A Study on the Future Operation Plan through the Analysis of Multi-major Perception, Improvement and Requirements of University Students
Authors:   Korean Association For Learner-Centered Curriculum And Instruction, Kim Jinok Susanna , Jo Hyeyoung 
Published: September 2023

Objectives The purpose of this study is to present future strategies for the stable operation of a multi-major curriculum
through the analysis of perceptions, improvements, and requirements related to multi-major.
Methods The subjects of the study were 1,218 students at A University, which has a multi-major system in Seoul,
and the difference was verified with the SPSS 23.0 program. For 232 people who responded to open questions,
morphology analysis was conducted using KoNLPy based on Google Colab and then frequency analysis and
Wordcloud were conducted.
Results The main results are as follows. First, as a result of verifying the difference between multi-major perception
and multi-major type classification, women were higher than men, and second, third and fourth graders were
higher than first graders, and third and fourth graders were higher then second graders. In the case of the college,
there was a statistically significant difference, but there was no statistically significant difference as a result of
Scheffé's post-test. Second, as a result of verifying the difference between the preferred multi-majors, female
students prefer double majors and male students prefer minor and convergence majors. There was no statistically
significant difference in grades. College of humanities preferred double majors, engineering and IT colleges preferred
minor majors, and IT preferred convergence majors. Third, as a result of verifying the difference in multi-
major improvements, female students had high opinions on adjustment of the number of selected people by
department,expansion of division by subject, and opportunity to participate in special activities by department.,
and male students had high opinions on ‘strengthening academic support(professors, mentoring, teaching assistants).
Compared to second, third, and fourth graders, first graders had a higher rate of adjustment of the number
of selected students by department,expansion of division by subject, strengthening academic support(professors,
mentoring, teaching assistants), and opportunity to participate in special activities by department.
College of humanities had a high ratio of improvements in adjustment of the number of selected people by department,
IT college expansion of division by subject, strengthening academic support(professors, mentoring,
teaching assistants)., college of engineering opportunity to participate in special activities by department.
Fourth, as a result of the morphology analysis of the requirements for multi-major operation, it was ranked first
major, second student, third credit, fourth subject, and fifth average.
Conclusions The results of this study are meaningful in that it provides basic data for establishing the direction
of the multi-major curriculum. In addition, based on the results of this study, I would like to propose a way for multi-
major customized operation in consideration of the characteristics of students.