The difference between an applied undergraduate course and an ordinary undergraduate course is the different starting point.
Ordinary undergraduate course: mainly focusing on scientific research and teaching, supplemented by practical operation, mostly focusing on comprehensive universities, paying attention to students' academic ability, and knowledge is mostly limited to books and theories.
Application-oriented undergraduate course: combined with the current economic and social development in China, it focuses on practical operation, supplemented by theoretical knowledge, mostly on engineering universities, focusing on students' ability in a single technology, and knowledge is more limited to practical operation technology.
Different inclusion ranges
Ordinary undergraduate: In the general college entrance examination in China, undergraduate admission is divided into one batch (one), two batches (two) and three batches (three batches were cancelled in some areas on 20 17).
Applied undergraduate: At this stage, it generally includes all the first batch of undergraduate courses and the second batch of undergraduate courses.
Different areas
Ordinary undergraduate course: the relative development field is relatively wide, and the scope of expansion is relatively wide, but the school does not focus on many disciplines. Conduct academic research on a single subject and write reports and papers to enhance the influence of the school in the country and even the world.
Applied undergraduate: there are not many majors. It is necessary to study and discuss a single engineering major, learn the technology of this major, write a design plan, and improve the professional and technical ability of the school.
Recruit different students
Ordinary undergraduate course: it mainly recruits high school graduates, and the educational system is generally 4-5 years according to different majors. Recruit a small number of college graduates for two years.
Application-oriented undergraduate: mainly recruit high school graduates, and some provincial undergraduate colleges, national demonstration higher vocational colleges and large national backbone enterprises jointly pilot to cultivate application-oriented undergraduate talents to meet the needs of social and economic development.
Extended reading: orientation of application-oriented undergraduate colleges 1. Orientation of development goals
The development goal of application-oriented undergraduate colleges must be based on their own characteristics, quality and efficiency, and closely focus on the cultivation of applied innovative talents. On the one hand, we should vigorously cultivate our own characteristics and enhance the overall strength and core competitiveness of application-oriented undergraduate colleges; On the other hand, we should proceed from reality and cultivate applied innovative talents around social needs. If we set our own development goals regardless of our own school-running characteristics and advantages and market demand, the result can only be the opposite.
2. Teaching direction
Teaching largely determines the specifications, levels and types of school personnel training. What kind of teaching mode there will be, what kind of talents there will be. As an undergraduate college for cultivating applied talents, applied universities must strive to build a teaching mode for cultivating applied talents, vigorously promote cooperative education and practical teaching in Industry-University-Research, and highlight the school-running mode of combining Industry-University-Research, which is the only way and fundamental choice for applied undergraduate colleges to cultivate applied innovative talents.
3. Talent training direction
As the main position of cultivating applied talents, the training of applied undergraduate colleges should be different from both academic talents trained by traditional undergraduate colleges and skilled talents trained by higher vocational colleges. Traditional undergraduate colleges and universities cultivate research-oriented and academic talents with extensive basic knowledge, high comprehensive quality and good self-study ability, and undertake the task of providing students for higher education. Higher vocational colleges cultivate technical talents facing the front line of production, service, construction and management, and their knowledge updating ability, professional upgrading ability and even comprehensive quality are relatively weak. Application-oriented universities cultivate applied talents that meet the needs of society. Their knowledge, ability and quality structure are distinctive, their theoretical foundation is solid, their professional knowledge is wide, their practical ability is strong, their comprehensive quality is high, and they have strong scientific and technological application, popularization and transformation capabilities.
4. Scientific research direction
The scientific research of application-oriented undergraduate colleges is different from that of academic universities in nature, content, object, method, requirement, purpose and significance. The scientific research of application-oriented undergraduate colleges is mainly applied development research, and less attention is paid to basic theoretical research. Its main purpose is to improve the quality of education and teaching to a great extent, with the cultivation of applied and innovative talents as the core. The scientific research goal of application-oriented undergraduate colleges is to directly serve the needs of social development, rather than pursuing profound knowledge. By actively carrying out high-tech research, developing high-tech and scientific and technological innovation, a large number of applied senior professionals are trained. Finally, the literature points out that the application type is not a level, but a type.