| 课程号 |
03835500 |
学分 |
2 |
| 英文名称 |
New Zealand: History and Culture |
| 先修课程 |
无 |
| 中文简介 |
新西兰历史与文化是一门为北大本科生开设的全英语授课的文化与语言素质课程。本课程得到北京大学新西兰中心支持，邀请新西兰梅西大学以及其他大学所派教授举办客座讲座，和刘红中老师进行点评并负责课程的各个教学环节的形式进行。本课程旨在以全球的视野介绍和解析新西兰的历史与文化，内容分专题，让学生对新西兰的历史、文化与社会，及其教育、科技、环境、媒体、电影业等的发展概况有一个较全面的了解。课程内容将以讲义、专题讲座、电影等为主要内容，以课堂讲授和集体讨论并举为主要方式。本课程还鼓励学生参加北京大学新西兰中心主持的新西兰系列讲座，新西兰电影系列放映。本课程特设有答疑时间，欢迎学生到新西兰中心借阅图书杂志，不定期邀请新西兰学者、专家、新西兰留学生等进入课堂，与学生互动，为学生提供更多的学习机会。通过本课程的学习，学生不仅能学会怎样进入某一学科的初步研究，而且能在轻松活泼的学习过程中提高英语听、说、读、写各方面实际运用能力，学会适应西方大学的教学方式，培养学生掌握在全球化与多元化的双重视角下的进行学习与研究的能力，尤其适合于有志全面提高英语水平、进入英语专业课程学习或出国留学的学生。 |
| 英文简介 |
New Zealand is the last country on earth to be settled by humans, but also the first country in innovations such as women’s voting, social welfare, environmental protection, and an independent foreign policy voice. The course introduces students to the history, cultures and contemporary issues of New Zealand through presentations by New Zealand professors and Beida faculty members, films and other audio-visual materials, and interesting student projects. Opportunities for student discussion are actively encouraged. The course enables students to improve their academic English by using the language to explore all the themes of the course. |
| 开课院系 |
英语语言文学系 |
| 通选课领域 |
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| 是否属于艺术与美育 |
否 |
| 平台课性质 |
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| 平台课类型 |
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| 授课语言 |
英文 |
| 教材 |
自编教材；
New Zealand,Michael King,Auckland Unviersity Press, |
| 参考书 |
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| 教学大纲 |
增强学生对新西兰的了解，培养学生批判性思维能力，鼓励学生对阅读材料进行独立思考，通过课堂参与、课堂课后讨论交流中互相学习，以及学术英语写作训练，不断提高书面表达和口头表达的能力。总之，希望学生能学会进入某一学科的初步研究，并且能在轻松活泼的学习过程中提高英语听、说、读、写各方面实际运用能力，学会熟悉西方高校的教学方式，培养学生掌握在全球化与多元化的双重视角下的进行学习与研究的能力，尤其适合于有志全面提高英语水平、进入英语专业课程学习或出国留学的学生。
Week 1 (19 September)
Introducing Aotearoa New Zealand
Dr Peter Meihana and Associate Professor Kerry Taylor
In this lecture we provide an overview of the 2018 New Zealand History and Culture course. We will introduce students to Aotearoa New Zealand and some of the themes that will be discussed in more detail in subsequent lectures. What do students know about Aotearoa New Zealand? Where does that information come from? And, to extent do the images of New Zealand reflect reality? These are some of the questions we will address in lecture one.
Week 2 (26 September)
Maori Foundation Stories
Dr Peter Meihana
All cultures have creation myths and foundation stories that explain how the world came into existence. The Chinese speak about Pan Gu, a mythological figure who shaped and ordered the heavens and the earth, and whose body became the five sacred mountains of China. The Maori of New Zealand also have creation stories which account for the world in which they live. In this first lecture we discuss the separation of the earth and sky, the creation of the first human, and the culture hero, Maui.
Reading: Michael King, Nga Iwi o te Motu-1000 Years of Maori History, ‘Tangata Whenua-People of the Land’, Reed 2001, pp. 7-22.
National Day holiday week: no lecture on 3 October.
Week 3 (10 October)
How New Zealand responded to the Pressures and Challenges of the Twentieth Century
Professor Peter Lineham
This lecture will explore the politics and broader trends in New Zealand in the 20th century. It will include (a) the structure of the economy (a) Changing constitution – the relationship to the British crown, the electoral system, the role of the Governor General, introduction of MMP; multi-party system. (b) the development of democratic party politics, and the trends of left and right-wing political parties. (c) New Zealand’s foreign relations, the character of New Zealand nationalism. and the emergence of a New Zealand foreign policy and its trans-formation in recent years.
Readings: “Democratic Society” of Raymond Miller, Democracy in New Zealand, Auckland University Press, 2015, pp. 1-25.
Week 4 (17 October)
New Zealand Society, Culture and Religion
Professor Peter Lineham
Trends in New Zealand society, including the economic structure of the country, urbanisa-tion, an inclusive one-class society in the mid twentieth century, and subsequent differentia-tion of rich and poor. Changing gender patterns, leisure patterns and the declining levels of affiliation to religion and to clubs. The diversification of society through migration. The tradition of cultural inclusivity and pressures towards differentiation of cultures in a tolerant society.
Reading: Lineham, P. (2016). The New Zealand Christmas and the interweaving of culture and religion. Sacred histories in secular New Zealand. G. Troughton and S. Lange. Welling-ton, Victoria University Press: 154-170.
Week 5 (24 October)
Linguistic Landscapes: An overview of language use in New Zealand
Dr Gillian Skyrme
This lecture will look at the place of languages in New Zealand, considering the indigenous language (te reo Māori), the colonial language (English), official languages and other lan-guages spoken in New Zealand. It will give a brief historical account of issues which explain the current situation, picking up on themes developed in the earlier lectures, but looking at more recent immigration patterns as well, which have led to the current ‘superdiverse’ New Zealand society. It might seem that this situation would lead to a multilingual society, but in fact New Zealand has been said to show “public monolingualism” (Harvey, 2013, p. 1). We will discuss reasons for this and consider the place of the Chinese language in New Zealand as a particular case.
Reading:
Harvey, S. (2013). Revisiting the idea of a national languages policy for New Zealand: How relevant are the issues today? The TESOLANZ Journal, 21, 1-13.
Week 6 (31 October)
New Zealand English: an antipodean variety
Dr Gillian Skyrme
This lecture will introduce you to some of the specific characteristics of New Zealand Eng-lish. It will look at our way of speaking English from a range of perspectives, including pro-nunciation, vocabulary (including the adoption of words from te reo Māori), intonation and, in particular, sociolinguistic aspects such as our use of very informal speech. You will have the chance to listen to some recordings of New Zealand English, to try to notice the differ-ence from other varieties you have heard. I will also introduce you to some extracts from my research with Chinese international students in New Zealand giving their experience of being immersed in this kind of English and some of the challenges that they experienced in trying to understand it.
Week 7 (7 November)
Environment and Society I
Professor Michael Roche
This topic will provide a geographical introduction to environment and society in New Zea-land. This lecture will focus on the establishment of national parks and allied reserves in New Zealand and discuss some present day challenges facing the Department of Conserva-tion particularly as tourism is now very important to the New Zealand economy
Reading: New Zealand Official Year Book (2008).. Chapter 16 Public conservation Land . pp. 326-330.
Week 8 (14 November)
Environment and Society II
Professor Michael Roche,
This topic will provide a geographical introduction to the urban environment in New Zea-land. The country is actually highly urbanised since the early 20th century. The focus will be particularly on housing. The lecture will be split between a discussion of house types and of housing tenures.
Reading: Johnston, A., Howden-Chapman, P., and Eaqub, S. (2018) A Stock take of New Zealand’s Housing. New Zealand Government, Wellington. Section Two Home Ownership pp. 13 -16.
Week 9 (21 November)
New Zealand Literature: Then
Dr Jack Ross
In the first lecture, covering the early to mid-twentieth century, we will look at two things:
1. Writing by settler Europeans in New Zealand
2. The beginnings of Māori writing in English
Frank Sargeson was a writer very interested in political and social issues, while Janet Frame was more concerned with the alienation and loneliness of the individual. His story is set in an industrial slum, hers in a mental hospital. Hone Tuwhare’s poem about nuclear testing in the Pacific shows the beginnings of a more international consciousness here. We will con-trast it with the confined local world of Ruth Dallas’s pioneer woman.
Reading: NZ Literature Book of Readings, pp. 3-11:
？ Frank Sargeson, ‘A Piece of Yellow Soap’ (1936)
？ Janet Frame, ‘The Bedjacket’ (1952)
？ Ruth Dallas, ‘Pioneer Woman with Ferrets’ (1953)
？ Hone Tuwhare, ‘No Ordinary Sun’ (1964)
Week 10 (28 November)
New Zealand Literature: Now
Dr Jack Ross
There are three major topics in the second lecture, covering the late twentieth century to the early 2000s:
1. Witi Ihimaera was the first Māori writer to publish a novel in New Zealand. His work is part of a major regrowth of Māori culture.
2. Alison Wong’s poem about the poll-tax paid by Chinese settlers in New Zealand is an example of the important work now being done by writers from many immigrant groups, Chinese-New Zealanders among them.
3. Cilla McQueen’s poem comes from the late twentieth-century Women’s Movement, which demanded complete equality between the sexes.
What now? Where have we been, and where are we going? As Scott Hamilton’s poem sug-gests, New Zealand has still not achieved complete racial equality. Women are still paid less than men. Immigrants still encounter racism here. We hear many more voices in our literature now, however, and hopefully we have learnt to be more honest about the realities of our own country and the many cultures it contains.
Reading: NZ Literature Book of Readings, pp. 12-29:
？ Witi Ihimaera, ‘Big Brother Little Sister’ (1974)
？ Cilla McQueen, ‘Timepiece’ (1982)
？ Alison Wong, ‘One Hundred Pounds’ (2003)
？ Scott Hamilton, ‘1918’ (2006)
Week 11 (5 December)
Maori Migrations and Settlement
Dr Peter Meihana
The people who first settled New Zealand were the descendants of Polynesian explorers that migrated from the east Polynesia around 800 years ago. These people were a seafaring peo-ple who conquered the largest ocean on the planet. In this lecture we ask, how were these explorers able to travel such great distances, what did they find when they arrived in New Zealand, and how did they adapt to their new environment?
Reading: Margaret Orbell, The Natural World of the Maori, Auckland: David Bateman, 1985, pp. 9-14
Week 12 (12 December)
Maori Migrations and Settlement
Dr Peter Meihana
The people who first settled New Zealand were the descendants of Polynesian explorers that migrated from the east Polynesia around 800 years ago. These people were a seafaring peo-ple who conquered the largest ocean on the planet. In this lecture we ask, how were these explorers able to travel such great distances, what did they find when they arrived in New Zealand, and how did they adapt to their new environment?
Reading: Margaret Orbell, The Natural World of the Maori, Auckland: David Bateman, 1985, pp. 9-14
Week 13 (19 December)
New Zealand Culture and Society
Dr Peter Meihana
In the last lecture of the course we examine some of the important cultural and social move-ments of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, events such as the 1981 South African rugby tour and French nuclear testing in the Pacific. We also look at cultural and societal change as it is represented in popular music.
Week 14 (26 December)
Group Presentations
Week 15 (2 January)
Group Presentations
课堂讲授；课堂讨论，课后答疑，及课后作业。
本课程共五项作业：
1. A referencing exercise correctly citing two books and one journal article from resources held in the New Zealand Centre library. Students will also cite one online source. The referencing format will be explained in class. Due (Week 3). (5%)
2. A 400-500-word academic essay (in English) analysing some aspect of New Zealand or an issue related to the country in international or comparative terms. The essay should be well-structured (with an introduction, body and conclusion), contain a clear argument, and accurately cite and reference all sources used. The essay must also contain at least one reference from a book contained in the New Zealand Centre’s library. You could also make your essay a book report on one book in the Centre’s collection. Due (Week 4). (10%)
3. A conversation assessment. In pairs, students will have a four-minute conversation in which they discuss what they have learnt about New Zealand. Due (Week 5 and 6) (10%)
4. A written report (15%) of the group project.
5. A twenty-minute oral presentation (10%) of the same written report.
The group project should be on some aspect of New Zealand and China. This could be about a New Zealand company in Beijing, a New Zealander who has lived in or interacted with China, or on some aspect of Chinese relations (official or unofficial) with New Zealand.
Students will identify their groups and topics in Weeks 7 to 8. Written reports (approx. 3-4,000 words) are due in Week 11( draft) ; Week 12 (final) and presentations will be made in Weeks 14 to 15.
期末考试 50% + 平时成绩（50%）
期末闭卷考试题型：单选、简答和论述
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学年度学期：16-17-1，课程班：新西兰历史与文化1，课程推荐得分：4.06，教师推荐得分：4.03，课程得分分数段：80-85；
学年度学期：17-18-1，课程班：新西兰历史与文化1，课程推荐得分：4.11，教师推荐得分：4.17，课程得分分数段：80-85；
学年度学期：18-19-1，课程班：新西兰历史与文化1，课程推荐得分：0.0，教师推荐得分：7.74，课程得分分数段：85-90；
学年度学期：19-20-1，课程班：新西兰历史与文化1，课程推荐得分：0.0，教师推荐得分：7.5，课程得分分数段：80-85；
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