Since the 1950s in our country,the attention given to elective courses by curriculum project or teaching plan has been divided into four stages: firstly put forward in the 1960s,and renewed and tried in the 1980s,and then tested and explored in the 1990s,and finally topped and innovated in the new century.

In connection with the characteristics of chemistry course, the teaching object of higher normal school and the world chemical education reform,this article explores the necessity of offering an elective course of Chemistry and Society in higher normal school, and discusses on the teaching content and quomodo, as well as some issues concerned.

How are the new achievements of science and technology development promptly reflected into medical teaching ? How to reasonably set up more elective courses and improve the teaching quality of elective courses? This is one of questions which must be considered in the university educational reform.

To set up a proper number of elective courses, which is sufficient and efficient to a certain number of students, is very important to colleges and universities carrying out credit system in curriculum programming.

The design of arts elective courses in colleges should keep to the following principles: humanism,systemization,common understanding,experience,developing the national spirit,advancing with times and stability.

This paper analyzes the data of the offerings of optional courses in cultural quality for three terms,which are arranged in the teaching program of NIIT with a compulsory requirement of credits for the students.

So far, the optional course has a history of 200 years.

With the changes of education condition and social setting, offering selective courses in College English teaching is an option to realize the multi-standards by Demands of Course.

This thesis is intended to identify and formulate, in the light of curriculum development theory, the theoretical and practical underpinnings of the design of the selective courses in the stage of advanced college English in engineering universities and colleges.

Since Harvard University was founded in 1636,it has experienced a gradual development process for its selective system,which has a profound impact on the selective system of higher education institutions throughout the world.