(School of Physical Education,Shaanxi Normal University,Xi’an 710062,China) Abstract: The authors carried out an event specific track and field elective courses comparison experiment by using the “major and minor combined” teaching method, and revealed that major and minor combined teaching is obvi-ously better than traditional teaching in terms of expanding student’s knowledge extent, optimizing their knowledge structure, boosting bidirectional interaction between teacher and students in classes, enhancing student’s event spe-cific performance, and inspiring student’s sports attitude, interest and motive, and that the difference between “ma-jor and minor combined” teaching and traditional teaching is significant. The authors proposed to popularize and practice “major and minor combined” teaching in event specific elective courses for institutes of physical education. Key words: physicals education major;event specific elective courses;track and field;teaching method of major and minor combined |