Winning in competition, stepping onto the liberal arts podium... Pukyong National University introduces student-led course design and enrollment contest

Basic Data Analysis, Introduction to the 4th Industrial Revolution, Earth Environment Governance, Cultural Archive

Four New Liberal Arts Courses to be Offered from the 2nd Semester... Selected through Contest as Official Curriculum

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] How about designing and taking liberal arts courses you want to learn yourself?

A curriculum contest designed directly by enrolled students is attracting attention, and it is also remarkable that the selected courses have been officially adopted as liberal arts subjects. The era of innovation in universities deciding liberal arts courses through competition has arrived.

On the 10th, Pukyong National University announced that it will newly open and operate liberal arts courses proposed and designed directly by students in the second semester starting this September.

The Liberal Arts Education Center of Pukyong National University's College of Liberal Arts has developed a total of four new liberal arts courses for the second semester.

Among them, three courses were awarded the Grand Prize, Excellence Award, and Merit Award respectively in last year's 'Liberal Arts Course Contest I Want.'

The course that won the Grand Prize and was added to the curriculum was "Introduction to Data Analysis."

This lecture helps develop basic analytical skills to read and process various forms of unstructured big data produced and utilized in everyday life.

The data reflects trends in many fields, including specific majors such as mathematics and statistics. Programming languages such as Python and R coding can be learned.

The "Introduction to the 4th Industrial Revolution," which won the Excellence Award, was designed as a lecture that can cultivate concepts about the 4th industrial revolution and foster convergent and creative thinking skills.

The "Global Environmental Governance," which won the Merit Award, teaches the international community's response to environmental issues, which have recently become major topics, and the concept of global environmental governance, helping students develop the ability to respond to global environmental problems.

In addition to students, the newly developed liberal arts course "Cultural Archive," created through a research group of professors, will also be opened this time.

This lecture, jointly developed by four professors from different majors, adopts a crossover-style lecture method with topic-based projects, allowing students to choose different academic fields according to their interests.

Oh Chang-ho, director of the Liberal Arts Education Center, said, "We have expanded opportunities for students to propose and actually open courses they want," and added, "We will continue efforts for student-centered educational innovation to cultivate self-directed convergence learning capabilities."

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