The Life Mindset Design curriculum is designed to support Hanyang Intercollege freshmen in successfully preparing for college life and their transition into adulthood. This program aims to help students design a meaningful life not only through academic success but also through personal growth and goal setting. It encourages students to discover their passions and interests, and to concretize various career and life trajectories through Odyssey Planning. In this process, students focus on finding the most meaningful life values for themselves and creating a Persuasive Life Design accordingly. From the beginning of their college life, they clearly set the direction of the life they wish to pursue and establish a concrete plan to achieve those goals. The Life Project provides full support for students to proactively design their lives and successfully prepare for their lives as adults.

All academic disciplines aim to explain or predict phenomena through understanding causality. To achieve this, humanity has developed deductive and inductive reasoning processes, which have become the fundamental components of all academic fields. In modern society, various elements are intricately intertwined, and there are many situations that are difficult to predict, making it challenging to explain or predict everything using simple linear reasoning alone. To analyze social phenomena that have transformed into complex systems and to solve complex problems (such as climate change and political extremism), design thinking has emerged as a major reasoning method. This course focuses on cultivating the convergent perspective and collaborative attitude necessary for Hanyang Intercollege students to solve complex problems by applying scientific and creative reasoning processes to real-world social phenomena.

One of the most important goals of modern university education has been to quickly learn the theoretical knowledge created by humanity and apply it to generate academic and industrial value. Now, the purpose of university education is shifting away from this passive response to industrial demands and towards actively discovering creative new alternatives to solve the various crises facing humanity. This course allows students to experience the ability to clearly express their thoughts and ideas and to persuade others to accept them through prototyping. Through three perspectives (Visual Prototyping, Functional Prototyping, and Virtual Prototyping), students will develop creative alternatives and aim to apply them practically in projects from other courses (Unified Systems Sciences, Algorithmic, Computational, and Data Thinking, Global Critical Anthropology, Life Project, etc.).

The course content is designed to comprehensively explain social phenomena using physics, chemistry, and bioscience as important tools of modern scientific civilization, moving away from analyzing scientific phenomena through a one-sided lens and predicting detailed applications and impacts. By selecting phenomena that can be explained through a comprehensive understanding of the components of science and society (e.g., improving agricultural productivity through nitrogen fertilizers, vegetarianism and environmental ethics, analyzing the human risk factors of nanotechnology cancer treatment, decision-making on rocket launches with overlapping requirements), the course explains these phenomena through the multiple lenses of physics, chemistry, life sciences, and psychology. Through a total of 8 scenes, students will understand various natural science methodologies and be able to apply them to various phenomena.

Although this course may be seen as a traditional calculus class, it differs from existing calculus courses in two aspects. First, instead of solving problems by hand, the course is designed to apply calculus to more complex and sophisticated forms by connecting it with engineering software. Second, to explore the practical applicability of calculus, experts from relevant departments will directly teach calculus examples used in all academic fields of the university for a total of 8 weeks (e.g., the volume of water generated by a single stroke of the arm in freestyle swimming and the resulting increase in swimming speed, the decrease in economic scale caused by population decline, etc.). Through this challenging approach to mathematics education, students will recognize the effectiveness of mathematics and be able to project it onto their areas of passion and interest.

The keywords of modern society are Data and AI. To collect, manage, and implement them, not only software capabilities but also statistical intuition and visual representation must be provided simultaneously with mathematical and aesthetic content. Through this course, students will cultivate basic software capabilities such as Python and C, and directly build the ability to manage data and create new knowledge (Intelligence) through them.

The course aims to foster persuasiveness, enabling students to effectively express their thoughts, make others understand, and reach consensus through Critical Reading, Critical Writing, and Critical Presentation. It provides an interdisciplinary understanding of global issues through anthropology, critical expression, and multimodal communication. Building on the critical thinking and expression cultivated through the System Thinking and Design Thinking courses, which are based on the Socratic method (dialogue), the course emphasizes integrative and convergent thinking. It focuses on developing students' in-depth communication skills necessary for solving complex problems.

This course, conducted at a prestigious overseas university during the winter break of the first year, focuses on convergence phenomena developed by Hanyang Intercollege from the perspective of design thinking. Students will carry out research projects that can be practically applied in a global environment. The course aims to provide global experience and encourage cultural exchange. Students will understand the political, cultural, economic, and environmental differences between the host country and Korea, and gain a broader perspective to view their chosen major from an international standpoint.

This program is designed to improve English skills, especially speaking and listening, for about 20% of students who need to enhance their English proficiency. The course focuses on enabling students to successfully engage in a university-level academic environment. It equips first-year Hanyang Inter-College students with the ability to participate in classes conducted in English and study alongside students from English-speaking countries.