Course learning is a necessary link to ensure the cultivating quality of postgraduate, and plays a comprehensive and fundamental role in the growth of postgraduate. This paper aims at the problems which are common in the teaching of postgraduate professional courses, such as homogeneity with undergraduate courses, duplication of some content with undergraduate course content, scattered introduction of frontier theory or technologies related to courses, single teaching mode, insufficient exercise of students’innovative thinking ability, and deficient system design of curriculum ideological and political education. Taking the graduate core specialized course of civil engineering advanced theory of concrete structures as an example, the main problems in course content setting and teaching mode are analyzed in detail, and the teaching mode reform goals are determined around three aspects: teaching content, teaching methods and curriculum ideological and political education. The principle of course content construction is proposed based on the dual attributes of education and research， and the course content is reconstructed with three parts: pre-class self-study content, instructor lecture content and supplementary content, which defines the key and difficult contents of classroom teaching. At the same time, the entry point and goal of curriculum ideological and political education are put forward, and the teaching hours of each part is suggested. To train and improve students’ability to propose, analyze and solve problems, the student lecture + concentrated discussion + teacher guidance mode, subject inquiry teaching mode, deep integration inside and outside the classroom teaching mode, and the curriculum ideological and political education method with academic feelings and scientific research spirit as the core are put forward, and the variety of teaching modes are formed, and corresponding example or method are given. Finally, a three-in-one curriculum teaching mode of theoretical knowledge-scientific research ability-value pursuit is formed, which can be used as reference for related professional courses of similar engineering graduate students.