Professor Lin An-wu, director of NTHU's center for general education, says that students have always tended to associate core curriculum teaching with the compulsory courses intended to instill national consciousness, such as basic military training, field nursing, "Sun Yat-sen thought" or "the mainland issue."
清大通識教育中心主任林安梧表示，學生總是把通識和大學共同科目如「軍護」、「國父思想」、「大陸問題研究」等負有傳達國家意識的任務，聯想在一起。