In the year 2001 and 2002 the national ministry of education enacted a "new course standard" and "national ordinary university physical education curriculum guidelines". From the day of issue, most universities have carried out various forms of reform in physical education courses, around the important guiding idea of "people-oriented" and "health first". This paper studied the current status of Honghe University's reform of public swimming course which is in the form of sports club. The aim is to analysis the statues, find out problems, analyze causes of problems and to put forward solutions, in order to provide a scientific basis for teaching reform in university swimming courses, and to promote the development of them.