Under the background of new engineering courses , the reform of higher engineering education has entered a newstage , and data literacy is becoming more and more important.The traditional database curriculum system is inadequate withvague educational conception.Based on this , according to the training objectives of application-oriented undergaduate tal-ents in the context of new engineering courses , this paper puts forward the ideas and specific practical measures of teachingreform with the concept of data literacy.According to the paralleled and progressive model ,the curriculum system structureis replanned , and the proportion of practical teaching is increased to form a data literacy index system and evaluation sys-tem to guide teaching,At the same time,it improves the curriculum teaching resources and designs diversified practical as-sessment methods to promote students’ learning enthusiasm and realize the new teaching reform mode of integrating dataliteracy and database courses which provides reference and methods for improving the teaching quality of application-ori-ented undergraduate courses.