The Effects of Campus Community Mapping Activities on Students’ Sense of Community and Sense of Place : Focused on G University

Abstract

This study investigated the effects of campus community mapping activities, which are part of the university liberal arts course , on students. The method of using campus community mapping is a student participatory class, consisting of students setting topics for in-school community mapping, planning, mapping, finding problems, suggesting solutions, and presenting and evaluating these problems. As a result of these campus community mapping activities, students significantly improved their sense of community and their sense of place in school. Also, students' learning satisfaction with campus community mapping activities was positive. Therefore, in-school community mapping activities in liberal arts classes can help improve a sense of community among the students and a their sense of place in schools. These activities also provide opportunities for students to become interested in and participate with the communities wherein that they actually live.