Educational Goals

• Music is an expression of human emotions and plays an important role in emotional formation, so to understand the cultural characteristics of a nation, it is essential to understand the folk music in which the emotions of that nation are strongly expressed. Therefore, analyzing and researching the characteristic elements of Korean traditional music to preserve the identity of the Korean people’s culture and comparative research with music of other cultures become the core of Korean musicological research. The educational goal of the Musicology major is to cultivate researchers who explore the characteristics of Korean music based on a basic understanding of Eastern and Western music culture, while comparing it with that of other cultures and ultimately revealing the identity of Korean music culture. To this end, the focus of education is to train students of various methodologies and theories for historical and systematic research on Korean music culture and enhance understanding the diverse music culture of neighboring countries.

Educational Focus

• Understand the characteristics of Korean traditional music and the process of historical change.
• Understand the characteristics and historical development of Eastern and Western music from a comparative perspective.
• Improve access to Korean and Eastern music sources.
• Learn research methodology for different types of music with different characteristics.