The types of courses are as follows:

1. According to the inherent attributes of the course content, it can be divided into subject courses and activity courses.

(1) Subject courses: courses divided into categories according to various disciplines and designed according to the logical system of knowledge. Subject courses are the most widely used course type.

(2) Activity curriculum: Also known as experience curriculum and child-centered curriculum, it is a type of curriculum that is opposed to subject curriculum. It organizes curriculum centered on children's interests and motivations in engaging in certain activities.

2. According to the organization method of course content, it can be divided into subject courses and comprehensive courses.

(1) Subject-specific courses: According to the school’s educational objectives, teaching rules and the development level of students at a certain age, some contents are selected from each subject to form various subjects and arranged separately from each other. Their teaching sequence, teaching time and deadlines. Its leading value is to enable students to obtain logically rigorous and clear-organized cultural knowledge, but it can easily lead to problems of too many subjects and too detailed divisions.

(2) Comprehensive curriculum: In essence, it is a curriculum form that uses various organic integration forms to form an organic connection between the differentiated elements and components in the education system.

3. According to the requirements for curriculum implementation in the curriculum plan, it can be divided into compulsory courses and elective courses.

(1) Compulsory courses refer to courses that students must study as stipulated by the country or school.

(2) Elective courses refer to the types of courses that are legally mandated by an education system or educational institution and that students can freely choose to study in accordance with certain rules.

4. According to the tasks of the course, it can be divided into basic courses, extended courses and research courses

(1) Basic courses: focus on the cultivation of students’ basic academic ability, that is, The basic education centered on the "three basics" (reading, writing, and arithmetic) that students need as a citizen is an important part of the primary and secondary school curriculum.

(2) Expansive courses: focus on expanding students' knowledge and abilities, broadening students' knowledge horizons, developing students' various special abilities, and moving to other aspects of learning. Extended courses often take the form of elective courses.

(3) Research-based courses: refers to students, under the guidance of teachers, choosing different research topics according to their own interests, hobbies and conditions, and conducting research independently, thereby cultivating innovative spirit and creativity. a course.

5. According to different subjects of curriculum design, development and management, it can be divided into national curriculum, local curriculum and school-based curriculum.

(1) National curriculum: It is a curriculum compiled and approved by the central education administrative agency, and its management authority belongs to the central-level education agency. The National Curriculum is a level one curriculum.

(2) Local curriculum: It is a curriculum compiled by the educational administrative agencies and educational and scientific research institutions of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and is a second-level curriculum.

(3) School-based curriculum: It is developed by scientifically assessing the needs of students in the school and making full use of the curriculum resources of the local community and school on the premise of implementing the national curriculum and local curriculum. Courses for students to choose from.

6. According to the way the courses are presented, they can be divided into explicit courses and implicit courses.

(1) Explicit curriculum: It is a curriculum that appears in explicit forms such as curriculum standards and teaching materials. One of its main characteristics is planning - this is the main mark that distinguishes explicit curriculum from implicit curriculum.

(2) Hidden curriculum: refers to the various elements that constitute students’ informal learning, and is the unexpected or unplanned knowledge, values, and norms that students learn in the learning environment. and attitudes, etc.