【课程英文名称】Advanced English II.2
【课程代码】2.102.0261-2
【课程类型】专业方向课程
【适用专业】英语语言文学专业
【开课学期】第8学期
【先修课程】基础英语1—4；高级英语5-7
【总学时数】 72
【总学分数】 2
【教研室】 高级英语教研室
【执笔人】 陈汉生
【审核人】 刘焱
【编写（修订）日期】：2011年5月
一、课程教学目标
《高级英语II.2》是英语语言文学专业高年级（四年级下）的一门实践课程，旨在训练学生综合英语技能，尤其是阅读理解、语法修辞与写作能力。
二、先修课的要求
基础英语1至4册；高级英语5、6、7册。
三、教学环节、内容及学时分配
（一）总论（或绪论、概论等）
学时（课堂讲授学时+其他教学学时）：2个学时
主要内容：本课程阅读材料内容广泛，涉及政治、经济、社会、语言、文学、教育、哲学等方面。通过阅读和分析所选材料，扩大学生知识面，加深学生对社会和人生的理解，培养他们的分析和欣赏能力、逻辑思维与独立思考能力，进一步巩固和提高英语阅读和写作能力。
教学要求：《高级英语II.2》课程是《基础综合英语》课程的延续，对学生的听、说、读、写、译等技能提出更高的培养要求。
重点、难点：Textual Analysis; Library Work
其它教学环节（如实验、习题课、讨论课、其它实践活动）：Class Discussion
(二) Unit One Happiness 6个学时
主要内容：pre-reading questions; lexical work; library work; textual analysis; exercise.
教学要求：Look up the new words and phrases in a dictionary; look up the following proper names in an encyclopedia: Cervantes and Don Quixote; Alexander Pope; Ivy League school.
重点、难点：Textual Analysis; Rhetoric.
其它教学环节（如实验、习题课、讨论课、其它实践活动）：Exercises; Composition Writing.
（三）Unit Three Violence as an American Tradition 6个学时
主要内容：pre-reading questions; lexical work; library work; textual analysis; exercise.
教学要求：Look up the new words and phrases in a dictionary; look up the following proper names in an encyclopedia: Leatherstocking and Chingachgook; Ishmael and Queequeg; Huck and Jim.
重点、难点：Textual Analysis; Rhetoric.
其它教学环节（如实验、习题课、讨论课、其它实践活动）：Exercises; Composition Writing.
（四）Unit Four Night Walker 6个学时
主要内容：pre-reading questions; lexical work; library work; textual analysis; exercise.
教学要求：Look up the new words and phrases in a dictionary; look up some information about the two great musician. Beethoven; Vivaldi.
重点、难点：Textual Analysis; Rhetoric.
其它教学环节（如实验、习题课、讨论课、其它实践活动）：Exercises; Composition Writing.
（五）Unit Six The Iks 6个学时
主要内容：pre-reading questions; lexical work; library work; textual analysis; exercise.
教学要求：Look up the new words and phrases in a dictionary; find out about the concept of human nature as expounded by the great Chinese thinkers Mengzi (Mencius 孟子 ) and Xunzi(荀子).
重点、难点：Textual Analysis; Rhetoric.
其它教学环节（如实验、习题课、讨论课、其它实践活动）：Exercises; Composition Writing.
（六）Unit Nine Birth of a Forsyte 6个学时
主要内容：pre-reading questions; lexical work; library work; textual analysis; exercise.
教学要求：Look up the new words and phrases in a dictionary; besides The Forsyte Saga, the best-known work by John Galsworthy, the author also wrote many other stories concerning the Forsytes. Moreover, The Forsyte Saga is not just a single work. It being a trilogy consists of three separate novels under different titles, and there are also two interludes. Find out from a reference work all the titles of books about the Forsytes written by Galsworthy and the date of publication of each of them.
重点、难点：Textual Analysis; Rhetoric.
其它教学环节（如实验、习题课、讨论课、其它实践活动）：Exercises; Composition Writing.
四、教学策略与方法建议
以教师讲授为主，学生自学为辅；要求学生学会使用大型工具书。
五、教材与学习资源
《新编英语教程》第7、8册. 李观仪主编. 上海外语教育出版社, 2006.
《综合教程》第7，8册. 何兆熊主编. 上海外语教育出版社，2006.
Blake, Kathryn A., and M.L. McBee. Essays. Glencoe, 1978.
Cooley, Thomas. The Norton Guide to Writing.
Galsworthy, John. The Forsyte Saga.
James E. Miller, Jr. “The Maze of Many Tongues.” In Word, Self, Reality: The Rhetoric Of Imagination.
Knoblauch, C.H., and Lil Brannon. Rhetorical Traditions and the Teaching of Writing. Boynton, 1991.
六、考核方式
期中和期末考试笔试
