The Magic Ship Of The Orient

College of Fashion and Design,Donghua University

College of Fashion and Design of Donghua University is one of the earliest established universities in fashion disciplines in China. The college is composed of Department of Fashion Design and Engineering, Department of Fashion Art Design, Department of Visual Communication, Department of Environmental Design, Department of Product Design, Department of Acting, Sector of Art Theory, Sector of Fine Arts, Sector of Sino-Japanese Cooperation Project and the experimental centers. It has eight undergraduate majors, i.e., Fashion Design and Engineering, Fashion & Clothing Design, Digital Media Design, Visual Communication Design, Environmental Design, Product Design, Acting, Art and Technology. It has the "Fashion Design and Engineering" master and doctoral degrees and "Fashion Design and Innovation Project" cross-doctoral degrees, in which the "Fashion Design and Engineering" is listed as the national key discipline, national featured specialty, Shanghai key discipline and "211 Project" key construction disciplines of the Ministry of Education; it has three first-class disciplines of master degree in Design, Art Theory and Fine Arts, in which "Design" is listed as the key discipline in Shanghai, the first-class discipline in Shanghai and is one of the first 32 institutes that provide the professional master degree of "Art Design". It has key labs of the Ministry of Education in the "Modern Fashion Design & Technology." Currently,there are about 2,500 undergraduates, 550 postgraduates and PhD students as well as about 170 teaching staff.