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‘Room for Improvement’: 2012 Fall Semester Dadok-Dadok Appraisal
 
By Kim Su-yeon, Cub Reporter
 
2012 Fall Semester Dadok-Dadok Appraisal was held in Truth Hall seventh floor e-room on January 22nd, 2013. A book discussion community, Dadok-Dadok is a program in which Chonnam National University (CNU) professors and undergraduate students can read books together and carry out discussions about them. The CNU Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is operating eight projects to construct a creative, challenging and cooperative campus culture and Dadok-Dadok is one of them to increase quantity of reading and to spread a reading culture amongst students. In the Fall Semester of 2012, 84 groups, 447 students participated.
Yeom Min-ho, Director of the CTL, opened the appraisal by introducing its purpose, “to improve the good points and made up for the weakness.” Two main focuses were the number of books and meetings that required, and changes in recommended book lists. The rules for last semester were reading a total of three books and having four discussion sessions with team’s professor. CTL had reduced the number of books, reflected from first semester that four books were too many. For meetings, “It was regrettable that some students cram on the given books on their exam period,” said Lee Jae-won (Professor, Division of Forest Resources and Landscape Architecture). In the recommended book lists, there were some difficult ones in humanities for both professor and students, recalled Kim Ha-sul (Professor, Dept. of Physics).
One of the students who participated in Dadok-Dadok last semester said, “Our team had trouble with buying books since subsidies were paid after the first meeting, however, I could learn directly from the professor about reviewing books.” Apart from these obstacles, some of the issues discussed about the program were the difficulties attached to each book or discussion topic to recommended book lists and advertising Dadok-Dadok to more students. The participants of the evaluating committee realized the necessity for guide lines or manual to lead discussions, and improving a quality of after-program reports were discussed.
 
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