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Dankook University has opened three courses; <Reading Masterpieces: Humanities>, <Reading Masterpieces: Society>, and <Reading Masterpieces: Nature>. One of them is required to be completed. A total of 123 courses were opened in the first and second semesters of the 2020 academic year at Jukjeon and Chenan campuses, and 4,386 students took <Reading Masterpieces>, which is based on 40 students per class. In principle, the text books covered in <Reading Masterpieces> are selected from <Dankook Recommended Books 101>. And reading, discussing, and writing are core learning activities in this class. In addition, the instructors's workshops are held regularly to share the know-how of class operation and to seek efficient teaching and learning methods. Dankook University reorganized the liberal arts curriculum for the 2020 academic year and is operating the subject of “Reading Masterpieces,” which is based on reading classic books as a required liberal arts subject. The purpose of this paper is to examine the methods and the educational achievements of classic education, focusing on the case of Dankook University, and to examine the future tasks. Dankook University has developed a diagnostic tool to measure the educational achievements of classic education, and is diagnosing the educational achievements of the subject <Reading Masterpieces> through pre-class and post-class surveys every semester and analyzing the results. According to the results of diagnosing the educational achievements of the 1st and 2nd semesters of 2020, the students' abilities of reading comprehension, communication, creativity, and problem-solving efficacy all significantly improved, and their interest in learning was also significantly improved. This result confirms the significance of classic education as a basic liberal arts education in that it shows that classic education greatly contributes not only to improving thinking and literacy but also to enhancing students' voluntary academic motivation. Although there are additional tasks that need to be improved in order for the subject of <Reading Masterpieces> to take root, the classic education methods and educational achievements management system implemented by Dankook University can be said to be one of the best examples of classic education.

Classic Education, required subject, Reading Masterpieces, education method, educational achievements