Undergraduate

Curriculum

Overview Major Tracks Regulations on Sub-Majors Curriculum Course Schedule

Goals and Vision

The Department of Health and Environmental Science aims to cultivate talent capable of leading not only domestically but also globally in the fields of public health, environment, radiation/nuclear science, and diagnostic medical science. Specifically, the department’s goals and vision are to train experts who can evaluate and identify various risk factors within the human-environment relationship that may cause diseases or pose potential health threats thereby monitoring and preventing the occurrence of diseases in advance while conducting competitive research on the peaceful application of radiation in health and environmental sectors, and ultimately nurturing individuals who possess both specialized knowledge and character to serve society.

Core Competencies

Category	Ratio(%)	Description
1. Common Curriculum	40%	Infection Safety Management Public Health Basic Mathematics Radiation Science Radiation Health Management Health Physics Environmental Health Toxicology Environmental Health Biochemistry Environmental Health Statistics Analytical Chemistry and Laboratory Anatomy and Physiology Fundamentals Nuclear Science Nuclear Safety Regulation Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology Environmental Health Completion of common courses across various interdisciplinary fields in health and environmental science, including ecosystem and health.
2. Environmental Health and Safety Major	30%	Air Quality Assessment and Laboratory Air Quality Management Water Environment Management Radiation and Environment Industrial Health Industrial Safety Management Industrial Ventilation Water Pollution Control Water Quality Assessment and Laboratory Food Environmental Safety Assessment and Laboratory Indoor Environmental Science Risk and Toxicity Assessment and Laboratory Toxicological Risk Analysis Hazardous Chemical Management Convergent Clean Health Technology Occupational Environment Management Work Environment Measurement and Laboratory Environmental Risk Assessment Completion of specialized courses in Environmental Health and Safety within the interdisciplinary field of health and environmental science.
3. Health and Medical Science Major	30%	Isotope Applications Industrial and Medical Applications of Radiation Radiation Interaction Radiation Life Science Radiation Sensors Radiation Safety Management Radiation Safety Analysis Molecular and Cellular Biology Body Defense System Testing Medical Device Systems Clinical Laboratory Science Diagnostic Physiology and Laboratory Diagnostic Chemistry and Laboratory Advanced Diagnostic Medicine Forensic Science Geriatric Health Pathology Medical Terminology Healthcare-related Laws and Regulations Completion of specialized courses in Health and Medical Science fields within the interdisciplinary domain of health and environmental science.

Autonomous Educational Competence

Category	Content
1. Environmental Health	Environmental Health, Radiation and Environment, Environmental Health Biochemistry, Environmental Health Statistics, etc. (courses in the environmental health domain)
2. Living Environment	Air Quality Management, Indoor Environment, Water Environment Management, Water Pollution Control, etc. (air and water environmental fields)
3. Occupational Health and Toxicology	Industrial Health, Work Environment Management, Environmental Toxicology, Toxicological Risk Analysis, etc. (occupational health and toxicology fields)
4. Radiation Science	Radiation and Nuclear Protection, Radiation Control, Radiation Policy and Regulations (radiation safety and regulatory fields)
5. Nuclear Science	Radiation/Nuclear Imaging, Radiation/Nuclear Measurement, Radiation/Nuclear Therapy (applications in imaging, measurement, and therapy)
6. Diagnostic Medical Science	Diagnostic Physiology, Diagnostic Chemistry, Immune System Testing, Stem Cell Therapy (clinical diagnostics and biomedical science fields)

Major Tracks

Environmental Impact Assessment

Risk Assessment

Environmental Health

Occupational Health & Safety

Radiation & Nuclear Science

Diagnostic Evaluation

Safety & Health Assessment

Health Impact Assessment

The School of Health and Environmental Science is the first department within the university to formally recognize sub-majors. Since there are no mandatory major courses, students are free to take classes in areas such as occupational health, environmental health, nuclear science, and radiation science. After gaining exposure to various fields, students can choose a sub-major that best fits their interests and aptitude. The main sub-majors include Health and Medical Science and Environmental Health Safety, enabling students to achieve broad and in-depth academic development.

Curriculum Roadmap

Regulations on Sub-Majors

Enacted on January 19, 2015
< Academic Affairs Office, College of Health Science >

Section	Content
Article 1 (Purpose)	These regulations aim to define matters related to sub-majors within the School of Biosystems and Biomedical Sciences and the School of Health and Environmental Science, College of Health Science.
Article 2 (Quota)	No separate quota is assigned for sub-majors.
Article 3 (Designation)	① Sub-majors in the School of Biosystems and Biomedical Sciences are designated as “Biomedical Science” and “Biofood and Medical Science”. ② Sub-majors in the School of Health and Environmental Science are designated as “Environmental Health Safety” and “Health and Medical Science.”
Article 4 (Eligibility)	Available to students in the departments listed above who are in advanced major tracks, double majors, or transfer students.
Article 5 (Application Limit)	Eligible students may apply for a sub-major only once during the designated period. Failure to apply within the period means that even advanced major students cannot have a sub-major officially recorded.
Article 6 (Application Period)	Applications must be submitted individually at the beginning of the final semester, and processed collectively by the department.
Article 7 (Credit Requirement)	At least 36 credits in the relevant sub-major area must be completed to have the sub-major officially recognized.
Article 8 (Declaration of Sub-major)	Even advanced major students who do not apply will have only the department name recorded. Even if courses from multiple sub-majors are completed, only one sub-major may be declared.
Article 9 (Certificates)	Sub-major information will be included in graduation certificates and expected graduation certificates.
Article 10 (Others)	Any matters not specified in these regulations may be determined separately by departmental rules.
Addenda (Enforcement Date)	These regulations apply to graduates starting from August 2016.

Curriculum / Course Offerings

Type	Course Code	Course Name	Credits	Hours(s)			Semester Offered	Prerequisites
Type	Course Code	Course Name	Credits	Theory	Experiment (Hands-on Experiment)	Practical Skill	Semester Offered	Prerequisites

Major Elective KHES211 Health And Environmental Toxicology 3 3 0 0 1: Students will study adverse effects of various chemicals on human health, mechanism of action, treatment and prevention of such adverse effects, therefore will obtain specialized and practical knowledge on toxicity
Major Elective KHES215 Environmental Health 3 3 0 0 1: Environmental Health is that relation between environment and human, disability by environment, influence of the food, clothing, and shelter sanitation on human, and control of those environmental factors.
Major Elective KHES221 Environmental Biochemistry 3 3 0 0 1: Biochemistry is that the structure and functions of the basic materials for biochemistry to understand phenomenon of life chemically; structure of cells, biochemistry molecules, amino acid, tertiary structure of proteins, enzyme, lipide, bio-film, carbohy
Major Elective KHES227 Science Of Radiology 3 3 0 0 1: Basic study of Radation Fundamental study of Environmental & Medical radiation
Major Elective KHES229 Health Physics 3 3 0 0 1: This course covers the characters of radiation, basic of physics, physical phenomenon and atomic physics on using the diagnostic radiology and medical imaging.
Major Elective KHES231 Fundamentals Mathematics 3 3 0 0 1: The course designed to introduce a mathematical basics such as vector, matrix, complex numbers, linear algebra, and Fourier transform for radiologic science.
Major Elective KHES234 Public Health 3 3 0 0 1: This course intend to teach the basic theory of Public Health.
Major Elective KHES226 Environmental Immunology 3 3 0 0 2: This course is about the recent study related with the basic biological defense mechanism for maintaining the organic life cycles. It provides both external and internal factors in Immunology. It focuses on elements of basic reagents and antibodies in hum
Major Elective KHES228 Radiation Health Management 3 3 0 0 2: This course intend to teach on the basic physical theory of radiation and the radiation effect on human body for radiation health management.
Major Elective KHES232 Regulation Of Nuclear Energy 3 3 0 0 2: This course intend to teach on the regulation and technical standard for nuclear energy and safety.
Major Elective KHES238 Human Anatomy And Physiology With Laboratory 3 2 2 0 2: Anatomy and Physiology is an essential academic course you must study to succeed in the field of health science. This course covers an extensive review of the human body`s structural framework and describes how it functions. With studying this course stud
Major Elective KHES311 Quantitative Chemical Analysis And Experiment 3 2 2 0 1: Students learn quantitative chemical analysis method and practice with some variable experiments.
Major Elective KHES335 Environmental Microbiology 3 3 0 0 1: This course introduces the classification, etiology, pathogenicity, laboratory identification, and treatment of microorganisms that cause infectious diseases. Laboratory consists of microscopic, biochemical, and immunological procedures to identify and is
Major Elective KHES339 Ecosystem And Health 3 3 0 0 1: Students will study impact of ecosystem and environment on human health, therefore will obtain specialized and practical knowledge on health.
Major Elective KHES345 Introduction To Nuclear Power 3 3 0 0 1: Based on Nuclear Engineering, real technology on radiation measurement is provided. In studying realistic detectors such as GM counter, scintillator and semiconductor, this course covers broad area from statistical verification to radiation energy spectr
Major Elective KHES213 Industrial Hygiene 3 3 0 0 1: Industrial Hygiene is that science and art devoted to the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of those environmental factors or stress arising in or from the workplace.
Major Elective KHES206 Radiologic Science And Environment 3 3 0 0 2: In this course, the student will learn about the introduction of nuclear and radiologic science. Contents include the scientific characteristics of environmental radiation and medical radiation.
Major Elective KHES212 Management For Water Environment 3 3 0 0 2: This course will give you an introduction to the key concepts related to water pollution so that you may better understand the ways to minimize the risk for the environment and public health.
Major Elective KHES214 Risk Toxicity Assessment And Laboratory 3 2 2 0 2: Through lecture and experiment on the mechanism of action caused by toxic substances in the level of cells and organisms, practical and simple understanding of the mechanism of action is achieved.
Major Elective KHES216 Control Of Occupational Environment 3 3 0 0 2: Learning objectives are evaluation and control for hazardrous environmental factors. And learn to maintain and improve the workplace environments.
Major Elective KHES313 Indoor Air Quality Control 3 3 0 0 1: Student will understand the status and characteristics of pollutants generated in indoor environment. Lecture will also discuss the corresponding countermeasures and management techniques.
Major Elective KHES315 Water Pollution Control 3 3 0 0 1: Water pollutant is various and complicated, so high technology is needed to analyzing. In this class, student will understand the theory, analyzing ability and technique.
Major Elective KHES317 Management Of Air Quality 3 3 0 0 1: Lecture will provide on general characteristics of air, causes of air pollution, expansion of air pollution and impact of air pollution to discuss and prevent air pollution.
Major Elective KHES337 Management Of Hazardous Chemical Substance 3 3 0 0 1: Lecture is provided on management of hazardous chemical substance caused by environmental contaminants from environmental sources. Students will develop the method and control of the management for assessment of risk index and toxicity of Chemical Substa
Major Elective KHES312 Environmental Risk Assessment 3 3 0 0 2: Lecture is provided on methods to assess health risks, such as standard setting, through exposure assessment of environmental ecology and human.
Major Elective KHES314 Industrial Ventilation 3 3 0 0 2: Students learn basic concept for ventilation of workplace and information on design, maintenance, operation, and evaluation of industrial exhaust ventilation systems.
Major Elective KHES431 Evaluation And Control Of Industrial Environment 3 2 2 0 1: Learning objectives are evaluation and analysis ability of hazardous environmental agents and factors.
Major Elective KHES412 Industrial Safety Control 3 3 0 0 2: Students will verify types and causes of industrial accidents and will build abilities to establish countermeasures on the basis of theoretical and practical principles.
Major Elective KHES417 Environment And Food Hygiene 3 3 0 0 1: As the environmental changes increase the demand for eating out and international trade, the scope and targets of threats that jeopardize the health of the people such as food poisoning have become diverse. Despite the advances in hygiene, food processing
Major Elective KHES414 Water Quality Assessment And Analysis 3 2 2 0 2: This course will give you an capability to analyze water pollutants such as organic, inorganic and microbiological contaminants, using methodology approved by the Korean Environmental Protection Agency.
Major Elective KHES225 Clinical Chemistry - Lecture & Laboratory 3 2 2 0 1: This course shows the basis of clinical chemistry examination skills and services. It introduces the student fundamental theory on bio-chemical disorders in human body and teaches chemical lab-techniques which can identify human diseases.
Major Elective KHES233 Medical Terminology 3 3 0 0 1: This course is designed for students studying health science. It is for one-semester medical terminology and students will learn a basic medical terminology vocabulary in 16 weeks. It covers a simple method of analyzing medical terms, roots, suffixes,
Major Elective KHES301 Radiation Biology 3 3 0 0 1: This lecture will provide information about biological effects of diagnostic radiation, nuclear medicine and therapeutic radiation. It covers the biological effects(acute and late effects), mechanism, procedures, radiation damage, radiation carcinogesis,
Major Elective KHES343 Health And Disability Across The Life Span In Reha 3 3 0 0 1: This course is designed to understand central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous system disorders and to extend student knowledge, clinical and case management skills with respect to the long-term management of people living life with a disability.
Major Elective KHES426 Advances In Diagnostic Laboratory Science 3 3 0 0 2: In this course, the students can put their theoretical foundation into practice in the clinical laboratory activities, and obtain more intensive concepts on clinical diagnostic science. It focuses on intensive stages of analytical and creative problem-sol

Curriculum Table for Class of 2024

Classification		Course Code	Course Name	Credits (Hours)	1st Year		2nd Year		3rd Year		4th Year
Classification		Course Code	Course Name	Credits (Hours)	1	2	1	2	1	2	1	2
Required General Education	Inquiry into the Academic World	GELI005	Inquiry into the Academic World I	3(3)	●		International undergraduate students admitted in or after the 2024 academic year must complete GEL1007 Inquiry into the Academic World I (International Students), Writing (International Students)
	Writing	GEWR002	Writing	3(3)		●
	Academic English	IFLS800	Academic English I	2(2)	●		Students who achieve the 'Advanced' level on the Freshman English Proficiency Test are exempt from this course
	Freshman Seminar	GEKS007	[Career·Startup] Freshman Seminar I	1(1)	●
	Freshman Seminar	GEKS008	[Career·Startup] Freshman Seminar II	1(1)		●
	Digital & SW	GECT002	[Career·Startup] Fundamentals of SW Programming	3(3)			●
	Digital & SW	GECT003	[Career·Startup] Data Science and AI	3(3)				●
	BT	GEBT001	[Career·Startup] World of Life Science	3(3)	●
	Subtotal	19
Elective General Education	Elective General Education (Basic Science)	LIBS151	General Biology and Practice I	3(3)	●
		LIBS153	General Biology Lab I	1(3)	●
		CHEM151, 152	General Chemistry and Practice I, II	6(6)	●	●
		CHEM153, 154	General Chemistry Lab I, II	2(6)	●	●
		PHYS151, 152	General Physics and Practice I, II	6(3)	●	●
		PHYS161, 162	General Physics Lab I, II	2(6)	●	●
		MATH161	Calculus and Practice I	3(4)		●
	Subtotal	23
Total General Education		42

Curriculum Table for Class of 2023

Classification			Course Code	Course Name	Credits (Hours)	1st Year		2nd Year		3rd Year		4th Year
Classification			Course Code	Course Name	Credits (Hours)	1	2	1	2	1	2	1	2
Common General Education	Liberty, Justice, Truth		GELI 001, 002	Liberty, Justice, Truth I, II	6(6)	●	●
	Writing		GEWR001	Writing	2(3)	●
	Academic English		IFLS 003, 004	Academic English I, II	2(4)	●	●
	1st Year Seminar		GEKS 005, 006	1st Year Seminar I, II	2(2)	●	●
	Informational Thinking		GECT001	Informational Thinking	1(1)		●
	Subtotal		13
Core Curriculum	World Culture				3(3)			Select 1
	History				3(3)
	Literature and Arts				3(3)
	Ethics and Thought				3(3)
	Science and Technology				3(3)			Select 1
	Quantitative Thinking				3(3)			Select 1
	Subtotal		6
Major-related General Education			LIBS 151	General Biology and Practice I	3(3)	●
			LIBS 153	General Biology Lab I	1(3)	●
			CHEM 151,152	General Chemistry and Practice I, II	6(8)	●	●	Complete either General Chemistry or General Physics I & II including Labs
			CHEM 153,154	General Chemistry Lab I, II	2(6)	●	●
			PHYS 151,152	General Physics and Practice I, II	6(8)	●	●
			PHYS 161,162	General Physics Lab I, II	2(6)	●	●
			EGRN 151	Computer Language and Practice	3(4)		●	Select 1 out of 2
			MATH 161	Calculus and Practice I	3(4)	●		Select 1 out of 2
Subtotal			15
Total			34
Major	Basic Major	Required	0
	Basic Major	선택	42 (Intensive majors must include at least 12 credits of common courses.)
	Subtotal		42
	Intensive Major		36
Total			78
Total Credits Required for Graduation			130
Remarks			1)Only for intensive majors, a sub-major is conducted, and the major name shall be "Environmental Health & Safety" or "Health Care". 2)Sub-majors follow the "College of Health Science Sub-major Regulations". (36 credits per area) - Must include 12 credits of common courses from the basic major. 3)The KHPM414 Healthcare Related Laws course offered by the Dept. of Health Policy and Management is recognized as a major elective.

Major Graduation Credits and Completion Requirements (Based on Class of '23)

	Major Completion Credits				Other Graduation Requirements
	Prerequisites	Major Required	Major Elective	Total	Certified English Score (TOEIC)	Other Graduation Requirements
Basic Major	-	-	42	42	650	Human Rights and Gender Equality (Once per year)
Advanced Major	-	-	78	78	-	Human Rights and Gender Equality (Once per year)
Double Major	-	-	42	42	650
Dual Major	-	-	66	66	650