A Study on the Current Status of Basic Liberal Arts Consulting for Junior Colleges

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to summarize the achievements and limitations of basic general education consulting for junior colleges over the past 4 years, and to suggest improvement plans. The basic consulting for general education at junior colleges, which started in 2018, brought up the conversation topic regarding general education at junior colleges. Also, as general education was included as one of the the basic competency diagnostic evaluation items of junior colleges to be implemented in 2021, junior colleges began to accept general education as a practical task rather than as a superficial object. From 2018 to 2021, 41 junior colleges out of a total of 133 junior colleges participated in the basic general education consulting program, and the participation rate was 30.8%. 11 junior colleges particpated in 2018, 14 in 2019, 14 in 2020, and 7 in 2021. The junior colleges satisfaction with the consulting conducted to date has been quite high, as the students had the opportunity to actually check and improve the status of basic general education through the consulting program. In this study, for the development of basic general education consulting for junior colleges in the future, three things are proposed: First, the expansion of participation among junior colleges, second, quality improvement of the pre-diagnosis report, and third, the implementation of the consent form.