The 2024-2035 Master Plan on Building China into a Leading Country in Education emphasizes the need to strengthen the coordination between science and technology education and humanities education. Emerging engineering talent training urgently requires guidance of value rationality, cultivation of contemporary awareness, and shaping of compound knowledge structures. As a key course in ideological and political education in colleges and universities, the situation and policy course offers an innovative approach to addressing this challenge by deeply developing its general education attributes. Through the integrated development of teaching teams, curriculum content, classroom instruction, and educational ecology, it can provide interdisciplinary knowledge integration, systematic thinking training, and value rationality nourishment for the cultivation of emerging engineering talents.