전공과목해설

Understanding of human life is to understand human development. This course provides students with the characteristics, principles, and theories of brain development, cognition and language, sociality and emotion, physical and exercise development from the fetal period to toddler. Students will discuss the suitable environment and teacher's role for infant and toddler.

Effective counseling requires professional knowledge and skills. This course covers various of counseling and therapeutic theories and practical counseling strategies dealing with children's maladjustment problems.

The adolescent period is a very unstable stage due to physical and emotional changes. This course discusses various ways for students to implement counseling strategies through understanding of adolescents' struggles, emotional conflicts and behavior problems.

Understanding of children's individual characteristics is an essential prerequisite for an effective children counseling, education and therapy. This course teaches various theories of psychological assessment and evaluation related to children's psychological need.

This course leads students to learn what is needed(eg. learning foreign languages such as Chinese). Students are introduced to prepare for Buddhist Studies.

This course provides the students with the proper understanding of the core thoughts of Seon Buddhism. The students are expected to have the intellectual skills necessary for reflective capability through the teachings of Buddhist Scriptures and Analects, so that they can apply the skillful methods to the Seon-practice and the Bodhisattva Path in order to achieve the wisdom, loving kindness and compassion.

Mādhyamika Philosophy was created by Nāgārjuna who have been called as the father of Mahāyāna Buddhism. We will study on the Emptiness philosophy of Nāgārjuna based on his treatise Madhyamaka Kārikā. Then we will study on the background, birth and development of Mādhyamika Philosophy. At the end of this lecture we will study on Sān-lūn thought that was established in China after translating the Madhyamaka treatises.

It is a theoretical study about Seon practice in which what is the purpose and principle of Seon practice and how practitioners should approach the Seon practice.

In this lecture we will study on Vijñaptimātra thought. Vijñaptimātra thought is not only an Epistemology but also a theory of Mahāyāna practice. At first we will review the world view of Vijñaptimātra thought, and then introduce some important scriptures and treatises. Based on these studies we will compare the Vijñaptimātra thought with Western Philosophies.

It is to provide the methodology of teaching and leading Seon Practice for students how they properly teach and lead people who want to practice Seon in terms of the physical and spiritual ways.

The relevance of Buddhism to the field of psychology and counseling is lectured. The value and utility of teachings and approaches found in Buddhism is to be set in the context of psycho-therapy and counselling. It also aims to look into one’s mind to develop one’s personality.

This course reviews the history of meditation and explores different types of meditation including modernized meditation.

This course explores how to practice and teach loving-kindness and compassion meditation for self and others.

This course explores how to practice and teach loving-kindness and compassion meditation for self and others. This course introduces the breadth and diversity of contemporary psychology. It provides a foundation from which the student might progress to more advanced, specialized courses. Topics include learning, perception, biopsychological processes, childhood and development, adjustment and mental health, and social behavior.

This course examines students` job survey based on students` aptitude and the ways to lead to success in their career.

This course explores how meditation can help to release stress and learn how to teach people who suffer from stress.

This course explores how yoga is related to a meditation practice and learn how to teach yoga.

This course introduces students to the therapeutic functions of art. It aims for students to become familiar with art therapy methods and techniques whose primary objective is to develop creative expressions.

This course explores how to integrate meditation into cognitive therapy sessions.

This course provides an examination of the various psychological disorders, as well as theoretical, clinical, and experimental perspectives of the study of psychopathology. Emphasis is placed on terminology, classification, etiology, assessment, and treatment of the major disorders.

This course explores how to incorporate meditation into educational settings and how to developmentally appropriately apply meditation for children and adolescents.

The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with skills and techniques for effective group counseling and leadership of groups. This course introduces students to the basics of group counseling and group dynamics.

This course explains how neuroscience helps explore the positive effects of meditation.

Academic counseling is the process of advising students on a number of issues that students may face throughout their educational careers. Sexuality counseling includes gender, sex-role orientation and preference, sex therapy theories and techniques, current sexual life-styles, sexual dysfunction, relationship issues, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, sexual deviance, rape, and incest, and family dysfunction.

Students are entrusted to the industry to experience how the professional knowledge learned through lectures is applied in the field.(Summer)

This course explains how to practice meditation and how to lead people to do meditation.

This course provides students an opportunity to gain multicultural competency as professional counselors.

This course focuses on the development of counseling skills.

This course is a foundational course in research methods and design in counseling psychology. The course covers matters of the formulation of research problems, questions and hypotheses, research design types and threats to design validity, research instrumentation/measures, data analytic methods, interpreting data, and ethical issues, research integrity, and the responsible conduct of research.

Students are particularly expected to improve their ability to design and develop various forms of content for Meditation Counseling Psychology in response to their users needs.

For this goal every student is respectively trained for optimal preparation through most appropriate strategies.

Students are entrusted to the industry to experience how the professional knowledge learned through lectures is applied in the field.(Winter)