本专业课程包括了公共与基础课程(占总学分22%)、专业课程(由核心课程、专业选修课等组成,占总学分69%,核心课程约占总学分24%)、全校通选课、创新创业选修课等。其中,泥塑系列课程、专业实习、综合材料、写生男人体泥塑(等大)、超级写实雕塑、纪念肖像雕塑创作、观念与视觉呈现、多元塑造研究、动态雕塑创作、在地实验、材料语言与视觉呈现、毕业创作的构思与实践、毕业论文、毕业创作为专业核心课程。
根据新时期社会发展对艺术人才的需求与艺术多元化的发展趋势,雕塑专业不断的梳理、调整专业课程,搭建了五年制“三三”的新型教学模式与课程体系,深化以造型基础、材料实验与专业理论三大板块为基础,具象雕塑、实验雕塑、公共雕塑三个工作室全面发展的课程教学体系,并积极开拓数字雕塑、玉石雕刻等新学科领域,形成了多元一体的人才培养方案,建成了“泥塑”国家级、省级一流课程与多个省级精品、特色课程。同时,在课程建设中加强与国际一流专业院校的学术交流,举办了与俄罗斯苏里科夫美术学院雕塑系、莫斯科国立工艺美术大学雕塑系等高等院校的教学工作坊、专业讲座与展览活动。
Courses offered include public and basic courses (22% of total credits), specialized courses (core courses—24% of total credits + optional specialized courses—45% of total credits), general electives, and innovation and entrepreneurship electives. The core courses are Clay Sculpture, Internship, Comprehensive Materials, Clay Male Sculpture (Equal Proportion), Hyper-realistic Sculpture, Commemorative Portrait Sculpture, Concept and Visual Presentation, Research on Pluralistic Modeling, Dynamic Sculpture, On-site Experiment, Material Language and Visual Presentation, Conception and Practice of Graduation Creation, Graduation Thesis, and Graduation Creation.
Specialized courses are constantly adjusted in light of social needs for artistic talents and art development trends. A new teaching mode is implemented, namely ground on modeling basics, material experiment, theories, and foster comprehensive development of figurative sculpture, experimental sculpture, public sculpture. Efforts have been made to develop new fields such as digital sculpture and jade sculpture. Now it offers national and provincial first-class courses on clay sculpture as well as many other provincial boutiques and characteristic courses. Besides, there are enhanced academic exchanges with leading universities in other countries, such as teaching workshops, lectures and exhibitions with the Department of Sculpture of Moscow State Academic Art Institute and the Department of Sculpture of Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry.