Exploration and practice of international innovative course for postgraduate: Taking the course of environmental quality and wellbeing as an example
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    Under the background of the construction of emerging engineering education and double first-class universities, the international English courses construction is an inevitable demand for universities to speed up the way of internationalization, and is also a key challenge for teaching reform for postgraduate courses. While how to explore a suitable way for teaching mode, teaching methods and teaching team, etc., to meet the top talent training objective for China’s postgraduates is still an urgent problem. Taking a typical international course of environmental quality and wellbeing in Chongqing University as an example, this study addressed the integrated construction of “education” and “research” of the course, and elaborated in details the characteristics and experience of course contents, teaching method, evaluation method and teaching team construction. The course pays attention to the overall design and constructs a multi-level curriculum content system from foundation to promotion and expansion; meantime it links the teaching to research and practice and introduces the latest professional journal papers or reports as teaching materials to expand the teaching breadth and depth. The course addresses the interaction between “teaching” and “learning” with systematic thinking and problem-based learning, and sets up multiple modes, including communication and interaction, discussion, case study, special report, paper review and so on, to reform the traditional teaching method. The course adopts the interdisciplinary research and hotspots as discussion topics, which cultivates the postgraduates’ abilities of critical thinking, scientific research and innovation. The course assessments include discussion, presentation and writing, ect., in order to improve the abilities of professional knowledge and academic communication for students. In order to expand the internationalization of curriculum, constructs a high-quality teaching team and introduces a number of teachers and experts with outstanding academic achievements from multidiscipline to build an international joint teaching team. Through the interdisciplinary teaching, promotes the interdisciplinary integration and broadens the students’ knowledge in the field of built environment, which overcomes the narrow vision of traditional curriculum teaching, the limitation of culturing versatile talents, cross-cultural communication, adaptability and development ability, the lack of high-quality education resources and international teaching teams, etc. It provides a reference for the construction of all English course for the built environment major in domestic colleges and universities. Meanwhile,it also provides experience and guide thinking for promoting the internationalization of postgraduate education,cultivating high-level talents with international vision and innovative vitality,and promoting the development of disciplines.

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杜晨秋,姚润明,刘红.研究生国际化创新课程探索和实践——以国家全英文精品课程Environmental Quality and Wellbeing为例[J].高等建筑教育,2022,31(6):78~87

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  • Revised:July 21,2022
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  • Online: January 09,2023
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