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"PKNU students enhance integrative thinking skill through project-type online lectures."
Dong-A Daily News introduces innovative cases of 4 universities including PKNU as a top boxed article on page 16 dated 2, Mar.

△ A page in the Dong-A Daily News that contains articles related to universities including Pukyong National University.

Pukyong National University’s efforts to innovate to increase university competitiveness attracted the attention of the media.

On March 2, the Dong-A Daily News introduced the university’s efforts to overcome the crisis caused by the decline in the school-age population through an article titled ’Local Universities driven over the edge of the cliff, each choose to survive on its own’

It was a 7 column boxed article on page 16 of this newspaper. Along with the article, the newspaper drew attention by posting a large picture of the university president Jang Young-soo of the Pukyong National University talking with newbies through video at the orientation event for welcoming freshmen held on/offline on the 26th of last month.
 
The article said, "Universities are in a sorrowful atmosphere over the results of admission for the 2021 school year, which recorded the lowest fixed number of the applicants in their history," added, "In campuses, it is said that the crisis of local universities is actually starting from now due to the decrease in the school-age population and the outflow of the metropolitan area."

The article introduced the ’Culture Archive’, a project-type online lecture by Pukyong National University, the university reorganization of Yeungnam University, the MOU for foreign startup investment at Dongseo University, and the establishment of the Convergence Department at Kyungpook National University.

Pukyong National University’s online lecture ’Culture Archive’, which opens from the second semester, is an online liberal art lecture created by four Pukyong National University professors from different majors.

This lecture presents a lecture plan for each of the five topics necessary for living: house, food, clothes, alcohol, and money. In addition, each syllabus is composed of learning topics and learning objectives in five areas, including culture•arts, humanities, science and technology, politics•society, economy•management, by combining a module method.

Accordingly, students can choose ’home-culture•art, meal-science and technology, clothes-liberal arts, alcohol-politics•society, money-economy•management’ or ’house-engineering, meal-liberal arts, clothes-politics•society, alcohol-economy•management, monet-culture•art’ according to students’ interests and students can personalize the type of lecture, so it is possible to take classes from the professor at each time.

This article quoted an official at Pukyong National University, saying, "Our university has endeavored to maximize the merits of crossover lectures that allow students with one major ability to acquire another major. It is expected that it will enhence integrative thinking skill."

In addition to this, Pukyong National University is leading student-centered educational innovation by making decision to open three lectures, including ’Basic of Data Analysis’, ’Environmental Governance of Earth’ and ’Introduction to the Fourth Industrial Revolution’, which students directly suggested ’Best Convergence Liberal Arts Subject I picked’ contest including crossover lectures this year over the first and second semesters. <Pukyong Today>