The present paper elaborates on the meaning of curriculum antecedence, defines the constraints resulting from the curriculum antecedence, and analyzes the anteceding relations among the curricula in Manufacturing and Automation Engineering. 文章描述了课程先行性的内涵,定义了由课程先行性所派生的先行性约束关系,分析了机械自动化专业各课系之间的先行性关系。