Educational objectives
Based on the beauty of traditional Korean sculpture, this major’s curriculum teaches the various forms of traditional sculpture as well as production methods of traditional crafts such as for metals and for wood furniture. Through the creative application of this instruction, it seeks modern acceptance and to further develop tradition. Students complete liberal arts and basic practical training in their first year and enter the major track in their second year. Second-year courses focus on reproducing traditional beauty in modeling, relief, terracotta, basic metal craft, and forging, as well as material processing techniques. Students also take common practical classes such as theory (e.g. art history), technical drawing, and photography to acquire a correct understanding of traditional beauty and the basic skills of expression. In their third-year courses, they learn traditional carving of wood and stone, and deepen their modeling skills through metal casting, while encountering craft design towards inheriting traditional metal craft techniques and practicing their application. Programs to help students select their career path include experience at the workshops of traditional craftspeople; visits to industrial sites that create cultural products; special sessions during vacation; and training at industrial sites. In addition to practical training in traditional wooden furniture making at actual workshops, fourth-year courses are organized around producing their final work before graduation that will represent what they have learned so far, as well as studying cultural products to learn about them and suggest related novel ideas. Exchanges with experts at sites of creation and production in the form of special lectures and on-site visits provide confidence in the chosen career and volition as a successor to the traditional arts. Exhibitions of student graduation works, which amount to an evaluation of their suitability for graduation, are used as opportunities to verify the graduates’ ability and potential as they showcase the competencies developed through the school courses, and serve as an important starting point for development of their pride as outstanding traditional art craftspeople in the future.
Curriculum
Baisc modeling, Basic lacquerware·wood furniture(Ⅰ, Ⅱ), Basic metal crafts(Ⅰ, Ⅱ), Korean Furniture(Ⅰ, Ⅱ), Spatial Modeling Practice(Ⅰ, Ⅱ), Traditional lacquerware·wood furniture molding(Ⅰ, Ⅱ), Traditional lacquerware·wood furniture(Ⅰ, Ⅱ), Traditional metal crafts molding(Ⅰ, Ⅱ), Traditional metal crafts(Ⅰ, Ⅱ), Traditional sculpture graduate exhibition(Ⅰ, Ⅱ), Traditional sculpture molding(Ⅰ, Ⅱ), Traditional Sculpture Workshop(Ⅰ, Ⅱ, Ⅲ, Ⅳ), Traditional sculpture(Ⅰ, Ⅱ), Traditional Wood carving(Ⅰ, Ⅱ) etc.