Characteristics and prospect of undergraduate ecological education conducted in Chinese colleges of landscape architecture
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Abstract:
Under the background of the increasingly severe ecological crisis and the construction of ecological civilization, the education of landscape architecture in China undertakes the responsibility of cultivating professionals with ecological awareness and ecological literacy for social development. As the basic support and key construction direction of landscape architecture disciplines, the combination of landscape ecology education with the discipline construction and the development of landscape ecology become the intrinsic requirements to measure the ecological development of the discipline. In this paper, we select 10 typical domestic colleges and universities which opened landscape architecture originating from architecture or agriculture and forestry. Making their undergraduate education programs among nearly recent years as the main research objects, this paper analyzes the curriculum types, teaching types, content distribution, and curriculum composition of ecological education in landscape architecture, and summarizes the present situation of the curriculum composition and basic characteristics of landscape architecture ecological education at undergraduate level in domestic colleges and universities. Then it prospects that the ecological education of landscape architecture should play a role in response to the needs of the ecological society in the new era.
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Tongji University teaching reform and development program "Innovation modes and approaches of characteristic ecological practice integrated with teaching for Landscape Architecture undergraduates
