The Thinking of Practice Course of Urban and Rural Planning Administration: Combining the Lectures with the Interviews

This paper introduces the Course Setting of Planning Administration Practice of urban-rural planning major in Tongji University. The teaching organization mode combined the in-class lectures and the interviews in the administrative department, which got unexpected harvest and brought a great deal of inspiration. On the one hand, the in-service officials with extensive planning and management experience brought students a lot of information and experience not accessible in class. On the other hand, students could understand the important position of planning administration in planning process. This paper points out that educational reform of urban planning should pay attention to the trend of professional needs and management system transformation, and continue the discipline spirit as well. Furthermore, while passing on idealism to students, the teachers should emphasize the important significance of solving practical problem in parallel.