前言 设计课程的设计
Preface Design the Design Course

课堂提供了实践领域无法模拟的、对设计本身执着追求的环境。教育学理论认为教学是具有科学性的系统，创意的灵感在优质的课程设计中更容易闪现。

教学是具有趣味性和挑战性的事情。在中国，很多大学一年级的学生在高考的大军中过关斩将进入设计专业，却不知道自己真正想学什么。设计过程中巨大的工作量、创意的痛苦纠结以及现实条件的不圆满等因素非常容易消磨学生对专业学习的热情。有时，学生们面对课程作业时，像是被迫完成“规定动作”，不能主动学习，而且作业水平也差强人意。同时，慕课、网络资源、培训机构、家教等多种学习途径给学校的实际课堂教学也带来了挑战。

我于2009年进入北京师范大学艺术与传媒学院执教，在博士学习阶段也曾在北京多所大学担任过环境设计专业的教师。十多年的教师路让我看到了时代的发展、学生群体的变化和专业教学的问题，伴随着教学经验的积累，我对专业课程设计产生了浓厚的兴趣。后来，有幸作为高级访问学者赴美国研修，有机会对国外设计专业教学进行深入的实地考察。本书的内容是我在赴美访问期间对美国加州州立长堤大学设计专业课堂教学的案例研究，主要包括平面设计、立体构成、建筑模型建造和室内设计四门课程。在这些课程中，系统的课程设计、生动的教学过程、能激发学生主动性的课题以及积极的课堂氛围都给我留下了极其深刻的印象。期待这些课程研究能为中国大学中的设计专业教育带来一些有益的经验借鉴和启发。

李嫣

2019年7月1日

于北京

The classroom is an ideal environment for pursuit of conceptual design which could not be simulated in the practice in reality. Education is a rigorous system, and students’ sparks of creativity would be inspired in well-designed curriculums.

Teaching is an interesting and challenging work. In China, there are lots of students who have passed the entrance examination studying in design majors in universities, but some of them don’t know what they really want to learn. They would be intimidated by enormous workload in design process, painful entanglement of creating and unsatisfaction with realistic conditions. Sometimes, students are forced to complete homework because of lacking the motivation of active learning, which would lead to the poor quality of outcomes. In the new era, a variety of learning approaches, such as online courses, digital resources, education institutions, private tutors, also have brought new challenges to the teaching in schools.

I have been a teacher in School of Art and Communication BNU since 2009. I also had taught design courses in other universities in Beijing during the postgraduate study. Through ten years, I have seen the changes during the development, the features of new generation and the problems of teaching, which aroused my strong interest in the research of curriculum design. Later I was honored to have a chance to visit United States as a senior visiting scholar, and conducted my research in Design Department of CSULB. The content of this book is case studies of four courses in United States, including Foundation Two-Dimension, Foundation Three-Dimension, Architectural Model Building and Interior Design. I have been deeply impressed by the curriculum design, experiencing the vivid teaching process, the homework of stimulating students’ initiative and the lively atmosphere in the class. I hope these case studies would bring some useful experience and inspiration to the design education in Chinese universities.

Li Yan

July 1, 2019

Beijing