ABSTRACT

Independent college is made up of ordinary undergraduate course colleges and universities and social forces (as partners) including enterprises, institutions, social organizations or individuals and other agencies having cooperation ability. Independent college is held for undergraduate level education of institutions of higher education and is a secondary college of undergraduate level in accordance with the new mechanism and model [S H Zai, 2013 and C X Zhang, 2014]. In recent years, some leadership of the ministry of education has pointed out that independent college is to ensure sustained and healthy development of higher education and is an important part of higher education development in China. Independent colleges were produced in the late 90 s of the last century in China. With its rapid development, there have been more than 300 independent colleges with over 200 millions of students at present in China. However, independent college is a new thing because it is a new school-running mode produced based on the undergraduate education, thus reform is needed in the aspects such as teaching concepts, teaching contents, teaching methods, examining ways and so on. Basic chemistry experiment course (BCEC) is one of the most important basic courses for the chemistry specialty and non-chemistry specialty and an important foundation for students to learn professional courses. For a long time, however, the design and contents of BCEC have continued

using the mode of chemistry specialty experiment under the influence of the undergraduate course teaching system and teaching mode. This resulted in low learning activities and not ideal teaching effects for the students with non-chemistry specialty in learning BCEC. Therefore, it is imperative for us to reform the BCEC. In this paper, we analyzed the present situations of BCEC learning and teaching for the non-chemistry specialties, based on which, the measures and practice of the reform of BCEC in teaching concepts, teaching contents, teaching mode, teaching means and experiment evaluation were conducted and discussed.