Cultural Transformation And China's Current Undergraduate Education Curriculum Design Change Design Discipline

The culture paradigms of the world and China have changed a lot since the beginning of20th century. The spirits showed by the culture transformation of the world provide the thoughts foundations and the theoretical reason. The development of the curricula influenced a lot by the culture transformation, curricula are both as the dependent variables and the independent variables of the culture. As the dependent variables of the culture, curricula must react to the culture transformation accordingly. As the independent variables of the culture, curricula promote the development of the culture with its creativity. In1970s, the curriculum paradigm changed,"the paradigm of curriculum development" changed to "the paradigm of curriculum understanding". It showed that the development of the curricula were influenced by the culture transformation, and it showed the era spirits too. In more than one century, the values and the curriculum design of the design education of China changed and changed according to the culture transformation of the world and China, the thoughts of modern design education developed and formed. At the end of20th century and the beginning of21th century, the value and the direction of the education lost with the sudden education transformation of China. A lot of problems emerged in the curriculum design of undergraduate education of design science in China nowadays both because of the historical reason and the current remote cause. However, the problems are the internal power which will promote the curricula to change. Based on the study of the real problems by field investigation, historical analysis and comparative study, and according to the era spirits, the writer explored the routes about the value revolution of the education in China nowadays and the revolution of the cultivating objects design, the curriculum contents design, the curriculum structures design and the curriculum implement of the undergraduate education of the design science.