The scope of core curriculum teaching appears very broad, but it still has to start from the basics. In Lin Ku-fang's view, any branch of academic learning can be viewed on the three levels of "man and nature," "man and man," and "man and the supernatural, or that which transcends self."
通識範圍看起來很廣，但還是由基礎出發，林谷芳認為，任何學科都可以從「人與自然」、「人與人」、「人與超自然或自我」三個層次來看。