Entrepreneurship Education Curriculum Design For Applied Undergraduate College Students

With the rapid development of social economy and higher education, the education department, society and institutions of higher learning gradually attach great importance to the entrepreneurship for college students. In the case of enterprise competitiveness being growing and employment situation being more and more severe. In order to create more employment opportunities, it is particularly important to use educational method to guide students to start their own business. Therefore, the entrepreneurship education for college students at home and abroad has become an important subject. Entrepreneurship education courses are considered to be effective carriers to achieve the goal of entrepreneurship education, so, much attention is paid on them by national education departments and education workers. In the early 1980 s, the United States and other developed countries began the exploration of the entrepreneurship education for college students, after decades’efforts, they have started the entrepreneurship education courses, set up a relatively perfect entrepreneurship education curriculum system. Chinese college entrepreneurship education started in the late 20th century. After more than 20 years of practicing, we also made a lot of achievement:the scope of the entrepreneurship education was expanded, entrepreneurship education courses were perfected, more and more college students created their business... However, entrepreneurship education in our country is still on the developing stage, many problems are still left to be solved.Carried on with the methods of cultural heritage analytical, questionnaire survey and interview survey, Taking Dewey’s theory curriculum and Taylor’s curriculum development theory as the theoretical basement, and Guangzhou Industrial and Commercial College students and graduates as the research object, this research elaborate the present condition and shortage of the entrepreneurship education curriculum, then bring out the thought of entrepreneurship education curriculum design for applied undergraduate college.The paper contains five parts:The first part:Introduction. Mainly introduces the study of the origin, theoretical significance and practical value, literature review, research objects and methods, etc, to explained the significance of the study. Through the research background, expounds the necessity of the study, through the selection of the research objects, research methods this paper expounds the definition of the orientation and the research content of the planning process.The second part:The definition and theoretical basement. In this part entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship curriculum, entrepreneurship curriculum design are defined, Dewey’s theory curriculum and Taylor’s curriculum development theory are put as the theoretical basement.The third part:The present status of entrepreneurship curriculum. Taking the students and graduates of Guangzhou Industrial and Commercial College as the research object, through investigating students’entrepreneurial ideas, the level that the students grasp the knowledge and skills of entrepreneur, the condition of entrepreneurship curriculum design in the school, the situation of the students in entrepreneurship curriculum evaluation, this paper put forward the following problems:applied undergraduate college students have certain understanding in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurship curriculum, but not enough for the knowledge and the policy; entrepreneurship curriculum in school is positive to the students, but the effect is not significant.The fourth part:The thought of entrepreneurship curriculum design in applied undergraduate college. This part discuss the entrepreneurship curriculum design in applied undergraduate college in four steps:establish the course target, select the content, classify the type evaluate the effect. The entrepreneurship curriculum should be set in theatrical and practical way.The fifth part:The summary and reflection. This part summarize the research, point out that the study play an enlightening and guiding function in entrepreneurship curriculum design. And there are still some shortage in this research such as the analysis is not enough, the representation of the subject is lack etc. The thinking and suggestion for future is also mentioned in the part.