대학원교육-법학교육을 중심으로

Abstract

This paper is designed to explore what goals university graduate education

particularly in law is supposed to achieve and how on the basis of life-long

personal observations and experiences both as a graduate student and as a

professor. How to differentiate graduate education either from undergraduate

education or from professional education which is conducted usually at

graduate level in a typical American universities is one of the key questions

raised to answer here. The question becomes complicated in Korea by the

facts that undergraduate education is not well differentiated from graduate

education in its goals and approaches beyond its formal institutional

differentiation: a beginning college student enters a particular department of

university from which he graduates practically without a chance to change his

major which he has to choose when he enters university; graduate students of

a particular department are mostly those who were the undergraduates of the

same department; professional subjects such as law, medicine, and business

administration are those of undergraduate education; and so on. Proposals to

reform undergraduate education toward a general education with graduate

education professionalized and to reorganize professional subjects into those of

graduate-level professional education have recently been hotly debated.

Scholarly training is assumed here as one of the major goals which

graduate education is designed to achieve. Consequently, graduate education is

differentiated both from undergraduate education whose main goal is supposed

to provide a general education to students among others as enlightened

democratic citizens and from graduate-level professional education whose goal

is to train students as professionals such as lawyers, medical doctors and...