콘텐츠 창작을 통한 교양 글쓰기 교육의 가능성

Abstract

This paper proposes an example of a story writing class, to show that creative writing can be another good choice for university writing and liberal arts education. <Creative Writing for Media Content> is a liberal arts course of ‘A’ university aimed at strengthening writing skills and providing an experience to write stories for media content creation. <Creative Writing for Media Content> has several advantages; first, it deals with ‘media content’, which is a major cultural activity of college students. This means that students can easily open their minds in class and freely imagine and be creative through this course. In addition, creating stories arouses students’ interest in writing and improves their writing skills while accumulating writing experience. Second, students develop critical thinking and self-expression skills through group discussions and media reviews. All activities to foster communication and writing skills in college writing―writing, correction, discussion, presentation, group activities, colleague feedback, etc.―could be applied to creative writing equally. It means, story creation classes can be another solution for writing education in universities. Third, students collaborate and fuse their various majors/expertise during team projects. They used web platforms to communicate at any time, create stories together, and design digital media content. Furthermore, students used AI technology and this means cooperation of human and post-human(AI). Therefore, in <Creative Writing for Media Content>, we can see the possibility of realizing ideal liberal arts education which is creative and integrated. In conclusion, if creative activities can be carried out in liberal arts writing classes in connection with cultural content, much more students will be able to participate in creativity education. Above all, <Creative Writing for Media Content> reflects the realistic needs and interests of students to create “content,” so it is a liberal arts course suitable for expanding the demand for writing education and developing digital literacy and humanities competencies.