It remains an important proposition as to how to effectively implement the concept of interdisciplinary integration and cultivate compound talents of the new era by general knowledge education in contemporary colleges and universities.This paper describes our experience and thoughts on these from the general knowledge course The Wonderful Smart Bionic World in Sun Yat-sen University,which was set up leveraging the multi-disciplinary departmental clusters of our Shenzen Campus and the born attributes of interdisciplinary education by"Bionics".Having natural phenomena and underlying mechanisms,scientific and technological frontiers,and practical applications as the pointcuts,taking information-based teaching means as the support,and incorporating special ideological and political education elements as the gripper of thoughts,we explored the advantages of general education curriculum reform that emphasizes thematic modular advanced lessons,multi-driver-oriented teaching,experiential bionic design activities,and full-process comprehensive evaluation,striving to cultivate high-quality compound talents with solid professional qualities,broaden interdisciplinary horizons,and the awareness of independent source innovation.The experience of this project can provide reference for the reform of relevant general education and even professional courses.
interdisc iplinarybionicsoriented teachinggeneral education curriculum reformtraining of compound talents