Abstract: Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that moral education should run through the whole process of education, and that all kinds of courses should go together with ideological and political courses to form synergistic effect. Taking Hydraulics as an example, this paper made a preliminary exploration into the ideological and political teaching of specialized courses. The ideological and political elements contained in Hydraulics were deeply explored, and the ideological and political education was integrated into the classroom teaching of hydraulics from the aspects of China’s achievements in Hydraulics, scientists’ deeds, typical water conservancy projects, life practice, engineering ethics and classical culture. In a silent way, the students were taught the socialist core values, academic aspirations and professional ethics. The teaching mode and carrier approach of hydraulics course were innovated and improved the college student’s acquisition sense of ideological and political education.

Key words: course-based ideology and politics, Hydraulics, teaching reform