Teaching Reform on Urban Geography Course of Human Geography&Urban-Rural Planning Majors under the New Situation

Urban geography is the core course of the human geography & urban- rural planning. A review was made of the existing problems faced with the current teaching in urban geography:(1)The teaching content is too old and updated too slow;(2)Too much emphasis laid on theories and inadequate attention put on the practical teaching and methodology teaching;(3)improper choice of teaching cases and problematic case teaching being too many(4)The existing teaching materials are blamed for having too many shortcomings. In view of the above-mentioned problems, some suggestions were put forth according to the demands arising from the new situation concerning the teaching of urban geography:(1)to renew our teaching concept;(2)to optimize the theoretical teaching content;(3)to construct an in-and-out-of-classroom practice teaching system;(4)to actively promote case teaching which uses one case from beginning to end.