课程基本信息（Course Information）

课程代码

（Course Code）

EN907

*学时

（Credit Hours）

32

*学分

（Credits）

 2

*课程名称

（Course Name）

（中文）         英国经典散文赏析

（英文）       Exploring English Essay Classics

课程性质

(Course Type)

 通识课程      general education course

授课对象

（Audience）

  非英语专业本科生       non-English Undergraduates

授课语言

(Language of Instruction)

        英语              English

*开课院系

（School）

 外国语学院               School of Foreign Languages

先修课程

（Prerequisite）

    没有要求               Not required

授课教师

（Instructor）

卢小军   Joseph Lu

课程网址

(Course Webpage)

在建设中  under construction

*课程简介（Description）

    本课程将精选从十七世纪初期到二十世纪后期的英国散文的名家名篇，如培根、斯威夫特、艾迪生、斯梯尔、歌尔德史密斯、约翰逊、德昆西、兰姆、萧伯纳、罗素、毛姆、奥威尔、福斯特、伍尔夫等。所选文章大都文采斐然，具有极高的美学和思想价值。

    课程采取文本阅读和文论学习、课堂讨论、主题演讲、辩论、拓展阅读汇报、论文撰写等多种形式相结合，旨在提高学生对英国散文的理解和鉴赏能力、英语写作能力以及文学的修养和整体人文素质。

    优美的篇章有利于活跃课堂气氛，激发学习兴趣，学生们可以学习其遣词造句、谋篇布局的方法，有助于人文素质的培育。

（中文300-500字，含课程性质、主要教学内容、课程教学目标等）

*课程简介（Description）

 This course is a selection of English essay classics, including representative essays written by Francis Bacon, William Somerset Maugham, Charles Lamb, E.M. Forster, Bernard Shaw,Virginia Woolf , Jan Morris , etc. The essays to be lectured in class are of high aesthetic value and profound implications.

 This course is conducted through text in-depth reading, theme discussion, group presentation, debate and after-class reading with a view to enhancing the students’ comprehensive and evaluative competences, improving their writing skills and in turn

raising their humanistic awareness.

 The well-written essays to be explored in class help a lot to enliven the classroom , arouse the students’ strong interest in English essays . Students can  learn about how great essayists compose their great pieces, how they choose words and sentence structures, etc.. This course also has a part to play in cultivating students’ humanistic quality.

（英文300-500字）

课程教学大纲（course syllabus）

                   Course Schedule

Week 1       Introduction of this course

Week 2& 3    My wood           by  E.M Foster

Week 4&5    See people off       by Max Beerbohm

Week 6-7     Shooter            by William Cobbett

Week 8-9     The death of moth   by Virginia Woolf

Week 10-11   Appetite           by Laurie Lee

Week 12-13   The town week      by Edward V. Lucas

Week 14-15   A passion for cities   by Jan Morris

Week 16     War before Sunday   by Arthur Clutton-Brock

Optional Lists:

1.     I have nothing to offer but blood, tears, and sweat  by Winston Churchill

2.     Lucidlty, Simplicity , Euphony        by William Somerset Maugham

3.     Work, labor and play              by Wystan Hugh Auden

4.     The vice of puncuality             by Robert Lynd

5.     The crooked streets              by Hilaire Belloc

6.     Sunday in the Country            by Joseph Addison

7.     The convalescent                by Charles Lamb

8.     Conversation                   by Samuel Johnson

9.     Meditation on the Moon         by Aldous L. Huxley

10.  A little great man               by Oliver Goldsmith

11.  Old China                     by Charles Lamb

*学习目标(Learning Outcomes)

    该课程旨在使具有不同学科背景的学生得以阅读和了解多姿多彩的英国散文，使他们在拥有较好语言能力的基础上

1.拓宽自己的阅读与文化认知视野，从而加深他们对英国散文的认识和领悟。

2.学会如何欣赏和感受英语语言之美。

3. 通过不同类型英语文章的阅读，拓宽学生对于西方尤其是英国政治、社会、文化、价值观等方面的认识视野，帮助其理解中西文化的异同。

4.学到了更多人生哲学、独立思考和理性批判的方式方法。

5. 通过启发诱导等教学方式让学生学会如何发现问题，分析问题和解决问题， 养成研究性的学习习惯。

   This course aims to

1. Help the students to read more English essay classics.

2. Help them to learn how to appreciate the beauty of English essays.

3. Help them to have a good understanding of western culture.

4. Help them to develop a critical thinking 

5. Help them to develop a research-based learning habit.

*教学内容、进度安排及要求

(Class Schedule

& Requirements)

*考核方式

(Grading)

（成绩构成）

主题演讲（课前PPT准备情况 & 课上演讲实际表现）15%，平时出勤和参与课堂活动15%，期末论文70%

Evaluation Structure

Keynote speech (PPT preparation-before class and actual performance in class) 15%, attendance and participation in classroom activities 15%, and final paper 70%

*教材或参考资料

(Textbooks & Other Materials)

《英国散文选读》      黄源深主编        上海外语教育出版社  

《英国散文名篇欣赏》  杨自伍主编        上海外语教育出版社

《英国散文的流变》    王佐良 著         商务印书馆

《英国散文经典》      陆钰明 主编       汉语大词典出版社

Selected Readings of British Prose, edited by Huang Yuanshen, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press

British Prose Appreciation, edited by Yang Ziwu, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press

The Evolution of British Prose, edited by Wang Zuoliang, The Commercial Press

English Prose Classics, edited by Lu Yuming, Chinese Dictionary Press

其它

（More）

备注

（Notes）