여자대학 인문 사회 예술계열 대학생의 취업 의식 및 교양교육 연구 ― C여자대학교를 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to propose a pathway to improve general education curriculum of women’s universities. To achieve this goal, this study examined and analyzed women university students’ perspectives on career paths, especially those whose majors are in the Humanities, Social Sciences, or Arts, as well as those universities’ current state of career development education. The findings indicate that women university students usually start their career preparation in their senior year(50.4%), hope to be employed after graduation(73.6%), and want to have a job related to their majors(80.6%). As part of an effort to prepare for future careers, women university students, on average, maintain a good GPA, learn a foreign language, and obtain a certificate. However, they rarely do volunteer work, experience overseas, work abroad as an intern, or participate in extracurricular activities. A breakdown of the findings by department is as follows: women university students in the Humanities maintain a good GPA and learn a foreign language, the students in the Social Sciences maintain a good GPA and obtain a certificate, and those in the Arts participate in extracurricular activities including art contests and exhibitions. As for women university students’ attitudes about future careers, they prefer government agencies as a workplace, Culture/Art/Design/Broadcasting as a vocation, and government employees as a job. Women university students reported that it is necessary to create career-oriented conditions for career education(34.5%), improve career guidance programs(24.0%), and amend career education curriculum(21.3%). All women’s universities provide programs for their students’ career exploration, understanding about work tasks, field placement(internship). The schools’ career support programs offer a step-by-step process of ‘exploration-work tasks-real-work experience’. The summary of the pathway for improvement that is based on women university students’ needs for future careers is as follow: having them to prepare for the early employment, making a link between majors and careers, and systemizing the career education curriculum. By developing universities’ curriculum with the majors, general education, and career education curriculum, this study proposed suggestions that could offer various educational options for students without deteriorating the existing education curriculum.