A Comparitive Study On Entrepreneurship Education Curriculum Setting Of Chinese And U.S Universities

Innovation and entrepreneurship is the main era proposition of the 21 st century.Entrepreneurship education has gradually become important driver to promote the development of higher education reform and the economic transformation.Entrepreneurship education curriculum is the core part of entrepreneurship education system and the important indices for evaluating entrepreneurship education system.Good curricula of entrepreneurship education can enhance the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education.American colleges and universities’ entrepreneurship education curricula have formed relatively complete system after 60 years of development that covers the field of basic education and higher education.In December 2015,China’s Ministry of Education issued The Notice on Strengthening the Work of University Graduates’ Employment and Entrepreneurship in 2016.There are new challenges and development trends for the setting of Entrepreneurship education course in China.This study determines the selected topic background and research significance,elaborates the theoretical basis of entrepreneurship education curriculum by making use of documentary analysis.Questionnaire survey is adopted to investigate the needs situation of students who accepted the entrepreneurship education courses,in Zhejiang University,Heilongjiang University and Wenzhou University,by the five dimensions of entrepreneurship education curriculum goal,content,type,teaching and management.Babson College,Stanford University and Cornell University respectively represent single magnet model,multiple magnet models and the radiation pattern of American colleges and universities entrepreneurship education.Its experience can be summarized by analyzing the profile of entrepreneurship education,curriculum object,curriculum content,curriculum structure,curriculum evaluation and teachers in these three universities.Finally,this paper makes a comparative study on the curriculum background,goal,content,implementation and evaluation between Chinese and U.S universities and puts forward the countermeasure suggestions for Chinese universities: explicating entrepreneurship education curriculum goal,constructing the interdisciplinary entrepreneurship education curriculum content system,building four-in-one entrepreneurship education curriculum structure system,establishing diversified teaching staff,innovating entrepreneurship education curriculum management organization and perfecting entrepreneurship education curriculum evaluation mechanism.