Research and Practice of Course Reform in English Majors of Colleges and Universities from the Ideological and Political Perspective

There is an urgent need for high-quality talents with ideological and moral character for the development of higher education and the cultivation of English majors who meet the requirements of the times.The course reform in English majors from the ideological and political perspective is an important way to improve the comprehensive quality and moral values of students,which helps to cultivate English talents with social responsibility and innovative abilities.This paper analyzes the problems in the current courses through literature review and field research,such as the lack of ideological and political perspective and low interest of students in ideological and political content.Based on these issues,taking the course“Comprehensive English”as an example,various teaching stages were practiced from the aspects of learning objectives,learning content,learning situation,implementation ideas,implementation effects,and teaching evaluation.Additionally,some suggestions are proposed,such as integrating ideological and political content into the entire process of teaching.The teaching staff needs to possess high-level English teaching ability and ideological and political perspective,standardize the evaluation system,and integrate epistemology into the evaluation process of ideological and political education,in order to promote in-depth research and exploration of ideological and political education of English majors.

The Political Perspective of the Iraqi Kurds after the US Military Retreat

With the approaching of the US military retreating from Iraq in 2011, Iraq is getting into the “post-reconstruction” period without its direct interference. At the same time, this new situation will also promote the Kurds in Iraq to reconsider their political perspective. As a minority with the tendency of separatism for many years in Iraq, the Kurds recently are facing at least four factors that will affect their political future, which includs the “collaborating democracy” in Iraq designed by the US government is containing so many hidden problems, the rising Arabian nationalism with a strong inclination for the centralization of the state power is requiring to obliterate the federalism articles from the Iraq Constitution and opposing the autonomy of the Kurds, the conflicts caused by the core interests among the different racial nationalities and religious sects are becoming more serious, and the changes of the geopolitical environment around Kurdistan is in a favorable direction for the Kurds. All these will not only promote the Kurds to strive for a more advantageous political future, but will also attract the international society to concern itself more about the Kurds’ problem in this region.

Universality and Relativism of Human Rights from Perspective of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

There has been much discussion in the recent decade on the universality or particularity or relativism or on the relations between the universal values and standard systems and cultural diversity or pluralism. But most of the discussions are concentrated on the abstract or conceptual terms, with few touching upon international human fights standards. This is strange, because the disputes will never end and it is impossible to arrive at any conclusions of value if discussions only focus on the different concepts and systems of different countries or civilizations instead of on what has been universally accepted or at least on the international human rights treaties and the customary international human rights laws that are binding to the great number of state parties.

Reform of Labor Policy in China: A Perspective of Political Economy

Ⅰ. IotroductionLike other related institutional arrangments in China,labor policy under the planned economic system re-sulted in two kinds of inefficiency. First, the inherentlack of labor supervision and lack of an incentivemechanism in the micro-management system led to lowtechnical efficiency. Second, the distorted allocation of