Kimcheon University Launches Master's Program in 'Public Safety Department'... Faculty Operates in Industry-Academia-Research Cooperative System

Graduate School Recruitment from 14th to 24th

Front view of the main gate of Gimcheon University.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Dong-wook] Gimcheon University (President Yoon Ok-hyun) announced on the 8th that it will open a master's degree program in Public Safety in the Graduate School starting in 2021 and begin recruiting students.

The Department of Public Safety aims to train disaster safety experts to protect the lives, bodies, and property of the people from various accidents and disasters, and to maintain social order and public peace.

The newly established master's program in Public Safety will offer specialized courses in safety management. The semester curriculum is composed of fire safety, industrial safety, social safety, and corporate safety to study domestic safety management public policies and to demonstrate social safety net capabilities in various fields.

The faculty of the Department of Public Safety will be operated as an industry-academia-research cooperative system, involving professors responsible for basic courses on public safety from the Police and Fire Department of Gimcheon University and experts from public enterprises and related companies in the regional innovation city. This master's program is open to anyone who has graduated with a bachelor's degree from a four-year regular university in Korea or abroad, regardless of undergraduate major.

In particular, the classes will mainly be held at night and on weekends for students working in companies, providing a good opportunity to interact with executives of public institutions and safety management experts from large corporations, according to a school official.

Yoon Seok-ho, head of the Police and Fire Department, said, "The field of public safety is not purely liberal arts or science but a comprehensive public area of society," adding, "For science majors, the program will cover corporate disaster, disaster economy, and criminology theories, while for liberal arts majors, it will include fire engineering, hazardous materials management, and disaster prevention studies, operated as an integrated curriculum."

Meanwhile, the application period for Gimcheon University's Graduate School this year is from the 14th to the 24th.

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