国际关系《专业英语》课程教学大纲.docVIP

国际关系《专业英语》课程教学大纲 任课老师：国际关系学院 何佩群 课程编码：317.017.1 一、课程内容： 国际关系与公共事务学院的《专业英语》课程，是为本院本科三年级国际政治(国际关系)专业的学生开设的英语必修课程。整个学习课程为一学期。 本课程以有一定英语基础，如通过英语四级考试，的学生为对象，通过一学期的学习，使学生掌握一定的专业知识和英语术语，对美国政治及其弱点有较深的了解，同时对美国的外交也有初步的了解。 二、课程结构和组织： 在学生预习的基础上，有重点地讲解一些难点、重要段落、历史事件和重要人物。 组织学生就相关内容进行讨论，激发学生开动脑筋，发挥学习上的积极能动性。 讲授涉及到课文内容的有关美国的生活、文化、习俗、语言等问题，使学生尽可能多地、全面地了解有关美国的政治、美国外交以及其他方面的知识，以便学生对美国有一个正确、全面的了解。 三、课程要求： 在预习的基础上，培养自学的能力。 上课注意力集中，积极参加讨论以提高会话能力、语言表达能力和对知识的掌握。 课外要收集与相关事件和人物的补充材料。 四、成绩考核： 考试。参考出席率和讨论的参与程度。 五、课时安排： Reading, explanation of Washington and the Workability of U.S. Political Revolutions from pp. 5-14; Discussion on U.S. Political Revolutions; reading The Endangered Genius of American Politics and Good Countries Can Have Bad Capitals and Imperial Washington: The power and the Glory --- And the Betrayal of the Grass Roots from pp. 14-24. Discussion on the betrayal of the grass roots; reading and explaining the Crowning of Imperial Washington and the Rise of Washingtons Parasite Culture from pp. 30-38. Discussion on parasite culture; reading The Bipartisan Honey Pot and the Rise of Interest-group Centrism and the Academic Revolutionaries from pp. 38-48. Discussion on interest-group; reading and explaining the Lessons of Other Capitals and the late-Twentieth-Century Debate over U.S. Decline from pp. 48-60. Discussion on the lesson of other capitals and the debate over American economic decline; reading Competing Interpretations of U.S. Decline and the Linkage of Economic and Cultural Decline from pp. 60-69. Discussion on the US. decline; reading Great Economic-Power Decline and the Rise of Interest-group Internationalism and National Decline as a Political Crisis from 69- 75. Discussion on U.S. Political decline; reading the Principal Weaknesses of American Politics and Government from pp. 111-136. 10-11 Discussion on the principal weakness; reading the Fading of Anglo-American Institutions and Wo