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An Informetric Analysis of Topics in University’s General Education

  • Journal of the Korean Biblia Society for Library and Information Science
  • 2015, 26(4), pp.245-262
  • DOI : 10.14699/kbiblia.2015.26.4.245
  • Publisher : Journal Of The Korean Biblia Society For Library And Information Science
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science

Sanghee Choi 1

1대구가톨릭대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

As the topics of general education in universities become more diverse, it is not an easy task to identify the topics of general education courses. This study aims to identify and visualize the topics of A university’s general education courses using informetric analysis methods. 214 syllabi were collected and titles, course introduction, goals, and weekly plans were analyzed. 278 topic words were extracted from the data set and grouped into 8 clusters. In the network analysis, topic clusters were divided into two areas, personal and social. Personal area has 14 sub-topic clusters and social area has 11 sub-topic clusters. In personal area, ‘language’, ‘science’, and ‘personality’ were major topic clusters. In social area, ‘multi-culture’ cluster was the core cluster with connected to four other clusters. The topic network generated in this study can be used for the university and the university library to enhance general education or to develop collections for general education.

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