Southeast University

1. Education objectives

To cultivate the leading talents in the future architecture industry with broad international vision and keen sense of nativeness, as well as thinking ability, practice ability and innovation ability, with the core concepts of developing “excellent, internationalized and research-oriented” talents in order to adapt to the development trend of architecture in the era of globalization and the situation of socio-economic and cultural development in China.

2. Teaching architecture

Construction of a knowledge module based on the organic integration of 3 majors: architecture, urban and rural planning and landscape architecture; sharing the basic platform of major categories by junior undergraduates, and advanced disciplinary crossing for senior undergraduates; by adopting the design as backbone and enhancing the horizontal connection among technology, history theory and media is strengthened, establishment of a hierarchical talent cultivation structure with “modular integration of courses, cross penetration of four categories of curriculum groups and three majors”.

2.1 Course structure

Broadened foundation (grades 1-2): a professional basic education platform jointly constructed and shared by architecture, urban and rural planning and landscape architecture;

Enhanced backbone (throughout grade + 3): advanced backbone series are formed with the design core courses throughout the undergraduate education in grades 1-5 and by integrating the curriculum groups of technology category and humanities category;

Expanded frontier (grades 4-5): frontier vision is expanded on the interdisciplinary platform, and comprehensive research-oriented teaching in multiple directions is strengthened.

2.2 Gradient setting for design studio in each grade

Grades 1-2: basic education platform for categories of architecture, urban and rural planning and landscape architecture; “cross-discipline, cross-scale and cross-medium” teaching and “shared-foundation and multi-topic” teaching emphasizing disciplinary integration.

Grade 3: deepened education platform in architecture major, and integration and advancement of architectural design, history, technology and practice.

Grades 4-5: interdisciplinary education platform in several majors, highlighting the high-level, expandable and interdisciplinary frontier crossing.

2.3 Relationship between the design course and other courses

As the backbone, the design core course runs throughout undergraduate education in grades 1-5, which integrates various knowledge modules of basic courses, elective courses, practice, principles and major backbones of major categories, integrates curriculum groups of technology, history theory and medium categories, and crosses these disciplines: architecture, urban and rural planning and landscape architecture, thus forming a hierarchical advanced main course series.

2.4 Relationship between the basic design for major categories and the professional education in three disciplines in grade 1/2

A jointly constructed and shared basic platform is provided for advancement and deepening of education in architecture, urban and rural planning and landscape architecture by condensing the core basic knowledge and common knowledge module based on the disciplinary generality and difference among these 3 disciplines according to the teaching laws of the design major and by integrating the general knowledge, historical basis, technical basis, subject introduction, art and medium courses, with the design basis as the core.