For the past few years, creativity has gradually become an important element in the national cultivation of talent in Taiwan. Although traditionally art education is closely linked with creativity, the academic research on general art education is very insufficient. Therefore, the goal of this research is to investigate how creativity could be cultivated in curriculum planning for general art education at technology universities as well as what students' learning process was when they participated in a course's creative activity. The research applied the theory and steps of creative problem-solving (CPS) on a general art course to design a group practical activity combining with the local community. This involved converting the steps of creative problem-solving into different stages of group design activities with the goal of constructing a design process equivalent to the process of problem-solving. The main research results revealed that students could experience the problem-solving process through group design activities and develop their divergent and convergent thinking at the same time. Moreover, the cooperative learning model is the most appropriate teaching strategy for students from non-art-related departments when cultivating their creativity.