Graduate school

Social Welfare is a discipline to solve the problems and satisfy needs of individuals, families and communities, improve their social functions and realize distributive social justice. It includes professional and practical intervention, reinforcement of social systems and social changes for improving the qualities of human lives. Our department nurtures competent and professional researchers with field base experiences through systematic curricula on foundational theory, research methodolgy, practice activities, and policy analysis, and one to one individual research guidance between professor and student.

Master’s Program

Master’s Program in Sociology Department studies theories and research methodologies about human beings’ social behaviors and the structures and changes of our society. Our department helps students cultivate scientific and progressive analytic abilities. The program not only fully supports students to grow as critical social science researchers, but also encourages researches and practices of social movements and NGOs by connecting with Graduate School of NGO Studies which both does research on social movements and NOGOs and retrain citizens and social activists. Our department focuses on nurturing critical social science researchers and researchers on industry and labor, and doing research on democracy, social movement and NGO, and finally plays an important roles to retrain citizens and social activists.

Doctoral Program

Doctoral Program in Sociology Department offers a critical, progressive and practical sociology research program and an advanced program for social research. The program targets master degree holders from SungKongHoe University, the students who finish M.A degree in the related fields from other universities, the Masters from NGO Graduate School, social activists from social movement fields, and anybody who has done related jobs in various fields, government organizations, and enterprises, and cultivates higher sociological analytic abilities.

Department of Theology at SungKongHoe University encompasses the traditions of both Protestant and Catholic Church with an ecumenical theology, and aims at diverse and tolerant theological values. Our theology emphasizes social responsibility of church, and has a disciplinary system based upon the basics and traditions such as Old Testament, New Testament, Systematic Theology, Christian Ethics, Missionary Theology, Church History, Practical Theology, Counseling, and Church Arts. With Contextual Theology as our academic style, we focus on expanding our boundary of theological thinking to Minjung Theology, Faminist Theology, Dialogue between Religions, Science and Religion, Chritian Arts and Culture, Justice, Peace, Ecology and Climate Changes, Public Theology, Post-Colonialistic Missionary Theology, Civil Society and NGO, Spritual Psychology, Unification Theology and etc.. Students can expand their theological horizon studying courses from other graduate programs such as Sociology, Political Economy, Culture, Feminism, Social Welfare, Scialistic Economy, Coop Management. Our program offers Theology of Master and Doctor of Theology. In our department, The priests and laymen from several denominations of Protestant church are studying, for mature development of Korean Christianity in general, how Korean theology overcomes the theology of western tradition and applies to Korea and Northeast Asia. Every semester at the colloquium where faculty members and students participate, students get dissertation supervision. And they can take part in the presentation of professors’ research topics, and invited lectures from overseas, and off-campus academic meetings which help them understand the latest academic trends and expand their theological breadth and depth. Our program adopting the European apprentice academic teaching method, reinforces one-on-one turtorial between professor and student. So Students can finish their master degrees in 2 years and doctoral ones sooner because students get a thesis guidance from the first semester.

Sungkonghoe University launched the first PhD/MS program for cooperative management in South Korea. Through the program, the Department, based on its core values of "Creativity, Openness, Mediation, and Engagement," aims to nurture practical talents who can contribute to social development with specialized knowledge about cooperative management and independent research abilities. It also offers researchers and cooperatives managers training for the theoretical perspectives of cooperative management. The program has produced decent research papers in the well-known journals since 2010 and will help reinforce the research-oriented identity and strengthen students’ research capabilities. After graduation, students will get to play a leading role in the field of cooperative management as well as in academia. With the expansion of its global network, the program is growing to be one of the prominent research institutions. The program’s close working relationship with cooperative movement in Korea and globe enables students and practitionals to get the first-hand knowledge of this sector.

Scholarship Opportunities:

• iCOOP scholarship
• Graduate assistantships for research and/or teaching

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies has been established in order to train the researchers for reginal studies and cultures. The curricula consist of Asian Thoughts and Cultures, Cultural Studies, Cold War Cultures, Feminism, Migration and Diaspora and Film Criticism. Our program aims at establishing alternative regional humanities disciplines which help to make an Inter-Asia style ‘knowledge-praxis’ circulatory structure. Together with the diverse programs of Eastasia Research Institute at SungKongHoe University, we encourage students to explore the multi-layered realities of Asia: global-national-regional and local. Considering various backgrounds of students, for instance, their ages, undergraduate majors, activity areas, and careers, the program operates an one-on-one tutoring system to find out their interest areas and research topics from the 2nd semester.