HANNARA. The shipboard training experience must meet the requirements
for licence eligibility and add important dimensions to the overall education of a student
- especially teamwork, responsibility, decision-making, human relations, international
relations, and extensive experience with machinery and technical systems.
During shipboard training period, on one hand, students have a coasting
for more than 10 times around the Korean coast. Students have also two 30-day ocean-going
sailing periods aboard Training Ships, on the other. Depending upon the accommodation
capacity of the two Training Ships, some of the students are assigned to mertchant ships
and gain valuable practical experience in performing shipboard duties. In this case, they
are required to complete a written report on their sea experiences, which is submitted to
their designated training representative for evaluation and grading. Students receive
credit for courses and reports completed for the shipboard training.
5. Summary and Conclusion
The College's four-year programme centres on a regimental system that
instills its students - called midshipmen (a term used for both men and women) - with the
traits of leadership, discipline and dedication required for a career that typically may
include service at sea, maritime employment ashore, and participation in the Korean Naval
Reserve.
Preparation for the shipboard officer requires an interdisciplinary
course of study and all students have to stay at the dormitory for discipline and
leadership training while they are in the University. According to the College's programme
sequence, students have to attend to the class for the first 2 years in the University but
in their third year they go to sea for shipboard training for a year. And in their fourth
year they return to the College to complete their elective major course as appropriate.
Since the College's curriculum has been changed dramatically in 1990 to
reflect the unprecedented technological revolution in the maritime environment in recent
years, the College has maintained its steady commitment to qualify maritime education and
training.
With the adoption of new STCW Convention which is very influential to
the world maritime institution, in particular, the College has once again made a
substantial improvement of the existing MET curriculum to meet the IMO's new requirement
last year. In this paper, the latest version of new curriculim in MET of the College has
been introduced.
The College still applies two principles to the education and training
for students. The first is that the overall pattern of maritime education and training in
the College has to be carefully balanced between academic education, professional training
ashore and practical experience at sea. The second is that students' training must be
progressive and must relate to their next job or next step in their career. Their training
and employment must give them job satisfaction and must steadily enhance their
professional status, thereby maintaining the incentive for them to remain in the merchant
marine and maritime-related industry. That is why the College has introduced the 'elective
major course' system in each Division.
