Korea University Department of Education

This course involves analysis and discussion of personality theories by examining factors affecting personality formation, development of individual differences, and the application of personality theories to the fields of education. Maladjustments and emotional problems in childhood and youth are systematically studied in terms of personality theories.

Students examine representative indexes of motivation such as achievement goals, interest, self-efficacy, and task value and discuss the nature, strengths, directions, and improvability of motivational influences on learning.

This course provides cognitive science accounts of human learning, memory, and motivation processes and a forum to discuss the applicability of the cognitive science to the design of efficient learning environment.

Research-based overview of the developmental phenomena most important to school-aged children and adolescents. The course emphasizes cognitive and socio-emotional development.

Students master major concepts, theories, and models of learning and instruction through critically analyzing the empirical articles on the processes and methods of learning and instruction.

Students analyze diverse social and psychological variables that wield critical influence on motivation and achievement in school and devise effective methods and strategies for designing adaptive learning environments.

This course is intended to identify and resolve new issues in the field of motivation on the basis of intensive review of major theories of human motivation.

Students will discuss the phenomena, theories, and empirical findings most central to educational psychology. Emphasis will be on understanding and depth of knowledge.

This course is intended to propose a new theory of motivation by integrating current issues in the field of human motivation.

This course focuses on the development of motivation and emotion, largely over the school years but also over the life course and across domains as well.

Examining major theories of intelligence and creativity to seek directions for studying psychology of individual differences of learners.

Discussions and applications of research methods central to the empirical study of educational psychology. Emphasis is on both methodological and statistical procedures and techniques.

Discussions of the phenomena, theories, and empirical findings most central to educational psychology. The course has a dual emphasis on advancing both the depth of knowledge and students’ personal program of research.

In this course, students familiarize themselves with major theories and findings on neuroscientific bases of emotion and motivation and discuss potential implications of brain-based research for school learning.

Discussions and applications of research methods central to the empirical study of educational psychology. Emphasis is on developing expertise in the research methods needed to address and advance students’ personal program of research.

Students with a solid knowledge base in educational psychology and advanced statistics develop basic skills in scholarly writing. Students must receive a permission from the instructor in order to enroll in this course.

Students with a draft of their own research paper practice logical and persuasive writing for academic journals. Students must receive a permission from the instructor in order to enroll in this course.