Abstract: To build high-quality "great ideological and political courses",it is necessary not only to expand and enrich the educational content,educational means,educational resources and educational forms of the ideological and political courses,but also to reform and innovate the ideological and political courses in the sense of methodology.As the expansion of the traditional ideological and political education with "small classroom of school" and "ideological and political course" as the main channel,the "great ideological and political courses" need the theoretical consciousness of the methodological basis in order to realize the innovation at the level of methodology.That is to say,we should have the theoretical consciousness of insisting on the unity of perceptual knowledge and rational knowledge,historical facts and rational exposition,recessive education and explicit education.Adhering to the theoretical consciousness based on these three methodologies is of vital importance for constantly improving the ideological,theoretical,affinitive and pertinent characters of ideological and political courses,ensuring the correct direction in their construction,and promoting the work of carrying out Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to cast soul and educate people.

Key words: "great ideological and political courses", epistemology, methodology, recessive education, explicit Education