Abstract: General education is an important part of personnel training in Colleges and universities. However, there are many problems in Colleges and universities in the frontier minority areas, for example the lack of general education resources and systematic planning, the disconnection between scientific research and curriculum construction, which results in the limited role of general education in the cultivation of undergraduate "general" ability and the inability to support the discipline construction. Combining with the construction of ecological environment curriculum group of Dali University, this paper analyzes the problems existing in the construction of general education curriculum in the universities of frontier minority areas, and refines the thinking framework of general education curriculum construction, aiming at breaking the dilemma of general education construction in frontier minority areas, and exploring a path of general education that fits the development of colleges and universities in frontier minority areas.

Key words: General education, Local university, Course group construction, Ecological civilization