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The purpose of this paper is to provide meaningful suggestion and desirable direction for improving liberal education in Korea by examining the College of Arts and Science of Tokyo University s case, especially its educational system and program.
For this, first, this paper explains to the triple structure of the system in educating firstand second-year undergraduate students in the Junior Division, the College incorporated its own Senior Division for third- and fourth-year students and, later, the Graduate School. One important development in recent years has thus been a change in the College s pedagogical emphasis from undergraduate to graduate education.
Second, we find out the real aspect of the cultural basic education based on the idea of Liberal Arts by its educational programs. They make a more point of the process of the so-called know-how than the know-what . The aim is to introduce new interdisciplinary approaches to the academic convention of compartmentalized specialties, a challenge which has been met by the practice of the Department in its education and research.
Third, historically they have made the system and organization better for the level-up of the liberal education, in spite of the disorganization of the department of liberal education in the other university since 1991, according to the deregulation policy by Japanese government. Tadao Yanaihara, the first Dean of the College, and his colleagues, who believed in an integrated approach to learning and in fostering the spirit of a life-long quest for truth whereby unbiased individuals with all-round knowledge would be trained. |
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