Educational Objectives

The Department of Disaster Management aims for specialized education for 'disaster mitigation' in the public and private sectors. Its purpose is to cultivate disaster and safety management experts who will carry out disaster and damage mitigation activities in the government, public enterprises, and the medical field. To enhance practical capabilities in disaster and safety management, the department was established as an academic-research-industrial cooperative program with organizations such as the Busan Fire Department, Busan IT Industry Promotion Agency, the affiliated research institute of Taepyeongyang Marine Industry Co., Ltd., and the Chungnam Institute of Disaster and Safety. It was newly established in 2017 as the first department in Korea to award Master's and Doctoral degrees in 'Disaster Management'. It provides guidance to enable students to perform professional roles ranging from overall disaster management (prevention, preparedness, response, recovery, etc.) to disaster mitigation, business continuity, and risk assessment in risk management, and strives to cultivate disaster management experts in various fields.

Major Fields

• Master's Program : Master of Disaster Management
  • Major in Convergence Contents for Public Safety Service (Convergence Contents for Public Safety Service)
• Doctoral Program : Doctor of Disaster Management
  • Major in Safety Management of Public Enterprises (Safety Management of Public Enterprises)
  • Major in Disaster and Emergency Medicine Management (Disaster and Emergency Medicine Management)
  • Disaster Incident Command System & Root-Cause Analysis (Disaster Incident Command System & Root-Cause Analysis)

Faculty

Department Regulations

A. Regarding Admission

• As a principle, admissions are conducted through special and general tracks in accordance with the graduate school's admission regulations. However, the selection ratio for special and general tracks is determined by the head professor through a department operations meeting.
• International applicants and applicants for master's and doctoral programs must be fluent in either Korean or English.
• As this is an interdisciplinary field, for applicants from fields other than similar disciplines or departments where the equivalency is not clear, their eligibility will be determined by the department operations meeting.
  Scope of recognized similar departments: Department of Police Administration, Department of Fire Administration, Department of Industrial Engineering, Department of Fire and Disaster Prevention Engineering, Department of Public Health Administration.

B. Regarding Credit Completion

• The master's program requires a total of 26 credits (including 2 credits from the Master's Thesis Research course).
• The doctoral program requires a total of 40 credits (including 4 credits from the Doctoral Thesis Research I & II courses).

C. Regarding Foreign Language Examination

The foreign language examination is administered to master's and doctoral students, except for those who are exempted by meeting the certified English language proficiency requirements (as detailed by the graduate school regulations and the graduate school administrative support office).

D. Regarding Comprehensive Examination

Master's students take two subjects for the comprehensive examination, and doctoral students take three subjects. In principle, the subjects are designated from the courses completed by the student during their enrollment. However, the head professor will finalize the examination subjects after comprehensively considering the course history of the candidates for each semester.

E. Regarding Thesis Submission and Examination

• Master's : A person who meets all of the following requirements may submit a master's degree thesis for examination.
  • A person who has completed the required course credits for program completion.
  • A person who has earned supplementary credits according to Article 22 of the [Graduate School Regulations] (for applicable students only).
  • A person who has completed regular registration for 4 or more semesters (3 semesters for the combined bachelor's-master's program).
  • A person who has presented their thesis proposal and received a recommendation from their academic advisor after at least one semester of supervision.
  • A person who has passed the foreign language and comprehensive examinations (for the foreign language exam, this includes those who have submitted the required certified language scores).
• Doctorate : A person who meets all of the following requirements may submit a doctoral degree dissertation for examination.
  • A person who has completed the required course credits for program completion.
  • A person who has earned supplementary credits according to Article 22 of the [Graduate School Regulations] (for applicable students only).
  • A person who has completed regular registration for 4 or more semesters (8 semesters for the integrated master's-doctoral program).
  • A person who has earned 2 or more credits in dissertation research (4 or more credits for the integrated program).
  • A person who has presented their dissertation proposal and received a recommendation from their academic advisor after at least two semesters of supervision.
  • A person who has passed the foreign language and comprehensive examinations (for the foreign language exam, this includes those who have submitted the required certified language scores).
  • A person with research achievements (hereinafter referred to as research publications) determined by the department under the guidance of the academic advisor after admission to the doctoral program.

    he research publications are as follows, and a person intending to submit a doctoral dissertation for examination must satisfy at least one of the requirements (A) or (B). However, when determining if requirement (B) is met, if the student's academic advisor is confirmed as a co-author or corresponding author of the paper, it is acknowledged that 'guidance from the academic advisor' has occurred. If a report of one or more publications that meet these conditions is made, the research publication criteria for requirement (B) are considered fulfilled.

    • After admission to the doctoral program, presenting at a conference, seminar, or symposium whose relevance to disaster and safety is recognized by the student's academic advisor (proof of this fact shall be a 'certificate of confirmation').
    • After admission to the doctoral program, publishing a paper in an academic journal listed as a KCI Candidate or higher as the first author.