| Operation Cases of Liberal Arts and Basic Education Courses - A study on cases of SungKyunKwan University |
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Sik Yong Nam, Byoung Chul Lee |
| 교양기초교육과정 운영 사례 |
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남식용, 이병철 |
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| Abstract |
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The 21st century has brought several meaningful changes to the paradigm of Korean university education. It has brought several results along with such formal changes as spread of large admission units in entrance examination, faculty system, and major entry system to university society in educational and practical aspects.
Especially, the most outstanding change is reinforcement of liberal arts courses in universities. The liberal arts courses existed as an important educational method in the past, too. However, they were recognized to be subordinate to major field or to be light courses only for freshmen and sophomores. Fortunately, this old recognition is getting weak with consensus that excellent liberal art courses can strengthen competitiveness of university education.
Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU) declared that reinforcement of liberal arts courses is one of VISION2010+ 5 strategic agenda and reorganized the liberal arts and basic education courses completely in 2005 as the first step. Furthermore, SKKU organized University College which takes charge of liberal arts courses. We can see the efforts of University College to strengthen competitiveness of liberal arts courses through examining principal operation cases.
Current status of SKKU liberal arts and basic education courses will be mentioned in the first place, and reinforcement of writing(communication) education will be examined as a case. Moreover, a case of basic English education reinforcement which is one of the efforts to globalize university education and the operation status of differential education in basic courses will be examined as well.
Finally, operational assessment for education curriculum which ensures qualitative excellence of liberal arts courses, and professor resources procurement plan which is the most important part of liberal arts courses reinforcement will be examined sequentially. |
| Key Words:
Consignment operation of lectures, Writing and communication, Basic English, Differential education curriculum, Liberal arts and basic education courses operational assessment and reorganiza |
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