As a professional basic courses integrating with theoretical,practical,and comprehensive characteristics,Environmental Monitoring constitute as a vital pre-course in environmental teaching for higher education.In order to improve the teaching quality and make reflection and reform towards the traditional mode,we applied the VOSviewer software and selected"environmental monitoring teaching"as the theme to search the teaching literature published in CNKI database from 1999 to 2023.We aimed to explore the curriculum construction and related research on the teaching reform.Based on the visual analysis of the annual publications number,journal classification,topic concept and other aspects,the development trend of environmental monitoring teaching in Chinese universities is summarized.From the aspects of education concept,teaching reconstruction,ideological and political education and assessment systems,this study discussed the development path and current situation in-depth.We not only provide new ideas for the teaching reform of promoted the great transformation,but also puts forward effective path for stimulating educational effect of combining technology and virtue,and help to cultivating interdisciplinary talents under the background of"double carbon".