Some Thoughts on Curriculum Reform for Art Design

The author, whose institute is undertaking a reform on teaching patterns, probed into and analyzed the current state of the teaching patterns for art design majors from a comprehensive university. In this article, the author brings up pros and cons of current teaching patterns, offering a new blueprint regarding the future directions to take, pointing out the positive and negative effects of the new curricular reform. It is the author's desire that this article can provide some thought-provoking and significant ideas and suggestions for the reform on the curriculum of art design, and meanwhile, call to attention the problems and deficiencies found in practice.