Traditional Preliminary Landscape Design teaching had the following disadvantages:① Teaching achievements mainly showed as the onerous graphics and its assignments were in the mechanical and flowing form.② The majority of teaching liked to imitate the model charts.③ Student's creative thinking cannot be developed because of the fixed teaching mode.④ In the external environment,computer was applied in design industry widely,landscape performance has gradually separated from landscape design,design capacity and essence are paid much more attention.Therefore many needed reforms were made at a large scale in 2008.After the adjustment,the course of Preliminary Landscape Design was opened in the second semester of Grade 1 and was finished within one semester with the total 48 credit hours.Teaching content was the introduction to landscape design.This teaching reform put forward 4 types of new teaching methods:stimulate students' interest-introducing into scale model making;interactive teaching-landscaping surveying and mapping practice;heuristic teaching-spatial cognition;full-scale model-the small garden design.
