出版时间:2010-9 出版社:西安交通大学出版社 作者:任春生 主编 页数:256
前言
在全球化进程快速推进的大环境下,我国对高等教育质量与人才培养模式提出了更高的要求。在这新的历史转型期,大学英语教育怎样在各个层面与时代的发展接轨,提升广大学生适应国际竞争的能力,发挥英语在文化交流和经济发展中的桥梁作用,从而满足当前我国各项建设的迫切需要,是摆在广大英语教育工作者面前亟待解决的问题。 面对这一时代性课题,我们需要对大学英语课程的设置进行多方位的思考。我们发现传统的主体课程由于种种限制,造成一些学科点的缺失。难以使学生在人文精神的塑造和英语知识的应用两方面获得平衡,而这两点的平衡对于培养时代所需要的综合性语言人才具有重要的意义。因此,在这样的背景下,编写一套符合国情和学生实际的选修课教材,以此弥补当前英语教学的不足就显得尤为必要。 为了深入了解广大学生在英语学习中的切实需求,陕西高等学校大学外语教学研究会联合西安交通大学出版社首先在省内众多高校进行了一系列的联合调研。调查范围涉及了西安交通大学、西安电子科技大学、西北工业大学、陕西师范大学、西北大学、西安建筑科技大学、西安理工大学、西安科技大学、西北政法大学、西安邮电学院、西安石油大学、西安工程大学、西安工业大学、西北农林科技大学、延安大学、陕西科技大学、陕西中医学院等17所院校。通过对各个高校现有的选修课进行统计,以及在学生中展开的问卷调查进行分析,结果显示学生的兴趣主要集中在三个方面:英语国家的历史与文化、实用的英语写译技能和以歌曲、电影为代表的娱乐休闲英语。在广泛听取多方意见的基础上。
内容概要
本书在编写过程中,努力集语言知识学习和文化知识学习于一体,并在文化知识的介绍方面从历史、美学和哲学三个层面同时展开。在历史层面,该书为学生勾勒出了西方文明史的宏观演变过程,尤其关注在西方文明发展史上产生过重大影响的社会与文化事件,使学生认识西方文明产生的历史背景。在美学层面,该书为学生提供欣赏西方著名艺术与文学作品的机会,感受西方思想和价值观念在西方文艺作品中的生动表现。在哲学层面,该书引导学生进入西方思想大家的殿堂,阅读和分析西方政治、经济、社会、伦理、法律、科学、文艺和宗教思想史上具有里程碑意义的名篇。
书籍目录
Unit 1 Ancient GreeceUnit 2 Ancient RomeUnit 3 ChristianityUnit 4 The Middle AgesUnit 5 RenaissanceUnit 6 ReformationUnit 7 Absolutism and ConstitutionalismUnit 8 EnlightenmentUnit 9 American RevolutionUnit 10 French Revolution and NapoleonlUnit 11 The Industrial RevolutionUnit 12 RomanticismUnit 13 RealismUnit 14 NaturalismUnit 15 ModernismUnit 16 Western Civilation in a Global Age
章节摘录
If a prisoner says "Thats a book" he thinks that the word book refers to the very thing he is looking at. But he would be wrong. Hes onlylooking at a shadow. The real referent of the word "book" he cannot see.To see it, he would have to turn his head around. Platos point: the general terms of our language are not names ofthe physical objects that we can see. They are actually names of things thatwe cannot see, things that we can only grasp with the mind. When the prisoners are released, they can turn their heads and seethe real objects. Then they realize their error. What can we do that isanalogous to turning our heads and seeing the causes of the shadows? Wecan come to grasp the forms with our minds. Platos aim in The Republic is to describe what is necessary for us toachieve this reflective understanding. But even without it, it remains truethat our very ability to think and to speak depends on the forms. For theterms of the language we use get their meaning by "naming" the Formsthat the objects we perceive participate in. The prisoners may learn what a book is by their experience withshadows of books. But they would be mistaken if they thought that theword "book" refers to something that any of them has ever seen. Likewise,we may acquire concepts by our perceptual experience of physical objects.But we would be mistaken if we thought that the concepts that we graspwere on the same level as the things we perceive.
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