Abstract: Cultivating college students' cultural self-confidence has important value implications to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the national cultural security and the implementation of the fundamental task of building morality and cultivating people. As the two are in close affinity, cultivating college students' cultural self-confidence is the essential requirement and core goal of practical teaching of ideological and political theory course which, in return, can be relied on to cultivate college students' cultural self-confidence and thus has its inherent advantages and importance. We must scientifically construct the practical teaching content of ideological and political theory course, innovate its practical teaching mode, and make full use of local historical and cultural resources to enhance college students' cultural self-confidence.

Key words: ideology and politics, practical teaching, college student, cultural self-confidence