"LARP 780: Topics Theory Design: Curious Landscapes" is a new online creative design course offered by the Master of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania during the pandemic. This paper analyzes the teaching characteristics of the course through the introduction of its framework, organization, process and content. In response to the problem that the basic education in China is dominated by logical thinking training while the development of perceptual thinking in landscape architecture education is seriously lacking, the significance of the curriculum in terms of taking perceptual thinking training as the basis of design, emphasizing site-based experiential teaching, encouraging curiosity, imagination and creativity, focusing on cultivating students" ability to actively discover problems, and transforming imagination into the basis of design are proposed.