Abstract: Deepening the teaching reform, exploring and constructing the new teaching system of the research-oriented university, and cultivating high-quality talents with international competitiveness are inseparable from the construction of graduate courses. The postgraduate courses should aim at improving the academic and innovative ability of the postgraduate students. On the basis of respecting and stimulating the learning interest of the students, the research ability of the course content, the research ability of the learning style, the research ability of the integration of ideology and politics should be strengthened, and the cultivation of innovative thinking and scientific methods should be strengthened. In the past ten years, the author has taught quantum optics in Beijing University  of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and through the gradual change of teaching concept, teaching content and teaching method, and the radiation extension to other courses, the author has formed some thoughts on the construction of graduate courses. The author believes that postgraduate courses should take stimulating scientific research potential as the fundamental purpose, guided and guided reading of classical literature as the characteristics, build research-oriented teaching mode exploration and practice as the starting point, take scientific problems as the fulcrum of interest, take in-class and extra-class process evaluation as the assessment index, and create an educational atmosphere encouraging inquiry as the carrier. We will strengthen the teaching reform and education practice of combining teaching and research.

Key words: guiding type, classic literature guide, combining teaching and research, teaching mode, quantum optics