Practice of setting up selective courses of college English

With the deepening reform of curriculums in higher education,selective courses play a more and more important role in college English teaching,much attention is being paid to them and the construction of curriculums develops very quickly.In teaching practice,College English Department in Zhejiang University of Science and Technology has made a research on the project from the following aspects: the setting up of curriculums,teaching management,teaching materials and team management.The teaching of selective courses integrates the cultivation of language skill into the acquisition of knowledge of related fields,thus enhancing language ability of students.Approaches to problems are suggested with the aim to improve the teaching of selective courses.