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1、英语国家概况课程教学大纲一、课程基本信息1 .课程编号：325021022 .课程名称：英语国家概况3 .英文名称:An Introduction to the Society and Culture of Major English-speaking Countries4 .课程简介：英语国家概况是英语专业学生的专业基础课程，旨在向学生介绍所学语言 国家的社会和文化等背景知识，拓宽他们的知识面，帮助学生了解主要英语国家的社会与文化概 貌，如地理、历史、政治、经济、社会生活和文化传统等方面的基本知识，提高学生对文化差异 的敏感性、宽容性和处理文化差异的灵活性，使其从文化和社会的角度更加深刻地理

2、解和掌握所 学语言的知识。二、课程说明1 .教学目的和要求该课程是一门实用性很强的文化知识课，学生通过阅读主要英语国家的背景资料，扩大知识 面，不断完善认知结构，为学习其他专业课程奠定基础。2 .与相关课程衔接：先行课程：基础英语L 2、英语语法等。并修课程：基础英语3、英汉语言对比。后续课程：西方文化入门、跨文化交际。3 .学时：本课程周学时为2,共开16周，总学时32,共计2学分。4 .开课学期：第3学期。5 .教学方法：在课堂教学中应以学生为主体，改变以往以教授为中心的教学模式，根据不同的教学内容选 择不同的教学方法。（1）以学生为主体、以教师为主导，充分发挥学生的能动性、创造性，培养学

3、生的自主性、 独立性。教师应采用启发式、讨论式、研究式的教学方法讲授理论与实际写作实践相结合的教学 方法，调动学生的学习积极性，激发学生的学习动机，最大限度地鼓励学生参与教学的全部过程。（2）本大纲附有本课程的阅读参考书目，教师应结合自己的教学进度，指导学生有选择地 阅读，展开读与写相结合的活动，同时要求学生定时交流所阅读的材料和图书。6 .考核方式：本课程为考查课。课程总成绩的评定，均应符合学院相关基本要求，由平时成绩（含课内外 书面作业、课堂讨论表现等）、考勤等参考规定比例构成。总评成绩由平时成绩与期末成绩两部 分构成，平时成绩占40%,期末成绩占60%。7 .教材：朱永涛，王立礼.英语国

4、家社会与文化入门（上、下）（第三版）高等教育出版社,2011.8 .教学参考资料：1来安方.英美概况,河南大学出版社，2003.2余志远.English-Speaking Countries: A Survey.外语教学与研究出版社，2000.三、课程内容与教学要求本课程教学内容包括以下主要板块，根据选用教材编排差别，可做必要顺序调整，同时注意 增补或评介学科前沿最新成果。各部分教学要求:()英国简介1 .教学目标：(1)掌握英国的名称，地理位置及组成部分(2)熟悉各组成部分的概况(3) 了解北爱和平问题2 .教学内容英国地形地貌、人口结构及分布、从英帝国到英联邦的发展史、英联邦的成员国。3

5、.重点难点the UK, European Union, Commonwealth, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Celts, Roman invasion, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Norman Conquer, civil war, Restoration, Glorious Revolution, political problems in Northern Ireland, economy, population and physical features of Northern Ireland, the

6、 Home Rule Bill, the Easter Rising of 1916, the Sinn Fein Party, religious conflicts between the Irish and the British, partition of Ireland in 1921, IRA* s violence in the 1970s, Bloody Sunday, the Good Friday Agreement, etc.(-)英国政府4 .教学目标(1)掌握英国政府和议会的构成(2)熟悉英国君主政体5 .教学内容英国的国体和政体、议会的三个组成部分、内阁的作用、英国

7、的法院系统。6 .重点难点Divine right of kings, the civil war, Magna Carta, the Great Council, the Bill of Rights, the Cabinet, the Prime Minister, the Constitution, the statue law, the common laws, conventions, the power and functions of Parliament, the roles of the monarch, the House of Lords, Lords Spiritual

8、, Lords Temporal, life peers, the House of Commons, etc.(三)英国政治、阶级和民族1 .教学目标(1)掌握英国主要政党和大选(2)熟悉英国阶级状况(3) 了解英国的民族构成和概况2 .教学内容英国两党制的由来、保守党和工党的历史简况、两党的组织机构，两党的阶级背景、从工党 分离出来的社会民主党、自由党等。英国职工大会。3 .重点难点Importance of general elections, procedure of general elections, formation of the government, vote of no

9、confidence, procedure of general elections, the Conservative Party, the Labor Party, Liberal Democrats, recent political trends in the UK, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, class system in the British society, upper middle-class and lower middle-class, the hereditary aristocracy, Oxbridge, ethnic relat

10、ions in Britain.(四)英国经济1 .教学目标(1)掌握主要英国经济产业2 2) 了解英国经济的近代发展史2 .教学内容英国经济发展史和主要产业的发展状况3 .重点难点Absolute decline and relative decline of British economy, the privatization in the 1980s, the main sectors of the UK economy, primary industries, secondary industries, tertiary industries, agriculture, energy

11、production, the offshore oil industry, the manufacturing industry, the City of London, the aerospace industry.(五)英国文学4 .教学目标(1)掌握英国文学的发展脉络(2)熟悉主要文学作家和作品5 .教学内容英国文学的重要发展时期；各个时期的代表人物及其主要代表作。6 .重点难点Beowulf, Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales, stories about King Arthur, Christopher Marlowe, Ben J

12、onson, William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, John Milton, the 18th century writers, the Age of Reason, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Robert Burns, William Blake, Alexander Pope, Neo-Classicism, Henry Fielding, Romantic poets of the 19th century, Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Charl

13、es Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Modernism, Postmodernism, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, James Joyce, George Orwell, John Fowles, Graham Greene, William Golding, Kingsley Amis.(六)英国教育体系7 .教学目标(1)掌握英国教育体系构成(2)熟悉教育体系各阶段的具体内容8

14、.教学内容英国教育体系的形成、特点与构成、现状。9 .重点难点The purpose of the British education system, the relationship between education and social class, the influence of the Church on schooling, the pursuit of equality in education, the 1944 Education Act, comprehensive schools, grammar schools, vocational schools, the Nat

15、ional Curriculum, GCSE, GCE-A, GNVQ, prep schools, public schools, higher education, old universities, Oxford and Cambridge, the Open University.(七)英国外交关系1 .教学目标(1)掌握英国当今外交关系(2)熟悉英国外交简史2 .教学内容英国外交史；英国外交关系现状；英国外交史上的代表人物。3 .重点难点Active in setting up the United Nations, foreign policy influenced by its

16、history and geopolitical traits, long-term physical separation from the European continent, the involvement of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Treasury, the permanent member of the UN Security Council, member of the EU, member of the Commonwealth, special relationship with the United States

17、, the presence of superpower bases in Britain, participation in NATO.(八)英国媒体、体育及节假日4 .教学目标(1)掌握英国主要媒体、体育及节假日名称5 2) 了解英国主要媒体、体育及节假日由来、内容等2 .教学内容英国的主要宗教派别、风俗习惯、节假日,英国人的性格特征、白金汉宫皇家仪式；英国的 国教、高教会、低教会、浸礼会、卫理公会、长老会、圣灵降临节教会、救世军教会等；英国的 传统节日：新年、复活节、圣诞节、节礼日等。3 .重点难点Popularity and functions of the media, the qu

18、ality press, the Observer, the Times, the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Financial Times, tabloids, television and radio, The British Broadcasting Corporation, The Independent Television Commission; football, football hooligans , FA, tennis, Wimbledon, cricket, golf, horse racing, the Grand National,

19、the Royal Ascot, hunting; Christmas, three traditions of Christmas, Boxing Day, Easter, Bonfire Night, the Battle of the Boyne, Orange Marches, St Patrick s Day, Hogmanay, Burns Night, Halloween, the Eisteddfod.(九)美国的建立4 .教学目标(1)掌握美国独立战争(2)熟悉影响美国人民的各种宗教思想5 .教学内容殖民地时期的美国、独立战争及独立宣言；南北战争及其后的经济高速发展；邦联政府

20、 时期、门罗主义、1929-1933年的经济危机、罗斯福的“新政”；一、二次世界大战时期、战 后美国的繁荣发展、杜鲁门主义、侵朝战争与越南战争的战败，美国从顶峰下跌；十九世纪六十 一九十年代的美国。6 .重点难点Discovery of America, Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, Puritanism, the Pilgrim Fathers, the influence of Puritanism on American culture, the establishment of settlements in America, Cathol

21、icism, the Quakers, causes and major leaders of the American Revolution, the Stamp Act, the uBoston Tea Party/1 the First Continental Congress, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, The Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Paris.（十）美国政治体系1 .教学目标(1)掌握美国政治体系的构成及其关系；

22、(2)熟悉美国宪法内容及主要政党2 .教学内容联邦宪法与宪法修正案、“三权分立”与“相互制约”原则。美国总统的产生、总统的职权、总统的办事机构；国会参、众两议院及其与总统的相互关系 (可以安排为自学),联邦法院系统；两党制及其历史沿革、两党与垄断周转的关系。3 .重点难点Articles of Confederation, the Constitutional Convention, the making of the US Constitution, the legislative branch, Congress, the House of Representatives, the Sen

23、ate, lobbies, the executive branch, the President, the cabinet, the judicial branch, the Supreme Court, federal courts of appeal, federal district courts, the power of judicial review, checks and balances, Bill of Rights, the Democratic Party, the Republican Party.(十一)美国经济4 .教学目标(1)掌握美国主要经济产业和经济模式；(

24、2)熟悉了解美国经济增长的原因5 .教学内容美国的三大经济区及其特点、美国的主要农产物分布、十九世纪以来美国农业迅速发展的原 因。6 .重点难点Samuel Slater, Eli Whitney, Industrial Revolution in America, free enterprise, corporation, service industries, stock, Wall Street, the root of America1 s affluence, the mobility in the American population, fluid class structure

25、, the entrepreneurial spirit, the Puritan ethic or Protestant ethic , agribusiness, migrant workers, the success and problems of American agriculture.(+-)美国文学7 .教学目标(1)掌握美国文学的发展脉络；(2)熟悉美国主要文学作家及作品8 .教学内容美国文学发展简史；美国文学各发展阶段的代表人物及其主要作品。9 .重点难点Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Transcendentalism,

26、 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, the naturalists, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Edith Wharton, Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair

27、 Lewis, Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummings, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot, the “Lost Generation , F. Scott Fitzgerald, Earnest Hemingway, William Faulkner, the Harlem Renaissance, Eugene O Neill, John Steinbeck, Joseph Heller, the “Beat Generation, Alan Ginsberg, J. D. Salinger, Saul B

28、ellow, African-American writers, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, women writers, Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan.(十三)美国教育体系1 .教学目标（1）掌握美国教育体系的构成；（2）熟悉美国各级教育的具体情况2 .教学内容美国教育体系的现状、构成、特点。3 .重点难点Different education laws for different states, several levels of schooling, curricu

29、la for students, compulsory education for all children, equal education opportunities for minority groups, strong demand for higher education, the complex system of higher education, varieties of colleges and universities, trends in degree programs, the Servicemen s Readjustment Act, Affirmative Act

30、ion Programs, non-traditional students.（十四）二十世纪六十年代的社会运动4 .教学目标（1）掌握美国六十年代发生的各种社会运动；（2）熟悉美国二十世纪六十年代的社会背景5 .教学内容美国二十世纪六十年代主要历史背景、主要社会运动及其影响。6 .重点难点Greensboro “Sit-in” , the Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, the Congress of Raci

31、al Equality, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Anti-War Movement, Free Speech Movement, Counter Culture, the Hippies, Women* s Liberation Movement, Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique, the Civil Rights Act, the National Organization for Women.（十五）美国二战后的外交政策7 .教学目标（1）掌握美国二战后的外交政策；

32、（2） 了解二战后世界局势的变化8 .教学内容美国的外交史；二战后美国的外交关系状况；美国的主要外交政策及其特点9 .重点难点The beginning of the Cold War, Arms Race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Truman Doctrine, the containment policy, the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the Dorean War and relations between the US and PRC, engagement and e

33、xpansion, unilateralism, the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, war on Iraq.（十六）美国的体育运动、景点和音乐10 教学目标（1）掌握美国主要体育运动、景点和音乐的名称；（2）解主要体育运动、景点和音乐的详 情11 教学内容美国的主要体育运动项目、主要景点、主流音乐及代表人物。12 重点难点The American Football, baseball, Jackie Robinson, the World Series, basketball, James Naismith, NBA; the Grand Canyon, Yello

34、wstone National Park, Disneyland, the National Monument, the Everglades, Niagara Falls; jazz music, New Orleans jazz, Louis Armstrong, ragtimemusic, Count Basie, Boogie Woogie.课程内容板块及学时分配参考表：序号内容讲授时数实训时数备注1Introduction22Government23Political system24Economy25Literature26Education system27Foreign relations28Media, sports and holidays29American beginnings210Political system211Economy & religion212Literature213Education system214Social movements of the 1960s, social problems315Post-WWII foreign policy316Sports & music自学总学时32