The Department of Aesthetics seeks to educate its student majors in the theories of beauty and art so as to prepare them for professional training in the field of aesthetics and more generally for dealing with issues of art and culture in Korean society. The department engages in inquiries into the essential features of art, the nature of the aesthetic experience, and the characteristics of the different genres of art. Such inquiries yield an opportunity to examine human values from diverse perspectives. In order to carry out research into diverse cultures necessary for the study of aesthetics, students need to train themselves rigorously in language skills and to hone their analytic ability.