Aiming at the tendency of emphasis on thesis research, ignoring courses for the current PhD in civil engineering of our university, we proposed that taking requirements of future job as traction, enhance of innovation capability as leading, and talent training as the goal, reform the traditional hierarchical course system by modular design, and form four modules structure including basis curriculum modules, specialty curriculum modules, expanding curriculum modules, research curriculum modules. And we increase innovation of teaching content which highlight three properties of cutting-edge, dynamic and practical, and explore the modular curriculum teaching implementation mode of hard stipulates living module, as well as construction of two modular curriculum evaluation system including classroom teaching quality and PhD students academic evaluation, so as to build a scientific and rational PhD modular curriculum system in civil engineering.