At the present, construction of curriculum-based ideological and political education is mainly focused in the undergraduate teaching, and it has just started for postgraduate study. As an advanced education in universities, its ideological and political study is also important. Takes a graduate course “Advanced Building System Integration” in the school of architecture and urban planning of Nanjing University as an example, the paper discusses how to carry out the reform of ideological and political teaching. According to the course’s nature and he spiritual characteristics of the graduate students, the reform is conducted from four aspects: the course orientation, teaching content, teaching mode and assessment method. The key and the starting point is to reposition the course. The course was first repositioned around the theme of "Strengthening Morality Education". And the teaching content has also been reconstructed and reintegrated based on the new teaching theme. Its main purposes are to break the barriers between building technology theory and the cultivation of architects' values and outlook on life, as well as between professional knowledge and ideological education. According to the needs and interests of students, it attempts to develop an open and two-way flexible teaching methods which aims cultivating architects' professional accomplishments and correct values. In addition, the assessment and evaluation mode is a useful tool to cooperate with the reform. This study shows that a successful reform should be based on reconstructing the curriculum system. According the actual needs of postgraduate students, it is necessary to integrate ideological and political elements naturally into multiple directions and levels of a course. Be imperceptibly guiding students to establish a correct outlook on life and values, it is better to integrate the spirit of establishing morality and cultivating people into higher professional curriculum education.