A Study of Curriculum for a Dual Bachelor’s Degree Including a Teaching Certificate

In the age of globalization, higher education 
institutions attempt to equip students with global competence. In 
response, most universities have been developing and running various 
international programs. However, teacher education has been a 
neglected area in this trend. Therefore, in this study, we suggest a 
program that offers a dual bachelor’s degree from both universities 
located on different countries, focusing on teacher education 
institutions with different policies and regulations of teacher education 
programs that may become obstacles to designing a dual degree 
program. We discuss a possible way to get a dual degree including a 
teaching certificate at a specialized college, college of secondary 
education. To be specific, this research presents a way to attain two 
diplomas from Jeju National University (JNU) in Korea and Boise 
State University (BSU) in the U.S. It attempts to build an effective 
plan for students to declare simultaneous degrees at both universities. 
From the study, we find that it takes about 5 years to fulfill 
requirements for the dual degree at the undergraduate level.

• Hyeon Seok Kim
• Inhoi Lee
• Seong Baeg Kim
• Kyunghee Ko
• Kyung Eon Lee
• Dong Sik Kang

• Dual degree
• curriculum
• teaching certificate
• college of secondary education
• international program.

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