Curriculum of Bachelor of Education In Mathematics

From 2019 – 2022 Bachelor of Education in Mathematics implements two curricula, the Curriculum 2014 (for student year 2016, 2017, 2018) and the Curriculum 2019 (for student year 2019, 2020, 2021). The differences between the two curricula lie in the total credits, new courses, and the distribution of courses. Total credits for the Curriculum 2014 is 144 credits (sks), whereas the Curriculum 2019 contains 146 credits (sks).

 

The Curriculum 2014

The curriculum of BEM UNY consists 144 credits (sks) (or equivalent with 237 ECTS) comprising 134 sks of compulsory courses and 10 sks of elective courses. In general, the courses in the curriculum are categorized into three areas, namely:

1. Universitary and facultary common courses (22 sks),
2. Basic educational courses (8 sks),
3. Courses at degree programme level (114) comprising mathematics education and mathematics courses.

The Curriculum can be downloaded here

 

The Curriculum 2019

The curriculum of BEM UNY consists 146 credits (sks) (or equivalent with 240 ECTS) comprising 134 sks of compulsory courses and 10 sks of elective courses. In general, the courses in the curriculum are categorized into three areas, namely:

1. Universitary and facultary common courses (22 sks),
2. Basic educational courses (8 sks),
3. Courses at degree programme level (116) comprising mathematics education and mathematics courses.

The Curriculum can be downloaded here

 

Educational Philosophy of UNY

The development of principal values that serves as the main reference for Yogyakarta State University is founded on diverse education philosophy, i.e. education endeavors for developing student potentials, education endeavors for training rational thinking toward achieving the goal, education endeavors based on noble values, enlightening education endeavors, and education endeavors for developing student competencies in facing change. UNY applies an eclective-incorporative approach in building its philosophy. In addition, the implementation of education, research, and community service in UNY is founded on the Pancasila philosophy.

Pedagogical foundation serves as the basis in the learning process development to make learning more active, interactive, innovative, inspiring, enjoyable, effective, challenging, as well as motivate students to develop all of their comprehensive potential in order to become creative, innovative, devoted, independent, and intelligent teachers or scholars in the field of teaching and education science.

The UNY three principles of higher education (tridharma), namely education, research, and community service, are directed to the hollistic development of Indonesian human resources, as well as the life improvement of the people of Indonesia. All three elements are adjusted to the development of the society in order to ensure that the university builds a strong collaboration with various groups or communities. Moreover, in order to expand the scope of the university’s impact on society, the character, moral, ability, truth and the Indonesian identity serve as the essence of fundamental principles that the university upholds in developing the institution as UKKD. Finally, for the principal values to develop into character and be reflected among the UNY academic community, the university’s motto “leading in character education” serves as an important motivation.

 

Educational Philosophy of BEM

In accordance with the vision of the university, Bachelor of Education in Mathematics programme implement an educational philosophy of “student active learning based on human characters”. These human characters comprise piety, autonomy and intellectuality. The active learning is aimed to develop students’ autonomy and intellectuality as they actively construct their knowledge. The active learning approach is also set under a socio-constructivist view which highlights social interaction and, consequently, contribute to the development of students’ empathy, respect, and responsibility.