An Empirical Study On Curriculum For Undergraduate Enterprise Education

Due to the rapid increase of admission to higher education, the employment situation for graduations is getting tough. Our government and education department emphasize repeatedly that university must focus on to help the students to obtain the ability of creation and entrepreneurship. Enterprise education is put forward in agenda. Course is an efficient carrier of teaching activities, which is the approach to achieve the goal of personnel cultivation. Curriculum is a fundamental issue in schooling education. By investigating the current situation of curriculum in enterprise education experimental university, comparing with the USA, this paper is try to find out the problem of enterprise education curriculum in our country and find the solution. The paper also makes a survey on the students' needs for enterprise education in un-experimental university, finding the gap between supply and demand so as to explore the solution to enterprise education curriculum.The study has found that there is big gap between experimental universities and un-experimental universities in the respect of enterprise education curriculum. The experimental universities have made some important achievement and got some good experience by several years practice. However, the new business plan competition is the only way to enterprise education in un-experimental university, in which there is none of enterprise course available and the students almost know nothing about the concept of enterprise education. Nevertheless, The students shows strong demands to enterprise education and hope to study the enterprise course as compulsory coursed or selective courses.According to the characters and achievement of enterprise education, scholars thinks that the curriculum can by separated into four types, discipline course, activity course , environment course and practice course. The result of survey and study shows that our country is still at a start stage of enterprise education. The curriculum system is not yet constructed. Enterprise education is separate from major study and students just have the chance to take one or two isolated optional course. Only minority of students gains the opportunity to receive enterprise education. The enterprise education course is not found in the academic curriculum and general education. It is the students' affairs department and youth league committee but not academic department to be responsible for enterprise.Thus we can conclude that the approach to settle the issues of enterprise education curriculum is to set the objective of courses, building up a scientific enterprise education system, popularizing the enterprise education course among all the university, receiving all the undergraduates to accept enterprise education. Three courses are strongly recommended: Entrepreneurship, KAB course and SYB training course, which are well developed and improved efficient by experimental university.