Specialized courses are the anchors ideological-political construction in the curriculum, and foreign language courses with ideological-political elements have been widely studied recently.After analyzing the connotation of foreign language courses with ideological-political elements, this paper overviews studies on foreign language courses with ideological-political elements in the articles from CSSCI and Chinese Core journals of CNKI database in the past three years by means of Citespace software.It summarizes the tendency of published papers and research topics, reviews the meaning of Lide Shuren, the scope, exploration and evaluation of ideological-political elements, and then explains the future implications.