국내 대학 뮤지컬 교육 환경 실태

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to closely examine the present conditions of curriculum and professors at musical departments in universities which are the most central for cultivating professional musical actors, and to find out problems. To do so, this research examined the opening periods, enrollment quota, and locations of four-year universities, two- and three-year technical colleges, cyber universities, as well as credit bank education institutions, checked the status of subjects and credits through their curriculums, and analyzed the status of professors. The study results were as follows. First, it is difficult for students to make diverse selections because subjects were organized mainly around mandatory credits for graduation and credits approved for major. In addition, the singing, acting, and dancing areas took up huge proportions of subjects and professors with severe concentrations and deficiencies even among the three major areas. Also, the percentage of non-full-time professors was too high compared to that of full-time professors, which can inevitably lead to poor education quality based on the reality of our universities. Moreover, it is difficult to see them as institutions to foster professional artists since the faculty to student ratio is higher than in elementary, middle and high schools. The following suggestions are made based on the above study results. First, a standard curriculum is necessary. In other words, in order to cultivate professional musical actors, it is necessary to present a basic framework of what curriculum should be followed as a whole, focusing on the essential content. Second, certain standards are also required for professors. Since there are various subject fields due to the nature of art major departments, it is clearly a problem that nonfull- time professors are responsible for two-thirds of lectures and classes even if the percentage of using non-full-time professors and part-time instructors may increase. Furthermore, although not covered in this study, standards for facilities and materials are necessary with measures to enforce these standards. In fact, school evaluation is not without these items, but they exist as a mere formality and are not designed to truly have appropriate impacts on education sites. Thus, this can lead to distorted results and even adversely affects education. In order to stably cultivate and produce well-trained art professionals in musicals which expand day by day, it is necessary to provide accurate standards that education institutions must follow and properly evaluate and manage universities. Performance art sites, researchers, and related government authorities such as the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture, should put heads together to discuss the issues in university musical departments to solve.