The main mission of the faculty is to serve for the country's IT sector directly, train competent IT experts capable of designing and developing operating system programs, artificial intelligence programs and various applications, and to play a leading role in developing up-to-date software and accelerating the IT industry in various sectors of the national economy.
The Department of Automation, established in August 1977, was renamed the Department of Computer Science in 1997 and promoted to the University of Computer Science, a college in September 1999. The University of Computer Science was renamed the University of Information Science in 2016 and has been called the Department of Information Science since October 2019.
The faculty has three institutes (Intelligent Science Institute, IOT Institute, AI Institute) and four departments (Information Security Department, Information Communication Department, Computer Education Support Program Department, and Software Engineering Department).
There are four research labs (AI research laboratory, visual information processing laboratory, language information processing laboratory, voice information processing laboratory) in the Intelligent Science Institute and there are three research labs (big data application laboratory, cloud computing research laboratory, embedded system research laboratory) in IOT Institute, as well as eight research labs in the AI Institute.
The course includes "information science", "information communication", "artificial intelligence", and "programming".
The typical subjects are "programming", "computer hardware systems", "data structures and algorithms", "computer graphics", "software engineering", "information theory and coding", "information security", "operating systems," "compilers", "embedded OS", "artificial intelligence", "deep learning", "natural language processing", "image information processing", "voice information processing", "computer networks", "communication system simulation", and "semantic web technology".
The Faculty of Information Science has over 300 teachers and researchers including three candidate academicians and 40 doctors, and there are 60 lecturers with with academic titles like professors and associate professors.
About 2 000 students are enrolled in the faculty.
Introduction to Curriculum For Exchange Students
Course Duration: 4 years
Degree: BSc of Information Science
- 1st year
1st semester
| No. | Course Title | Credits | Hours per week | Exam Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | First Foreign language | 3 | 4 | Exam | |
| 2 | Higher maths | 3 | 4 | P/F | |
| 3 | Physics | 5 | 6 | Exam | |
| 4 | Chemistry | 3 | 4 | P/F | |
| 5 | Programming 1 | 3 | 4 | Exam | |
| 6 | Physical education | 1 | 2 | P/F | |
| Total | 18 | 24 |
2nd semester
| No. | Course Title | Credits | Hours per week | Exam Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Logic | 2 | 2 | P/F | |
| 2 | First Foreign language | 3 | 4 | Exam | |
| 3 | Higher maths | 4 | 4 | Exam | |
| 4 | Programming 1 | 4 | 4 | Exam | |
| 5 | Electronics | 5 | 6 | Exam | |
| 6 | Data structure and Algorithm | 4 | 4 | Exam | |
| 7 | Physical education | 1 | 2 | P/F | |
| Total | 23 | 26 |
- 2st year
1st semester
| No. | Course Title | Credits | Hours per week | Exam Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Socialist constitution and laws | 2 | 2 | P/F | |
| 2 | Korean history | 3 | 4 | P/F | |
| 3 | First Foreign language | 3 | 4 | Exam | |
| 4 | Higher maths | 3 | 4 | P/F | |
| 5 | Programming 2 | 3 | 4 | Exam | |
| 6 | Computer hardware | 5 | 6 | Exam | |
| 7 | Information theory and coding | 4 | 4 | Exam | |
| Total | 23 | 28 |
2nd semester
| No. | Course Title | Credits | Hours per week | Exam Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Korean history | 3 | 4 | Exam | |
| 2 | First Foreign language | 3 | 4 | Exam | |
| 3 | Higher maths | 4 | 4 | Exam | |
| 4 | Programming 1 | 4 | 4 | Exam | |
| 5 | Operating system | 4 | 4 | Exam | |
| 6 | Signal and system | 4 | 6 | P/F | |
| Total | 22 | 24 |
- 3st year
1st semester
| No. | Course Title | Credits | Hours per week | Exam Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Juche philosophy | 2 | 2 | P/F | |
| 2 | First Foreign language | 3 | 4 | Exam | |
| 3 | Discrete structure | 4 | 4 | Exam | |
| 4 | Computer network | 4 | 4 | Exam | |
| 5 | Computer graphics | 4 | 4 | Exam | |
| Total | 17 | 18 |
2nd semester
| No. | Course Title | Credits | Hours per week | Exam Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Juche philosophy | 3 | 4 | Exam | |
| 2 | First Foreign language | 1 | 2 | P/F | |
| 3 | Computer network security | 3 | 4 | Exam | |
| 4 | Pattern recognition | 4 | 4 | Exam | |
| 5 | Information theory and coding | 3 | 4 | Exam | |
| Total | 14 | 18 |
- 4st year
1st semester
| No. | Course Title | Credits | Hours per week | Exam Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Computer network security | 4 | 6 | Exam | |
| 2 | Computer graphics | 4 | 4 | Exam | |
| 3 | Software engineering | 4 | 4 | Exam | |
| 4 | Distributed parallel processing | 4 | 6 | Exam | |
| 5 | 2nd Foreign language | 4 | 4 | P/F | |
| Total | 20 | 24 |
2nd semester
| No. | Course Title | Credits | Hours per week | Exam Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AI introduction | 4 | 4 | Exam | |
| 2 | Digital image processing | 3 | 4 | Exam | |
| 3 | Depth learning | 3 | 4 | Exam | |
| 4 | Multimedia system | 3 | 4 | Exam | |
| Total | 13 | 16 |
Course Duration: 2 years
Degree: Master Degree of Information Science
Subjects for the qualification of Masters:
1. Network program
2. Network security engineering
3. Embedded system
4. Software security
5. Distributed system
6. Formatting
7. Computer-based educational information technology
8. Program analysis
9. Corpus engineering
10. Natural language processing
11. Voice recognition
12. Voice coding
13. Virtual reality
14. Computer vision
15. Data mining
16. Intelligent system design
17. Network computing
18. Virtual private network
19. Program logic device
20. Internet of Things (IoT)
21. Linux kernel architecture
22. Server system configuration
23. Multimedia transfer service
24. File system analysis
25. Ontology engineering
26. Machine translation
27. Voice emphasis
28. Statistical signal processing
29. Image parallel processing
30. Computer geometry
31. Modern intelligent information processing
32. Prediction & Decision-making 33. Network database management
34. Big data system
35. Encryption
36. Firewall & Invasion detection system
37. System & Database security
38. Virtual private network
39. Device drive technology
40. Real-time system
41. Formatting
42. Computer logical application
43. Field-controller technology
44. QA & Summary
45. Python & language processing
46. Modern documentary retrieval
47. Business service bus
48. E-learning management
49. Semantic Web technology
50. Virtualization & Cloud computing
51. Computer interface system
52. Visual recognition
53. Virtual reality
54. File system analysis
55. Component-based development
