Abstract:Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the curriculum of ideological and political theory in universities has gone through three stages: the exploration and transition in new China, the recovery and adjustment in the new period, and the improvement and development in the new era. It is the paradigm of “context-structure-interaction” that provides a new analytical framework for analyzing the evolution logic of the curriculum of ideological and political theory in universities. With the aid of this paradigm, the dynamic mechanism, decision-making mechanism, and action mechanism of the evolution of the curriculum system of ideological and political theory in colleges and universities are formed. Looking into the future, we should base the ideological and political theory courses in colleges and universities on both international and domestic situations and expand the global vision, pay attention to social reality and extend the social space, and make use of institutional flexibility to realize the characteristic development of ideological and political theory courses in colleges and universities.