Chungnam National University - Colleges and Departments

Colleges and Departments

• Humanities

The College of Humanities offers programs in various linguistic, literary, cultural, and human science fields. The purpose of the College is to teach students how to understand human nature and bring out creativity through the study of literature, language, history, philosophy, and education. The College exposes young intellectuals not only to various foreign cultures and languages, but also to our traditional thoughts, including those of the Baekje era, for the continuation of our precious heritage.

• Social Sciences

The College of Humanities offers programs in vThe college was established on March 1, 1990, as a separate division from the College of Humanities and College of Law. The main aim of the college is to provide students with academic, scientific, and professional knowledge in the fields of social sciences. The College of Social Sciences consists of eight departments.

• Natural Sciences

The College of Natural Sciences aims at enabling students to acquire broad general education in the natural sciences and, its policy of emphasizing basic sciences encourages students and professors to exchange knowledge and research in conjunction with the adjacent Daedeok Research Complex.

• Economics and Management

The College of Economics and Management aims to produce scholars who can contribute to economic planning and business administration in the industrial corporations of the country. The college holds seminars and special lectures and runs a computer center for the students so that they can get theories and do advanced research in economics and management.

• Engineering

The College of Engineering, which boasts the longest history and the largest number of departments is one of the representative colleges of Chungnam National University. With a location adjacent to Daedeok Science Town, the birthplace of science and technology in Korea, CNU is able to maintain a close relationship with the research centers within the Science Town. CNU has grown the distinguished College of Engineering and employs one of the most competitive faculties in Korea, whose research achievements are recognized domestically and internationally. The faculty contributes to the development of industry in Korea through cooperating with the research centers run by private companies and governmental branches.

In 1994, the college was designated a State Policy College of Engineering. In 1999 it received designation as a college supported by the government-sponsored BK 21 project, and was awarded government funds to improve the environment of education and research. In the process, it created the foundation which leads to the famous College of Engineering.

As the industrial society of the twenty first century is changing much faster than the past, the College of Engineering requires creative individuals from each field to actively adjust to this fast change. The College of Engineering contributes the industrial development of Korea and has produced talented people who will lead future society by educating the next generations in the theories of engineering for the understanding of the principles and their application.

• Agriculture and Life Sciences

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences was started in 1952 to act in concert with new academic development. It consists of botanical resource division, zoological resource division, environmental forestry resource division, applied biological chemical food division, bioresources engineering division, and agricultural economy division. There are 70 faculty members and 1900 undergraduate students and 300 graduate students who devote themselves to education and research in the various subdivision research centers such as the agricultural farms, animal farms, the experiment forest, and agricultural science research center.

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences of Chungnam National University is the best college located in the middle of Korea in the field of agriculture and life sciences, which endeavors to educate talented individuals for the leadership of agricultural life science in the future.

In 1996, the College of agriculture and life sciences was selected as a specialized college to cultivate ginseng, fruits, and vegetables and it introduced modernized experimental equipment, the high-tech green house, and an experiment barn working by environmental adjustment so that this college can prepare students to acquire a knowledge of agricultural technology that can yield a high value to produce.

In 2001, the first KT&G agricultural life science building in Korea was built as a result of recognizing that the life sciences will play some of the most important roles in the human beings life in the twenty first century. In 2002 the research center that focuses on converting the characters of cloned pigs was founded on funds and the sponsorship of the Korea Science foundation.

Research funds of more than one hundred million Won and various experimental equipments were provided to launch the international research and education center. In the future, an important task will be educating people how to get a high yield on the productivity of produce through the symbiosis relationship with the natural world and how humans can keep the living environment healthy.

It will be the agriculture and life science colleges major challenge to present the humans desirable way of life by understanding nature as an important part of the life and to find new ways for humans to live in harmony with the environment.

• Law

The college aims at producing scholars and legal officials who can contribute to the realization of peace and justice through gaining specific knowledge in the fields of law and civil service. The college also aims at producing legal specialists such as judges and prosecutors who can contribute to the realization of peace and justice through legal knowledge. Students are encouraged to enhance their ability to solve problems through participating in a moot court, moot National Assembly exercises, and legal counseling exercises.

To meet this goal, the college provides students with the opportunity to develop extensive legal knowledge and substantive experience in key areas of legal specialization. Students have the opportunity to enhance their ability in legal reasoning, verbal and writing skills, and specific legal knowledge. The college has graduated approximately 2,000 excellent alumni. They are pursuing their legal careers as congresspeople, judges, solo practitioners, academics, entrepreneurs, branch managers of banks, and executives in newspaper and broadcasting companies. The alumni have especially become leaders in Daejeon and Chungnam provinces.

• Pharmacy

The college aims at producing specialists who not only study and use pharmacological theories and practices but also have ethical consciousness and a spirit for service. With the advent of the well-being era, the college has shifted the program from provider-oriented education to consumer-oriented education. All of the graduates will be able to meet the needs of the national and local community in their fields.

• Medicine

The educational purpose of the College of Medicine is to train medical doctors who will serve society, to help equip them with the necessary skills to deal with a range of problems, to contribute to the health care of the local community, and to provide resources for creative research.

• Human Ecology

The purposes of the college are to teach international academic theories in the fields of home and society and to instruct students in the ideal management of food, clothing, and shelter. Thus, the college aims at producing new leaders for the 21st century who will lead a healthy society and will offer a mode of desirable life by working on issues in the life sciences.

The college focuses on creativity in the curriculum, customization in educational and research areas, and cooperation with society and business in achieving goals.

• Fine Arts and Music

The purpose of the college is to provide profound knowledge in the fine arts and music, practical skills by training, and artistic capability in expression. The college also provides research to develop culture in art and music. Students and alumni participate in art and music activities and express their creativity through concerts and exhibitions.

• Veterinary Medicine

The present college of Veterinary Medicine was reorganized in March 1991 from the Department of Veterinary Medicine under the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to the College of Veterinary Medicine. With its professional programs, the college produces specialists who conduct research on the anatomy of animals and their diseases, playing a leading role for animals' health in the central part of Korea.

In response to the current increasing interest in life sciences, the realm of Veterinary Medicine is expanding to broader areas such as animals, fish diseases and bio-engineering; thus there are more chances to apply veterinary medicine to other fields as well.

• Bioscience and Biotechnology

Bioscience is a fusion studies field since it examines the essence of all life phenomena and applies this study to the improvement of well-being. It is an advanced study that will lead the knowledge-based society in the 21st century. Bioscience will offer an essential key to solving problems in food, environment and health that all human beings face.

Particularly in Korea, with its narrow territory and insufficient natural resources, it is expected that bioscience will take a firm hold as a driving force of national industry development. For this reason, the government is making every effort to cultivate promising students and to develop the relevant industries.

Complying with these needs, Chungnam National University has laid the foundation for the priority cultivation and specialization of bioscience by reorganizing it as an independent educational organization under the direct control of the President of the department.

The School of Bioscience & Biotechnology prepares educational programs to cultivate talented people with a high level of language skills, a basic knowledge of bioscience, and a high adaptive ability, the relevant companies and research centers require.

Through this operation, the school will produce skillful people who will lead the future of our country. As well, by linking with comprehensive research and graduate programs in advanced bioscience, the school will produce excellent individuals who are internationally competitive.

• Education

The College of Education focuses on breeding professionals who hold high qualification as educators. Specialized curriculum of the College of Education including pedagogy, curriculum theories and educational program development enables students to be educators with futureoriented and innovative mind.

The College of Education was established on March 1, 2009, yet the university has been providing teacher training since 1970. Most of graduates from the college serve for the position as secondary school teacher, educational administrator and university faculty.

• Nursing

Based on humanism and holism, the College of Nursing produces professional nurses, and researchers who contribute to enhancing human welfare. By improving and utilizing new awareness and academic accomplishment in the science of nursing, the college has been making continuous efforts and contribution to the welfare of the Korean people and the nation.

• Faculty of Liberal Arts

The faculty of liberal arts, a specialized faculty where students are free from fitting into one of the established major areas was established on March 1, 2009 to nurture the future-oriented young professionals and scholars who uphold Leonardo Da Vinci’s thought.

The faculty provides students with rich and diversified academic disciplines including studies in humanities, social sciences and science & technology and fine arts. Faculties of liberal arts encourage students to have innovative and independent attitude toward learning and to understand the spirit of coexistence.