形体与塑身课是面向二年级本科生开设的体育必修课，本课程通过引用舞蹈中基本舞姿舞步训练的方法为主要手段，结合音乐针对人的基本姿态进行的身体活动练习，主要目的是融健身、健心、健美为一体，塑造优美体形及姿态，加强形体美的审美教育课程。形体塑身课是以健美练习，姿态练习，协调练习为主要手段，来改变体形的原始状态，提高人体运动系统的灵活性，控制力和表现力，培养高雅气质，并向学生进行美育教育的一门专业课。
本课程要求学生掌握形体训练的基本理论知识，提高对不良姿态的矫正能力和对音乐的感知与理解能力，将体验和领悟到的舞蹈知识在实践操作的练习中再现，在已有知识的基础上，循序人体运动规律和形体塑身运动特点合理创编一些简单的形体舞蹈组合，使其终身受益。
形体与塑身课教学能够塑造健美的形体，提高学生柔韧性、协调性、灵敏性、节奏感和身体素质，增加学生与人交往、沟通、协调的能力，培养学生进行自我形体锻炼的意识和习惯.
The Course Description of the Form and Fitness
The form and fitness is stipulated as compulsory physical education course for the sophomores. Employing training approaches in dance postures and steps, led by music, the form and fitness is an aesthetic educational course entailed physical exercise for shaping human body, aiming at integrating physical health, mental health and fitness together so as to form graceful build and postures. Besides, it is specialized course for students to change their initial body conditions, improve their flexibility, coordinating ability and expressive ability for elegant temperament by doing fitness exercises, posture practice, coordinating practice.
This course requires students to master fundamental theoretical knowledge for shape-up exercise, to improve the ability in adjusting improper postures, perceiving and comprehending the music, to put the acquired dancing knowledge into practical body training. Moreover, for their long-run profit, students are required to create and compose simple dance with consideration of principles of human motion and features of body shaping based on acquired knowledge.
The form and fitness teaching could shape well-built figure, improve the suppleness, coordination, sensibility, rhythm and physical quality of students, enhance their ability to associate, communicate and coordinate with other people, cultivate their awareness and habit to do physical practice.