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Curriculum Design for the Photography and
Design Majors in the College and University Level
Yung-Cheng Hsieh
Cheng-Chia Lee
The Department of Graphic Comrnunication Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts
Abstract
The pu中ose of this study was primarily to construct a professionally viable Photography and Design curriculum for Graphic Communications and related fields, and secondarily to project new directions for a technology-driven Photography and Design of the future. The subject-areas were divided into two parts. The Photography subject-area came from the Chamber of Commerce of Chinese Commercia1 Photography's member list; the Design subject-domain came from the Photography and Design curricula of domestic universities. This study used a questionnaire survey and random1y selected 900 respondents in tota1. The findings were:
Photography:
In terms of degree of leaming difficulty 11 subjects ( su吋ect-areas) , including Introduction to Printing, fell in the
“
moderate" range and 8 subjects fell in the“
difficult" range; in terms of degree of importance of professional competency, 3 subjects fell in the“
unimportant" range, 15 in the“
moderate" range and only 1 in the“
important" range; in terms of degree of future demand, 14 subjects fell in the“
remains unchanged" range and 5 in the“
increasing" range.Design:
In terms of degree of learning difficulty, 2 subjects (Photography and Printing Design) fell in the 布的y" ran阱， 15 subjects in the "moderate" range and 7 subjects in the
“
difficult" range; in terms of degree of importance of professional competency, 2 subjects fell in the“
unimportant" range and 22 in the“
moderate" range; in terms of degree of future demand,19 subjects fell in the
“
remains unchanged" range and 5 in the“
increasing" range.Keywords: Photography, Design, Graphic Communications, Curriculum Design, Technology of the Future
