The first course "Watching Movies to Learn Love" designed by students since the opening of National Taiwan University has become one of the most popular courses in the school this semester, and the classrooms are full.

(Provided by National Taiwan University)

[Reporter Yang Mianjie/Taipei Report] The acceptance rate for taking courses is only 3%!

Since the opening of National Taiwan University, the first course "Learning Love by Watching Movies" designed by students themselves has created a whirlwind this semester and has become one of the most popular courses in the school.

National Taiwan University stated that this course is an interdisciplinary general education course with 2 credits. At the beginning of the announcement, it attracted 2099 people to rush for the primary selection, and only 70 people were finally admitted.

The School of Design and Innovation at National Taiwan University has implemented the "Design Your Course" project since the 2019 academic year, practicing the learner-centered spirit and inviting students to design a class to promote their own important abilities.

"Watching Movies to Learn Love" was implemented through this project and optimized into a 2-credit cross-disciplinary general education course, which belongs to the fields of literature and art, philosophy and moral thinking.

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National Taiwan University pointed out that the project has collected 39 proposals, and more than 2,200 students have supported the joint signatures. So far, it has assisted in the implementation of 13 proposals. "Playing Drama to Learn Communication", etc., although previous proposals could not be counted as credits, they are still widely welcomed by students.

The proposal classmate Jiang Zongyou from the Department of Physical Therapy of National Taiwan University mentioned that in taking professional courses in the university, he seldom learns how to have a happy intimate relationship and how to strike a balance between loving others and loving himself, so he hopes to design such courses , to help college students learn about love.

And this class can further become an official course with credits. He also especially thanks Huang Yunru, professor of the Department of Medicine of National Taiwan University, Xie Xiaomei, director of the Department of Drama of National Taiwan University, and the school for their support to make it possible.

Huang Yunru, a professor of the Department of Medicine, said that in order to respond to the support for the course with action, she used 90s love movies as the publicity for the course, and changed the photo stickers every day one week before the start of school. Each photo represented a 90s love movie. A certain scene, such as "Conquering the Sea of ​​Love", "Sparrow Turns into a Phoenix", "Electronic Love Letter", etc., aroused many discussions among teachers and teachers, and they all expressed their desire to observe the courses designed by students in the class of "Learning Love by Watching Movies" and see the new generation How to start a "bouquet-like love" from "500 Days of Summer Love", open the "Last Love Letter" and write "I want you to be good".

Chen Bingyu, Dean of the School of Innovative Design, said that the "Design Your Course" program allows students to have the opportunity to become knowledge transmitters or initiative sharers. When students change their roles and improve their independent learning ability, their unique characteristics will be achieved through university education, and avoid The monotonous and rigid framework will be wiped out; and the proposal students can also train skills such as knowledge translation, teaching skills, and project management when promoting the abilities or issues that they think are important, and develop the ability to learn independently and in-depth from the process of experiencing knowledge construction. ability.

Xie Xiaomei (right), director of the Department of Drama at National Taiwan University, and Jiang Zongyou (left), who is currently studying in the Department of Physical Therapy, is the proposer of the course "Learn Love from Watching Movies".

(Provided by National Taiwan University)