Study Of Chinese University Course Of Structural Reforms

Having analyzed different explanations for "curriculum" in the educational research field, tills dissertation holds that curriculum owns the following attributes: varied in essence, wide in connotation, targeted in content. These understandings widen our horizons towards curriculum in the new era and provide broad space to the reform of curriculum structure for colleges in China. "Curriculum structure" includes three organic and integrated aspects: componential elements, relative proportion and organizational patterns. The thoughts of major education and that of knowledge-oriented education have resulted in the curriculum structure of Chinese colleges, which can't play a great part in cultivating creativity talents knowledge-economy longs for. The progress of science and technology, the changes of the cultivating goal, the development of the theories of curriculum all push forward the reform of curriculum structure.To reach the teaching goal of cultivating creativity talents, the reform directions of curriculum structure in developed countries can give us many enlightenments: broadening the major specifications, enlarging the proportion of optional courses, strengthening humanistic courses, constructing project-organized curricula, increasing the number of international curricula, and arranging the liberal education curricula and major education curricula simultaneously. What's more, it is emphasized that the reform of curriculum structure in Chinese colleges must be based on the consideration of reality rather than merely mock the successful ways and measures which the developed countries have undertaken.The goal of curriculum structure reform in Chinese colleges is to establish a curriculum system, which can be described as "continuum and multi-orientation". To form such a structure-optimized curriculum system, we must follow the basic fundamentals of whole optimization, openness, preciseness, individuality and subjectivity. This dissertation points out that curricula in colleges can be divided into liberal education ones and major education ones, and provides an optimized thinking mode and concrete methods and strategies for the reformers from the dimensions of depth as well as time and space. It consists of the following three aspects in detail, structure optimization between liberal education curricula and major education curricula, optimization of the internal structure of liberal education curricula and optimization of the internal structure of the major education curricula. Through die way of optimizing the above three aspects respectively, the author hopes to reach the goal of optimizing curriculum structure in Chinese colleges on the whole.This dissertation finally holds that only an assurance is given to the productive system and the implementing system respectively, and with the effective supports from society, can the goal of forming an optimized curriculum structure in Chinese colleges come true.