Emotional intelligence is an important indicator of the development of individual positive psychological quality. As a new direction of contemporary psychology research, positive psychology emphasizes the need to pay attention to human happiness and tap the potential advantages of human beings, which provides new ideas and guidance for the cultivation of emotional intelligence among college students. As we all know, curriculum is the most direct and important basic factor to promote the quality of students in educational activities. Therefore, the effective emotional intelligence training course is the key to truly implement the emotional intelligence cultivation and improve the students’ psychological quality. At present, there are still some problems in the cultivation of emotional intelligence in universities. On the whole, the emotional intelligence cultivation courses are basically still in the primary stage, there are still many imperfect areas. This study combines the current situation of college students to explore the significance and ways of positive psychology for the cultivation of emotional intelligence, and to explore the emotional intelligence training courses suitable for Chinese college students, so as to cultivate students’ positive psychological quality.