INTERNATIONAL CO-ED PROGRAMS AT EWHA SEOUL KOREA Office of Global Affairs OGA EWHA WOMANS UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL CO-ED PROGRAMS AT EWHA, SEOUL KOREA 1 CONTENTS 08 Welcoming Remarks from the President 10 About Ewha 16 About OGA 18 Semester Abroad at Ewha 22 Ewha International Summer College (EISC) 26 Extra-Curricular Activities 28 Ewha PEACE Buddies 29 Housing 30 Bilateral International Exchange Institutions 36 Fields of Study 40 Research Institutes 42 Campus Map Ewha, the name for women and the world http://oga.ewha.ac.kr INTERNATIONAL CO-ED PROGRAMS AT EWHA, SEOUL KOREA 5 http://oga.ewha.ac.kr INTERNATIONAL CO-ED PROGRAMS AT EWHA, SEOUL KOREA 7 Hello! As President of Ewha Womans University, I sincerely welcome you to Ewha, one of Korea’s most prestigious universities and the largest women’s university in the world. Ewha has offered superior education to women ever since it was founded in May 1886 with a single student. Today, Ewha has become a truly international university, offering Welcoming an innovative environment for students to challenge themselves adventurously and rigorously, and for researchers and professors to unfold in-depth studies across a multitude of disciplines. Thus, change begins at Ewha. Remarks As a global university, Ewha has one of Korea’s most comprehensive and well regarded exchange networks, partnering with more than 800 universities around the world. Students seeking 21st century skills and top quality education come to Ewha to study in both degree-seeking and short-term programs. Our prominent faculty, composed of leading scholars from the President and researchers, challenges students to expand their horizons of knowledge and inquiry and achieve their greatest potential. Ewha’s Office of Global Affairs continues to play a central role in the university’s international mission, promoting global perspectives among students, faculty and the community. I extend an invitation to all to join our international community at Ewha as we move full speed ahead into a bright future! Dr.jur. Sun-Uk Kim President, Ewha Womans University http://oga.ewha.ac.kr INTERNATIONAL CO-ED PROGRAMS AT EWHA, SEOUL KOREA 9 About Ewha Past : Leading the Nation “It is important that women’s education in Korea began during the colonization period, at its most difficult time,” J.M.G. Le Clezio Our history was the faith, the challenges, the dreams and the hopes. 2004 2011 Launches Global Top 5 Project. Ranks as the Top University In cooperation with Solvay, Ewha by NCSI (National Consumer establishes Korea’s first global R&D Present Satisfaction Index) center at a university, which will provide the research environment and global research network. Solvay 2005 financially aids to construct industrial- educational building at Ewha and shares know-how for constructing infrastructure in research studies. Ewha produces the first female Initiates the International Co-Ed Ewha again ranks No.1 in University 2006 Masters of Arts. Rankings according to the Second Summer School as the first of its Launches the Ewha Global Partnership Stands as the largest women’s kind in Korea. Round University Rankings released by Korean Council for University Education Program (EGPP) to educate promising university in the world, with Educated in Ewha School, Esther Park 1935 1996 women from developing countries on full more than 800 academic partner (Jeom-dong Kim) enters Baltimore 1971 scholarship with an aim to nurture them into institutions from 62 different Ewha ranks No.1 in the General Women’s Medical College in the USA. She 1946 top professionals and global leaders of the countries. became the first woman doctor in Korea. Assessment by Korean Council for 21st century. In 1946, Ewha became the first University Education. 1900 Korean college to receive authorization Opens the College of Engineering, the by the Ministry of Education as a first such in the world to be established 1906 university. The school offered courses in a women’s university. in almost all academic disciplines 1977 Ran-sa Ha becomes the first including Humanities, Social Science, woman in Korea to continue her Science, Medicine and Arts. First in Asia to establish an institute 1886 BA degree in the US after her in the field of Women’s Studies. studies at Ewha. Ewha begins classes as the first modern educational institution for women. Under the educational motto of ‘making Koreans better Koreans’, Mary Scranton opened the first school for Korean women in her own house located in Seoul. http://oga.ewha.ac.kr INTERNAT IONAL CO- ED PROGRAMS AT EWHA, SEOUL KOREA 11 About Ewha The next generation’s women leaders will contribute to world peace, in which different cultures and Notable Rankings ethnic groups will understand and respect each other. In Ewha’s educating process you can feel a certain elegance ★Ranked fourth among Korean universities in Chosun Ilbo’s 2009 Present : and originality. I discovered in the Ewha campus that evaluation of universities of Asia. women’s characteristic intellectual curiosity is very strong.” Beyond Korea, French author, the 2008 Nobel laureate in Literature ★Leading women’s participation in the professional world: 4th and Distinguished Fellow of Ewha Academy for Advanced highest number of successful examination candidates in the civil th Studies, J. M. G. Le Clezio taught French language and service exam and 5 highest number of successful candidates in literature at Ewha for two semesters in 2007 and 2008. judicial, diplomatic service, and patent attorney exams. Overall, to the World Ewha had the 4th highest number of acceptances in law and medical schools in 2008. It is meaningful for me to collaborate on the ★Had nine research proposals chosen by the government’s WCU research for the eradication of poverty with Ewha (World Class University) Project in 2008 and 2009, ranking 4th Womans University, which shows the strong and among the nation’s universities. As part of the WCU project, the surprising power of Korean women.” following Distinguished Fellows of Ewha Academy for Advanced Ewha Womans University and Grameen Bank made an Studies joined Ewha as current or future lecturers: George F. Smoot, international agreement in October 2006 to promote Nobel laureate in Physics; Jose Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Prize education, research, social work and exchanges. laureate and the President of East Timor; Robert H. Grubbs, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and professor at the California Institute of Muhammad Yunus, the winner of the Nobel Technology; and Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Peace Prize 2006 and Managing Director of Founder of Grameen Bank. Grameen Bank, was named a Distinguished Fellow of Ewha Academy for Advanced Studies in 2007 for his ★Ranked 3rd in the SCI’s Research Paper Quality Assessment, and 1st contribution to eradicate poverty, protect human rights, among national universities in the category of number of citation. and promote impoverished women’s rights. ★Ranked 1st in 2007 and 2nd in 2008 in JoongAng Ilbo’s Globalization category for its ratio of exchange students. I am honored to receive the honorary doctoral degree from Ewha Womans University, the frontier ★Ranked Top University by NCSI (National Consumer Satisfaction Index) in 2005. of female education. I will devote myself in building an open society that values community spirit and ★Ranked No.1 in University Rankings according to the First and cooperation through feminine values which are what Second Round University Rankings released by Korean Council for Ewha pursues.” University Education in 1996 and 2004. Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Angela Merkel received an honorary doctoral degree ★International exchanges with more than 800 universities in 62 in political science from Ewha Womans University on countries including Peking University, University of London and Free November 11, 2010 at Kimyoungui Memorial Hall. Dr. University of Berlin. Angela Merkel became the second woman to chair the G8, after Margaret Thatcher in 2007. Merkel is the ★In collaboration with Peking University, established the Chinese first female Chancellor of Germany. language graduate course TeCSOL. ★Ewha and Wellesley College held the ‘Ewha-Wellesley Global Leadership Conference’ in 2008. I came to this university as a matter of destiny, because...Ewha ★Established Korea’s first high-tech Department of Bioinspired Science, with plans of research on basic and applied fields of biology, diseases, and I share a connection...And I know that you will be well-equipped to aging-related science with a funding of 17.5 billion won(16 million USD) make your contribution that will contribute to the peace and prosperity and in order to merge chemistry, pharmacy and life science. progress and security, not only of Korea, but of the region and the world that needs and is waiting for your talents.” ★186,000 alumnae all over the world. US Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton in her speech “Women’s Empowerment is Key to Progress” at Town Hall Meeting held at Ewha ★Educated the first women professionals in the various fields of Womans University on February 20, 2009. Secretary of State Clinton politics, economics, justice, media etc., including the first female received title ‘Distinguished Honorary Ewha Fellow’ on that day. doctor, judge, and Prime Minister. ★Educated over half of the successful women ministers and a large number of powerful elite group women who now represent Korea. http://oga.ewha.ac.kr INTERNATIONAL CO-ED PROGRAMS AT EWHA, SEOUL KOREA 13 About Ewha 1. EWHA GLOBAL