TITLE:
Research on the Innovative Path of Teaching and Research Reform in Economics and Management Majors under the Background of the New Liberal Arts
AUTHORS:
Ying He
KEYWORDS:
New Liberal Arts, Economics and Management Majors, Teaching and Research Reform, Interdisciplinary Integration, Talent Cultivation, Teaching Innovation
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.14 No.6,
June
29,
2026
ABSTRACT: With the accelerated iteration of the digital economy, green economy, and platform economy, China’s social and economic development has fully entered a high-quality development stage, and the industrial structure and talent demand structure have undergone profound and structural changes. As a strategic deployment of higher education transformation and upgrading in the new era, the construction of the New Liberal Arts focuses on breaking traditional disciplinary boundaries, promoting interdisciplinary integration of arts, science, and engineering, highlighting humanistic value guidance, and emphasizing the coordinated development of practical ability and innovative literacy, which has brought profound reform opportunities and severe challenges to the traditional teaching mode of liberal arts majors. Economics and management majors, as the core applied majors closely connecting higher education and industrial economic development, undertake the important mission of cultivating compound, innovative, and high-quality applied economic management talents for social development. At present, restricted by traditional educational thinking and long-term disciplinary development inertia, the teaching and research work of economics and management majors in many colleges and universities still has prominent bottlenecks: backward and rigid teaching concepts, fragmented and closed curriculum systems, insufficient interdisciplinary curriculum settings, formalized practical teaching links, single and solidified classroom teaching modes, unbalanced structure of teaching staff, insufficient practical service ability of teachers, and rigid and one-dimensional talent evaluation mechanisms. These long-standing problems directly lead to the disconnection between talent training objectives and industrial post demands, the disconnection between teaching content and industrial frontier development, and the disconnection between students’ theoretical learning and practical application capabilities, resulting in generally insufficient employment competitiveness, poor post adaptation, and weak innovative development potential of economics and management graduates. Based on the connotation and core requirements of New Liberal Arts construction, this paper takes the current teaching and research status of economics and management majors as the starting point, systematically reviews and deeply analyzes the prominent contradictions and key difficulties in professional talent training. Combined with the actual needs of industrial transformation and upgrading and the long-term development trend of higher education reform, this paper explores and constructs a multi-dimensional and systematic innovative reform path from six key dimensions: renewal of educational concepts, reconstruction of interdisciplinary curriculum systems, digital transformation of teaching modes, high-quality development of school-enterprise collaborative practical teaching, optimization and upgrading of dual-qualified teaching staff, and diversification of comprehensive evaluation mechanisms. The research aims to break the shackles of traditional single-discipline teaching, realize the deep integration of professional education, digital technology, and humanistic literacy education, effectively make up for the shortcomings in the talent training of economics and management majors, and continuously improve the comprehensive quality, practical innovation ability, and industrial adaptation of students. It is expected to build a high-quality and sustainable talent training system for economics and management majors that adapts to the development of the new era, and provide solid theoretical support and operable practical reference for the teaching and research reform of economics and management majors in comprehensive universities, local undergraduate colleges, and vocational colleges under the background of New Liberal Arts.