On the Course Design of ＂Australian Science and Technology and Culture＂研究.pdfVIP

US—ChinaForeignLanguage，ISSN 1539·8080 March2012，Vo1．10，No．3，1020—1024 … … 癌 OntheCourseDesignof A‘‘ustralianScience andTechnologyandCulture” HUA Yan UniversityofShanghaiforScienceandTechnology，Shanghai，China Thepaperintroducesthecoursedesignof “Australian ScienceandTechnology and Culture”，acurriculum developmentprojectfundedbyACC(Australia-ChinaCouncil)．Guidedbytheprincipleofthe“backwarddesign” advocatedbyWigginsandMcTigheintheirfamousbookUnderstandingby Design(1998)，thecourse specializedinAustralianScienceandTechnologyandCultureisdesignedandpracticedsuccessfullyinUniversity ofShanghaiofrScienceandTechnology(USST)inChina．Threestagesofthecoursedesignprocessareanalyzed respectively：creatingconcretelearninggoalsbyquestioningtheobjectivesofthetargetcourse，determine assessmentmethodson “casestudy’’and “essay exam”．and designingan e-textbookwhich ismeantto be dynamicandflexible．Inadditiontotheelaborationofthecoursedesignprocessthenoveltyofthecoursesubject isalso discussed：Thecourseisoriginalin many aspectssuch asservingthescientific and technological backgroundoftheuniversity，andhighlightingculturalelementswhilereviewingscienceandtechnology． Keywords coursedesign，learninggoals，assessment，e-textbook Introduction Thecourse“AustralianScienceandTechnologyandCulture”，fundedbytheACC(Australia-ChinaCouncil) initsCompetitiveProjectsFundingSchemefor2003—2004，launcheditsdebutclasswith87oftheregistered studentsinthesecondterm of2004．2005schoolyear．Anditstarteditssecondroundinthefollowingyearand haseverbecomearegularelectivebilingualcourseofrallthestudentsintheUSST(UniversityofShanghaiofr ScienceandTec