Major in Education Philosophy

It transfers the latest trends in education philosophy and the research outcomes helpful for educational judgment to provide guidance to teachers involved in daily school education from its education goals to evaluation by providing opportunities for application to the field of education. Its eventual goal is to improve their qualifications as experts in education philosophy with professional zeal in both theory and practice.

Major in the Education Administration

It transfers the latest academic trends and knowledge related to overall education administration to teachers in the educational field by providing them with experiences to explore field application methods in improving their qualifications as education administration experts.

Educational Psychology and Counseling

The psychological aspects of educational practice are studied in depth through psychological principles and methods to enhance psychological and scientific skills in order to contribute to the improvement and efficiency of education practice, thus enhancing the qualifications of educational psychology experts.

Major in Lifelong Education

Educational school practices are understood from various socio-cultural perspectives, and the educational reality of South Korea is understood from a balanced perspective to foster educational sociology experts who can play positive and creative roles required in the changing field.

Major in Educational Methodology and Educational Technology

It provides students with opportunities to study class-related theories and trends in the school education field in order to equip them with academic qualifications that can contribute to elementary and secondary school education, thus enhancing the qualifications of novel and stable educational method experts.

Major in Ethics Education

It provides students with an ethical system and ideological perspective necessary for leading a proper life as a Korean and establishing ethical beliefs that can contribute to the prosperity and unification of the national community, thus enhancing their qualifications as an expert in moral and ethical subject education.

Major in the History Education

It helps students understand the flow of history systematically and comprehensively and recognize it in relation to the universality of world history. It aims at improving the qualifications of history education experts who can make contributions to the development of human culture and international cooperation based on historical consciousness and functions of historical data analysis.

Major in General Sociology Education

Various phenomena and issues in our society are to be understood from an integrated perspective to develop the skills necessary to rationally solve them. Thus, the qualifications of sociology education experts are improved to make contributions to the development of individuals, nation, and mankind.

Major in the Geography Education

The students’ qualifications as geography education experts are improved as they come to understand the natural and humanistic environment, life, and subjects of many regions systematically and comprehensively to successfully cope in the era of globalization.

Major in Korean Language Education

It improves the qualifications of Korean language education experts to develop the correct way to use the Korean language by acquiring overall basic knowledge about the Korean language.

Major in English Education

Gyeongsang National University’s Graduate School of English Education program is a master's degree program to nurture English education specialists and reeducate in-service English teachers. Through the course work, pre-service and in-service teachers will have numerous opportunities to learn second language acquisition theories, practice teaching skills, and improve their English language ability.

Major in Japanese Education

By maximizing the Japanese language learning experiences and activities, the qualifications of Japanese language teaching experts to understand Japanese life and culture with desirable values are enhanced.

Major in Classical Education

The students acquire the basic functions to use Chinese characters and classical sentences to understand the wisdom of our predecessors. The goal is also to enhance sound values and desirable characters in order to understand, succeed, and develop traditional culture and improve the qualifications of Chinese character education experts.

Major in the Mathematics Education

It enhances the qualification of the students as a mathematics education expert by understanding basic concepts, principles and rules of mathematics to observe various phenomena and having the ability to think mathematically and solve the issues reasonably.

Major in the Physics Education

The students come to understand basic concepts, knowledge and studying methods of physics systematically and acquire the attitude and methodology to solve daily issues related to physics scientifically to improve their qualification as the physics education expert.

Major in the Chemistry Education

The students come to understand basic concepts, knowledge and studying methods of chemistry systematically and acquire the attitude and methodology to solve daily issues related to chemistry scientifically to improve their qualification as the chemistry education expert.

Major in the Biological Education

The students come to understand basic concepts, knowledge and studying methods of biology systematically and acquire the attitude and methodology to solve daily issues related to biology scientifically to improve their qualification as the biology education expert.

Major in the Music Education

The students develop their musicianship through diversified musical activities and have creative expression and appreciative ability to be a qualified expert of music education, who has the right ability to judge values about music.

Major in the Art Education

It improves the qualification of the expert of art education, who can create and develop the world of formative culture through visual expression of own thought or emotion.

Major in the Physical Education

It enhances the qualification of the expert of physical education by increasing physical activities and physiological efficiency, maintaining psychological stability and improving space perceiving ability, object control skill and interactive ability.

Major in the Agricultural Education

It enhances the qualification of the experts of agricultural education by acquiring basic knowledge and skill about farming for the students to choose their career fit to themselves and realizing themselves by creative adaptation to the rapidly changing industrial society and eventually for them to contribute to development of agriculture and rural areas.

Major in the Electric, Electronic and Communication Education

It helps the student acquire basic function and skill about the manufacturing industry to adapt themselves to the changing industrial society and enables them to realize themselves and cultivate their own career, improving the qualification of the experts of manufacturing education.

Major in the Nutrition Education

It fosters the experts of food nutrition with convergence and fusion knowledge in a global standard having creative expertise, who can contribute to improving the people’s health and welfare. The graduates work at industries, hospital, school, public clinic or social welfare facilities as a nutrition teacher, clinical nutritionist, feeding service and management nutritionist, health nutritionist, counseling nutritionist or other nutrition related specialist.

Major in the Computer Education

The students acquire basic knowledge and function about using the computer and its application to be an expert of computer education for the people to make efficient use of the computer.

Major in the Gifted Education

It deals with the teaching method for the students to enhance their creative and critical thinking and the ability to solve the issues, learning the gifted education as a whole. Teacher’s role in the gifted education and the expertise of a teacher in the area is studied.

Korean as a Foreign Language Education Major

It aims at fostering the experts of teaching Korean language to the foreigners for them to understand the education of Korean language correctly to make contribution to globalization of Korean language.

Major in the Chinese Language Education

It teaches overall knowledge about language, culture, history and thought of China to foster the students who will be engaged in teaching Chinese language at middle or high school. In addition, another educational goal of the department is to re-educate the current Chinese language teachers.

Major in the Early Childhood Education

The students acquire professional knowledge about the early childhood education to promote holistic growth and development of the infants and they will be a creative infant education expert through the curricula that are designed to enhance their teaching ability on the spot.

Major in the AI Convergence Education

In order to foster the experts who contribute to developing school education and innovation of class in preparation for fourth industrial revolution, the department provides the major in the AI convergence education for the current teachers of elementary and secondary school, under the agreement with the Office of Education of Gyeongsangnam-do Province and the Office subsidizes 50% of the school fees.