SU Institute for Innovation Education’s Teaching and Learning Development Center held the “BFFL Course Design Academy” for full-time professors on August 17, 18, and 20 through ZOOM, the online video conferencing platform.

BFFL (Biblical Foundation of Faith and Learning) means the integration of faith and academics by educating liberal arts and departmental subjects based on a Christian worldview. It is an educational model in which the professor in charge reinterprets his or her academic field from the perspective of the gospel, redesigns their class with teaching and learning methods that can effectively convey them, and teaches students accordingly.

With its original development of the BFFL model, led by the Teaching and Learning Development Center, Sahmyook University is promoting a project to apply and spread the model by holding academy courses for professors.

The latest academy course was participated in by 12 professors from 11 departments including Aviation Tourism and Foreign Languages, Food and Nutrition, Health and Human Performance, Counseling Psychology, Leisure and Sports Studies, Pharmacy, Nursing, Chemistry Life Science, Environmental Design and Horticulture, Architecture, and the Smith College of Liberal Arts.

Starting with the concept and outline of BFFL, the 16-hour course consisted of seven steps of designing BFFL curriculum: Step 1, establishing a Bible concept; Step 2, describing learning outcomes; Step 3, choosing a teaching-learning method; Step 4, feedback planning; Step 5, evaluation planning; Step 6, checking the connection between subject elements; and Step 7, preparing a BFFL lecture plan. In the last session of the course, participants stated and pledged their mission as a Christian professor.