Academics

College of Education

Introduction

The Department of English Language Education prepares highly capable middle school and high school teachers. Our aim is to develop students into :

  1. Qualified English teachers by enhancing proficiency in English conversation and writing, and through the acquisition of basic theoretical knowledge required for English teachers
  2. English educators who can conduct professional research based on their in-depth understanding of the theoretical knowledge they have learnt
  3. Professionals who can work in other fields outside of teaching but related to education.

History

The Department of English Language Education was established in 1980, and the current maximum yearly enrollment is limited to 40. Its faculty consists of Korean professors who majored in English Linguistics, English Education, and English and American Literature, as well as foreign professors who are in charge of English conversation, writing, and listening comprehension courses. We cooperate closely with foreign language training centers, and we provide an optimal educational environment with multi-media lecture halls, language labs, and linguistic data processing centers.

In addition, the department's resource center contains various multi-media materials including textbooks which are used overseas in English-speaking secondary schools. These materials can provide students with substantial assistance not only for teacher qualification examinations but also for their future professional needs.

Job Prospects

The predominant careers that graduates pursue involve teaching at middle schools and high schools while some prominent positions in fields related to education are also available. In addition, many graduates go on to graduate schools to enter academia while others join the public sector.

In particular, with our society’s ever increasing emphasis on foreign language education focused on communication and language abilities, graduates are not only able to pursue careers at research centers for private organizations and government institutions but can also become research specialists. Last but not least, English Education majors can find positions as education consultants or social education specialists.

Faculty

sorted by the position and Korean name

Curriculum

Department Of English Education
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    ENGLISH READING
    This course is aimed at improving students' ability to read and understand various English articles written by native speakers of English. In order to accomplish this goal, students will (1) read English passages from various cultural backgrounds and genres, (2) learn English vocabularies and expressions, and (3) improve their comprehension ability in terms of cultures and contexts. This will help students deepen their understanding of human cultures and lives as well as their knowledge of English.
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    SEMINAR FOR ACADEMIC LIFE
    1. Summary of the course This course is to assist university freshmen in CRM designing to adapt university life well through the instruction and counselling of supervising professor. (This course is composed of self analysis, personality type test, career research, instruction for the success of university life, career plan and direction setting, CRM designing method and CRM designing. The course should be teaching in classes of the students by supervising professor.) 2. Course objectives This course is to motivate the students before the mid term exam and provide students with self analysis, personality type test (MBTI or TCI) and career research (YAT test). Also, this course shall has a plan to instruct the students to enhance the efficiency of university life through career and time management. In addition, this course is to make a chance for the students to have practical assistance to university life by providing study method, report designing strategy and the information on academic system and various kinds of internal programs of the university. After the mid term exam, the students will be instructed to set the direction of career designing through continuous counselling of supervising professor and the students will be able to establish CRM designing and execution plan.
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    SOFTWARE AND AI
    Software and AI (Artificial Intelligence) course aims to educate the basic concepts of software and computational thinking to use them in various applications. It allows students of various majors to experience the core technologies of the 4th industrial revolution, such as big data, machine learning, and AI. It also introduces various applications of AI so that students can easily apply these technologies to their field of study. This course classifies the lecture types into three categories, and adjust the lecture difficulty according to the student's academic ability.
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    SPECIALIZED ACADEMIC ENGLISH
    The aim of the course is to help students increase their fluency and accuracy in English. The course will be co-taught by Korean and Native English instructors. Korean instructors will provide students with an opportunity to practice English structure, vocabulary, and expressions, and students will be encouraged to enhance their verbal skills by actively participating in classroom activities. Students will further practice expressing themselves in English with native English instructors.
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    INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATION
    This course is an introductory course in Education for prospective teachers, regardless of their major and/or special subjects. This is one of the necessary requirements for teacher candidates being educated in colleges other than the college of education in Korea. The course is to study the various paradigms and concepts of education, representing different views on aim, content and method of education. A particular emphasis is given to identifying theoretical questions of education in order to grasp the problems of Korean education and find out their solutions.
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    ENGLISH LISTENING I
    This course is intended to introduce first year students to a range of listening skills. Even though the focus of the course is on listening, we take an integrated skills approach in which all skills are practiced. English Listening 1 lays down the foundation for the sophomore English Speaking courses.
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    TEACHING ENGLISH GRAMMAR
    This is an introductory course of modern English grammar. Students will be aware of a variety of grammatical patterns of modern English such as verb tenses, basic part of speech, clause and sentence structure, and main aspects of the syntactic structure throughout the course. The grammar to be taught in this course is designed ultimately to help students acquire abilities to speak and write better sentences in English and methods for grammar teaching.
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    ADVANCED ENGLISH READING
    This course aims to improve students’ ability in understanding English up to the highest level, focusing on reading, grammar, and vocabulary. This course will provide students with a good opportunity to enhance their capability to understand English, with their practice of advanced reading. Besides, diverse topics of students’ reading would help deepen their understanding of society, culture, etc.
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    KOREAN HISTORY
    This lecture treats total Korean history internationally and help Koreans to have necessary knowledge and to establish their own identity in order to play in a global socity. This lecture is formed to assist people who study history for entering various government's organizations and large companies or Korean history cerification test.
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    SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION AND SERVICE
    This course is to cultivate community sense as members of society and the global village for students in order to develop the basic knowledge required as global citizens. Especially, this course is to foster the spirit of cooperation, sharing, service, and creativity and study the social contribution and leadership to solving the challenges the global community faces. As a liberal arts course, it is centered to nurture a leader having the global capability to contribute to community development through learning the knowledge and the case on the value & logic of social responsibility focused on environmental preservation, social contribution, and good governance(ESG). This course aims to foster a generous mind, learn knowledge and technology and build the capacity to contribute to building a society towards a safer and happier world through the study of theory and practice.
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    ENGLISH LISTENING Ⅱ
    As in English Listening 1, this course is intended to introduce first year students to a range of listening skills. Even though the focus of the course is on listening, we take an integrated skills approach in which all skills are practiced. English Listening 2 lays down the foundation for the sophomore English Speaking courses. In addition, students will build on the skills developed in English Listening 1, and they will be encouraged to reflect upon the learning process.
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    INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LINGUISTICS
    The goal of this course is to understand the human mind through the study of language, one of its most complex systems. In this course, the conditions under which language is learned and the process of language acquisition will be investigated. The central question of the logical problem of language acquisition, which asks how one knows so much about language given one’s limited experience, will be answered through an examination of the theory of Universal Grammar. The core components of English Linguistics (Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics) will also be discussed.
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    EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION & MANAGEMENT
    This course is an introductory course in the Educational Administration and School Management for prospective teachers. This is one of the necessary requirements for teacher candidates being educated in colleges other than the college of education. The course is to study the classical organizational thoughts in relation to education, definitions, basic concepts, and hypotheses regarding educational administration, major tasks and process of educational administration, and theories of administrative behaviors, and to understand the school and classroom management.
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    PREVENTION OF SCHOOL VIOLENCE AND UNDERSTANDING OF SCHOOL CULTURE
    Students will acquire an understanding of the various factors, actual state, the legislative system of school violence. Students will have an opportunity to relate this knowledge about prevention and measures of school violence to school environment using students guidance, parents interview, and human lights education. This information about violence behavior, student cultures, counseling methods, and the implications that social and contemporary legislative policies play will create greater understanding in the field of school violence.
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    ENGLISH SEMANTICS
    This is an introductory course of English semantics and pragmatics and discusses word meaning, phrase meaning, sentence meaning, and discourse meaning through a heavy involvement with English data –words, phrases, sentences, and more extended discourse.
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    FUTURE VARIATION OF EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND ENGLISH TEACHERS
    This course is designed to improve abilities to cope actively with changing educational circumstances as future English teachers. The specific objectives of this class are as follows. 1. Take a constant interest in educational environmental change such as reduction in the number of students, multicultural education, and rapid change in the information technology society and explore the properties that are related to English education. 2. Understand factors that make up the expertise of global English teachers and discuss duties and qualifications as English teachers.
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    MEDIA LITERATURE AND ENGLISH EDUCATION
    This is a course of studying the media literature, the various texts of literature presented in the multiple forms of media including literary films, movies, and the world-wide-web of the internet. Therefore, in this course, cinematized literary novels, visualized poetry, and videos of influential speeches are to be discussed and analysed in order to enhance English fluency of the attending students, as well as their English teaching skills.
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    STUDIES ON SECONDARY ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS
    This course is designed to provide students with hands-on knowledge about textbook development, textbook evaluation, textbook revisions, and textbook-based teaching methods through involving students in writing textbooks.
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    APPLIED ENGLISH PHONETICS
    This course plans to help students acquire the abilities of speaking and listening to the correct pronunciation of English consonants and vowels as well as stress and rhythm. To achieve the purpose, students are expected to earn the theoretical background of articulatory phonetics and practice after hearing recordings of native speakers of English and the instructor in class. After taking this course, students will be able to have a better knowledge of English pronunciation and speak and hear English correctly. They also will be able to teach to middle and high school students how to speak and listen to English when they become secondary school teachers in the near future.
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    ENGLISH SPEAKING I
    This course is intended to introduce second year students to a range of topics with the aim of developing conversation skills and techniques which will serve as useful development for their progress both as students of the English language and as intending teachers. Students will also reflect on the learning process so that the skills and techniques used can be applied during the students’ practice as language teachers.
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    INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE
    This course is to offer a general but faithful survey of English literary history, as well as its major writers and works, in terms of the cultural, political and intellectual landscape of each historical era of English society, thereby reaching comprehensive understanding of English literature. Moreover, studying how to use the major texts of English literature in English education is also a primary goal of this course.
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    EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
    This course is an introductory course in the Educational Psychology for prospective teachers being educated in colleges other than the college of education in Korea. It is an undergraduate course to help prospective teachers understand the basic principles of psychological processes involved in the various aspects of educational practices. It includes learner? characteristics, educational environment, learning and instruction, and evaluation of instructional outcomes.
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    EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
    This course is an introductory course in the Sociology of Education for prospective teachers being educated in colleges other than the college of education in Korea. This is one of the necessary requirements for teacher candidates. An emphasis is given to the understanding of basic concepts and theories in the field.
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    GUIDANCE
    This course is a study of fundamental philosophies, knowledge, and techniques for guiding adolescents toward their better lives. It is to study the practical considerations for the growth of adolescents affective, humanistic domains. A course designed to learn foundational concepts, major principles, major treatment of guidance and counseling, and to discuss its theoretical and practical implications. Emphasis is placed on providing theoretical foundations to deal with human problems through educational counseling, and to pursue counseling theories, practical processes, and techniques.
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    A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND
    This course offers a survey of major works by major writers of the 19th century. Among those writers assigned will be Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson. Class lecture and discussion will focus on both the formal properties of the works assigned and the cultural, historical, philosophical, and aesthetic contexts out of which they arose. It will also stress American literature from the Civil War to the beginning of the twentieth century. Readings are distributed among Theodore Dreiser, Mark Twain, Faulkner, James, Hemingway.
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    INTRODUCTION TO SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
    Introduction to Second Language Writing for English Language Teaching is designed to assist pre-service English language teachers in addressing issues of second language (L2) writing class and pedagogical approaches to teaching L2 writing. Through the course, students will be learning key theories on L2 writing, syllabus design and lesson planning for teaching L2 writing, and text selection and material development in the L2 writing classroom.
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    ENGLISH READING
    This course examines the theory and practice of English reading and develops a proper method of teaching reading skills in the secondary school
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    ENGLISH SPEAKING Ⅱ
    Although the focus of this course is on improving speaking skills as developed in Speaking 1, we will take an integrated approach in which other language skills will be practiced. As students have to take part in the production of the departmental play, there will be ample opportunity for them to develop key skills (e.g., organizational skills, leadership skills, team work skills, time management skills) as well as trying their hand at acting in front of a live audience.
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    EDUCATIONAL METHODS & TECHNOLOGY
    This course is an introductory course in the Teaching Method and Educational Technology for prospective teachers. This is one of the necessary requirements for teacher candidates being educated technology course for the subject matter oriented education students. A general information of the field, theory, and profession of instructional technology will be introduced. The definition of instructional technology, the history of the field, and the current trends and issues in the area will be investigated. Students develop competencies in appling media and technologies to instruction. This course emphasize the method of instruction as well as educational technology.
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    EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY & HISTORY
    This course in one of the necessary requirements for teacher candidates being educated in colleges other than the College of Education in Korea. Hence, its main purpose lies in the introduction to the general history and philosophy of education both in the East and in the West from the ancient to the modern ages. Historical development of educational system, philosophical thoughts of education, and their influences and implications to our modern education are to be understood.
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    INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL EDUCATION
    This lecture is for leading students in the field of education to effective education with which students(pre-teachers) can better understand and perform the integrating education. Therefore this lecture aims to train students(pre-teachers) to develop an ability of understanding students with disabilities and of performing integrating education.
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    AMERICAN NOVEL
    Surveys the development of the novel in America seen through a study of representative major works by major writers for historical significance.
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    PRACTICE IN ENGLISH PHONOLOGY
    This course plans to help students learn the phonological system of English such as English phonemes, syllable structure, and phonological rules. To achieve this purpose, students are expected to have some background knowledge of English phonetics. After taking this course, students will be able to have a better understanding of the sound pattern of English by acquiring the knowledge of English phonology, on top of English phonetics. Included among topics are distinctive features, formulation of phonological rules, and rule ordering in English, which will equip students with a better understanding of phonology in general.
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    ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING & TEACHING
    This course provides an overview of basic issues in learning and teaching English as a foreign language.
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    ENGLISH WRITING I
    This course is designed to introduce students to a range of writing activities. In particular, students will have the opportunity to develop their writing skills in an interactive classroom environment. Students will also reflect upon the learning process.
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    ACTUAL AFFAIRS FOR TEACHING PROFESSION
    This course is for future teacher to understand actual affairs for teaching profession such as classroom management, teaching technique, guidance and counselling, processing official documents, etc.
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    EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM
    This course emphasizes on general principles and procedures of construction, development and evaluation of school curriculum. Students are expected to develop a sense of reality with regard to the actual curriculum implementation in elementary and secondary schools.
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    EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION
    This course emphases on the relations between school learning and appropriate types of evaluation. It includes theories of reliability and validity, achievement test construction, and interpretation of test results. Introduction to modern theories of measurement techniques and instruments for cognitive, affective and psycho-motor domain; practical introduction to the techniques of tests, such as construction of tests, scoring, reliability, validity, and item analysis.
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    BRITISH NOVEL
    This course is designed to read some of major short stories of British literature in terms of their literary features as well as their social and historical contexts. And this class will be conducted only in English.
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    ENGLISH AND AMERICAN CULTURE AND ENGLISH EDUCATION
    This course is designed to study the theories and thoughts of contemporary English and American culture in order to help students to be competent teachers, who are able to manage various significant topics of English and American culture with improved English proficiency.
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    ENGLISH CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT
    This course touches on the issues in designing English curriculum, Focus will be given to each major component of English curriculum - setting goals & objectives, material design & evaluation, teaching methodology, and assessment.
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    ENGLISH SYNTAX
    This course aims to provide students with an introduction to current syntactic theory with special emphasis on transformational-generative grammar. This course will help students understand the basic concepts of the syntactic structure of English such as phrase structure, binding theory, parameters, clause structure and movement.
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    TEACHING SECONDARY SCHOOL ENGLISH TEXTBOOK READING
    This course tries to find a proper way to teach the reading part in secondary school English textbooks. Students will be able to acquire some effective ways in teaching the reading part of secondary school English textbooks, making use of the basic knowledge of English accumulated from the previously taken courses related with English Reading and English linguistics. Students' presentations in class will provide a good opportunity to experiment and revise the theoretical part of teaching secondary school English textbook reading, which helps students find out their own ways of teaching.
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    UNDERSTANDING ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND GLOBAL COMPETENCE STRENTHENING
    This course plans to help students have a correct understanding of English as it is and its place in the world languages by looking into its origin and development.Focus will also be on the relationships and differences between British English and American English. After taking this course, students will have a basic knowledge of English as English majors and acquire a better understanding of relationships between several European languages and English.
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    ENGLISH WRITING II
    It is recommended that students complete English Writing I before taking this course. English Writing II takes for granted that students have acquired basic writing skills and are familiar with essay writing. This course includes a combination of academic and creative writing. As is the case in Writing I, students will reflect upon the learning process.
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    SCHOOL FIELD PRACTICE
    School field practice is a field education subject where students actually experience the roles and functions that teachers must perform in the secondary school. In this course,students can develop their preparatory skills as a teacher by accumulating practical experiences on overall school education such as teaching - learning guidance, life guidance, class management and so on through experiences in the field of education.
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    ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY
    This course deals with the knowledge of word structure, one part of linguistic competence. The place and function of morphology in the whole module of grammar is identified from various theories ranging from traditional theories to generative theories of morphology. After dealing with word structure, typology of morphemes, and productivity of word formation, the interaction of phonology, syntax, semantics on the one hand and morphology on the other hand is taken care of by looking into Lexical Phonology/Morphology, English idioms and compounds. For this course, students are required to have some background knowledge of English phonology and syntax. After this course, students will have a better understanding of English word structure and word formation and be able to make good use of it when they become secondary school teachers.
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    ENGLISH STRUCTURE AND EDUCATION
    This course presents an overview of the grammar of English and methods for teaching grammar and focuses on topics in English grammar and grammar teaching that are relevant to EFL teachers.
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    ENGLISH WRITING DRILL
    This course focuses upon offering the chances to provide the students with English writing ability which is necessary to the prospective secondary school teachers. The small number of students will be allowed to this class so that the professor can improve the skills of English writing through the touches of his intensive revision.
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    MULTIMEDIA-AIDED ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
    This course is designed to develop and extend pre-service EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers’ practical knowledge on using multimedia technology (e.g., movie, TV show, YouTube, etc.) for English language teaching in the secondary school classroom. Specifically, the course covers instructional designs of multimedia-aided English language teaching and addresses practical issues of multimedia-aided classroom instruction.
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    MATERIALS AND METHODS OF ENGLISH EDUCATION
    The course is designed to introduce students to principles and practices in the methods of foreign language instuction in various contexts, materials development and evaluation.
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    THE WORLD OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN POETRY
    This course will explore the Renaissance poetry including sonnet tradition, the Metaphysical poetry of John Donne and others, Alexander Pope of the neoclassicism tradition in the eighteenth century, the Romantic poets and Victorian poets in the nineteenth century up to modernism in the twentieth century poetry. It will consist of formal lectures and class discussions.
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    LOGIC AND ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY WRITING IN ENGLISH EDUCATION
    This course is designed to study and research educational theoris of English logic and writing, which offers systematic teaching methods on logical reading and writing covering various subjects and topics, Thus, the main part of this course is to be devoted to building systematic and consistent processes for logical reading and writing. This course also lays its focus on the application of educational theories to the practical fields of teaching.
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    EDUCATIONAL VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
    This subject includes acting as assistant teachers in kindergartens or primary and middle schools, acting as teachers' helpers, or conducting volunteer work. The goal of the course is to help future educators foster the development of educational attainments.

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