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This study is to explore the case of operating University-level Program (UP) focused on an example running case of Hanyang University. The UP operating processes include several phases: initiating the application and selection of UP education institutes, collecting high-school students, supporting effective execution and administration, opening 7 subjects in accordance with the standard science curriculum for UP students, and counseling and evaluating students' reaction and learning. Several issues can be raised about the UP operating processes: guidance and advertising to collect the students, free tuition fee in some schools, collision of different education schedules between high schools and universities. To settle down successful UP in the future, we recommend as follows. 1) In aspect of the UP education system and new curriculum development, it needs to have a more specified road map and then develop and study the new curriculums. 2) In aspect of UP education and study, it needs to do more various studies: for example, to measure the education effectiveness, to identify the student traits, to explore the teaching and learning methods for effectiveness and applicability to UP classes, to provide a system serving just-in time advice and guidance to the students, and to run a leadership program in view of national interest. 3) In aspect of UP executing strategies, it needs to have a department of taking the full charge and sharing operating experiences of all of the UP education institutions. In conclusion, we have to share the results and experiences of UP operations among all of the participants such as universities, high-schools, the Ministry of Education, and related local offices of education, and to keep doing research on new UP curriculums. It is our hope that UP should be reconstructed as a specialized program where talented students can grow up and develop their excellence through the national interest and recognition of the program, including teachers, students, and parents.

We live in a world where almost every aspect of life is increasingly dependent upon scientific and technological progress. Science and technology(S&T) are no longer specialized subjects confined to scientists and engineers; they have become intertwined with each other and furthermore with society. With the trend toward knowledge driven societies worldwide, modern society produces scientific and technological knowledge at a rate where it's impossible for anybody to keep a clear overview. Therefore, education of S&T is indispensable not only to achieve sustainable development but also to create a scientifically and technologically literate citizenry. To educate scientifically and technologically literate individuals, they should learn scientific reasoning rather than nitty gritty scientific knowledges. In this study, new teaching method of scientific reasoning using movie as a supplementary teaching material for the general education of science & technology has been proposed “Lorenzo's Oil”(MCA Home Video, directed by George Miller, in 1993) is about a couple, Michaela and Augusto Odone, whose 6-year-old son is affected by adrenoleukodystrophy(ALD), a neuro-degenerative disease that soon reduces him to an almost vegetative state. The film is based on true facts and shows how the parents are able to learn complex medical and biochemical facts that permit them to understand the disease and try to find a cure for it. In this study, a movie “Lorenzo's Oil” was examined in terms of hypothesis-testing learning model, After incorporating some of this studies into the class, Kookmin university students' understanding of the hypothesis-deductive thinking was improved appreciably.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the HRD curriculum for KUT Engineering Education Model. The results of this study would be the KUT HRD curriculum with its uniqueness on the core competencies that Korea enterprises require to college students. According to the purpose, the following specific goals will be addressed: First, to identify the current curriculum to develop the HRD competencies. Secondly, to identify the HRD competencies about sex, positions, work areas, work period. Thirdly, to develop the new curriculum based on the results. Finally, to design the path that students would study up to their graduate.

This thesis is designed to explain why the Oriental intelligent used to read and write. The Oriental intelligent had pursued of 'becoming adulthood' through reading and writing. The reading to them meant acquiring moral righteousness that the saints had left, which means reading a book was a learning theory to discipline inner mind of himself or herself. Writing can also be created only when a moral growth is made in his own mind. Accordingly, reading and writing by the Oriental intelligent can be a course for growth of character for growth of inner mind Their reading is a course for confirming inner morality, on the other hand writing is an outer expression of inner morality. Accordingly, learning only for reading or learning only for writing can be considered supplementary, that is, teaching moral inside or learning for moral character shall be placed in the center. To explain this, I have investigated the case to explain this by dividing reading that makes you identify your morality reading at the background of knowledge with moral in the center from the viewpoint of reading. Their reading, it can be said, is not accumulation of knowledge, but a knowledge system for growing a moral character. Therefore, his own growth of moral is central, to do this a reading structure at the background of knowledge had been established. From the aspect of writing, writings mean a small tool to contain dao, a system of dao-led writing, not led by writing, had been established. Therefore, only when their morality is completed is it extended to writing. As a result of that, learning only aiming at writing shall be avoided or ignored. Accordingly, writing is important in the sense that writing is a materialistic resource for growing his own morality.

The 'Liberal Arts Seminar', which opened in 1997 in Keimyung University, consists of three stages - reading, discussing and writing of five classic texts. However, the students of this 'Liberal Arts Seminar' are freshman who don't have suitable reading habit because they are a part of an internet generation. Therefore, these students need additional skills or have to develop 'logical thinking' which is required for university research. And most of these students have recently taken strenuous college entrance exams. As a result, this reality creates a hinderance to achieve the goal of the class. The professor is required to explore ways to restore the pleasure of reading to their students. Therefore, literature texts based on 'emotion' rather than 'logic', play an important role in developing students' pleasure of reading, and for teaching of these texts, the professor must interfere positively as a kind of therapist. This article aims to develop a specialization of literary education as a part of a liberal education focusing on the 'Liberal Arts Seminar' in Keimyung University. Literature teaching materials for this study are “Selected poetry of Kim So Wol” and “The merchant of Venice” by Shakespeare. Each stage is composed of an initial stage, a working stage, and a final stage all including a process of counseling. In Chapter I which considers “an evocation of image of the past by 'a vocal language'”, the professor invited the students not to comprehend but to experience literature by causing emotion through melodic vocal language, an effect of reciting the poems. In this stage, the students can return to their childhoods by reciting “Mother and Sister” by Kim So Wol, and also open their minds to discussion which is a part of the class goal of the 'Liberal Arts Seminar'. In chapter II, we observed that students express their affectivity of the 'here and now' in the anonymous of rewriting “I didn't know in the past by Kim So Wol”. The appropriate feedback of the professor to students who are troubled by the affections of 'loneliness' and 'longing', was able to help them participate during the activity in the classrooms. In chapter III which looked at 'the augmentation of the relationship through the body', we found that the relationship of the students is improved by the dramatization of the “Merchant of Venice”. Through physical movement, they were able to achieve more spontaneity, more comprehension of the text, greater expectations for the class, and more courage to take off this 'persona' for discussion. In a word, literature education as a liberal arts education must be composed of strategies which use and promote the characteristics of each genre of the literature through the recovery of affection. So professors who have a desire to teach literature must show all their literary resources in their fullness in order to approach the substance of literature. In addition, they have to utilize all their qualities as a counselor, a literary critic, a cultural critic, a storyteller in order to establish a close relationship with their students.

The purposes of this study is to interpret the idea of liberal education, to get proper senses of liberal education, and to indicate the ways we can achieve successful liberal education in concrete situations. The practical implications of this study could be summarized as follows. In order to realize a certain ideas of liberal education: ￭ Instead of absolute and solid views of truth and knowledge we need to take provisional and soft nature of knowledge and truth into consideration. ￭ “Pure” autonomy of university and undue influences of the forces of the society are no more acceptable as natural. ￭ Campus culture as a part of students' academic life is to be appreciated so that they develop useful competences, academic proficiencies, as well as positive attitudes towards social concerns. ￭ Open-ended, dialogic, critical forms of rationality is to be restored and freed from the domination of instrumental rationality. ￭ Teachers in higher education with research-oriented mind have to appreciate their academic, and professional duty to teach students well. ￭ We need to understand the idea of academic freedom as containing students' freedom and their responsibility to learn ￭ We need to appreciate the importance of teaching-learning activities on campus and develop cooperative relationships between university teachers and students. ￭ Students need to develop critical attitudes towards their own areas of studies, different perspectives of diverse academic areas and viewpoints of society in general. ￭ Emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches in university curriculum and instruction can help students to develop as a whole person overcoming the limits of their own areas of studies. ￭ It is necessary to select a proper one from many senses of liberal education according to the concrete circumstances of each university for the realization of the idea of higher education.

This article has reviewed the small group discussion courses for reading, speaking, listening, and writing at Duksung Women's University. These courses were mandated as requisite liberal arts courses in 1969. From 1969 to 1977, in the〈Reading〉, students were instructed to write essays after readings. Later, courses such as〈Study in Humanities〉,〈Human Being in Society〉, and〈Introduction to Literature〉 were introduced. As the titles, organizations, and contents of the courses changed, other courses such as〈Seminars in Philosophy〉,〈Seminars in Literature〉,〈Research Methodology and Writing〉,〈University Study Skills〉,〈Communication〉,〈Critical Reading〉, and finally〈Critical Reading and Writing〉were added. Through these courses, students were able to appreciate different perspectives and also develope their creative and critical thinking capabilities in order to prepare them for the entry into information society. In 1997 and 1998, small group discussion courses accounted for 8.3% of the total credits required for graduation. However, recently this has decreased to 3.1%. This study found that, with 2 courses,〈Critical Reading and Writing in Literature〉 and〈Critical Reading and Writing in Humanities and Natural Science〉, where writing ability was not addressed intensively, limitations were remained. Therefore, it is recommended that the university improve the quality of these courses by keeping writing as a separate course and including all four disciplines (philosophy, literature, humanities and social science, and natural science) in seminar courses.

The purpose of this thesis is aimed at studying the problems and solutions for college English in the education of liberal art. There are many reformers and educators to study university curriculums for liberal art and take part in discussions around teaching and inspecting English in university in itself or Ministry of Education. They argue that the education situation now is facing serious crisis so that we need to rethink the old educated styles and make new findings as a way to solve it. The atmosphere of education situation at the moment changes by the problem of subject, accumulation of experience, domain of judgement, and regulation of standard to maximize education in the field of culture, individual passion, and intelligent class. But in order to practice the teaching method it is naturally that we have the tendency to adjust to the new way of understanding the contemporary cultural and industrial education and the stream of knowledge in the crisis of humanitarian study. In the exploration and opinion for the education the study of education problem and solution is different from traditional criticism and synthesis. It is said that we are not trained into the evaluation and idea of what we need to know the method of thinking in one aspect, and that not all students experience the organic relation with education in another. Therefore, the future of liberal education is concerned with the reality of value, knowledge, insight and understanding for the world to be students as intelligent. We can say that teachers have a poor image in reality and students are in the course of trained standard without interest and subjectivity just to be machines such as labors after school education. So we have to study again about the writing, reading, speaking and listening of liberal art education in university English. Furthermore, we have to understand the condition of creativity and possibility through building character and experiment of students in real class.

This essay seeks to examine the general directions to which liberal education should point in relevance with the transformations in the age of globalization. Culture in current use has derived from the European tradition since the eighteenth century: that is, the development of qualities proper to human being. In this regard, liberal education aims at a man of 'culture' which means a mental formation of intellectual and moral capabilities for a humane life. The significance of liberal education was widely acknowledged in the 1960's and most of the universities in Korea established a college of liberal education, but because of inadequate methological support, it did not bring about substantial success. Accordingly, from the latter part of 1970's the colleges of liberal education began to disintegrate, and few survived up to the present. But the importance of liberal education again came to light at the leading universities in several countries, and in compliance with this new tendency some of the Korean universities just started building a new type of structure solely in charge of liberal education. This essay tries to observe the philosophical background of liberal education, and stress the humanities of great weight in liberal education, and at the same time attempt to urge the better understanding of the social sciences as well as of the natural sciences to cope with the intellectual transformations in the age of informational, techonological revolutions.

The purpose of this study is to develop the program of pre-parent education course for the university students. Research questions are 1) to investigate university student's motivations on Pre-parenting, 2) to investigate university student's understands on Pre-parenting, 3) to investigate university student's needs on Pre-parenting, and 4) what is the supplementary contents on Pre-parenting education course. In this study, 62 university students who took the course of “Modern Society and Family Members” responded to questionnaire on parental role, motivation, and needs and understanding about childrearing. Kim Ji Shin(1997)'s pre-parenting scale was used in the collection of data. T-test was used to analyze the data. The results are as follows. 1. Most of participants preferred maturity demands and fun for childrearing to economic and emotional dependency about motivations for pre-parenting. 2. For the understands of the pre-parenting, the postnatal care, difficulty for childcare, parental role, and others were desired. 3. For the needs of pre-parenting, most of participants wanted to acquire knowledge and attuitude for future parenthood. 4. Most of participants were satisfied with the contents of parental role and the knowledge of child care. They understood the necessity of pre-parenting education.

The purpose of this study is to provide meaningful suggestion and desirable direction for improving liberal Education in Korea by exploring Japan's case, especially recent educational reform, cases of undergraduate program, etc. The study covers the trend of liberal Education, the category of subject matters, special curriculum contents such as interdisciplinary approaches or degree requirements and managing system of liberal education in each universities. This paper examine the direction of educational reform & tendency of changing the liberal arts education of Japanese university. The result of the examination, it was worked out various plan to solve the problems not only the university itself but also the government authorities. Recently several Japanese discussions were going on to explore desirable direction of liberal arts education, and the result to be reflected universities own curriculum. Finally, the study concludes as follow: First, there are many endeavors to provide interdisciplinary and theme-centered subjects focused on the real social problems. Second, there are much emphasis on nurturing educated person in the rapid chaning knowledged-based society. Third, the each universities focus on the articulation of secondary and post-secondary education and connection of between their liberal education & major .