Abstract: In order to make students in non-biological majors understand the beneficial and harmful microorganisms around them, we have established a general course “Microbes around”. The content of the course involved common microorganisms in five fields, including medical science, medicine, food, agriculture and environment. The teaching modes, such as in-class and after-class experiments, class discussions, flipped classroom, combined online and offline teaching, were adopted to make students more positive and arouse their study enthusiasm. Multiple assessments were adopted in the course evaluation, and the assessment content ran through the whole teaching process. Teaching evaluation of students showed that this course was popular with students in terms of content setting and teaching mode, and achieved wonderful teaching effect.

Key words: general education, microbiology, teaching mode, in-class and after-class experiments