Volume 61 No.1 - 2015-03-31

Core Curriculum or Distribution Requirement? A Case Study of the Renovation of a Private University’s General Education Course Structure

核心課程?還是分類選修?:某私立綜合大學通識教育課程架構改革之研究

Author:
Hsin-Chih Chen, Chia-Cheng Yu / 陳杏枝、游家政
Keyword:
distribution requirement、core curriculum、general education course structure / 分類選修、核心課程、通識教育課程架構
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This study analyzes the general education course structure of a private university (referred to as TU) in Taiwan. First of all, this study reviews two popular models for G.E. course structure, the “core curriculum” model and the “distribution requirement” model. The core curriculum model in the past decade has been favored by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education. Several Taiwan’s universities were encouraged to adopt this model through government grand. However, after analyzing the G.E. course structure of six universities known for their outstanding G.E. program in Taiwan, this study found that the majority apply a “mixed” model to their own course-structure design. Using the data collected from consulting the experts from other universities and interviewing some teachers and students of TU, and the common features drawn from these six outstanding universities, this study is able to detect the problems from the G.E. course structure of TU, and thus redesign a new model, a model with the mixture of “core curriculum” and “distribution requirement”.