Survey of public music courses of six colleges and university in Xinjiang province

It is an urgent and important task for colleges and universities to cultivate high quality students in the 21st century, and the development of music education in colleges and universities will have a direct effect on the success of the task. This paper selects Urumqi city in XinJiang Province where there are many colleges and universities, and makes a survey of situations of public music courses given and courses offered, students' preference for and expectation to music selected courses among six colleges and universities. Based on the analysis of survey data, this paper finds that: ①the extents of popularity of public music courses are very different among six colleges and universities; ②courses of public music education are not reasonable; ③some colleges and universities do not give courses to meet students' needs. In order to solve these problems, this paper believes that courses of public music education should be repositioned, and provides some suggestions to the reform of public music courses.