(Department of Physical Education,Xiamen University,Xiamen 361005,China) Abstract: The author summarized and analyzed the modes of the physical education curriculum implemented by Cornell University, and revealed the following findings: as for the physical education curriculum implemented by Cornell University, its objectives and standards are definite and detailed, its contents are rich and interesting, its credit settings are rational, its evaluation manners are scientific. Characteristics presented in the modes of the physical education curriculum implemented by Cornell University, such as curriculum objectives focusing on social values of physical education, curriculum contents focusing on extensibility, curriculum opening focusing on gradu-alness and challenges, activity forms focusing on interestingness etc., have a reference value for college physical education curriculum mode reform in China. Key words: school physical education;physical education curriculum;curriculum mode;Cornell University |