Graduate School of Culture

The Graduate School of Culture was established in 2006 in order to train creative professionals, who will work in various fields of culture and arts. The School provides specialized graduate programs dedicated to fostering professionals in cultural studies, who are familiar with both cultural knowledge and practices from a range of humanities, social sciences, and media arts. To foster competent culture professionals, the GSC provides the following three master’s programs: 1) Arts and Culture Planning 2) Cultural Management and Tourism 3) Media Content & Culture Technology.

1. The Arts and Culture Planning program provides a curriculum that nurtures basic knowledge in arts and humanities such as art theory, aesthetics, literature, sociology, anthropology, and communication studies, while gaining an understanding of global cultural and artistic trends and policies, alongside various field experiences. The knowledge-based society in which we now live requires high-concept cultural design capabilities based on emotional as well as rational thinking. Accordingly, there is a need for professionals with humanities knowledge, artistic sensibility and imagination, a ‘glocal’ sense across the world and regions, empathy and communication skills, and creativity in new cultural knowledge areas. This program aims to cultivate talented people who have this integrated knowledge and sensibility and can engage in critical and productive activities in various fields of culture and arts such as theory, planning, policy, education, storytelling, etc.


2. The Cultural Management and Tourism program aims to train graduate students who will become professionals in the field of cultural management and tourism. In the 'era of cultural prosperity and of creative economy', where culture determines the future of the country and globe, our society is demanding global talents who will lead cultural trends based on creativity and innovation. The Cultural Management & Tourism Major provides an integrated curriculum that innovatively converges various specialized fields such as cultural management, cultural marketing, cultural industry, culture and art, cultural tourism, cultural policy, and urban public culture together with the goal of 'creating new values through culture'. The convergence curriculum and education of 'Culture + Tourism + Industry + Place' is expected to deepen creative cultural minds and expertise, while ultimately producing field-oriented cultural management and tourism professionals with real-world field knowledge and skills.


3. The Media Content & Culture Technology program: Currently media content & culture technology has become an integral part of contemporary life – the internet and mobile technologies are inseparable from everything we do. This special master's program is therefore designed to provide you with an in-depth understanding of current thinking and debates on the implications of these developments. You will enhance your understanding of topical content applicable to a variety of content industries, including defining contemporary media, media and artificial intelligence (A.I), big-data, social network analysis, emerging digital trends analysis, migration, and media communication. You will benefit from a mix of traditional lectures, seminar-style teaching, and one-to-one support through our personal tutor system. It will support you in using and interpreting academic literature, referencing, critical thinking, producing new media art, and developing your own content-creating style.

Contact Information

• Phone : +82-62-530-4062, 4079
• Homepage : https://culture.jnu.ac.kr/culture_eng/index.do