一流专业课程建设:基于西方思想经典课程的英语专业思辨能力培养

Construction of First-class Professional Courses: Cultivation of the Speculative Ability for English Majors Based on the Course of the Classics of Western Thought

一流的专业需要有一流的课程,一流的课程是人才培养的核心要素。英语专业课程建设多年来在技能培养、知识培养上有较多的经验,然而在思辨能力培养方面还需要加强。在黑格尔哲学视角下,思辨能力是一种理性逻辑能力和概念思维能力,强调主体的能动性、主动性和自决性,重视思维的流动性、开放性以及否定性、辩证性和矛盾性。西方思想经典课程选取从古希腊到现当代的经典作家和经典文本作为学习的内容,重视培养学生的理性思维和逻辑分析能力,强调学生在对立中把握统一和在统一中把握对立的能力,注重提升学生的主体性意识,同时强调思维的流动性、开放性和否定性、辩证性等特征,是培养英语专业学生思辨能力的重要课程。西方思想经典课程将语言技能学习与思辨能力培养相结合,有助于学生把握自身的生存经验,实现自我与世界的统一,同时在中西思想的对比中有助于学生形成人类命运共同体意识。西方思想经典课程在思辨能力培养方面具有优势,值得在国内高校英语专业中得到推广。

First-class majors need first-class courses,and first-class courses are the core element of talent cultivation.There have been many years of experience in the development of skills and knowledge in the construction of English major,but the cultivation of the speculative thinking ability needs to be strengthened.From the perspective of Hegel’s philosophy,the speculative ability is a kind of rational and logical ability and conceptual thinking ability,emphasizing the initiative and self-determination of the subject,as well as the fluidity,openness,negativity,dialectics and contradiction of thinking.The course of the Classics of Western Thought selects writers and texts from ancient Greece to the modern world as the content of study,pays attention to cultivating students’ abilities of rational thinking and logical analysis,and underlines students’ ability to grasp the unity in the opposition and the ability to grasp the opposition in the unity.Meanwhile,it enhances students’ awareness of subjectivity and emphasizes the characteristics of fluidity,openness,negativity,and dialectics of thinking.It is an important course for cultivating English majors’ thinking ability.What’s more,this course combines language skills learning with the cultivation of speculative ability,which helps students grasp their own experience of being and realize the unity of themselves and the world.At the same time,the comparison of Chinese and Western thoughts will help students to form a sense of community with a shared future for mankind.The course of the Classics of Western Thought has advantages in the cultivation of the speculative thinking ability and is worthy of being promoted in the English majors of domestic colleges and universities.