Abstract: As the important carrier for the development of advanced socialist culture, the construction of “New Liberal Arts” stimulates the rapid growth of talent demand in data industry. It is the solution to the fundamental problems in traditional liberal arts education, which realizes the systematic revolution in curriculum structure, knowledge content, and talent training mode. Therefore, “New Liberal Arts” is an essential basis for improving the literacy, ability, and innovation of students with non-engineering backgrounds in data science. This study takes the development of mobile applications undergraduate course offered by the information management major as an example. We analyze the deficiencies and problems in the current teaching experience of digital science courses according to the characteristics and requirements of the “New Liberal Arts”. Combined with the features and advantages of the school’s talent training, we propose a classroom teaching reform idea from the aspect of course content, teaching methods, and assessment methods, which optimizes the teaching mode and improve the quality and industry competitiveness of undergraduate students.

Key words: “New Liberal Arts”, Application development, Teaching mode, Teaching method, Assessment method, Teaching reform