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1、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
2、、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:1. Reading, explanation of Washington and the Workability of U.S. Political Revolutions from pp. 5-14; 2. Discussion on U.S
3、. 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. 14-24.3. Discussion on the betrayal of the grass roots; reading and explaining the Crow
4、ning of Imperial Washington and the Rise of Washingtons Parasite Culture from pp. 30-38. 4. Discussion on parasite culture; reading The Bipartisan Honey Pot and the Rise of Interest-group Centrism and the Academic Revolutionaries from pp. 38-48.5. Discussion on interest-group; reading and explaining
5、 the Lessons of Other Capitals and the late-Twentieth-Century Debate over U.S. Decline from pp. 48-60.6. 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 p
6、p. 60-69.7. 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- 75.8-9 Discussion on U.S. Political decline; reading the Principal Weaknesses of American Politics and Government from p
7、p. 111-136.10-11 Discussion on the principal weakness; reading the Fading of Anglo-American Institutions and World Supremacy from 137-162.12-13 Discussion on the Fading of Anglo-American Institutions World Supremacy; reading the 1990s: converging Revolutionary Traditions and Post-Cold War Jitters fr
8、om pp. 163-180.14-15 Discussion on revolutionary traditions and Post-Cold War Jitters; reading Renewing American for the Twenty-first Century: The Blueprint for a Political Revolution from pp. 181-214.16-17 Reading and discussion on The Setting of American Foreign Policy from pp. 3-16. *根据学期开始时间与学习情
9、况,授课进度可能作相应调整。六、使用教材:Phillips, Kevin (1994) Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street, and the Frustration of American Politics, Boston: Little, Brown and companySchulzinger, Robert D. (1996) American Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century, Boulder Colo.: Westview Press.七、参考资料:Newsweek, TIMES, New York Times, related materials from internet