通识教育有助专业教育之成功——以元智大学为例

General Education Contributing to the Success of Professional Education

以元智大学通识教育中心如何形塑通识教育的理念、规划课程,以及推行的经验为主,说明在全球化、知识经济的时代,大学教育面临改革的要求声中,理想的通识教育应该回归“以人为本”的中心理念,着重于文化教养与开发创意两方面构想与设计通识课程。

Based on the practical experiences of general education in General Education Center of Yuan Ze University, this paper points out that general education should retrieve the essential idea of human-orientation when higher education calls for a reform in the age of globalization and economic knowledge, and attempts to explicate the significance of courses of general education to be conceived and designed with emphasis on cultural cultivation and creative development.