Abstract: In order to enable students to master the basic theoretical knowledge, but also have strong design practical ability and good comprehensive quality in the learning process of design courses. Taking the Architectural Design course offered by the urban and rural planning majors of local applied undergraduate colleges as an example, based on the current teaching situation of the course, from constructing course teaching mode, optimizing and integrating teaching content, building network teaching platform, constructing teaching evaluation system, and setting up course teaching. The team carried out teaching reforms on the Architectural Design course in five aspects, hoping to promote the continuous improvement of teachers' teaching effects and the continuous improvement of students' learning effects, and at the same time provide a reference for the teaching reform of other design courses for urban and rural planning major.

Key words: Local applied undergraduate colleges, Urban and rural planning, Architectural design, Teaching reform