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【课程类别】通识教育必修课

【总学时数】32

【周学时数】2

【学分数】2

【先修课程】大学英语

【课程负责人】盛春媛

【适用专业】本科各专业

教学单元

教学内容

Homework

重点

难点

教学

要求

1

Orientation

TED Talk: The Key to Success: Grit

Reading Passage: The Sweet Smell of Success Isn’t All that Sweet

Critical Thinking: Note-taking skills/ good presentation/ delivery

Critical Reading: SQ3R

掌握基本的阅读技巧，培养思辨能力。

启发学生的思辨意识，培养学生的思辨能力，提升学生在沟通过程中表达的清晰性、相关性、逻辑性、深刻性和灵活性，恰当运用写作策略和技巧，完成写作任务，实现有效沟通。

2

Module1

Health

（4学时）

TED Talk: How Healthy Living Nearly Killed Me

Reading Passage: Can Dis-ease Cause Disease

习作1

掌握essay结构，学习将idea转化为英文书面表述的能力。

3

Critical Thinking: Essay structure

Effective Writing: How to write a good thesis

4

Module2

Public Speaking

（4学时）

TED Talk: How to Speak So That People Want to Listen

Reading Passage: Five Ways to Get Over Your Fear of Public Speaking

习作2

以“致辞”为代表的应用文体的英文写作能力的培养。

5

Critical Thinking: Essay development

Effective Writing: How to write a speech (Welcoming speech / Farewell Speech /Appreciative Speech）

6

Module3

Positive Psychology

（4学时）

TED Talk: Want to be Happier, Stay in the Moment

Reading Passage: What is Happiness?

习作3

掌握说明文写作的结构与语言要求。

7

Critical Thinking: Definition

Effective Writing: How to write an exposition

8

Module 4

Education

（4学时）

TED Talk: How to Raise Successful Kids Without Over-parenting

Reading Passage: Globalization----What It Means for Colleges and Students

习作4

以“国外大学申请文书”为代表的应用文体的英文写作能力培养。

9

Critical Thinking: Division and classification

Effective Writing: How to write application letter (Personal Statement / CV / Recommendation Letter)

10

Module 5

Social Media

（4学时）

TED Talk: How We Can Help Hungry Kids, One Text at a Time

Reading Passage: Individual Use of Social Media

习作5

掌握议论文写作的格式与语言要求。

11

Critical Thinking:  Cause and Effect

Effective Writing:  How to write an argumentation

12

Module 6

Letters

Letters Live: All This I Did Without You

Reading Passage: A Letter from Zuckerberg to His Daughter 

习作6

英文书信格式、语言风格的掌握。

13

Critical Thinking: Exemplification

Effective Writing: How to write social letters

14

Module 7

Globalization（2学时）

TED Talk: Wiring a Web for Global Good

Reading Passage: Two Sides of the Same Coin

掌握对比分析的逻辑推理能力

15

Critical Thinking: Comparison and contrast

Effective Writing: How to write process analysis

16

Oral Presentation

(2学时）

(1) Appreciative speaking for the course

(2) Personal Statement

(3) Your reflection or suggestion for the course

17

Exam

（2学时）

Write two essays:

1. An application letter to a foreign university.

2. Choose one to write from the following:

(1) Explain/illustrate Urbanization Changing in China (argumentation /exposition)

(2) Explain/illustrate the advantages and disadvantages of the Artificial Intelligent development around the world. (argumentation /exposition)