Pukyong National University

Liberal arts lectures made and taken by university students themselves are attracting attention

- PKNU, Courses for the 2nd semester will be opened, courses that have won prizes in the liberal arts competition

What if college students could design and take the liberal arts courses they want to learn?

Pukyong National University (President Jang Young-Soo) announced that the university will open and operate liberal arts courses directly developed and proposed by students in the second semester starting in upcoming September.

The liberal arts education center at the College of Liberal Arts of Pukyong National University has newly developed four liberal arts courses in the second semester. Of these, three subjects received the grand prize and the 1st sat price each, at the 'Liberal Arts Subjects I Want' contest held last year.

‘Basic Data Analysis’, a liberal arts course that open this time by winning the grand prize, is a lecture that enables students to develop basic analysis skills so that they can read and process various types of atypical big data produced and used in various places in our lives.

It reflects the trend that is the basis of data-rich fields as well as specific majors such as mathematics and statistics, and students can learn programming languages such as Python and R coding.

Along with this, 'An introduction to the 4th Industrial Revolution', which received the 1st sat prize, is designed and opened as a lecture that can nurture convergence and creative thinking ability as well as concepts related to the 4th industry. ‘Global Environmental Governance’, which received the Excellence Award, develops students’ ability to respond to global environmental problems by learning the concept of global environmental governance and the international community’s response to environmental issues that have recently emerged as major issues.

'Culture Archive', liberal arts subject newly developed through research meetings by professors as well as students, will also be offered to students.

This lecture, jointly developed by four professors of different majors, is a project lecture by subject and adopts a crossover lecture method in which students can select and take different academic areas according to their interests.

Oh Chang-Ho, director of the Center for Liberal Arts and Education, said, "Our university will continue to carry out student-centered educational innovation efforts to develop self-directed convergence learning capabilities by proposing the lectures students want and expanding opportunities to actually open them." <Pukyong Today>