Introduction

The factors threatening societal safety are becoming increasingly serious and diversified. In this context, there is a growing demand for more in-depth roles, tasks, and expertise of the police. The Department of Police Science at Catholic Kwandong University is an excellent department that superbly provides all the necessary curriculums for cultivating excellent police personnel who can take responsibility for the safety of Korean society. As the second department in the country to establish a police administration program in a 4-year university, the department of Police Science at Catholic Kwandong University is the top major in the country that has produced the largest number of police officers. Under the guidance of excellent professors in each field, you can deeply study law, national security and international crime and terrorism, criminal psychology, police administration, digital crime, and theory. In addition, by providing all courses in Police Science and Maritime Police Science, it is an excellent department that offers students a wide range of employment paths and opportunities. Above all, it is a major with passionate students who practice learning about the police as truthful people on the beautiful Cheongsong campus. The Department of Police Science has majors in Police Administration and Maritime Police Science.

School of Police Studies
Major in Maritime Police Studies

Introduction

The Maritime Police Major was established in 2021 for the first time at a four-year private university in the country, and is the first and only four-year major in the Yeongdong and East Sea Coast Areas of Gangwon-State.Continuing the history of the Police Administration Major, which was established in 1992 as the second in the country, it has become the center of training future maritime police who dream of becoming a maritime police officer to protect the maritime sovereignty of Korea, which is surrounded by the sea on three sides as well as the East Sea coast area including Dokdo.
We provide an opportunity to learn various marine activities on the spot, and to learn practical and theoretical skills at the same time under the lectures and guidance of excellent professors in each field.

Educational Objectives

We aim to cultivate police officers who can dedicate themselves to guaranteeing citizens' basic rights, protecting life, body, and property, and maintaining social order. Furthermore, we train professional and creative criminal law officials who can analyze and solve various illegal activities in modern society based on their knowledge of crime, with a sense of justice and mission.

Cultivation of qualities as exemplary citizens leading autonomous lives, and as leadership-oriented police and police administrators.
Cultivation of the ability to propose prevention and response measures for crime, disorder, lawlessness, and illegality based on a deep understanding and analysis of social problems.
Cultivation of the qualities of competent criminal law officials based on high-level investigative techniques.

Careers after Graduation

• Criminal justice agencies (Police, Prosecutor's Office, Correctional Institutions)
• Special judicial agencies (Customs, Immigration Office)
• General corporations (Large enterprises, Financial institutions, Private security companies)
• National special agencies (Presidential Security Service, National Intelligence Service, Military judicial agencies)
• Academia (University professors, Researchers)
• Other safety, security, and national security-related occupations.

Course Roadmap

Related Certifications

• Bachelor of Arts (B.A)
• The department provides a preparation process to obtain various professional certifications (e.g., Certificate in Criminal Psychology, etc.) according to the various professional degree programs of the department.