One of the reasons we go to university is to study in-dept for our own major. But sometimes you may feel short about your major. Have you ever thought about DKU pay extra aid you to study in-dept for your major? These days, DKU chose several departments to give them active supports as like proving the question mentioned above. Now, let's look at those aids provided from DKU as it is for dankookians!
Occasionally, you may see the sign of "Major Strengthening Education Program(MSEP)" in front of the department door. If your department office has this sign, it means the school actively support your major. Total support fund is 600 million won, 300 million won budget for each campus. Our school is supporting ten different departments from each campus, total of 20 departments. The selected departments receive three million won budget of a year and every year our school make an appraisal whether it is worth to keep supports or not. Then, how they use this budget? 

The budget will be used for this!
The MSEP has the follow programs: boosting learning ability of major study, helping students to find job, developing about teaching method, driving up the quality of professor-study and so on. Dept. of Public Administration of Cheonan campus supports students to study in-depth of their major by diagnose on science of public and constitution. Dept. of Social Welfare supports their students by inviting expert instructor to provide high quality lecture and provide exam materials for exam preparation to selected the study group. Also students go field trip to social welfare organs and have direct experience through this enhancing major education program. In Dept. of Exercise Prescription, the program allows to measure the cardiorespiratory functional capacity by using step box(it's an instrument used in aerobic), study energy consumption by using electromyogram(it's a kind of electricity therapy) and VT (Ventilatory Threshold, kind of diagnostic of oxygen intake while you excercise) and also it supports applying for jobs related to this major. Dept. of Sports Management supports students to award certificate of related major, train the physical educator and aids study group of major.
In Jukjeon campus, Dept. of Science Education is supported by this program like holding demonstration contest of UCC and to make better science educator. They visit the educational, scientific organization and it is on progress. Dept. of Visual Communication Design is supported with academic-industrial cooperating, connecting in-tern program, holding an exhibition, conducting an united club seminar and so on.

Who does make plan  of the MSEP?
As it mentioned above, when school send them official document concerning on MSEP, each department have to make application about program they will do for a year. School decides through this application whether applied departments can receive budget or not. Mostly, professors make construction of the program. In detail they make plans such as improvement of class related to major, hold many activities like forum that can help students and class for preparing certification. This can be reflected not only by professor's opinions but also student's opinions too. If you think you need an aid to study your major hard, tell your professor about your opinion that you need.

Ka-Yeon Kim  dkherald@gmail.com