Discussion on Teaching Reform of Visual Communication Specialty in Higher Vocational Colleges

Through the field surveys and interviews regarding the student resources, course setting, professional course teaching and students' practical operating of the visual communication specialty in five higher vocational colleges in Shaanxi Province, such problems as students' foundation are generally weak, the basic theory hours are heavy, the orientation of professional courses is in disorder and the practice teaching condition is poor are discovered. The course reform thoughts of strengthening training hours, highlighting the cultivation of students' practice ability, implementing training studio teaching and school-enterprise cooperation teaching and meeting students' course selection need are proposed against the existing problems in combination with the survey results from the survey of Shanghai Art and Sign Academy, Zhejiang Vocational Academy of Art, Suzhou Arts and Crafts Academy and Sichuan Vocational College of Art with better school-running effect, and in combination with the actual situation of various higher vocational colleges in our province, so as to provide the valuable reference for the high vocational colleges in our province to cultivate those applied talents who can adapt to the modern social demand.