Sookmyung Operates Credit-Bearing Semester Program with Udayana University in Indonesia
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- Writer 커뮤니케이션팀
- 보도일자 2025-12-23
Sookmyung Women’s University announced on the 22nd of December that its Asia-Pacific Women’s Information and Communication Center successfully concluded a 15-week Semester-based Course Program conducted at Udayana University in Indonesia.
The credit-bearing semester program is a regular academic course aligned with Indonesia’s national education policy and awards official academic credits. Since 2024, the program has been jointly implemented by Sookmyung Women’s University and Udayana University. Targeting students from Udayana University’s Faculty of Agricultural Technology, the initiative focuses on cultivating practical employment and entrepreneurship skills required in the agricultural sector while promoting gender equality awareness within traditionally structured agricultural communities.
From September to December, Sookmyung’s Asia-Pacific Women’s Information and Communication Center (APWINC) offered two courses under the theme of “Entrepreneurship and AI-Based Website Development for Solving Challenges in the Agricultural Sector.” The courses were taught by Prof. Han Jun-hye of Sookmyung’s Dept. of Global Service and Prof. Jeong Jin-hyuk of the Big Data Convergence Program, with 29 students from Udayana University participating.
This year’s program placed particular emphasis on entrepreneurship for problem-solving in the agri-food sector and hands-on, practice-oriented training using AI tools. Educational effectiveness was enhanced through an integrated curriculum that combined outcomes from both courses and through the adoption of a Project-Based Learning (PBL) approach. In the final, 15th week, the professors visited Indonesia to conduct in-person classes and one-on-one feedback sessions, and students presented the results they had developed over the semester in group presentations.
The program was also linked to local community internships, with 18 students completing on-site training at agricultural and food-related companies. Participants worked with local small business owners in need of digital transformation, contributing to product improvement and new product development, as well as supporting the establishment of online sales channels using social media platforms such as TikTok.
Artika Ria Utami, a participant in both this program and the Women in Digital and Entrepreneurship (WiDE) capacity-building program held this year, said, “I rarely had opportunities to systematically learn about entrepreneurship and AI. Through this program, I was able to develop business ideas based on real community challenges and use AI tools to turn them into more practical and realistic plans.”
Dr. Ni Nyoman Sulastri, who oversaw the program at Udayana University, commented, “This program increased student engagement and confidence in presentations through interactive, discussion- and practice-oriented classes. A convergent approach that combines AI utilization and entrepreneurship skills with students’ academic majors will become increasingly important in the future.”
Building on this program, the Asia-Pacific Women’s Information and Communication Center plans to expand educational cooperation aimed at strengthening digital and entrepreneurial competencies and gender sensitivity among youth in developing countries, including Indonesia. It also seeks to develop a mutually beneficial model in which university students grow together with local startup ecosystems through close community engagement.