Environmental Education To The Undergraduate Students Of Non-environmental Majors In Comprehensive Universities

As environmental problems have topped social concerns around the world, environmental education has attracted more attention. Higher education is an important section of the entire education system, therefore it is critical for us to strengthen and address issues of environmental education in higher education in China.This paper has made a systematic analysis of the present situation of the environmental education to the undergraduate students of non-environmental majors in Chinese comprehensive universities and proposed some suggestions to improve environmental education methods in higher education. This research aims to illustrate feasible ways of achieving better environmental education throughout Chinese universities.Firstly, the paper has described the progress of the international environmental education and summarized the former people's researches. Moreover, it has described the environmental education's development of the higher education in China. These are the bases of the following researches.Secondly, this article surveys on the environmental education to the undergraduate students of non-environmental majors in Chinese comprehensive universities from three aspects: environmental diathesis of the students, status of environmental education in China and the courses of the environmental education. Following the research on these three aspects, we analyze the characteristics and disadvantages of environmental education within higher educational system. There are three main ways in the university to carry out the environmental education, environmental NGOs, environmental protection propaganda and courses of lectures. Students'environmental diathesis is closely relevant to the status of the environmental education. Regionality is one of the main characters of environmental education course. In addition, there are also some disadvantages in the environmental education. Such as, students do not pay more attention to the environmental problems and have low go-aheadism in the environmental protection. Universities do not have environmental education activities frequently and lack of environmental education funds. Moreover, elective courses of environmental education are not well designed in the teaching way.