美国研究型大学课程改革的特点与价值取向

任何教学改革成功与否很大程度上在于其能否正确借鉴国内外先进的教学理念，也在于其能否吸收国内外成功的教学改革实践经验。从外在形式看，美国研究型大学的课程表现出个性化、弹性化、柔性化以及综合化等特征，这些特征集中反映了美国研究型大学精英教育价值取向、以人为本的自由教育原则和以研究为基础的本科教育理念。这些特征和理念对于深化中国研究型大学课程改革，推进学分制改革具有重要的启示意义。

The Characteristics and Value Orientation of Course - reform of American Research Universities

Any success of teaching reform depends on, to a large extent, whether the domestic and foreign advanced teaching ideas can be used for reference correctly, and also the domestic and foreign successful related practice experience of teaching reform can be assimilated. Judging from the external form, the courses of American research universities show the characteristics of personalized, elastic, flexible and integrated. These characteristics reflect American research universities＇ value orientation of elite education, peopleoriented principles of free education and research - based ideas of undergraduate education, which have an important significance to deepening the course- reform and credit- system-reform of China＇s research universities.