The Department of Art and Design of Tongji University is located in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning. 1986 started undergraduate enrollment, and 1993 formally established the Department of Industrial Design. In 2000, the major of art design was added, and in the same year it was officially renamed as the Department of Art Design.
Tongji University School of Design and Creativity has two majors: industrial design and artistic design. Bachelor degree in industrial design engineering; The major of art design is divided into three directions: environmental art design, visual communication design and digital media design, and awarded with a bachelor of arts degree. 1993 began to recruit graduate students majoring in industrial design, architectural design and theory; in 200 1 2002, it started to recruit doctoral students majoring in architectural history and theory of design art, so that resources can be shared and fully intersected between the professional directions of art design department and the departments of architecture, urban planning and landscape.
Under the background of globalization, Tongji University's School of Design and Creativity, based on its own country, actively carried out social practice, and maintained a cutting-edge and high international academic reputation through academic cooperation and exchanges with famous design schools at home and abroad. At the end of 2006, according to the survey of Business Weekly, Tongji Art Design ranked among the 60 best design schools and courses in the world.
Grand Design, a design publication edited by the School of Design and Creativity of Tongji University, is published on the 8th of every two months, which has a certain influence in the design field.
In 2007, there were about 536 students (396 undergraduates, 40 postgraduates/kloc-0, including doctoral students 12) and 3 full-time teachers1person (65,438 professors, 65,438 associate professors and 65,438 lecturers). The Department of Art and Design has also hired a group of professors and designers who have made outstanding achievements in various research fields as part-time teachers.
In May, 2009, according to the development situation of digital economy, faced with the urgent need for high-level design talents in the process of the transformation from China manufacturing to China creation, and the demand for innovative talents in the transformation of Shanghai's economic growth mode and the upgrading of industrial structure, the Department of Art and Design of Tongji University seized the new opportunity of discipline development and established the new School of Design and Creativity of Tongji University in the process of creating the second century glory of Tongji University. Drawing lessons from the latest ideas and models of the world design art discipline, the new college aims to cultivate a new generation of design talents and design managers with international vision, innovation, foresight, research and comprehensiveness, and is committed to building itself into a world-class design college with advanced concepts at home and abroad, cutting-edge research, openness and innovation, wide social influence and strong industrial driving force. Have a certain impact.
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