Normal University Undergraduate Landscape-design-oriented Course System Offering And Integrating

With the landscape ecology and landscape aesthetics, etc, being increasingly concerned by people, the important significance of the discipline of landscape design has been gradually recognized by the society. Over recent years, the landscape-related cause experienced the rapid development in China. The major of landscape which was unknown to the public several years ago suddenly became a "hot" major at present. Our country has 135 normal colleges and universities, most of which have offered the landscape design-oriented majors or related major courses.However, there are many problems discovered in current landscape design education. The relatively obvious problems are as follows:the orientation of major is unreasonable; the training targets are not clear; the course offering system is disorderly; the contents of courses are laggard; such education lacks of overall arrangement among major courses and the systematicness is weak; the reasonable teacher development mechanism and the cross-discipline integration are in shortage; the teaching frame is not suitable to talent cultivation, etc. The existence of these problems will direct affect the further sound and rapid development of the major of landscape design; therefore, the problems are urgently needed to be settled.Firstly, this paper comprehensively and deeply interprets the related concepts including the concept of landscape, landscape design, course, offering and integration. Secondly, it explains the history of landscape design major in the U.S.A. and at home and conducts profound analysis on the status quo, problems and reasons for problems of the landscape design major offered to undergraduates by normal colleges and universities. Thirdly, it analyzes and inspiringly explains the mature landscape-design-oriented course offering at home and abroad and specially analyzes and illustrates the U.S.A.'s Harvard University and China's Tongji University, which are considered as the representatives in this aspect. It deems that the course and teaching system of Harvard University with about a hundred of years' history of landscape design major and Tongji University which cultivated the first local garden design doctor are of reference significance and value for the development and improvement of normal colleges and universities'landscape design education system. At last, it puts forward the countermeasures and suggestions on the landscape-design oriented courses. The paper brings that under the circumstance when the landscape design course and education are still in the initial forming period, the majoring education is relatively laggard and there is no comparatively complete and reasonable course system and offering, we should apply the "humanism course theory" in developing the landscape-design-oriented course system and teaching concept.Targeting at the landscape-design-oriented courses, this paper mainly puts forward the countermeasures and suggestions on the following aspects:firstly, the educational objective of landscape-design-oriented courses;secondly, the composition of the structure model of landscape-design-oriented course; thirdly, the contents of the landscape-design-oriented courses; fourthly, the contents and ways of integration of the landscape-design-oriented courses. In terms of the teaching stage, it puts forward the integration with the double-studio system as core, which namely includes the special project studio for the sophomore and junior students and the supervisor project studio for the senior students. On the one hand, the double-studio system is for meeting the demand in development of major:the studio system is taken as the basic carrier for realizing the three functions, namely, education and teaching, academic research and social service. With the education of major courses being highlighted in teaching, academic research and social service, a new teaching platform for support is urgently needed. The studio is regarded as the best teaching platform for realizing the above three functions and satisfying the demand in development of major; on the other hand, it is for meeting the demand in professional talent cultivation:the double-studio system will set up the relatively fixed different-layer study space for students, presenting the students with strong sense of major belonging and making their consciousness of study developed. The studio's characteristics of fixed study space and openness are convenient for students to reasonably apply their after-school time in study, which will also satisfy the students' increasing demand for major study and effectively arouse the teachers and students' team awareness.Through project study, the students' practical ability will be trained; through conducting topic discussion and competition, the students' spirit of innovation will be cultivated; through integrating the resources, the characteristic development will be realized. In general, through the above countermeasures, the landscape design education system will be constantly improved, which will further boost the constant development of the normal colleges and universities' landscape-design-oriented major in our country.