Comparative Study of General Education Curriculum Structure at Home and Abroad

General education is a kind of non-professional education, which aims to cultivate all-round development of students, and to lay the foundation for professional education. The main carrier of general education is the curriculum structure. Overseas universities conducted general education in earlier times, so their curriculum system is comparatively mature. There are some deficiencies existing in domestic general education curriculum structure like small proportion of courses, unreasonable course content set, low course management level, etc. In order to build a reasonable curriculum structure which is in line with our current education situation, we need to raise awareness, establish specialized agencies to carry out co-ordinate management, build scientific curriculum system after clarifying the relationship between general education and professional education, and cultivate excellent general education teachers. Only in this way will it be possible to make our general education curriculum structure meet the needs of talent development.