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Core Competence and Rudimentary Erudition.

 

Origin


 
In the year of 1882, Scottish-Canadian missionary, Rev. Dr. George Leslie Mackay founded Oxford College (named after his hometown, Oxford Country in Ontario, Canada) at the estuary of the Tamsui, chiefly to foster local native missionaries for Northern Formosa. The subjects taught then included history, ethics, Chinese etymology, Chinese history (classified into the category of social science) and astronomy, geography, geology, botany, zoology, mineralogy, medical theory, anatomy, clinical practice (sorted into the category of natural science) as well as the biblical principle which made Dr. Mackay the predecessor of Formosan General Education.
 
In 1994, the antique college was renovated into the modern Tamsui Oxford University College, where general education subsequently assumed the fundamental role of university education. This university realized that professional training alone could not bring up the manpower that a healthy society really needed. In the past two or three decades, professional trainings indeed provided for businesses in Taiwan the technical skills and services that they were badly in want of, thereby elevated the favorable conditions for business development, and in the long run created the economical miracle of this island. However, the side effect of this overemphasis upon professional teachings was that the formation of integrated personality was utterly overlooked, that human concerns were lost, and that moral courage degenerated. As a result, this university called for “the Reformation Conference upon University Education” in August, 1997, which explicitly concluded: our university philosophy is the ultimate guidance for the management of this university; to attain the objective of this university, general education will play an irreplaceable role; how to decently plan out a concrete, plausible curriculum for general education has become an important and serious issue. In order to sketch out the curriculum plan, “the Research Group for General Education Curriculum” was established, and “the Methodology for General Educational Curriculum” was regulated as a result of the overall opinions from the experts in all fields, to deliberately suit the unique temperament of our faculty and students and carry out our educational philosophy.
 
According to the above ideas and undergoing several adjustments and modifications, this university reexamined the common general education courses required by the university and then democratically worked out the university-scale fundamental erudition needed by all students: social realization practice, humanistic-retrospective insight, communicative-expressive capability, natural-healthy habit, multicultural horizon, information literacy, athletic upbringing. All aspects of cultivation add up to form the core university-scale erudition and hopefully develop the integrated personality indispensable to the refined talents fostered by this phenomenal university.
 
    真理大學通識教育課程地圖

Aletheia university-scale fundamental erudition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic Capabilities 1. Social Practice Capabilities

 

Basic Capabilities 2. Personal Reflection Capabilities

 

Basic Capabilities 3. Communication Capabilities

 

Basic Capabilities 4. Multi-culture Capabilities

 

Basic Capabilities 5. Nature and Health Capabilities

 

Basic Capabilities 6. Information Capabilities

 

Basic Capabilities 7. Physical Education Capabilities

 

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