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Busan University of Foreign Studies
Busan University of Foreign Studies (Korean: 부산외국어대학교), often shortened to 부산외대 and BUFS, romanized as Pusan University of Foreign Studies before 2011, is a private university in Busan, South Korea, which specializes in foreign languages. In 2014, following the completion of a new campus on the slope of Mount Geumjeongsan, the university moved to Namsan-dong. HistoryBusan University of Foreign Studies was founded in 1981 by the late Chung Tae-sung. His philosophy for education was that young intellectual minds must become leaders internationally. Busan University of Foreign Studies was founded as a college for studying foreign languages in April 1982 with its first students studying English, French, Japanese, Chinese, German, Indonesian, Malay, and Thai. Through the 1980s, the college expanded its programs and finally became a university in 1991. As of 2009[update], Busan University of Foreign Studies has academic exchange program agreements with 94 universities in 24 countries.[citation needed] CoursesBUFS consists of seven colleges, four graduate school programs, and nine research institutes. The language portion of the school is structured in three of the colleges: College of English, Japanese, and Chinese, College of Occidental Studies, and College of Oriental Studies. Other Western languages that the university offers are Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian. Eastern languages in addition to Japanese and Chinese include Vietnamese, Burmese, Hindi, Arabic, Turkish, and Uzbek.[1] The university also provides programs of study in international studies, Korean as a foreign language and literature, international law, international business, and IT. CollegesIn early 2020 soon after the admission of that year's freshmen, the school administration announced a significant change in the number of admission in multiple departments. This included the entire cease in the admission of some majors such as the Department of Paideia for Creative Leadership (which had had one of the highest levels of competition and had been considered the most valuable major), effectively closing down those majors. New majors were created in their places such as the Department of Counseling Psychology and the Department of Airline Service Management. Soon after the announcement, the school administration received major backlash from multiple student bodies, and a conference took place between heads of school administrative departments and members of the student councils. The major point of complaint from the students was that the announcement was given without any warning, leaving the freshmen feeling as though they were tricked into entering a university where their major wouldn't exist straight after graduation. Despite the students' questions about the ethics of the university's conduct, the conference ended with the university administrators insisting on financial inviability and population decline to justify their decisions(The point of population decline was quickly pointed out by one of the students as being deceptive due to the total number of students remaining the same in the university's plans). This major shift in the structure of the BUFS curriculum reaffirmed a preexisting negative notion of apathy of the university administration for student welfare and furthered the criticism that the university is in the process of losing its identity of specializing in languages and foreign studies by prioritizing trend and profit.
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