通識教育是爲了要讓學生擁有多元文化視野，包容異己和欣賞差異，而《家庭與人際關係：經典劇本導讀》即是為了達成這個教學理念，透過問題解決導向學習(Problem-Based Learning, PBL)的教學模式，引導學生研讀中西外兩個劇本，探究劇中主要角色之間的關係與問題，並引伸至個人的生活歷程，以小組討論的合作模式讓學生尋找可能的解決方式，培養學生解決問題的能力，進而期盼學生日後發生類似的情境時，能將學習所得導入自身經歷中。
本研究以 97 學年第 2 學期所開設的課程為研究個案，將選課的學生設定為研究對象，研究的目的包括：一、建構以劇本為素材，運用問題解決導向學習之課程設計策略；二、檢視不同課程活動方式對於學生學習動機之影響。其研究結果發現：一、臺灣學生適用循序漸進的方式導入問題解決導向學習之課程；二、本課程中最能提升學生學習動機以及完整應用 PBL 教學的課程活動方式為「課外資料蒐集與閱讀（小組專題報告） 」 ；三、「問題討論」 、 「角色扮演」 、 「角色辯護」以及「課外閱讀延伸學習」是最能達到本課程目標的課程活動方式；四、本課程雖然無法判定學生「解決問題能力」的增進與否，但是對於培養面對未來社會中複雜且不可預期的情境上有正向的幫助。

The purpose of general education is to help students to respect multi-cultures, and to cultivate the attitude of tolerance and acceptance.
The course, Family and Human Relations:Guided Reading of Classic
Plays, is designed for these purposes by using Problem-Based Learning
(PBL) teaching method.Through examining two selected plays, students
explore the relationships and problems between the main characters.
After group discussion and cooperation, students seek for possible
solutions, or even extend the circumstances into their real world. The
class provides students an opportunity to develop their problem solving
abilities, and hope if they meet the similar situations in the future, they can adjust the experiences to their lives.
This study is based on the course provided by the Center for General
Education of National Sun Yat-sen University in the second semester of
2008 academic year. The research takes the students in this course as
samples. The purposes of this study include: 1. to construct the
strategy of PBL course design when applying play scripts as teaching
material; 2. to examine students’ learning motivations in different course activities. Based on the result, the research concludes that: 1. the students in Taiwan are suitable for proper sequential guidance into PBL course; 2. the best way to utilize PBL teaching method and increase
students’ learning motivations is collecting and reading extracurricular
materials; 3. problem discussion, role playing, characters’ defense, and extracurricular reading are the most efficient activities to achieve this curriculum goals; 4. whether the students have improved their problem-solving abilities is difficult to judge, however it is sure that this course has prepared them to face complex and unexpected social situations in the future.