Based on the characteristics of traditional arts and crafts centered on people and skills, students of this department study master of the skills and the wisdom contained in the materials and tools as well as the technical processes these masters have used for generations in a systematic manner. In addition, we create an inheritance foundation of traditional art and craft skills through creative reproduction and further focus our energy on the realization of the practical modernization of traditional skills that can be applied to our times today.

The Department of Convergence Cultural Heritage cultivates experts who are equipped with social and scientific theories for policy, institution, evaluation, analysis, and value creation necessary to preserve, manage and utilize cultural properties and liberal arts theories for survey and research on cultural properties. The department also contributes to the expansion of the new cultural and traditional horizon by researching production principles of traditional crafts and technological culture of masters with an aim to establish the knowledge system based on modern values of intangible heritage and cultivating talents with practical workability.

Through deeper education linked with the undergraduate course, the Department of Traditional Arts and Crafts nurtures talents who are equipped with the systematic knowledge and advanced academic research capability necessary for the preservation and restoration of traditional architecture, thereby contributing to the establishment of the identity of traditional architecture cultural heritage and the preservation of original status.