Panpan Cao

Panpan Cao

27 July 2023

Application transformation, Ethnic colleges, Curriculum design.

Curriculum design is the core of talent training program. In the context of the application transformation of local colleges and universities, the curriculum of English majors in ethnic college needs to be adjusted and updated timely and properly. This paper, first, analyzes the old curriculum designed in 2009 and finds it has high total number of class hours, high proportion of public courses, high proportion of professional basic courses, and a low number of specialized elective courses. Then, by contrasting the old one with the new ones designed in 2017 and 2019 respectively in light of application transformation, it summarizes that the new ones have more reasonable total class hours, are more focused on application orientation and practice teaching, but don’t reflect the “ethnic” and “regional” orientation, have too many public class hours, and lack enough specialized elective courses. Then, the reason behind is analyzed. Last, practical and feasible optimization methods of curriculum designing is proposed from the perspective of strengthening application, emphasizing practice, adding specialized elective courses, highlighting local and national color, improving quality of teachers, and building practice teaching platforms, with a view to promoting the cultivation of application-oriented talents in local colleges and universities in ethnic areas.

© 2023, the Authors. Published by ISCCAC

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