Focusing on Interdisciplinary Application Abilities: “Promoting Research through Courses” as a New Path for Cultivating Professional Degree Postgraduates

Abstract

Currently, talent cultivation faces numerous challenges, such as a shortage of school-enterprise tutors and a disconnection between curriculum construction and industry demands. The “promoting research through courses” model has emerged in response to these challenges. Its goals include training students’ research capabilities, cultivating their interdisciplinary learning and application abilities, and establishing an ecological closed loop between education and research. The reform measures involve innovating curriculum design to create new, advanced, and practical courses, adopting a hierarchical and progressive classroom teaching method combined with post-class diversion guidance, and conducting online-offline integrated case-based and scenario-based teaching. The reform has achieved remarkable results. Students have enhanced their research abilities, knowledge application, and professional qualities. Schools have strengthened their discipline construction, teaching staff, and social influence. Enterprises have realized their talent reserves and technological innovations. The teaching model has integrated theory and practice, promoting the high-quality development of education and teaching, and providing a new path to solve the problems in education and industry development.