Under the dual impetus of modernizing territorial spatial governance and implementing the rural revitalization strategy, undergraduate train ing in urban and rural planning should proactively serve national strategies and align with industry needs, shifting from “knowledge-based education” to “competency-based education”. In this context, rural planning courses urgently need to address the growing demand for “ecological security and resilience.” However, existing curricula often suff er from three major shortcomings: fragmentation of ecological content, disconnection between spatial and temporal dimensions, and a lack of regional characteristics. This study proposes an “ecological security spatio-temporal system” and takes the “Rural Planning and Design” course off ered by the urban and rural planning program at Henan Agricultural University as a case study. From the perspectives of theoretical transmission, module construction, and assessment design, the course is fully integrated into the theoretical and practical framework of national ecological security. It actively explores the construction and teaching practice of undergraduate urban and rural planning curricula that respond to major national strategies and meet the developmental needs of the times.