The Department of Park Golf and Welfare aims to respond to the rapidly increasing physical, emotional, and social welfare needs of an aging society. Its educational and research objectives include:
Establishing an integrated value system that combines sports and welfare for a healthy later life
Cultivating practical competencies in health, leisure, and welfare based on park golf
Strengthening field-ready expertise in sports welfare that can be immediately applied in practice
The department provides a systematic curriculum covering park golf theory and practice, sports instruction skills, and social welfare theory and practice. Through this, it seeks to become a leading program that nurtures “sports welfare professionals” who can guide physical activities for older adults, operate health promotion programs, and deliver welfare services in real-world settings.

  - Cultivating professionals equipped with park golf-based physical activity instruction skills and sports welfare practice competencies
  - Training sports welfare instructors who support the physical, mental, and social well-being of older adults
  - Developing experts in sports for all and welfare instruction who can address the entire life cycle-from youth to adulthood to old age
  - Fostering professionals through field-oriented practical training
  - Cultivating practitioners in the health, welfare, and healthcare sectors with strong ethics and professional expertise

A. Careers in Sports and Welfare Organizations as Instructors and Program Managers
  - Park golf instructors and coaches, competition management specialists (referees, scorekeepers)
  - In charge of exercise and health programs at senior welfare centers, facilities for persons with disabilities, and senior clubs
  - Social workers and planners of sports welfare programs

B. Careers in Public Institutions and Public Corporations as Senior Sports Welfare Specialists
  - Health and sports welfare-related roles at organizations such as the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation, National Health Insurance Service, National Pension Service, and dementia prevention centers

C. Careers in Medical, Rehabilitation, and Healthcare Institutions as Senior Healthcare Specialists
  - Exercise prescription and physical activity instruction at rehabilitation centers, health promotion centers, and sports rehabilitation clinics

D. Careers in Private Companies and the Commercial Sector as Park Golf Management Specialists
  - Operation and management of park golf courses, establishment of indoor screen park golf facilities
  - Employment in the silver leisure industry and age-friendly product sectors

E. Advancement to Academic and Professional Fields
  - Graduate studies in sports welfare, senior sports, rehabilitation exercise science, and social welfare

+82-53-859-7468/ *Department homepage: https://pgsw.dcu.ac.kr/