한성대학교 <사고와 표현> 교육의 현황

Abstract

Hansung University has revised in earnest the course “Thinkingand Expression”, one of basic liberal arts education requirements,since March 2006. The thesis is introducing the course “Thinking andExpression” which has been opened from the first semester of 2006to the last semester of 2008, in a bid to exchange information withmembers of tentatively named “Korea Society of Thinking andExpression” and upgrade its quality on the basis of the informationexchanged. At Hansung University, the course “Thinking and Expression”, asone of basic liberal arts education requirements for freshmen, consistsof “Thinking and Expression I” for the first semester and “Thinkingand Expression II” for the second semester. With its basic structureset up in late 2005, in 2006 the course started and has continuedsince, even though some details were revised and supplemented. As한성대학교 <사고와 표현> 교육의 현황 113of 2008, 47 classes with capacity of 40 students are open. A classfor foreign students has been separately open since the secondsemester of 2007. Hansung University has three features in running the course“Thinking and Expression”; first, its curriculum and textbook isconstructed in close relation; second, writing is corrected mainlythrough the website of its own Writing Center; third, on-campusactivities give side by side support to the course. The thesis presents Hansung’s one-year curriculum of “Thinkingand Expression” with its syllabus, and offers a more concreteteaching-learning way by reviewing Writing-ing, the university’stextbook for “Thinking and Expression”. In addition, it introducesHansung’s online correction system, which its Writing Center isaggressively carrying out, and how on-campus events give side byside support to the course “Thinking and Expression”.