Curriculum Reform in American Research Universities characteristics and values.doc

Curriculum Reform in American Research Universities characteristics and values [Abstract] the success of any education reform to a large extent lies in its ability to properly learn the advanced teaching philosophy, but also in its ability to absorb the domestic and international success of the reform of teaching experience. From the external form, the U.S. research university curricula to demonstrate individuality, flexible, and so flexible and comprehensive features that epitomized the U.S. research university elite educational value orientation, people-oriented principle of free education and to study the concept-based undergraduate education. These features and ideas for deepening the China research university curriculum reform, promoting the reform of the credit system has important instructive. [Keywords:] courses; credit; the United States; research university In the United States 125 research universities, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton University, only four of about 3% of the proportion of [1], but because of its historical traditions and leading position in which their every move curriculum reform research universities in the United States have a trend-setting role. Therefore, in-depth analysis of these four research universities in curriculum reform characteristics and values for the deepening of China’s curriculum reform, research universities to promote the reform of the credit system has important instructive. First, the U.S. research university lesson plan features Any curriculum reform has intrinsic value orientation, while the value orientation of any reform must be adopted by a certain degree of curriculum reform reflected. Research universities in the United States, although the research universities lesson plan is different, and highly personalized, but they share similar or common characteristics, that is, in general, to show personalized, flexible, flexible, comprehensive trend. 1. Personalized lesson plans Pers