高分子物理研究生课堂教学改革与实践初探

Investigation on Teaching Reform and Practice for Graduate Student Course of Polymer Physics

《高分子物理》是高分子材料及相关专业的重点专业基础课,课程内容多、理论性强、抽象概念和数学推导繁多,且仍处于不断丰富和发展中,加上研究生生源质量差、课程相关基础知识储备严重欠缺等因素,致使教学面临严峻挑战。针对高分子物理研究生课程的特点及高等教育改革的需要,在对高分子物理研究生教学现状及存在问题分析的基础上,从教学内容、教学方法和教学手段等方面进行了改革与实践初探。结果发现,凝练课程教学主线、梳理各章教学内容可实现核心内容的重点讲授,避免重复,节省学时;在课堂教学中引入案例分析和Seminar讨论式教学模式有利于学生理论联系实际、紧跟学科发展前沿;加之多种教学手段的灵活应用,使高分子物理研究生课堂教学效果在有限学时内显著改善。

The course of Polymer Physics is an important basic course of Polymer Materials and related major. It is an extremely abstract and theoretical course with abundant contents which undergoes unceasing development and improvement. Besides that, the lack of excellent quality of graduate students and teaching resources make the course teaching of Polymer Physics facing up with great challenge. Based on the characteristics of course content and requirement of higher education reform, the teaching reform and practice are explored in the aspects such as teaching contents, teaching methods and teaching means to obtain better teaching effect. The results show that condensing the main clue of teaching and arranging the contents for each chapter of Polymer Physics according to it are very significant to highlight the core contents, avoid the repetition of the same contents and reduce the time for class. The introduction of analysis of practical cases and seminar teaching model to the class is very helpful for the students to not only understand the core contents well by applying polymer phycics theory to the practices but also be able to follow the advances in Polymer Science. Moreover, the application of various teaching means such as multimedia courseware, video and flash, and so on, can greatly improve the teaching effect during the limited time for class.