Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study is to investigate a support plan to reinforce the students' major design capabilities for substantiality of student designed major. Methods This study was to suggest a support plan by analyzing major approval process and support system of 11 universities located in Seoul, and execute a perception survey targeted to the students in the university ‘A’. Results First, the approval process for the student designed major was operated in form of deliberation by committee at the department level and committee at the university headquarter level. At that point, the students were given a high-stakes task to describe designed major name, curriculum design table and subject planning, and plan for completion, etc. in detail. Second, in order to use the student design major system, students must have ‘understanding systems and procedures’, ‘cultivation of basic knowledge for curriculum design’, and ‘curriculum design competency’. Each can be proposed for the purpose of a student design major support plan, and differentiated support must be provided according to the university-affiliated. Third, as a result of conducting the perception survey for support plan to reinforce the students' major design capabilities as an object of 281 students in the university ‘A’, they answered that it was necessary to reinforce the major design capabilities to provide actual data supply and supply of learning opportunity in order of data distribution of major design exemplification, sharing meeting of major design exemplification, and distribution of guidebook. There was a difference in the degree of recognition of the need for support measures by university-affiliated. Conclusions To conclude, based on these research findings above, this study was to suggest a practical plan to support the students who wanted to complete their student designed majors in the future, and concept and procedural knowledge that must be guided.

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