西方文化通识教学大纲

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《西方文化通识》教学大纲1

英文名称:Western Culture: an Introduction

一、课程目标

1.课程性质:《西方文化通识》是为英语专业本科生开设的专业选修课。学习英语的中

国大学生在阅读英文书刊和英语国家人士的交往中,往往感到由于缺乏英语文化知识而增加了困难。英语中有数不清的典故、名言、成语、人名、地名等等来自古希腊罗马的哲学、文学、历史著作、希伯来的圣经,文艺复兴时期的艺术创作,或者牵涉到各时期思想、科技、政治、社会方面的重要事件和人物。本课程介绍了整个西方世界的情况,是语言学习,同时也是对语言学习的补充。

2.教学方法:课堂教学为主,学生广泛阅读。

3.课程学习目标和基本要求

为学习英语的同学开设。授课内容主要是按照历史叙述法,顺序讲解希腊罗马文化,基督教及其《圣经》,中世纪,文艺复兴与宗教改革,17世纪,启蒙运动,浪漫主义,马克思主义与达尔文学说,现实主义,现代主义及其他。

由于此课程内容涉及广泛,又牵涉许多专门问题,讲授中力求多学科综合,即除传统的文、史、哲之外,还要涉及科技发展、政治思想、建筑、工艺等方面,让学生了解到外语学科周围的情况。课程内容虽主要涉及欧洲国家,但授课中教师可以插入中国的文化,并进行比较。用有益的文化知识滋养学生的性情、趣味、道德、价值标准等,同时提高学生的人文素质。

4.课程学时:36学时

5.课程学分:2学分

6.课程类型:学科基础课

7.考核方式:考查

8.先修课程:《英美文学》、《英语国家概况》

9.适用专业与年纪:英语专业本科四年级

二、课程结构

Lesson One: Greek Culture(学时数:4)

知识点:1. Age of Aegean Civilization

2. Age of City-States

3. Culture of Ancient Greece

4. Greek Mythology

5. Greek Philosophy

6. Greek Poetry

1此课程将从10级学生四年级学习时正式开课,目前的大纲尚待实践检验。

7. Greek Drama

8. Historiography

9. Greek Arts and Architecture

10. Olympics

重点:1. What is City-States;

2. The names of gods in Greek Mythology

3. Greek’s epic poetry

4. Greek’s drama

5. Greek’s hi storian

难点:1. Plato’s philosophy;

2. Aristotle’s philosophy

3. Greek’s dissident writers

Lesson Two:Roman culture(学时数:4)

知识点:l. Founding of Rome

2. The Roman Republic(509~264BC)

3. Roman Empire(27BC~476AD)

4. Eastern Roman Empire(395~1453)

5. Roman Culture

6. Roman Literature

7. Roman Art

8. Greco-Roman Relations

9. Comparisons between the Ancient Greeks and Romans

重点:1. Rome’s social structure and tendencies

2. Rome’s family life and customs

3. Roman’s poetry (Virgil and Ovid)

4. Roman prose writer

难点:1. R oman Empire’s decline

2. Roman philosophy

Lesson Three:Jewish Culture and The Old Testament(学时数:2)知识点:1. A brief account of Jewish history

2. Jewish Art and literature

3. Judaism and Jewish festivals

4. An Introduction to The Old Testament

重点:1. The suffering and departure of the Jews

2. Jewish Diaspora

3. The Old Testament

难点:Jewish philosophy and literature

Lesson Four:the Bible and Christianity(学时数:4)

知识点:1. The background of the birth of Christianity

2. The birth and development of Christianity

3. The principle doctrine of Christianity

4. The founding of Papacy

5. The schism of Christianity

6. An introduction to The New Testament

重点:1. The legends of Jesus

2. St. Paul’s missionary work

3. The relationship between Christianity and Judaism

4. The differences between Catholicism and Protestantism

5. The stories in The New Testament

难点:1. Features of Trinity

2. The Sacrament

3. The process of Christian schism

Lesson Five:the Middle Age(学时数:2)

知识点:1. The setting of the Middle Ages

2. The formation and development of German culture

3. Byzantine culture

4. Medieval social ideology

5. Literature and art

重点:1. Byzantine’s cultural achievement

2. The significance and special features of medieval culture and politics 难点:Scholasticism

Lesson Six:Renaissance and Reformation (学时数:4)

知识点:1. Background to the Renaissance

2. Source and significance of Renaissance

3. Cultural achievement of the Renaissance

4. Social Ideology during the Renaissance

5. The religious Reformation

6. Development of natural sciences

7. Beginning of Modern philosophy

8. Classicism and the cultural salon

重点:1. Da Vinci's art

2. Literature of Renaissance(Chaucer and Shakespeare)

3. Martin Luther

4. Calvinism

难点:1. Machiavelli’s political thinking

2. Rene Descartes’ philosophy

3. Spinoza’s philoso phy

Lesson Seven:Culture During the Enlightenment(学时数:4)

知识点:1. Empiricist influences from Britain

2. Representative figures of the Enlightenment and their ideas

3. Literature during the Enlightenment

4. A Reflection on the Enlightenment and its significance

重点:1. John Locke’s epistemology

2. Rousseau’s thoughts

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