forces and processes that create them. Geomorphology has strong ties to geologic structure, rock types, and local/regional climate. Studies modern concepts of Earth's physical makeup including minerals and rocks, topography, crustal structure, plate tectonics and processes and forces acting on and within the earth. (Normally offered fall, spring and summer)

Introduction to Geography curriculum

· This course aims to study the changes of geographical knowledges and thoughts, and curriculum. Moreover, we will explore ways towards desirable geography education.

Urban Geography

· This course aims to understand the system, structure, form, location, and function of the city. Students will engage a unique and interesting way to examine how cities have been conceptualized, investigated, experienced and lived in, and how urban geography immediately touches upon questions of belonging, identity, responsibility, obligation, ethics and social justice.

Geographies of Population and Identities

· This course is designed to introduce and learn spatial dimensions of population and identities. Students are expected to understand the spatial distribution of population at various geographical scales, and its social, economic, political, and policy implications. Geographical issues about sociocultural identities including class, gender, sexuality, nationality, and ethnicity are also discussed in this course.

Regional Geography of Korea

· This course aims to study the geographical characteristics of Korea and its regions through the analysis of physical and human phenomena in Korea.

Regional Geography of Africa and Oceania

· This syllabus is to understand physical and humanistic characteristics of Africa and Australia continents and focus on contemporary Africa's landscape, space and economy, population, poverty and development, etc.

Regional Geography of Europe

· Regional geography of Europe is one of the world’s major regions. As a major world region, the rationale for examining the geography of Europe should be self evident. When one looks at Europe, it is apparent that Europe has played a dominant role in world history for the last half Millennium, and it has a special contribution to the course of American history and geography. Currently, Europe interests us a possible model of the future (collective security and economic cooperation) as well as a counter-balance to American leadership in global affairs (geopolitics and world cultural). Geography of Europe is a new “regional geography” course that examines the human and physical geography of Europe, the European Union, and the contested meanings of “Europe” itself. The political, economic, and cultural changes in Europe occur at both governmental and individual levels; the European Union is an institutional fixture as well as a contested symbol of the new Europe. The three main geographical scales of inquiry are the internal geographies of individual European states as well as cross-border regions, the regional geography of the European continent, and the global ramifications of a unified Europe.

Study on Practice of Soil and Ecological Geography

· Ecological geography and field survey is the made of origin of the soil, with special reference to the processes of soil-forming factors responsible for the development of the solum from the parent material. (A division of soil science concerned with soil genesis. -Syn: soil formation; pedogenesis. A general term for the systematic examination of soils in the field and in the laboratory, their description and classification, the mapping of kinds of soil, and the interpretation of soils for many uses, including suitability for growing various crops, grasses, and trees, or for engineering uses, and predicting their behavior under different management systems. A map showing the distribution of kinds of soil in relation to prominent physical and cultural features of the Earth's surface. Kinds of soil are ezpressed in terms of soil taxonomic units, such as series, or as phases of series. Maps showing soil characteristics or qualities, such as slope, texture, depth, fertility, or erodibility are not soil maps.

Cartography Education and Practice

· This syllabus is intended to understand students to acquire map projection, the statistical of data. Skills and techniques specified in the subject are those relating to the use of topographical map, soil, land use, etc.

The Logic and Statement in Geography Education

· This course is aimed at student throughout the exploring of the geography pedagogical content knowledge who are seeking to enhance their practical ability to understand, state and write on its.

Social Geography

· This course deals with the interrelationships among social structure, social system, institutions, and cultural backgrounds. In addition, this course deals with how and why different places have different ways and qualities of lives.

Geography of Production

· In this course students will learn and analyze the principles and processes of changes in location, spatial organization performed in both regional and global dimensions. The following themes will be discussed in the course : Spatial organization and locational decisions in agriculture, manufacturing, and multinational corporation etc.

Applied Geography

· This course seeks to understand how geography can be utilized for real life through the study of the applied aspects of geography and cases in developed countries. The goal of this course is to thoroughly train students in applying technologies to geospatial issues.

Geography of Global Production Networks

· Geography of Global Production Networks is designed to understand the spatial organization of global production networks and its relationship with the formation and evolution of economic landscapes.

Historical and Cultural Geography

· This course aims to study the geographical characteristics of historical and cultural elements such as languages, nations, religions, necessities of life, and folk cultures.

Study of Teaching Materials and Method in Geography Education

· This course is intended to enhance student in terms of more effective selectingㆍorganizing teaching materials, planning teaching contents and implementing teaching strategies in their own practical knowledge.

Financial Geographies

· Explore the role of finance in the formation and evolution of economic spaces, and apprehend the financial constitution of the production, consumption, and circulation of goods and services.

Research and Practice of Physical Geography

· This syllabus explores the dynamic discipline of physical geography. the goal of physical geography is to understand the spatial dimension of earth's natural system-its energy, air, water, weather, climates, landforms, soil, plants and animals, it can be analysed and synthesized the materials of physical phenomenon by field work.

Research and Practice of Human Geography

· This course aims to enable students to attain research capacities using human geographical data. This class takes a wide-angle view of geographic research methods, encompassing application as well as critique.

Theory of Regional Development

· This course outlines the basic concepts related to the theory and practice of regional development. Analyzing and comparing case studies, the following themes are covered. 1) The comparison of growth-centered development strategies and endogenous balanced development strategies and their relevance to regional development. 2) The environmental ethics of regional development and ethical policy guidelines; and 3) Interregional and regional-national conflicts over development.

History of Geography

· This course aims to understand geographers' thoughts and research methods in order to grasp the nature of geography. Moreover we will study various approaches and recent research tendencies of modern geography.

Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing

· GIS technology helps us organize the data about environmental problems and understand their spatial associations, and provides a powerful tools for analysing and synthesizing information about the future of the global climate, the need for the ecological sensitive development of global natural resources, rapid urbanization, etc.