2020 Volume 2020 Issue 30 Pages 584-601
Otsuma Women’s University, since establishment, has long concentrated its energy not only on offering specialized academic knowledge, but also on cultivating a character of a woman as an individual human being. Its junior college department, this year, started “Kotaka Gaku” as a compulsory subject, for new students to study the spirit of its founder, Kotaka Otsuma, to find their own life-style and to go into the future world as an excellent working member of the society.
“Kotaka Gaku” is a course of 8 lectures, which, this year, were all carried out on-line. Through the questionnaires of the on-line learning system of this university, what students think of the two years study in the junior college, after studying this course, was grasped and analyzed for the improvement of its future education. The percentage of attendance, 96.7~99.5%, was very high, which shows students’ strong will to study this course. The students’ assessment on these eight lectures was 4.19~4.88/5 in average, with differences according to students’ major, which is to be remembered and referred to as a lesson for the future of this course.
As for the free-to-write comments of the questionnaires, which were analyzed through KH Corder, the students’ assessment on “Kotaka Gaku” was also very high, in which students stress their realization of the importance of studying with a sense of purpose, and their wish to grow to be an independent person, studying in life for the realization of their ideal, keeping the words of Kotaka Otsuma in mind.
The purpose of “Kotaka Gaku” was thus achieved this year, with lessons for the next year. What students thought, taking hints from the words of Kotaka Otsuma, will surely be a precious guideline for them to enrich their study in the junior college, and to live a fruitful life in future.
