Practice and Exploration for Building First-class Aerospace Courses in New Era: Case Study on Reform of Course of "Fundamentals of Space Data Analysis"

2021 is the first year of China's 14th Five-Year Plan to build a powerful country in education. Under the new requirements of the new era, how to build a world-class undergraduate course has aroused a heated discussion in Chinese universities. Based on the reform of the course entitled "Fundamentals for Space Data Analysis", we investigate how to identify the elements of ideological and political education in the first-class aerospace courses and how to promote the level, innovation and challenging degrees of the courses. When introducing the professional features of the course and the history of aerospace development, the patriotic dedication and innovation of "Two Bombs and One Star" scientists is naturally integrated into the teaching objectives of the course and the whole teaching process, so as to achieve the ideological and political education in the courses. Students' ability to process and analyze the data of space exploration is enhanced in the supporting experiments of the research course. A new teaching mode of "semi-flipped classroom" is practiced for the first time in the teaching of the course. The "semi-flipped classroom" can greatly improve students' learning efficiency, and enhance teacher-student and student-student communications.