Research On The Integration Of Urban Planning Undergraduate Education In Engineering And Humanistic Education

Along with the increasingly fining of social division of labor and complexityof modern city, urban planning has developed from a pure architectural andengineering technology subject to the integration of technology with humanities,social and economic science. In another word, urban planning is more and moreinvolved in the social science category. Against this background, some newrequirements on urban planning professionals and the training mode of talents arepresented.As a result of the long-standing utilitarianism in education system, excessiveemphasis on specialization and weakness or even lack of humanistic education arevery common problems in current education of engineering colleges and universities.And the specific problems for urban planning professional education include closedschool running mode, unreasonable humanistic curriculum timing and coursearrangement which don’t accord with cognitive rules of urban planning. Though someeffort was made to improve the status of humanistic education, the work turned out tobe a mere formality in practice and no effective mode was created.To comply with the development of times and urban planning, a new teachingmode and personnel training system with professional education and humanisticeducation integrated is necessary. While building this new system, we should refer theexperience of higher education development abroad and take into account thecharacter of urban planning professional education in China.This paper is divided into five parts:The first part of this article points out the development environment for urbanplanning and related personnel training in this new era, and the new requirement onurban planning personnel and the place of humanistic education in urban planningprofessional education. The introduction and deficiencies of previous studies, theobjective, meaning, method and framework for this study are also included in thispart.The critical concepts for this study, along with the relationship between theseconcepts are defined in the second part. More specifically the connotation ofprofessional education, humanistic education and urban planning undergraduateeducation in engineering, and the necessity to strengthen humanistic education inurban planning professional education are illustrated in this part. The status quo and problems existing in the urban planning professionaleducation in engineering are discussed in detail in the third part of this article.Review and analyses on the integrated education mode, development history andcourse arrangement of urban planning professional education abroad are summarizedin the fourth part. And efforts are made to find out some worthwhile experience andmethods.In the fifth part of this article, the practical professional training methods withprofessional education and humanistic education integrated for urban planning inChina are summed up.Finally in the conclusion part a brief summary of this article is presented,focusing on the main conclusions, innovation points and deficiencies for this research.