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SNU Fosters the Convergence of Talents Equipped with Diverse Knowledge and Capabilities
SNU is constantly striving to foster the convergence of talents for tomorrow. The most notable outcome is the establishment of the Department of Advanced Convergent Sciences. President Hong Lim Ryu announced that he had created the Department of Advanced Convergent Sciences as an experimental body as a new model for higher education with a detailed plan. SNU is offering various systems to allow students to demolish the walls between their majors and cross the boundaries between disciplines. The Academic Advising Center is one of these systems, which professionally guides students in planning college life, such as interdisciplinary convergence education and the multi-major system.
Academic Advising Center to Assist Growth of a Convergence of Talents with Competitiveness
It is crucial to construct a systematic plan for learning and major to maintain academic
interest in college and choose the career of interest. The Academic Advising Center
(advising.snu.ac.kr), located on the second basement floor of the Central Library,
offers assistance to students who intend to make the best choice during the planning of
their major.
The Academic Advising Center supports students throughout all aspects of their college
life and further strives to expand their interests in academic fields and develop the
ability to converge various fields. In the new semester of last March, it held the “2023
SNU Majors Fair” to share information on various academic fields and majors. At the 2023
SNU Majors Fair held at the Gwanak Campus, it operated a counseling booth to discuss
fields of interest and majors and demonstrated how to utilize counseling for major
planning, which offers professional assistance on all matters related to study, major
planning, and careers.
Continuously Expanding Opportunities for Convergence Education
SNU expanded the opportunities for convergence education by permitting all students to receive degrees based on student-planned majors, which was open to students in the College of Liberal Studies, and increased the enrollment limit of double majors and minors by twice the previous one. In this respect, the role of the Academic Advising Center, which professionally advises and guides students on college life planning, such as interdisciplinary convergence education and multi-major system, has become more essential. In addition to double majors, minors, combined majors and interdisciplinary majors as convergence majors, SNU has been introducing a micro-major-level “curriculum certification process” system that allows students to intensively acquire various competencies. Likewise, it has been continuously expanding students` options for selecting majors. It has been enhancing the functions of “SNU Genie,” a student-centered intelligent academic information service, such as learning crisis detection, through its support for course recommendation/search, and student-planned majors.
In the last few years, SNU has finalized the establishment of the Department of Advanced Convergence Sciences with a capacity for 218 students. New students admitted to this Department without deciding on a major, will receive intensive training on core competencies related to their major in the lower grades, and then choose one of five specialized majors: next-generation intelligent semiconductor, sustainable technology, innovative new drugs, digital healthcare, and convergence data science. SNU is envisaging the Faculty of Advanced Convergence Sciences as a new educational model for fostering future convergence talents.