Public interest in opening 'Crossover learning' of PKNU
25 professors participate with five topics in one lecture ... Leading student-centered educational innovation
Pukyong National University (President Jang Young-Soo) is a hot topic in developing student-centered innovative lectures, opening a 'crossover learning' course.
Pukyong National University announced on February 22 that it will develop a 'Cultural Archive' of thematic project-type lectures and will start operating them beginning in the second semester.
This lecture is a newly created online liberal arts course by four Pukyong National University professors from different majors through the 'Research & Development Group of the Convergence Liberal Arts Course' support project recently conducted by Pukyong National University for faculty members.
Unlike general university courses that are held for one semester (15 weeks) with one lecture plan, this course presents a lecture plan covering each of the five topics necessary for living: housing, food, clothing, alcohol, and money. In addition, each class syllabus is composed of learning topics and learning objectives in five areas, including culture and art, humanities, science and technology, politics, society, economy, and management by combining a modular curriculum.
This lecture will be offered in 25 different variations, that students can choose themselves allowing those students to freely cross-select not only five lecture themes, but also five areas focused according to the lecture theme. 25 types of lectures will be given by different professors, so many as 25 professors will be in charge of this course.
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' based on the students' interests and students can personalize the type of lecture, so it is possible to take classes from many professor at different times.
Professor Kim Chang-gyeong (Department of Chinese Studies), the chief professor responsible for the course, said, "We tried to maximize the merits of crossover learning, in which students with one major ability can acquire knowledge about another major. It is expected that this course will help students reinforce their integrated thinking and internalize the content they have learned."
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 'An Introduction to the Fourth Industrial Revolution', which students directly suggested at the recent 'The Best Convergence Liberal Arts Subject I picked' contest including crossover lectures this year during the first and second semesters.
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