Design of Liberal Arts Curriculum Centered on Core COMPETENCIES

Abstract

Purpose: This study examined the reinforcement of the linkage of the university's liberal arts curriculum at the revised core competencies in the national education charter in the 2015. In addition, it was to clarify the ways to enhance the completeness of the liberal arts curriculum. the reasons for introducing core competencies into the liberal arts curriculum, the interconnection between core competencies, and ways to enhance the completeness of it. Method: It was investigated that it has a great effect in increasing the value of self-directed learning and im-proving imaginative creativity by fusion of learners' theoretical knowledge inquiry and performance ability. Moreover, various teaching and learning methods were sought to enhance problem-solving skills centered on core competencies, and the continuity with the local industry was identified through the link between core competen-cies and liberal arts education talent training. In other words, it was found that certain core competencies do not exist independently, but that there is an organic relationship between core competencies, it has revealed that two or more different core competencies should be converged to develop one core competency. Results: By expanding these discussions, the major features were examined while analyzing the cases of de-signing the five core competencies of the faculty of the liberal arts department at D University. Conclusion: The design of the liberal arts curriculum based on the core competencies proposed in this study will help to establish the learning performance and evaluation system, and if the detailed competencies of learners are quantified and evaluated, it can be drawn by the conclusion that they can be used to internalize the quality management of competency-based liberal arts education and to improve education on a continuous basis. It is expected that the curriculum designed based on the competency of liberal arts education wil be useful in design-ing the competency-based education design of other universities, and it will serve as a reference for the internali-zation of the expanding competency-oriented education and evaluation.