本研究從業界對學校廣告教育的質疑中展開。過去研究指出，大部分的廣告從業人員皆肯定廣告教育的價值，但信心卻不是建立在學校教育上（陳文玲，1999）。另有學者認為，學校是發展創意表現的重要環境，但是不同領域的人都認為學校是抑制創造力的地方（吳靜吉等，2000）。學校教育環境究竟能否激起創意的火花？ 過去文獻多採業界觀點探討廣告創意教育。本研究由學界觀點切入，以深度訪談法針對在大學廣告系教授廣告創意課程的八位老師，進行一趟發現之旅。研究目的在瞭解（1）目前國內大學廣告創意課的現況；（2）一堂理想的廣告創意課背後的教學理念、教什麼與怎麼教；（3）大學廣告系究竟能不能教創意。 研究結果發現，創意確實有部分是教不來的，像天才、竅門或靈感。創意教學的成效也非立竿見影。但在能夠教授的範圍內，老師教學生認識廣告本質、教思考方法、教策略、教跨越從策略進入創意的靈感黑洞、教概念的一致性、教如何欣賞與評估作品以及教執行力。教學方式包括：接近廣告作品、與實務界建教合作、從廣告之外尋找創意、多元教材交互運用、創造互動的上課氣氛、模擬正式提案情境並以教學評量掌握學生學習成效等等。此外，在養成未來廣告創意人的態度上，老師也教學生自我配備，進一步發現自己、尋找自己，並且創造開放的環境以建立對事物的觀點。 由此鋪一條通往理想廣告創意課程的路徑。一個具示範性與感染力的老師、一群用回饋為創意課程守門的學生、一個鼓勵創造的整合學習環境，是構成創意互動的三大要素。或許理想的創意課不在教室內，也沒有下課鈴，大學四年就是一堂很大、很久的廣告創意課，學生在不同場合都能與創造力相遇。 長久以來學、業界因缺乏瞭解，造成彼此不信任與焦慮。本研究提供看見學校廣告創意教育面貌的機會，希望能藉此拉近學業界距離，展開更多對話；更期望能夠以此延伸廣告創意研究的軌跡。

本研究從實務界選擇廣告創意人的準則出發，探討大學教育在因應廣告創意的實務需求時，所提出並加強的課程設計方向。務使大學廣告創意教育所培育的廣告創意人才，符合實務界的用人期待。 廣告是一門實用科學，如何讓教育與實務緊密結合，是廣告教育的最大挑戰。因此課程設計益發重要。在文獻探討中，實務界認為大學廣告課程有太過學術化、脫離現實競爭等議題。實務界希望他們的創意人員，在學校能就概念、技術、溝通三種技巧學習，還要理解廣告公司環境裡的競爭性、官僚行為、內部政治跟商業行為等等；期待創意課程同時涉足判斷力養成、有策略紀律、熟悉國際廣告、團隊精神、提案技巧、對公司政治具備敏感度等等。 在個案研究及深度訪談後，進行對廣告創意課程的設計。個案研究以廣告系修習廣告文案進階課程的學生進行教學實驗。深度訪談則集中在國內各大廣告公司資深創意人對國內廣告創意教育的認識與建議上。 研究發現符合實務界理想的廣告創意課程有下列方向：現實感、發想概念的能力、判斷力的養成、教導想法、職業認知、提案技巧、作品集、加強實務師資、從國際廣告吸取經驗、團隊精神。並據此由實務界觀點出發，結合作者經驗建構出八節符合實務需求的廣告創意課程：1.如何從創意哲學中培養看廣告概念的眼光。2.創意簡報。3.消費者心聲。4.廣告概念。5.創意概念。6.創意執行手法。7.創意素材。8.評估廣告。 / This study started with how advertising agency chose their employees, and how the university advertising creative curricular played their role on educating students to meet the expectation, and how to design or reinforce the current creative curricular. The objective was to educate the students in a way that met the practitioners’ perspective. Advertising was a pragmatic science. How to tie education with practitioners’ expectation tightly was a real challenge. In literature studies, the practitioner considered that the university creative curriculum constrained with over-academic, and lack of the knowledge of competition in real world. The practitioners were looking for creative personnel who studied the skills of concept, technique and communication, as well as the competition, bureaucracy, politics and business reality in the advertising agency. The creative curriculum was expected to teach following disciplines: self-editing, adherence to strategy, exposing to awards annuals, partnership, presentation, agency politics…etc. After conducting a case study and several in-depth interviews, a design for creative curriculum was ready to form. The case study was experimented with students who took advertising copywriting program in university. And the in-depth interviews were from agency’s senior creative personnel who talked about their point-of-views on their knowledge and suggestion for university creative curricular. Research suggested that the creative curriculum to meet the practitioners’ perspective must include the following principles: learning the reality, capable of generating concepts, teaching cerebration, understanding the nature of business, presentation skill, portfolio, uses of practitioners’ experiences, learning from global advertisements, and team work. And based on those practitioners’ perspectives, along with the writer’s personal experience, an eight-lesson program for university advertising creative curriculum was designed: 1. To See an Ad. 2. Creative Brief. 3. Cunsumer Insight. 4. Advertising Concept. 5. Finding the Creative Concept. 6. Some Tools to Create an Ad. 7. Creative Executions. 8. How to Evaluate Creative.