International Journal of Mathematics and Systems Science 2024, 7(2); https://doi.org/10.18686/ijmss.v7i2.4730

In the course of the 14th Five-Year Plan, the Ministry of Education highlights in the work plan of 2021 that we should promote the quality and innovative development of higher education, which will facilitate the continuous improvement of high-quality develop_x005fment system of higher education and the cultivation quality of urgently-needed talents, the effective optimization of the disciplines and specialties structure of higher institutions, the increase of the high-quality resources supply for higher education, the further advancement of “double first-class” initiative and expanding employment of college graduates. In respond to this, this paper focuses on the cultivation strategy of innovative and compound talents of art design discipline in higher institutions, views from the talents cultivation standard of higher institutions and social demands for talents, and analyzes the problems identified in the talents training program of art design discipline in the contemporary higher institutions in terms of the structural restrictions of the current talents training program, the psychological restraints of students themselves and the position limitations of corporate demands for talents to propose the concept of extended specialized courses and highlight the necessity of its introduction. Based on the experience of talent cultivation in contemporary art design discipline, this paper puts forward that a “person” should be regarded as an independent individual with differences in the process of talent cultivation, integrating the cultivation elements of knowledge, individual and society into an organic closed loop with mutual constraints and complements. Moreover, this paper discusses the feasibility of the introduction of extended specialized courses from the perspective of the passive input and active exploration mode of curriculum and its effective association with the corporate talent mechanism. The paper explores from the implementation approach of introducing extended specialized courses into the talents training program from aspects of curriculum connections, supervisor accountability system and graduation work, and further expounds the necessity and feasibility of extended specialized courses introduction in the talent training program of art design discipline in higher institutions.