Research On Curriculum Internationalization Construction Of Research Universities In China

Curriculum internationalization is an important way and mean for the internationalization of the higher education of Chinese universities. In recent years, our country attaches great importance to the construction of the curriculum internationalization, and universities have also used a variety of methods to enhance the construction. Curriculum development is an important mode of improving the overall quality of students and also can develop the international perspective of students, train the creative ability and learning ability. Also research universities have good condition of international curriculum construction because of its international goals positioning, more opportunities of international cooperation, higher internationalized teachers and staffs, more smart students and free academic atmosphere. So far, the research universities have set up the corresponding foreign language courses and general education courses, implemented a bilingual education, founded a number of joint courses, and the current courses are modified by added worldwide questions and the international forward position questions. But the enhancement of the construction is not much enough. There are still some issues, such as the foreign language courses are so simplification, English teaching only focus on reading and writing and haven't pay much attention to the listening and talking, the input and the output of the courses is imbalance, and the content of the general education courses is not enough scientific. It is because of the lack of globalization version of textbooks, curriculum goals and teaching objectives, and the lack of the legal and institutional protection, no sufficient employed of multimedia tools, as well as the lack of critical thinking because of the influence of the Chinese traditional culture. To change the situation, we must refer to international experience from the countries with the higher levels of internationalization of Higher Education such as the America, Australia. We should adhere to international training goal, develop relevant polices and regulations to ensure the implementation of programs for internationalization, promote international construction, strengthen building interdisciplinary courses and joining with humanities courses, establish the general education curriculum scientifically and reasonably, set a variety of foreign languages, establish international evaluation and management, use multimedia tools to develop students' intelligence, creativity and expanding their thinking space, and absorb the content and method of the foreign curriculum internationalization critically and set up a scientific and rational model of curriculum internationalization.