Subject curriculum is a curriculum system organized by selecting some contents from various scientific fields and classifying them. For example, Chinese, mathematics, physics, chemistry and other disciplines are all subject courses, that is, sub-subject courses.

This course has a long history. Six Arts in Ancient China and Seven Arts in Ancient Greece are the earliest subject courses.

The characteristics of subject courses are:

It is set according to the categories and disciplines of knowledge; It is the result of abstracting, summarizing and sorting out human activity experience; Often relatively independent, self-contained; It is usually organized according to the internal logic system of a specific knowledge field. Logic, systematicness and conciseness are the biggest characteristics of subject courses.