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PKNU Selected for CORE Project | |||
WRITER | Department of External Cooperation | WRITE DAY | 2016-04-11 |
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PKNU Selected for CORE Project | |||||
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PKNU Selected for CORE Project Pukyong National University was selected for the Initiative for College of Humanities' Research and Education (CORE).
PKNU suggested the vision of “marine humanities” for the business plan competition, which promotes general research on the marine-centered life of human being based on the university’s tradition in marine and fisheries research and education and the infrastructure of Busan city, the center of the Northeast Asian sea. The University hopes that the project will lead to developing a humanities-based open multidisciplinary program which corresponds to the local needs and creating an education and research network among ocean cities in the Pacific Rim, together with cultivating three-type talents: Pacific-rim area specialist; field expert in marine humanities industry; next academic generation for marine humanities. In line with this, PKNU reorganizes a few departments into five departments relating to global area studies: American studies, Chinese studies, Japanese studies, international studies (on the Latin American region), and international development and cooperation studies (on the ASEAN region). Four interdisciplinary departments are newly created: marine culture management, marine culture contents, marine & fisheries records management, and foreign language for marine business communication. Also an Institute of Global Area Studies and an Institute of Marine Humanities are established. The CORE team is headed by four departments and a division—Department of Korean Language and Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, Department of Japanese Language and Literature, Department of History, Division of International and Area Studies—and other departments including Mass Communication, Public Administration, Tourism Management, Oceanography, Marine Sports, Marine Biology, Marine & Fisheries Business and Economics, Information and Communications Engineering, and Statistics also participate. <Pukyong Today> |