The main courses of product design specialty are: design sketch, design color, plane composition, three-dimensional composition, computer-aided design, thinking and creativity, design introduction, expression techniques and so on.
The main courses of visual communication design major are: design foundation, brand design, advertising design, packaging design, layout design and so on.
Environmental design: foreign architectural history, China architectural history, interior design principles, introduction to environmental art design (degree course), Chinese and foreign architectural design history (degree course), environmental engineering, materials science (degree course), ornamental botany (degree course), urban design norms; Architectural painting, architectural drawing (degree course), Photoshop, 3ds MAX computer-aided design.
2, professional training is different.
Product design major: to cultivate high-quality skilled talents with comprehensive quality, good accomplishment and quality of industrial product artistic modeling design, and to master the necessary basic theoretical knowledge and strong practical application ability of product modeling design major.
Visual communication design major: to cultivate students' keen perception and creativity of visual elements such as graphics, colors and words, to cultivate students' comprehensive use of visual elements to express graphic design, to highlight the application of multimedia technology in visual design, and to emphasize the cross-integration of technology and visual design.
Environmental design major: Cultivating high-quality design talents with modern design consciousness, advanced design means, knowledge and ability of art design and environmental design can not only meet the demand of professional design talents from functional institutions and design departments at all levels, but also meet the demand of art design teachers in universities and technical secondary schools.
3. Different concepts:
Product design is a process of transforming a certain purpose or requirement into a specific physical form or tool, and it is a creative activity process of expressing a plan, a planning idea and a problem-solving method through a specific carrier.
Visual communication design refers to the process of analyzing and summarizing information according to specific design purposes through basic elements such as words, graphics, colors and shapes, and carrying out design creation, which is to convey visual information to the audience and have an impact on the audience.
Environmental design is a complex interdisciplinary subject, which refers to the practical art of integrating and creating the objective environment of a certain discipline or some disciplines through design means.
Reference source; Baidu encyclopedia-product design major
Baidu encyclopedia-environmental design
Baidu Encyclopedia-Visual Communication Design