Urban planning and engineering undergraduate students need to understand the earth physical systems and that how human beings interact with the earth systems to planning and engineering urban area. The eco-friendly or geofriendly design and planning of an urban area is a critical issue not only for economic benefits but more importantly for the sustainable future of urban life. However, little study has been done dealing with the urban engineering students’ understanding of the earth as a system and what pedagogical approach is appropriate to improve their understanding of the earth as a system. This study is to investigate the impact of a purposely designed ESS course on urban engineering students’ understanding of the earth as a system and their perceptions about the instructional approaches of the course on their learning competency. This study utilized a mixed-methodology with three main data sources: concept maps, student’s perception survey about their learning competency, and course contents. Both the survey and concept maps were analyzed quantitatively as well as qualitatively. The result of this study showed that the urban engineering students’ experience of team-based research about the topic they chose based on their own interest had a positive impact on their understanding of the earth as a system and their learning competency. The results of this study suggest that structuring and presenting the earth system contents in the context of engineering students’ understanding and their future career be effective not only for the improvement of students’ content knowledge but also for the enhancement of their learning competency such as creativity and problem-solving skills in everyday life situation

본 연구는 서울대학교 학부생들의 기초교양 교과목의 수강 경향을 분석하여 지난 수년간 기초교육 강화를 위한 노력이 학생들에게 어떻게 수용되고 어떤 교육적 성과를 거두었는가를 평가하고자 하였다. 분석 결과, 서울대학교 학부생들은 평균 8.49학기를 이수하였고, 대학에서 졸업요건으로 정해진 학점을 크게 벗어나지 않았지만 평균 전공 취득 학점은 2000년부터 점차 감소하는 경향을 보였다. 학과별로 전공 학점수를 더 많이 요구하는 경향을 보여서 대학이 전문 직업을 위한 고도의 지적, 직업적 훈련을 시켜야 한다는 목표와 근본적이고 기초적인 교육에 중점을 두어야 한다는 교육 목표 사이에는 적절한 균형이 필요한 것으로 판단된다. 또한 지난 5년 간 복수전공을 수강한 학생은 406명, 연합전공 31명으로 다양한 분야의 전공을 수강한 학생이 연평균 437명으로 나타났다. 이러한 추세는 학생의 사회적 관심 영역을 확장하고 교육적인 기초를 더욱 확고히 다지는 기회를 제공하였을 것이며, 다양한 학문적 경험을 통한 융합을 구현하는 것에 도움이 되었을 것으로 판단된다.

In this paper, I discuss how to organize the syllabus of 'Practice in teaching Korean' course, which is one of the obligatory courses for the undergraduate Korean language education major students. Among other courses, 'Practice in teaching Korean' is a practical class in which the students visit the real class and also practice the real teaching skill. This course includes forming syllabus program, visiting an actual class, teaching exercise and lecture simulation. Currently, the demand for the professional Korean teachers is increasing gradually. At this point, it would be a meaningful work to look closely into teaching plans of the same course in many other Korean Departments, and to point out some critical issues on the basis of this research. In this paper we strongly propose that the importance of the practical excercise should not be neglected. Also, I will design syllabus of 'Practice in teaching Korean'and suggest a phase OJT(on-the-job training) program.