MAJOR
■ CULTURAL STUDIES : Media Cultural Studies, Cultural Mediation
Media Cultural Studies
The Media Cultural Studies major examines media and cultural phenomena through the lenses of social sciences, humanities, and aesthetics. It encompasses a wide range of subjects, from art, photography, and film to digital media such as games, webtoons, and YouTube. Space/place, history, gender, and generation are also major areas of education and research. To achieve this, students in Media Cultural Studies not only study traditional cultural studies and media philosophy but also delve into cultural history, feminism, game culture theory, and more. With this multidisciplinary approach, we analyze various communication phenomena. Through this education, we aim to cultivate experts with knowledge and insight into the production and consumption of media culture. After graduation, the majority of students pursue diverse fields such as research, education, criticism, journalism, publishing, broadcasting, the game and entertainment industries, or exhibition, culture, and IT planning.
Degree Awarded : M.A.(in Media Cultural Studies) / Ph.D.(in Media Cultural Studies)
Cultural Mediation
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Degree Awarded : M.A.(in Cultural Mediation) / Ph.D.(in Cultural Mediation)
■ VISUAL ARTS : Communication Design, Cinema, Media Art(이상 M.F.A.), Visual Arts(D.F.A.)
Communication Design
The Communication Design major offers an educational program that comprehensively covers the practical approach to User Experience (UX) and interaction design, as well as the theories and methodologies of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Students have the opportunity to design and implement UX across various digital platforms including the web, mobile, and virtual environments through a blend of theory and practice. They engage in research on HCI and UX design according to global industry trends, in conjunction with Artificial Intelligence, spatial computing, and companion technologies. Graduates are active in a wide range of fields, including UX design for global corporations’ products and services, and web, advertising, gaming, education, finance, and technology-based startups, participating in community activities that share these experiences with enrolled students. The Communication Design major is open to all undergraduate students from design, humanities and social sciences, and science and engineering fields, aiming to nurture innovative professionals who will lead the future of HCI and design.
Degree Awarded : M.F.A.(in Communication Design)
Cinema
The Cinema major endorses creative practices based on in-depth investigations upon the aesthetic properties of moving images as an artistic tool. Fostering each student to develop their own cinematic syntax and aesthetic style instead of conforming to industrial norms, the curriculum supports various forms of cinematic forms including diverse means of narrative films, documentary, essay film, experimental cinema, non-linear or interactive cinema. Required to write a thesis and make a film for graduation, students are asked to integrate critical or philosophical thinking into their creative processes.
Degree Awarded : M.F.A.(in Cinema)
Media Art
The Media Art major explores the union of digital and analog media art genres integrating technology as a tool for a contemporary art practice. This encompasses not only studying traditional, modern, and media art theory, this involves all the academic fields. We apply a practical approach to media technology as well as an exploratory one that accommodates our rapidly changing media environment. Today, media art is a cultural tool in our society, it is the everyday vernacular. In this, our program includes the creation of and the preparation of 'cultural and artistic content' planning. Our graduate program provides insight to approaching media art in practical venues. This is conducted through diverse research and media art projects linking industry-academic connections. Examples of interdisciplinary projects are X-Media Art & Research Center (Director: Professor Lee Hyun-Jean) under Yonsei University's Future Convergence Research Institute. In addition, we enjoy and nurture a healthy, ever expanding alumni network through maintaining communication between current students and alumni. Our students graduate as international working artists, move into professional media production, and founding their own successful media content companies. This alumni network is strong globally as our alumni continue to explore their potential long after graduation. The student community is a well knit, diverse collection of individuals from in and outside of Korea. Student led technology workshops and autonomous seminar and artist groups are the glue to our social fabric. These activities are a valuable nourishment to building and maintaining the creative synergy and support for which we are known.
Degree Awarded : M.F.A.(in Media Art)
Visual Arts
The very first doctoral program for creators, the DFA program at Yonsei offers an in-depth curriculum for those who seek to expand their artistic practices, particularly in the fields of visual art, media art, cinema, various moving images art, user experience design, HCI, Artificial Intelligence, among many others. Each student is encouraged and supported to strengthen their own creative processes by integrating critical, aesthetic, or philosophical thinking by writing a thesis as well as creating and presenting an art work that reverberates the research findings articulated in the written thesis.
Degree Awarded : D.F.A.(in Visual Arts)