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A Crisis of ‘Humanitas’ and Performative Humanities: Basic Ideas of Trans-disciplinary Curricula for Performative Humanities and their Educational Design

What should and can the humanity studies do in the advent of information-knowledge society? Recently, leading scholars of humanities in Korean academic society announced that it is hard time for the humanity scholars to do their job not only of research but also of education. The environment of humanities in Korean academe becomes too serious to be solved simply by passing by the crisis. The first problem comes from the academic convention of modern humanity studies which has been obsessed with the interpretation of the texts and their rational principle. The second one is especially for Korean academy whose humanity scholars have not done any efforts to follow up the pragmatic changes of society. The operation of the performativity in the humanity studies is not in itself evidence of studies of pragmatic information-knowledge society that simultaneously professionalize and converge the academics. The performative humanities witness that studies of human resources and activities construct the basis of information-knowledge society. They reflect the positive necessity for the formation of human world and its subjects including the discursive implications. The performative plays key roles in analyzing active world-making uses of language as well as action. They open a way of thinking about crucial social processes: the relations between the individual and social changes. Hanyang University designs and runs four trans-disciplinary major programs based on performative humanities. They are “Studies of Technology and Science,” “Performative Public Services.” “Media Culture and Contents,” and “Foreign Language Communication.” which are deeply related with the efforts for the academic convergence. Hanyang University and Korean Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development jointly pursue the educational convergence: not only for what to do research, teach and learn. but also how to do those including how to evaluate research. teaching and learning.