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[YONSEI NEWS] Yonsei Launches Korea’s First Multi-major International College

연세대학교 홍보팀 / news@yonsei.ac.kr
2006-11-27

Underwood International College will be comprised of two sub-divisions, the Underwood Division and Division of International Education The largest International College in East Asia accommodating 2,300 students Yonsei University expanded Underwood International College to include two divisions beginning in the 2007 academic year. With this decision, Yonsei University will find an international college that offers an all-English curriculum and five majors: comparative literature and culture, economics, international studies, life science and technology, and political science and international relations. Yonsei University President Jung Chang-Young said: “We will make (Underwood International College) a base for globalization and aggressively develop and realize programs to become a university on the international level.” Underwood International College plans to expand the majors provided beyond the current five majors. With the new promotion of UIC, Yonsei University can now offer an entirely bilingual undergraduate curriculum. Combination of Exchange Student Curriculum and the General Student Curriculum Speeding up Inbound Globalization Underwood International College will be comprised of two sub-divisions, the Underwood Division and the Division of International Education. The Underwood Division will manage the original curriculum of UIC and the Division of International Education will supervise the exchange student curriculum of UIC. Therefore, UIC will now administer the exchange student curriculum and the Summer School in addition to the College's original functions. The merger of DIEE and UIC has also merged Yonsei University's Inbound Globalization efforts since 2005, to allow for a more realistic achievement of its goals. The decision of the Board allows Underwood International College to combine the exchange student curriculum and the general student curriculum, formally separated, and thus create a dynamic curriculum where Korean and foreign students, Korean professors and foreign professors can come together for the benefit of all. Underwood International College plans to increase the number of exchange students and bring more foreign students to the university by expanding the range of majors and courses exchange students can select. Increasing international enrollment will create an atmosphere of a global campus and allow students to have direct multi-cultural interactions without studying abroad. Underwood International College plans to enroll 50 foreign students and 150 domestic students per academic year in the Underwood Division while the Division of International Education will admit 500 exchange students and 1,000 Summer School students per year. Together with both divisions, Underwood International College will be the largest international college in East Asia with 2,300 students studying each year.