By using literature and materials survey and questionnaire,this paper conducts a detailed correlational study of elective PE course setting and the fostering of sports awareness of college students in Chongqing and finds that elective PE courses have unconspicuous impact on college students' extracurricular sports participation,sports cognition and exercising habits,but do hold significance to the development of their sports skills,the formation of their positive sports attitude and cultivation of their sports willpower.