School of Global Service Sookmyung Women’s University

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Welcome to the School of Global Service
at Sookmyung Women's University!

The School of Global Service has two majors: Global Cooperation and Global Entrepreneurship. To cultivate talented students who can combine theory and practice, classes are held on weekday nights and Saturdays. A master's degree in International Studies is offered after students acquire 24 credits. After graduation, students will be able to enter various fields including academia, international organizations, public institutions, global media, non-governmental organizations, and domestic/overseas think tanks.

For the details for various scholarships, see below.

In addition, scholarships are available when students work as a researcher in the institutions such as the Sookmyung Institute of Global Governance(Ministry of Education-funded research institute) operated by the faculty of the School of Global Service and the Sookmyung Startup Foundation.
  • We aim to educate potential students who would become researchers with comprehensive academic abilities by incorporating the
    most up-to-date programs in Development Studies and International Cooperation.

    Course Name Introduction
    Seminar on Global Issues This interactive course is designed to give an overview of a range of global issues. Students are expected to understand a variety of global issues and apply them based on theoretical frameworks.
    Thesis Seminar Based on the selection of the theme of the Master's/doctoral thesis, students will discuss relevant issues with advisors to improve the quality of thesis.
    Global Management and
    Intellectual Property
    This course aims to develop and demonstrate the abilities required to manage across borders and bridge across cultures, providing strong international managerial skills and competencies. The course will explore aspects of doctrine and policy of each distinct systems of intellectual property protection, paying special attention to their commonalities and differences.
    Historical Understanding of
    Korea-US Relations
    This course will provide a broad historical overview of Korean-American relations from the 19th century to the post-liberation period. Topics will include Korea's transition to the modern system of nation states and the gradual expansion of American influence into East Asia.
    Studies in American Studies This seminar introduces students to interdisciplinary approaches to the study of American Studies with contemporary approaches to American studies scholarship, with emphasis on issues of class, ethnicity, gender, and cross-cultural studies.
    Development Economics The course aims to equip students with the necessary theoretical tools and empirical evidence to understand development economics. Students will be able to critically evaluate a range of key theoretical debates in the field of development economics.
    Theories and Models of Macroeconomics This course analyzes international macroeconomics. The course will try to answer the following questions: monetary policy, fiscal policy, exchange rates, balance of payments, and relations between them interacted with macroeconomic policies. Both parts will provide not only theoretical analyses but also real world issues. This course will try to introduce alternative views on international economic relations and up-to-date studies in several journal articles as supplementary.
    UN SDGs and International Development This course explores UN SDGs and the work towards sustainable economic, social, and environmental development on a global scale.
    Seminar on International Development Cooperation This course examines relevant issues in international development. Students will explore diverse aspects of interactions between states, international organizations, and individuals in reducing poverty and providing sustainable development.
    Environmental Economics This class examines the global and economical aspects of international disputes and international cooperation caused by the degradation of global environment. In particular, this class pays special attention to various solutions on environmental problems proposed by inter-governmental networks and other transnational networks of multinational corporations and non- governmental actors.
    International Financial Institutions and Development This course explores historical perspectives, key principles, characteristics, and decision-making process of various international financial institutions. In addition, we study current issues related to international development and investigate their efforts to enhance policy coherence among international financial institutions
    Development and Governance Study of development reveals a wide range of proposals for economic and political reform, and an equally wide range of political and economic constraints to reform. This course will explore evolving understanding of the tension between economic policy and good governance, and the challenge of identifying a feasible steps. The focus will be on feasible ways forward in countries with low-incomes, and politics and institutions that are not supportive of development
    Impact Evaluation
    for Development
    Statistically assessing the impact attributable to social programs in developing countries is increasingly, though slowly, becoming standard practice in the development community. Unfortunately, and despite the great value of such exercises in terms both of program evaluation and informed policy dialogue, much remains to be done in terms of mainstreaming impact evaluations into the project cycle. In particular, the importance of the basic underlying concept of any properly conducted impact evaluation, that of a counterfactual, is often difficult to impress on individuals involved in purely operational aspects of program/project execution. It is hoped, by the end of the course, that participants will have aquired the capacity to distinguish what is from what is not a true impact evaluation, and will be able to critically assess the validity of studies of this kind prepared under the auspices of multilateral or bilateral donors. Covers a range of practical tools for development-related information gathering, including for project planning, design and evaluation. Grounded in survey and interview skills, also reviews participatory approaches, rapid appraisal, action research and many other techniques. Gives special attention to methods suitable for low budgets, limited time and nonprofessional management staff. Makes extensive use of real-wrld cases.
    Gender and Development Studies The objectives of this seminar are broadly two-fold: first, to gain a solid understanding of the patterns and constraints of gender inequality around the world up to the present day, and second, to review and debate what we know and don’t know about what policies and programs can work to close gender gaps, with a focus on developing countries. This 3-credit course will cover a broad range of topics, from economic opportunities, to gender based violence, to the global agenda and post 2015 framework. This course, aiming at familiarizing students with main debates in the field of gender and development, examines the gender dimensions of processes of development. Various topics relating to women and development will be included in the class discussions: the move from WID (women in development) to GAD (gender and development), globalization and women’s employment, women’s movements and state, and civil society relations, and an appraisal of prospects for gender empowerment and gen der ‐ mainstreaming issues, and others. Students´ active participation based on their own case studies will be encouraged
  • In addition to benchmarking the master's and doctoral-level programs of major universities in Korea and abroad, we are also
    implementing enhanced programs that reflect the latest paradigm shift in entrepreneurship and the recent change in technologies.

    Course Name Introduction
    International Business Environment and Intellectual Property This course focuses on the issues related to intellectual property rights in the global market and discusses strategic trends and methodologies.
    Research Methodology Students are expected to improve the quality of research paper by learning various kinds of research methodology
    Entrepreneurship & Startups Technology must be taken into account for the creation of high added value areas. In this course, technology-based venture companies should learn about the factors related to various management skills in order to continue growth in a highly competitive environment. Specifically, it deals systematically with funding, investment and marketing strategies.
    Theories and Models of Macroeconomics This course analyzes international macroeconomics. The course will try to answer the following questions: monetary policy, fiscal policy, exchange rates, balance of payments, and relations between them interacted with macroeconomic policies. Both parts will provide not only theoretical analyses but also real world issues. This course will try to introduce alternative views on international economic relations and up-to-date studies in several journal articles as supplementary.
    Environmental Economics This class examines international disputes and international cooperation caused by the degradation of global environment. In particular, this class pays special attention to various solutions on environmental problems proposed by inter-governmental networks and other transnational networks of multinational corporations and non- governmental actors.
    Innovative Organizations &
    Leadership
    Successful innovation is accomplished by effectively managing human and social capital. Using cases, exercises and readings, we will focus on the skills and tools leaders and managers need to be successful in today’s dynamic and innovative organizations. The learning goals of this course are to enhance your conceptual and analytic knowledge of managing human behaviors in innovative organizations, to sharpen your skills and mindsets in engaging people and refining the process you use to generate and select actions, and to use and apply knowledge to improve the practice of innovation management in real-world organizations.
    Startup Risk Management The objective of the course is to provide an overview of how financial management may be practically applied to real-world decisions. The course will cover how to make these decisions based on financial analysis and planning, valuation of securities, capital budgeting, risk and return relationship, and opportunity cost of capital, alternative corporate financing and capital structure. This course covers all of the major areas of corporate finance and provides training in the analytical tools and concepts for managers. A significant portion of the course will consist of problem solving and case studies regarding the topics and theory covered in each lecture.
    Innovation Theory and
    Technology Strategy
    R&D activities have been widely recognized as critical factor affecting competitiveness of firms as well as national economies. As R&D investment rapidly increases, the importance of R&D management and precise planning to link R&D results to marketing, which is in other jargons innovation has been emphasized. This lecture includes cases, theories, issues and policies associated with science and technology innovation, e.g. R&D management, new product development, and management of innovation output. Resultantly, this course intends to help students to understand essential nature of innovation and increase their application capability to any practical situation of firms and countries by doing term project and case analysis.
    d.Leadership d.Leadership is a course that teaches the coaching and leadership skills needed to drive good design process in groups. d.leaders will work on real projects driving design projects within organizations and gain real world skills as they experiment with their leadership style.
    Financial Markets & Venture Capital Funding and investment, one of the most crucial elements in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, will be dealt with in this course. In particular, what venture capital is, what roles it plays in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, what roles other financial institutes play, and the concepts of respective funds and their characteristics will be taught.
    Startups and M&As The aim of this course is to educate M&A-related theories and practices. Students will be able to set up real-world M&A plans, which is a necessary tool to react to management environment and the restructuring of firms' activities, by experiencing offensive and defensive strategies and diverse cases.
    CSR and Innovation Nowadays, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and innovation have become the foundation of business competencies. This course will provide the theoretical understandings of CSR and innovation and study the interrelationship between the two concepts through various case studies. This course will especially focus on Corporate Social Innovation, Eco-Innovation, and Social Entrepreneurship.

School of Global Service Sookmyung Women’s University

Address : #512 Centennial Hall, Sookmyung Women’s University, Cheongpa-ro 47-gil, 100, Yongsan-Gu Seoul, Korea (04310)
Tel : +82-2-2077-7496/7578
E-mail: globalservice@sookmyung.ac.kr (SGS)
eastasia@sookmyung.ac.kr (Ph.D.)
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