The School of Creative Design implements the school motto of Going forward with knowledge and action, and cultivates high-quality and skilled professionals in art and design for the society, which can meet the new requirements of the times for the development of local creative design industries and the transformation and upgrading of modern manufacturing. The school offers 7 majors: Product Art Design, Industrial Design, Digital Media Art Design, Digital Media Application Technology, Visual Communication Design and Production, Environmental Art Design, and Architectural Decoration Engineering Technology. Among them, the Major of Product Art Design is supported by the central finance.
In view of the high importance of the construction of the teaching staff, the method of sending out and inviting in is adopted to strengthen the construction of the teaching staff in combination with the characteristics of various professions, based on the principle of openness and tolerance and the concept of development. On the one hand, teachers are sent to well-known universities at home and abroad for exchanges and training to learn advanced art and design education concepts. On the other hand, domestic and foreign design experts are invited to give lectures and conduct design workshops in a targeted manner, so as to enhance the artistic design quality of the teaching staff. The full-time teachers have profound theoretical literacy and rich teaching practical experience, who are graduated from famous domestic and foreign institutions such as China Academy of Art, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Hunan University, Jiangnan University, and Nanjing Art School.
The School of Creative Design has superior school-running conditions with complete teaching facilities. Fixed design studios are allocated to students, and advanced teaching and practice venues are also open to students, such as professional computer rooms, mentor workshops, advertising studios, multimedia demonstration halls, and exhibition halls. In the past few years, student internship and employment channels have been opened up and gradually expanded, by signing cooperation agreements with dozens of design companies inside and outside the province, and building off-campus practice bases. A virtuous circle of professional training and employment has been realized.
In recent years, the School of Creative Design has been promoting the reform of precision teaching, focusing on the construction of high-level vocational colleges, and taking quality classrooms, efficient classrooms as the measure. The development of the industrial design major group has been driven, through the application of the industrial design major to the national resource bank, and the application of the product art design major to the construction of high-level backbone majors in Jiangsu Province; Based on the construction and management of the teaching team, the professional tutor system and the characteristics of the teacher's studio are released, which promotes the deepening of education and teaching reform, realizes the overall improvement of the quality of personnel training, and ultimately promotes the further development of students. As a result, the students' works have successively won awards in various design competitions, such as the X Power National College Students Theme Design Competition, the Maxima Cup Two-wheeled Vehicle Innovation Design Competition, Jiangsu Vocational Education Innovation Competition, National 3D Modeling Competition, Jiangsu Creative Design Competition, National Advertising Design Competition, National Industrial Design Competition, etc. It is worth mentioning that it has won the special prize twice in the national 3D competition in a row.
