Busan Office of Education Opens Creative and Convergence Courses Rarely Offered in Schools

Winter Vacation for 1st and 2nd Year High School Students: Operation of 'Creative Activity-Based Regional Linked Curriculum'

81 Courses Offered by 22 Local High Schools and Universities, 1,103 Participants

The Busan Metropolitan Office of Education will operate the ‘Creative Experience-type Community-linked Curriculum’ for 1,103 first- and second-year students from general, autonomous, and specialized high schools at a total of 22 schools?7 high schools and 15 universities in the Busan area?from January 2 to January 18 next year during the winter vacation.

The new name for the high school summer and winter school, ‘Creative Experience-type Community-linked Curriculum,’ is designed to offer various creative and convergence subjects such as inquiry, experiments and practice, discussions and debates, essay writing, and arts and physical education, which are difficult for individual schools to open and operate. This aims to provide students with opportunities to develop creativity and experience career paths.

Busan Metropolitan Office of Education will open and operate creative and convergence courses.

The Busan Office of Education selected and opened a total of 81 courses after a rigorous review from 143 courses in various fields, including ‘Technology Creative Engineering Classroom,’ ‘Understanding and Practice of Gene Cloning,’ and ‘Physical Approach to Engineering and Invention.’

Course operators, composed of university professors and high school teachers, selected students through reviewing applicants’ self-introduction letters. They conduct student-centered experiential classes lasting about 18 to 24 hours over five days.

Completion of the ‘Creative Experience-type Community-linked Curriculum’ activities is recorded in the creative experiential activities section of the school life record and serves as evidence for career activities.

Hwang Seo-woon, Director of Secondary Education at the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education, said, “Due to the influence of the high school credit system to be fully implemented in the 2025 academic year, students nowadays try to consider and decide their career paths on their own. We hope that the experiential education activity ‘Creative Experience-type Community-linked Curriculum,’ which allows students to experience classes taught by major professors at universities in their fields of interest in advance, will greatly help students explore their career paths.”

Busan Metropolitan Office of Education.