“水土保持农学”课程改革的探索与实践

Exploring and Practicing the Reform of Soil and Water Conservation Agronomy

摘要: “水土保持农学”是水土保持治理“三大措施”中农业治理措施的基础，也是目前水土保持与荒漠化防治专业仅有的针对坡耕地水土流失防治的唯一一门专门课程。然而，由于学生对农学类课程的偏见，长期以来“水土保持农学”课程不受重视，存在学生选课率低及学习积极性不高等问题。针对上述问题西北农林科技大学水土保持专业水土保持农学教研团队通过优化课程内容体系，开展“课程思政”、双语教学、参与式教学，推进试题库建设，强化实践教学等六方面进行了课程改革的探索和实践。选课率从不足16%提高到96%以上，极大地调动了学生上课的积极性，对相关知识的掌握程度更加扎实，较好地提升了学生的科研素养。培养了学生的三农情怀，增强了专业自信，涌现了一大批学农、爱农的复合型专业人才，抽样调查显示毕业后有从事水土保持农学相关工作意向的学生人数增加30%以上。

Abstract: Soil and Water Conservation Agronomy (or sustainable agriculture) serves as the basis for agricultural control measure that is among the “three elementary soil and water conservation toolboxes”. This course is currently the only introductory and comprehensive course for practicing sustainable agriculture on sloped farmlands. However, the importance of Soil and Water Conservation Agronomy has not yet been recognized by students because the traditional prejudice against agronomic courses in Chinese culture. Therefore, the registration of the courses is usually low and students do not input as much time and efforts as other courses. To overcome this, we team up with instructors, researchers and international agronomists and developed six new strategies. These strategies include optimizing curriculum content system, carrying out “course ideological and political education”, bilingual teaching, participatory teaching, promoting the construction of test questions database, and strengthening practical teaching. With these practices, the registration rate has increased from less than 16% to over 96%, the enthusiasm of students are greatly mobilized in class, and the degree of mastery of relevant knowledge has been more solid, which has improved the scientific research quality of students and cultivated the three-agricultural sentiment and enhanced students’ professional self-confidence. A preliminary survey shows that the number of students engaged in soil and water conservation agronomy-related work has increased by more than 30%.