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Fostering virtue through education is the fundamental task of higher education, while the performance of ideological and political education is critical to achieving this task. “Biological Basis”, the core course of the bioengineering major which has a close relationship with other required courses, plays an important role in the professional training system. From the aspects of the necessity of ideological and political construction of “Biological Basis”, the exploration and design of ideological and political elements, the practice of ideological and political teaching, the optimization of ideological and political evaluation systems, and the effect of ideological and political teaching, this study elaborated on the constructing process of “Biological Basis”. The ideological and political elements were explored from celebrity anecdotes, daily life, research cases, and current events were further integrated into the teaching process of “Biological Basis” by the establishment of a teaching team and the online and offline mixed teaching methods, the development of case teaching, and the implementation of group discussion. Moreover, the ideological and political course teaching-effect evolution system was established. The results showed that students' interest in learning and the average score of the final paper significantly improved, from 66 points or less before the curriculum reform to 76 points after the reform. In addition, more than 92% of the students thought that the ideological and political teaching of “Biology Basis” was good, with a course satisfaction of 98%. The course's ideological and political teaching improves the quality of “Biology Basis”, achieving the goal of cultivating students' professional knowledge and comprehensive quality together. The construction experience of this course will provide some references for the ideological and political teaching and reform of other biology courses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ideological and political construction of professional courses is one of the important directions of the current higher education reform. The construction of the ideological and political teaching system is an important innovative measure to realize the cultivation of moral education in colleges and universities. As a main course of biology, cell engineering is one of the earliest courses of ideological and political teaching reform in our school. As an interdisciplinary subject of science and technology, cell engineering has the dual characteristics of scientific exploration and social responsibility. Therefore, we should aim at cultivating the scientific spirit and social responsibility of students, and promote their all-round development through the reform of teaching contents and methods. Based on the main channel of the classroom, we strive to explore the ideological and political elements contained in the teaching content fully, integrate with the teaching of professional knowledge and skills organically, and have achieved good results in the process of teaching practice. This paper focuses on five aspects to detail the ideological and political contact combination strategy of the cell engineering course, including the combination of “teaching and educating” and “teaching by example”, the combination of “professional contents” and “ideological and political elements”, the combination of “elder stories” and “patriotism”, the combination of “historical review” and “frontier outlook”, the combination of “ideological and political methods” and “professional characteristics”, and strive to achieve moral education and cultivate people, thereby educating them. By organically integrating ideological and political elements into the cell engineering curriculum, we can promote the cultivation of their ideological quality and social responsibility. While imparting professional knowledges, it guides students to establish a correct vision on life and values, and render them cell engineering talents with scientific spirits, ethical consciousness, and social responsibility. It also provides certain references for the ideological and political construction of other peers or other courses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]