(byXiang Qingling fromthe School of Economics) Recently,the Ministry of Education announced the results of the first batch ofNationalClassUndergraduateCourses.Easy Way to Find Economic Thinking, a course in theSchool ofEconomics,was selected as one of the national first-class undergraduate online courses.

Pushing the Door of Economicsis an introductory course of economics for non-economics majors and social groups, with Professor Cheng Xi of the School of Economics as the main person in charge, and jointly created by Zhang Yueping, Lin Lin, Xu Xiaoying, Li Taocun and many other teachers.The course selects 32 knowledge points from microeconomicsand macro economics,whichcanreflect the economic thinkingmost, taking the common economic problems around students as the starting point, closely combining with the reality of life, guiding the relevant theoretical contents, strivingto create high-quality courses that everyone loves to learn and everyone can understand through systematic essence of professional theories, interesting life cases, easy-to-understand classroom explanations, beautiful video production and strong teaching team.Many students from differentschools said the mode that the teaching blends self-learning and focused explanation adopted by teachers in the course ofPushing the Door of Economicswas very novel and efficient,which not onlycoulddeeply grasp the internal logic of knowledge points,but alsocouldfeltthe vivid and interesting side of economics course.

In recent years,theSchool ofEconomics attachedgreat importance to the connotation construction of undergraduate courses,and tookthe course construction as the core element to improve the undergraduate teaching level and personnel training quality.The selection in theNationalClassUndergraduateCourseEvaluation is a full affirmation of theschool's excellent teaching project construction and the ideological and political construction of courses.Theschoolwill continue to vigorously promote the construction of first-class undergraduate courses,encourage that teachers innovate teaching mode,further optimize curriculum designanddiscover the ideological and political education elements contained in various courses, continuously improve the teaching level and talent training quality and build a new curriculum education system.

Edited by 王孜 童奕博

Translated by 蔡梦娇