| How to revive humanities and college through general education |
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Il Woo Park |
| 교양기초교육을 통한 인문학과 대학 되살리기 |
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| Abstract |
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In this article, we pointed out crisis of today’s higher education. Besides external factors causing the crisis, we are forced to admit that there has hardly been the aim of reform and innovation on the part of humanities scholars. Ignoring the up-to-dated needs of digital information industries and society, they have just stayed in the ‘department’ system, until the upcoming college reconstruction policy threatens them first. Now it is time for humanities scholars accept the convergence mind developed in the field of general education.
We introduced two cases of convergent general education, and , that were developed with the fund from CONIEG. During the design and development of the two programs, we experienced that our attitude toward the humanities and the spectrum of knowledge became more expended and profound. Here we have some evidence that when humanities scholars accept and participate in the present general education renovation movement, i. e the convergent point of view, they can refine their own research fields and consequently, have more competitive and creative results.
Convergence does not end at the program design. It can and must extend to the humanities and basic sciences, and consequently, to the college organization. We studied carefully the recent advent of liberal arts colleges and/or university colleges, and we could affirm that this trend was a due result of the present general education innovation. Through this process, humanities scholars who are confronted with the reconstruction and the college itself will be able to survive and make success. |
| Key Words:
crisis of college, college reconstruction, convergence, humanities, liberal arts college, college organization |
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