2021冬春季，在前述阅读训练的基础上，老师决定带给同学们进一步的挑战，把他在哥伦比亚大学教授哥大本科新生的人文核心课程《Literature Hunmanities 人文文学》稍加简缩后介绍给广大美高学生。希望孩子们可以从阅读西方经典人文著作中了解和洞察西方文明和西方文化的起源和脉络，从而更好的理解西方文化，理解近现代西方人文的思想革新。

惠宜教育2021冬春美高西方经典人文文学精读课程，是哥伦比亚大学本科核心课程（Core Curriculum at Columbia College）人文文学（Literature Humanities）简洁缩小版（哥伦比亚大学对人文文学课程的详细介绍请点击文末“阅读原文”）。课程通过精读多本经典西方叙述故事性小说，旨在去分析西方文化价值观、哲学假设、以及西方美学原则的起源与演变，并在此基础上，学习如何清楚地思考、讨论、及创造性地论述与此相关的西方人文文化问题。

核心问题：

为了能够更好得理解课本内容，激发大家的课堂讨论，本课程将聚焦以下这些问题：人是什么？什么是人类的善？什么是人的满足或者幸福？是不是每个人都有平等的权利去追求自己的幸福？什么是人类最基础的心理能力，比如推理、情绪等？在家庭、战争、或者与上帝的关系中，人合适位置究竟在哪里？他们自由吗？是不是某一些人更“值得”自由或成功？究竟在何处可以实现一个人的自然本性？为了实现人的自然本性，内心的拷问或者外向的经历是否是必要的？哪些诱惑或者困难阻碍了人们的正常生活？社会习俗在人类生活中扮演什么角色？人们知道何为知识及如何获取知识？想象力、理性、或者经验是最重要的知识来源吗？艺术家在获取和传播真理中扮演什么角色？叙述故事或者摆弄文字在生活和追求真理中起什么作用？

请在阅读我们课堂用书的过程中，积极地思考这些问题，我们会在课堂上深入讨论，同时我们的写作作业也将围绕这些问题展开。

Literature Humanities    

Course Description

This course offers a small part of what Columbia University calls "Literature of the Humanities" by engaging students in intensive study of some of the most significant texts of Western literature—ones that center on the idea of narrative or storytelling as a vehicle for discovery. The goals of our course are (1) to analyze the origins and transformations of our cultural values, philosophical assumptions, and aesthetic principles and (2) to learn how to think, discuss, and write clearly and creatively about them. 

Core Questions

In order to organize our classroom discussions and encourage interconnections among texts, we will focus on some fundamental questions: What is a human being? What is human good? What is human contentment or happiness? Do all people have an equal chance to attain happiness?  What are the most important or essential human faculties and capacities (e.g. reason, emotions)? What is the proper place of a person (e.g., in the family, in battle, with god)?  How free are they? Are some people more “deserving” of freedom and success than others? Where does a human being best fulfill her or his nature?  Is an inward or outward journey necessary to fulfill that nature?  What temptations or difficulties prevent a proper human life?  What role do social conventions play in life?  What can people know and how do they acquire knowledge?  Is imagination, reason, or experience the most important source of knowledge? What role does the artist play in the acquisition and transmission of the truth?  What roles do storytelling and the manipulation of words play in life and the attainment of truth?

Keep these questions in mind as you read our four texts: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice，Michel de Montaigne's Essays，William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, and Toni Morrison's Beloved. They will form the basis for our classroom discussions and written assignments. 

惠宜教育2021冬春美高文学精读课程，将在18次课36课时内，阅读以下四本书籍：

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Complete Essays by Michel Montaigne

上课安排：

授课形式：Zoom线上直播课程

班级人数：8-12人，5人成班

适合年级：9-11年级

起止日期：22年1月8日至22年5月7日，18周

上课时间：美东时间周六晚8:30-10:30（美西时间周六晚5:30-7:30，北京时间周日早9:30-11:30）；

老师介绍：

Dr. Barnes

全美前15顶级寄宿美高波士顿圣马可 St. Mark's School现任英语老师，教授英文文学及美国历史课程，对精英美国寄宿学校的课程模式、授课方式及学术要求非常熟悉并有深刻理解。哥伦比亚大学历史学博士，曾教授哥大本科新生人文核心必修课程，对西方文学与文化有着深刻的解析与认识。

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