Abstract: The controversy about "gold course" or "worthless course" in a university becomes a hot spot, and the course of materials mechanics in provincial universities faces with the same problem. In order to meet the needs of the emerging engineering education and the transformation and upgrading of provincial universities, a gold course of the materials mechanics is developed by reorganizing the knowledge module, the multi-dimensional material construction, the transformation of teaching and learning and the multi-index comprehensive evaluation, with a diversified teaching system including theory and practice, teaching and scientific research, design and competition, to stimulate the students' learning motivation and professional interest.