In response to students' requirements for offering advanced courses in the elective course "Logic and Critical Thinking", our teaching team plans to offer the core course "Introduction to Creative Thinking" for all undergraduates, but will not take "Logic and Critical Thinking" as a prerequisite course. The teaching team is composed of eight teachers, including Han Pengjie, Wang Wei, Gao Xiufeng, Zhou, Luo, and invited Professor Xiong Minghui from Sun Yat-sen University as academic advisor. This course is expected to be offered in the autumn of 20 17. Curriculum construction has entered the key construction project of Xi Jiaotong University's teaching reform.

1 Background and current situation of the course

"Creative thinking" is a general term for critical thinking and innovative thinking, which comes from the English terms critical thinking and creative thinking. It covers three kinds of thinking: one is critical thinking, which is also translated as "critical thinking", "critical thinking" and "critical thinking"; Second, innovative thinking, also translated as "creative thinking", "innovative thinking" and "innovative thinking"; Third, critical and innovative thinking, that is, critical thinking and innovative thinking are interrelated and complementary.

Creative thinking has become a very common general course and an independent subject direction abroad. Although the education circles in colleges and universities in China pay more and more attention to the cultivation of critical thinking and innovative thinking, it is still in its infancy to pay equal attention to both, and to conduct overall research and practice. Andrew, President of Oxford University? Hamilton's evaluation of "China college students lack creative thinking and courage to challenge authority" points out the problem that China education lacks critical and innovative thinking training.