美国短篇小说与电影课程详细信息

课程号 03835400 学分 2
英文名称 American Short Stories Through Films
先修课程
中文简介 《美国短篇小说与电影》是面向非英语专业本科学生开设的大学英语专题课程。当前的语言教学要求多媒体既是教学手段,又是教学内容。本课程结合短篇小说和电影两种文本,通过文学和多媒体双重艺术形式进行英语教学。课程选用美国文学史上的经典短篇小说及其改编的电影,短篇小说每篇10-20页,电影每部30-50分钟,比较适合现代多媒体课堂教学。
本课程教学包括文学背景知识,作家作品介绍,短篇小说分析和评论,课后问题讨论和问答,电影改编和赏析等。借助现代多媒体教学手段,本课程致力于提高学生英语听说读写多方面的综合水平,增强其文化意识、文学修养和信息时代的双重文本读写能力,从而达到我们英语教学的最终目的。
英文简介 The American Short Story through Film is one College English course for non-English majors. The current language teaching requires both teaching with and teaching about multimedia. This course integrates the printed text (short story) and media text (film), teaching English through literature and multimedia. Americans are said to have invented the short story, and the course selects some classical short stories in American literature and the movies adapted from them. The stories are 10-20 pages, and films last 30-50 minutes, so such a story-film course fully agrees with modern media education.
The course instruction mainly includes the knowledge of literary background, introduction of authors and works, analysis and comment of short stories, questions and answers of discussion topics, and adaptation and appreciation of films. With the help of modern multimedia, the course will improve the students’ basic language skills, and hence enhance their cultural awareness, literary education, and cross-cultural communicative competence.
The course is lecture/seminar-combined, and students’ participation and discussion are mandatory. The learning materials will be mostly in English, and students are expected to finish all the class assignments (including both story and film) in advance and come to class fully prepared for discussion. Generally, we will focus on one story/film for each week. On class days, the instructor will first present some relevant information of literary and cultural background, and then it will be followed by instructor’s leading questions, students’ discussion, and the comparative study of story/film.

Participation in this course commits the students and instructor to abide by a general norm of equal opportunity and academic integrity. Any explicit indebtedness to the words or ideas of other than yours should be acknowledged with reference in your group presentation and paper writing.
开课院系 英语语言文学系
通选课领域  
是否属于艺术与美育
平台课性质  
平台课类型  
授课语言 英文
教材
参考书
教学大纲 本课程教学包括文学背景知识,作家作品介绍,短篇小说分析和评论,课后问题讨论和问答,电影改编和赏析等。借助现代多媒体教学手段,本课程致力于提高学生英语听说读写多方面的综合水平,增强其文化意识、文学修养和信息时代的双重文本读写能力,从而达到我们英语教学的最终目的。
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Attendance: 10%
Mid-Term Paper: 10%
Group Presentation: 10%
Final Examination: 70%
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