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Autonomous Major Selection(non-major) System, Learn from Two Failures

  • The Journal of General Education
  • 2025, (30), pp.45~65
  • DOI : 10.24173/jge.2025.01.30.2
  • Publisher : Da Vinci Mirae Institute of General Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education > Field of Education > General Education
  • Received : December 20, 2024
  • Accepted : January 14, 2025
  • Published : January 31, 2025

Ryu Chan Youl 1

1중앙대학교

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ABSTRACT

Taking lessons from the two failures, this study explored how to solve the difficult problem of the 'autonomous major selection(non-major) system'. To achieve this, Chapter 2 examines the progress of the 'experimental university' conducted by the government in the 1970s, and reveals the cause of the failure. In addition, Chapter 3 examines the progress of the 'academic divisional system' implemented by the government in the 1990s, and also reveals the cause of the failure. Finally, in Chapter 4, what and how to learn through the two failures were sought. In this process, what this study confirmed is the long-standing desire for the government's 'non-major admission' and the long-standing obsession with the 'admissions by departments' of universities. And here, the paradigm of major education and the paradigm of liberal arts education are conflicting. Whenever the government promotes 'non-major admission system', it has been put forward as a justification to strengthen liberal arts education. However, this justification did not lead to practice. Even now, strengthening liberal arts education should be a practice, not a justification. It is time to learn through two failures.

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