English Chapel 1~6 (Mandatory)

Worship Service for students and professors of Carmichael College

English Chapel 7~8 (Selective)

Worship Service for students and professors of Carmichael College

Community & Leadership Training 1~8

Handong Character Building

Christians believe that character is actually a living, dynamic, and growing aspect of the personality because Christians believe that one’s growth in faith and relationship with God never ends.

This course will examine the process of how we build our characters as unique human beings, and how to enhance that growth through learning about, acquiring, and practicing virtues that have been identified through the centuries as critical in pursuit of the good life, what Aristotle called, “eudaimonia,” or doing and living well. The goal of this character-building course is to discover not only how to do good, but also how to BE good, people who are learning how to reflect the image and glory of God in our everyday lives, in every situation, in every relationship, in every moment.

Social Service 1~4

Understanding the Bible

This module was created in accordance with HGU educational ethos in building Christian worldview as foundation of all academic disciplines. This module presents a basic survey of the Old and the New Testament theology and how its message relates to our modern contemporary world.

The focus of the module will be on the selected New Testament books. However, references will be made to the entire redemptive history as depicted in the Scripture. The unique historical and theological backgrounds of each New Testament books will be explored in order to understand the main content of their message.

The major purpose of this module is to enable students to absorb scholarly information about each books of the New Testament in relation to the Old and be able to provide exegetical insights concerning specific passages through groups discussions.

Understanding the Christianity

A study of the basic of Christianity theology including apologetic arguments for the faith.

Creation and Evolution

Understanding the purpose of my life-who am I, where do I come from, and where am I going? and developing a vision for the future on a biblical basis. Be ready and prepared to (a) ask the right questions, and (b) answer arguments related to evolution (principle of apologetics). To understand that the Bible and science are not contradictory; and also that the evolution theory is not supported by scientific facts. To learn and be challenged to critical thinking, and to distinguish between hypotheses (theories) and scientific facts.

Towards A Christian Worldview

• Background: to examine our worldview which form the foundation of our lives and to establish it from the biblical perspective.
• Contents: the meaning of worldview, the biblical worldview (creation, fall, redemption and consummation) and its application.
• Necessity: to establish Christian identity and to analyze and overcome other worldviews.

Christians and the Mission of God

This course aims to provide students with aid in their journey of participating in God's mission, who desires to bless the whole world and use Christians as channels of blessing. Specifically, the goal of this class is to cultivate the ability to evaluate missions from biblical, historical, and cultural perspectives. Additionally, it aims to introduce specific methods on how to befriend and share the Gospel with people from the Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist contexts.

Christianity and Modern Thoughts

• Background: to discern various modern thought streams and to take a proper action.
• Contents: to examine diverse modern thoughts, analyze and criticize them from the Christian worldview.
• Necessity: to offer a Christian alternative and to put it into practice in a concrete life.

Special Topics in Christian Studies

Intergration of Faith and Learning

• Background: to examine the relationship between faith and science from the biblical perspective. Contents: to examine various models on the relationship between the two.
• Necessity: to equip students how to integrate the Christian faith with their majors.

Human Relationship & Self Growth

This course aims to equip students with professional knowledge and skills to manage interpersonal interactions and for lifelong personal development. Also, students will examine the ways in which film influences culture, personal consciousness, interpersonal relationships, social structures, class consciousness, and both legitimizes, and in some cases, subverts the taken for granted world.

Creative Learning

Developing Leadership for a Global World

This course will examine the competencies leaders need today to work across the differences that exist in various global and cultural contexts. Students will become acquainted with key competencies for leadership within a global, multicultural, multinational context, using different leadership skills to manage the complexity that exist in organizations today.

An overview of various concepts, approaches and theories of leadership will be followed by various self-analysis instruments to better understand and reflect upon one's own leadership traits, preferences and behavioral tendencies.

Students will acquire understanding of the core traits, behaviors and values involved with leading in a global context and assess where they are currently relative to these skills and knowledge. The course will further provide opportunities for students to explore relevant examples and cases of leadership, where they analyze and synthesize the leadership approaches of leaders around the globe and develop leadership skills through the application of different problem-solving frameworks.

Introduction to Philosophy

Philosophy begins with reflective and critical thinking. This course investigates how reflective and critical thinking has been conducted in the history of philosophy and how philosophy has influenced human lives. Following a simple introduction to the first stage of philosophy, a few important issues in philosophy are discussed. Several short texts will be used as the guidance for our investigation.

Studies of Korean History

This course is mainly designated to help the English-speaking students understand the general development of the Korean history. Therefore, the major topics dealt with in this class include pre-modern history such as ancient history, medieval history, recent history. As for the modern history of Korea, the significant progress in economic, intellectual and social realms before the state-door opened in the late 19th century will be treated in the light of the capitalistic sprout. And the reform movement of the late 19th century, Japanese colonial rule, the Korean people's independence movement and some contemporary development of Korean will also be studied during the course.

Students are expected to learn and understand the English translations of the important historical terms in the Korean history and to have the ability to explain the Korean history in English.

Understanding Korean Social Structure and Culture

This course is designed to introduce students to the social structure and cultural characteristics of contemporary Korean society, including those pertaining to the family, industrialization, gender, aging, labor, population, environment, religion, and political system. The course will particularly focus on social topics and issues that figure prominently in the lives of the Korean people, such as patriarchy, modernization, education frenzy, urbanization, authoritarianism, nationalism and multiculturalism. Each of these issues will be examined through sociological, historical, comparative, and balanced perspectives

Globalization and Korean Popular Culture

The increasing global circulation and consumption of Korean and Japanese cultural content-widely knows as “Korean Wave” and “Cool Japan”- offers the unique opportunity to examine East Asia as the site of new regional cultural flows in opposition to “Western” cultural production’s unidirectional hegemony. The state-driven developmentalist strategy in East Asia has been seen as a model for other nations’ cultural industries in the context of globalization. This course offers students the opportunity to understand the historical and recent transformation of media and culture in Asia with particular attention to Korea, Japan and the greater China region (Hong Kong, Taiwan and the mainland). Readings will not only examine the political-economic conditions that have led to the mobilization of media and cultural industry in East Asia, but also explore its social, cultural and political impacts on both regional and global level. We will also examine a range of popular media and site of cultural expression, from television to mobile media, youth culture to food culture, to grasp the complexity of contemporary media and culture in East Asia. This course draws on inter-disciplinary readings from media and cultural studies, anthropology, political science and sociology. You will be expected to read all assigned materials before class and actively participate in class discussion.

Introduction to Studies in Education

This course will introduce students to various factors that influence and impact education, both past and present. Students will reflect on their own educational experiences and construct their own beliefs and values about teaching, learning, and schooling. Different concepts of teaching and learning in the 21st century will be explored.

Differential Equations and Applications

Differential equation offers a basic language for modeling of various phenomena of natural and social sciences and engineering. Our course focuses on basic mathematical theory and practices of solving differential equation. This course is for science and engineering major students and some senior students in economics.

General Biology

Through this course, students will be learning about the key life phenomena of each object, such as animals, plants, and microbes, and also understand the concepts and terms of the whole of life. The subject will be carried out in a level degree of difficulty so that even students without the basis of biology have the opportunity to have basic skills in the field of bio science, and can take it as a liberal arts subject without any burden.

General Chemistry

Chemistry is the study of the properties, composition, structure, and transformations of matter, providing an opportunity to witness the wisdom and power of God in the materials He created. It serves as the foundation for both science and engineering, enabling an understanding of modern society's reliance on science and technology and aiding in the formation of essential knowledge and logical thinking. General chemistry covers topics such as elements and periodicity, atoms, chemical reactions, bonding theories, and chemical equilibrium.

Linear Algebra

Linear Algebra begins with study of systems of linear equations. We use the language of matrices and vectors for this study. This study leads to the notion of vector space and Linear transformation between vector spaces. We develop methods of studying linear transformation via computation of matrix. Several application will be founded in data analysis and geometry problems.

Calculus 1

This course mainly covers fundamental concepts of calculus, which plays a significant role in many disciplines such as engineering and computational science. In addition to introducing the basic concepts of calculus, this course helps students understand how the concepts of calculus are utilized to solve real-world practical problems. The objective of this course is 1) to understand the fundamental concepts of calculus, 2) to evaluate a variety of mathematical functions by applying the basic rules of calculus (e.g., chain rule), and 3) to depict real-world problems from the perspective of calculus.

Calculus 2

This course is continuation of Calculus 1 (If you took science track at Korean high school, you have enough preparation) Calculus is one of basic mathematical language for scientist and engineers. The course will introduce several advanced calculus techniques as well as several widely used functions. It will also offer some foundation for other course such as differential equation, Calculus 3 (Multi-variable calculus), linear algebra. This course is designed for students majoring in engineering or natural science. This course is focus on advanced techniques of integrations and their application, infinite series, approximation of functions using polynomials, introductory concept of coordinates, vector, matrices and curve theory. Examples will be motivated by application to physical science and engineering

Statistical Methods

This course is about how to use and improve of programming skill with R, and generate statistical graphics and understand outputs, and bring ability to analyze data and interpret output.

Introduction to Programming

This course teaches students the basic computer programming techniques using Processing, the interactive graphics programming language, invented by MIT media lab. Processing has such useful features for programming beginners that its grammar is simple and the results are presented immediately in a visual form. Processing and Processing community has promoted software literacy in visual arts and also visual literacy within technology. It has continuously evolved into a general and professional development tool and now provides more than a hundred libraries to facilitate computer vision, data visualization, music composition, networking, 3D file exporting, and programming electronics.

Introduction to ICT Application

This course teaches students an entry-level block-coding programming language - App Inventor, which is easy and intuitive, as it composes computer programs using Lego-like programmable code blocks. This course utilizes various types of multimedia sources for programming to help students, who are beginners in programming, start programming. Students will learn how computer programs can be used to solve real-world issues and practice logical thinking and computational thinking during the programming process.

Python Programming

Python is one of the most prominent and versatile programming language - suitable for applied programming, system utility programming, GUI programming, web programming, scientific and numeric programming, database programming, and etc. You can extend your python codes with C/C++ modules. Still as python provides simple grammar and structure, it is easy to learn and fast to develop codes. You will learn the basic and intermediate level of python programming in this course - input/output commands, variables, data types, list, conditional statements, loops, file I/O, simple graphic programming and window GUI programming. This course is designed to help students gain IT literacy, no matter what their major is, so that they can prepare the 4th industrial revolution and ICT convergence era.

Common Readings

In the Common Readings course, students will select, read, and write book reports about a variety of texts in their own time. The reports will lead students to explore the motivation and goals of the texts. It is not sufficient to just summarize the content or message of the book. The book reports require students to provide an educated guess about the audience, occasion, and purpose of the writer in writing the book, with references to the text. Since there are no class meetings, students must organize their schedules and set aside regular time to complete readings and assignments to meet the deadlines. It is important to understand that all four book reports must be submitted on time, and late work is not accepted.

Discussion and Presentation

In this course, we will learn how to have discussions (informal/formal and impromptu/prepared in small group/whole class formats) and give presentations (individual or pair AND group). Starting slowly, we will make sure we feel comfortable and competent enough in English to have academic and casual conversations on various topics using various resources.

Biomedical Ethics

Key Issues in biomedical ethics will be dealt with. From the 4th week, for each topic, one session will be devoted to students' presentations and the other professor's lecture. Each student will present two topics to their team members.

Engineering, Faith, Ethics

Technology has become a key element of human life. Engineers often find themselves in a situation which forces them to make important ethical decisions. Lay people are influenced by these decisions with or without knowing it. This course deals with the ethical issues that engineers are confronted with. Particularly the responsibility of both engineers and users of technology is emphasized. Non-engineering students are welcome to the class. It will provide a meaningful and interesting conversation between engineering and non-engineering students, as the issue of technology and engineering is relevant to everyone.

Practice of Church Music

We will study two pieces: Mass in G by Franz Schubert , a contemporary Easter Cantata “It took a miracle.” by John W. Peterson and choral works from Handel's oratrio. We will learn the typical style of Mass , cantata and oratrio. In each class we will learn and practice songs in each piece and at the end we willl have a little concert.

English Foundation

Welcome to English Foundation(EF)! In EF, you will integrate speaking, listening, reading, and writing in English, but most of the time, you will develop your speaking skills. This is to encourage you to use the language that you already know. We will have lots of in-class and out-of-class discussions in which your group will use the key discussion strategies we are learning. The main goal of this class is this: “to develop spontaneous conversation through the appropriate application of discussion strategies”.

English Communication

English Communication (EC) is an intermediate language course which builds upon skills developed in EF to prepare students for higher-level DLE courses (ERC & EAP), as well as English-mediated courses in students’ chosen majors. The course aims to develop student abilities in all five core competencies and also challenges students to develop the supporting skills of grammar and vocabulary.

Listening is connected to note-taking because students will be required to comprehend oral lectures in their future academic careers. Reading texts have been selected to develop student familiarity with both structured and unstructured formats (paragraphs/novel), and are matched with teaching and practice of both structured and unstructured writing (paragraphs/journal). Intermediate presentation and discussion skills build student mastery and confidence in sharing their own ideas and knowledge with others.

English Reading and Composition

English Reading and Composition (ERC) is a three-credit English course. Students in ERC must have completed EC, or have tested into ERC. The course is intended 1) to prepare students to read and comprehend university-level English texts, 2) to write well-structured, well-supported essays, 3) to present their ideas orally in an academic setting, and 4) to discuss their ideas and respond well to the ideas of others. Students will present their ideas in both written and oral formats in a logical, orderly way, with sufficient language mastery to make their ideas clear. Students will also respond to the ideas of others in written and oral responses to reading and discussion with their peers.

EAP - Humanities

EAP (English for Academic Purposes) is an advanced English language course that is available at the final level of the Department of Language Education (DLE) curriculum. In order for students to integrate their knowledge and be effective in the world, they need to be analytical readers and effective communicators (both spoken and written). This course is designed to increase the student’s ability to read critically, think logically, and speak and write with precision and clear purpose. Readings and topics are chosen with a specific emphasis on integrating faith and learning. The course is intended to prepare students for success in their academic work here at Handong Global University and, as such, it emphasizes analytical thinking, critical reading, and ethical incorporation of sources. EAP is designed for all HGU students regardless of what their chosen majors are. The course design creates space for multi-disciplinary conversations around themes and topics which should appeal to a wide range of disciplinary interests. The course aims to develop the student’s overall language proficiency with a specific focus on specialized academic language competencies: reading, researching, discussion, presentation, and advanced academic writing skills.

EAP - Sciences

EAP Sciences (English for Academic Purposes - Sciences) is an advanced English language course that is available at the final level of the Department of Language Education (DLE) curriculum. In order for students to integrate their knowledge and be effective in the world, they need to be analytical readers and effective communicators (both spoken and written). This course is designed to increase the student’s ability to read critically, think logically, and speak and write with precision and clear purpose. Readings and topics are chosen with a specific emphasis on integrating faith and learning. The course is intended to prepare students for success in their academic work here at Handong Global University and, as such, it emphasizes analytical thinking, critical reading, and ethical incorporation of sources using the APA / Chicago referencing style.

EAP Sciences is designed for all HGU students majoring in the Scientific disciplines. The course design presents themes of surveillance, privacy and freedom which should appeal to students majoring in the Sciences. The course aims to develop the student’s overall language proficiency with a specific focus on specialized academic language competencies: reading, discussion, presentation, and advanced academic researching, writing and referencing skills.

English Pre-Course 1

English Pre-Course 2

Essentials of English Communication

EEC-Online uses an individualised e-teaching/e-learning concept and is designed to be completed online by students working independently with assistance provided by the Professor. Students successfully completing this online course will be considered to have met Handong University exit English requirements - upon successful completion, students should check with the HGU Academic Affairs Department regarding graduation eligibility. This class will focus on giving students opportunities to continue developing English reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. Basic English concepts relating to grammar, vocabulary, listening, conversational speaking, reading and writing skills will be covered and assessed.