CEFContemporary Education Frontiers3029-18793029-1860Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty. Ltd.10.26689/CEF.v4i5.15104ArticleTeaching Reform Exploration of the “Economics” Course for Application-Oriented Professional Master's Degree Program: Taking Shanghai University of Political Science and Law as an Examplehttps://artdesignp.com/journal/CEF/4/5/10.26689/CEF.v4i5.15104ZouMiao2026452026-05-26Application-oriented professional master's education is now an important type of cultivating high-level professionals in China; it is a key link connecting academic frontiers with industrial practice and fosters a compound labor force for promoting high-quality economic development. In response to the various problems existing in current teaching process of professional masters’ course “Economics” in our university, based on “profound foundation, strengthen practice and important application”, combined with the New Business Science concept, applying digital technologies to enhance teaching, with the goal of promoting students’ abilities, through restructuring the course content system and deeply embedding digital technologies such as human-computer collaboration into both teaching and evaluation, we build a new teaching paradigm of industry-education integration composed of concise theory, policy frontiers, case study and project training considering about the reality of China's economic development. We aim to let students apply economic theories to find and analyze practical problems, solve problems, and then conduct scientific evaluations. Ultimately, we aim to be high-level applied professionals with good professional ability and quality, capable of doing practical work creatively, thereby strengthening the practical skills of professional master’s graduates and contributing substantively to China’s high-quality economic development.Application-oriented,Professional master,Economics,New teaching paradigm

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