Starting with the educational function of elective courses, combined with the analysis of the current situation of college students' elective courses, this paper discusses the characteristics of college students' elective courses and the problems existing in the course of elective courses, and puts forward some suggestions for improvement, hoping to improve the current situation of college students' elective courses and improve the system of college students' elective courses.
Paper Keywords: college students' educational function elective course
[Abstract] Based on the educational function of elective courses, combined with the analysis of college students' elective courses, this paper explores the characteristics of college students' elective courses and the problems existing in the elective process, and puts forward suggestions for improvement, hoping to improve the perfection of college students' elective courses.
[Keywords:] Elective students of educational function
Nowadays, with the rapid development of science and technology, higher education is divided into? Training? And then what? Education? On two levels, it is emphasized that education should attach importance to communication and exchange between disciplines, so that the educated can achieve balanced development, comprehensively improve students' comprehensive quality, and attach importance to cultivating students' ability to adapt to social and professional changes. As an elective course, Gu Ming 41 means that students can choose courses according to their hobbies and employment needs. Course selection system has become an important part of curriculum system and talent training in colleges and universities in China.
First, the educational function of elective courses
After the emergence of elective courses, its educational function has adapted to the development of society, promoted the progress of education in China and made great contributions to the development of education in China. The educational function of elective courses is embodied in the following aspects:
1. Broaden our thinking, integrate our horizons and optimize our knowledge structure.
Elective courses have the characteristics of diversity and comprehensiveness of learning objectives and openness and comprehensiveness of learning content. Therefore, students can promote the exchange, coordination and integration of multi-domain knowledge, broaden their thinking, integrate their horizons and optimize their knowledge structure by studying different types and fields of courses other than professional courses. At the same time, through vertical and horizontal elective courses, students can make a good knowledge reserve in advance and easily transfer from one major to another, and from one industry to another. The rapid development of society, the elimination of traditional industries and the rise of emerging industries require everyone to have such quality and ability, and elective courses can cultivate students' ability to adapt quickly.
2. Expand methods, train thinking and improve innovation ability.
Elective courses have the characteristics of flexible and diverse learning methods. By studying and using various learning methods, it is helpful to cultivate students' way of thinking and improve their innovative ability. At the same time, elective courses enable students to coordinate the relationship between specialized courses and elective courses, allocate time reasonably and effectively, and promote students' ability of independent thinking and self-management.
3, personal orientation, select content, deepen professional knowledge.
Because specialized courses are generally oriented to all students, they mainly teach the basic theories and knowledge of the major, and cannot take care of the different needs of different students. By offering elective courses, individuals who are interested in continuing their studies in this field can further deepen their professional knowledge and learn more professional, detailed and in-depth content, which is conducive to their further improvement and development.
4. Meet the demand, publicize the personality and cultivate diversified talents.
The individual differences of students exist objectively. Different students have different growth backgrounds, life experiences, hobbies, knowledge structure and career planning, which determines that there are personalized needs among different students. Elective courses with rich contents and various forms can meet students' individualized educational needs, advocate and respect students' freedom and rights, and realize students' individualized training. Therefore, the implementation of elective courses can not only truly implement the educational concept of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude from the teaching content, but also fundamentally realize educational equity, thus cultivating diversified talents for the society. At the same time, elective courses are chosen by students, which can take care of individual differences, take into account students' interests and hobbies, and help to mobilize students' enthusiasm and initiative.
Second, the characteristics of offering non-degree elective courses in our school
1, public elective courses are extensive.
Compared with the specialty of compulsory courses, public elective courses aim at expanding students' knowledge, facing all college students and taking into account their common needs. In our school, elective courses for college students are organized irregularly by the College of College Students, covering Chinese studies, language, art, employment guidance and so on. , in the field and objects are very extensive.
2. Flexible choice of professional elective courses.
In addition to public elective courses for all college students and professional elective courses for some college students, college students can also choose compulsory courses from other colleges or their own other majors as their own professional elective courses. The flexibility of this choice greatly improves the freedom of college students to choose courses and expands the coverage of professional elective courses.
3. The teaching content of specialized elective courses is highly professional.
Because specialized elective courses have the function of deepening professional knowledge, their teaching content is usually very professional and the knowledge taught is more profound. By studying these courses, college students who are interested in further study in this field can obtain more professional, refined and in-depth professional knowledge and ability to meet the different needs of different students.
Third, the problems of elective courses for college students in our school
According to the educational function of elective courses and the characteristics of elective courses offered by schools, and referring to the actual situation at present, we can find that there are many problems in offering elective courses for college students in our school.
1, the number of public elective courses is insufficient, which limits the implementation of elective courses.
Due to the lack of teaching resources and insufficient attention from schools, there are some problems in the number and types of public elective courses offered by college students, which makes students have no choice but to take elective courses according to compulsory courses, resulting in the flow of public elective courses. At the same time, the time of public elective courses is often uncertain, random, variable and lack of coherence. Moreover, in order to avoid conflicts with students' other courses, classes are usually arranged at night, which leads to insufficient preparation for students before class and unsatisfactory classroom effect, and does not really play the role of students' all-round development.
2. The lack of communication in specialized elective courses increases the difficulty of course selection.
When offering professional elective courses, colleges often only focus on the needs of their own college students, leaving the courses in the middle of the colleges without considering the specific conditions of students in other colleges. As a result, college students often have to give up elective courses because of their relatively weak professional foundation and the deviation between the course content and the actual situation. At the same time, due to the complicated procedures and high threshold of cross-college elective courses, there is a lack of communication between colleges, which brings a lot of inconvenience to students, course selection teachers and both colleges, increases the difficulty of course selection, and makes many students flinch, so they have to choose professional elective courses that are relatively easy to master and choose in our college.
3. Lack of understanding of elective courses deviates from the original intention of elective courses.
As a school, there is no special research and macro guidance on elective courses, lack of scientific orientation, low attention and poor supervision, which affects the teaching quality of elective courses to some extent and cannot achieve the purpose of offering elective courses and realize the educational function of elective courses. As a teacher, the orientation of elective courses is not clear, the attitude is not correct, and elective courses are taught as professional courses, which leads to confusion between compulsory courses and elective courses. As a student, I don't know the purpose and function of elective courses, and I don't fully realize the importance of elective courses. In addition, they lack scientific guidance when choosing courses, so they are more casual when choosing courses, and often choose courses that are not difficult to learn, have low requirements for teachers and are easy to pass exams, rather than choosing according to their personal development and hobbies.
Considering that the tutorial system is mainly used for the cultivation of college students, the tutor's role is to guide students' study, morality and life, so the tutor can guide students to choose courses. As a tutor, an analysis from the perspective of students' majors, combined with students' hobbies and personality characteristics, can provide some reference opinions for students to choose courses, so that students can avoid one-sidedness, blindness and utilitarianism in course selection to a certain extent. College counselors can also undertake the task of guiding students to choose courses, regularly publicize courses for students, so that students can fully realize the true significance and important role of elective courses, and don't actively participate in the study of elective courses just to complete credits. At the same time, in view of the relatively easy communication between students and the easier acceptance of their opinions, senior brothers and sisters can be allowed to guide junior brothers and sisters to choose courses.
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