Abstract: Topic oriented teaching is an effective way of ideological and political theory course for graduate students，and topic oriented teaching can resolve contradictions such as less class hours and more teaching contents，teaching content and teachers knowledge structure，repeated teaching content and students inquiry learning，and theory divorcing from practice of the ideological and political theory course.The implementation of topic oriented teaching usually includes teaching preparation，classroom teaching，evaluation，teaching evaluation and so on.To improve topic oriented teaching，we should carefully design and perfect the content of the topic，make great efforts to improve teachers quality，strengthen the team spirit，and actively explore a variety of auxiliary teaching methods.At the same time，the relevant departments should increase support for the topic oriented teaching reform.

Key words: topicoriented teaching, graduate students, ideological and political theory course