Curriculum Contents of Higher Design Education in China

Abstract

In China, the number of higher education institutes and students has increased rapidly in recent years. The promotion rate of senior secondary school graduates has also increased from 3.4% in 1990 to 23% in 2007. The purpose of this study is to investigate the curriculum content of industrial design department with ten universities by Quantification Theory. The results of this study are as follows: 1) China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Tongji University, and Jiangnan University are focused on technical curriculum of product design. 2) Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Institute of Technology and Tsinghua University are focused on core curriculum. 3) Hunan University and Fudan University are focused on commercial curriculum. 4) Zhejiang University is focused on Kansei curriculum. Furthermore, it was found that creativity is important to design education in China.