英文閱讀與溝通
Authentic reading and communication
學期
106-2
學分
2
學分
當期課號
A993
永久課號
B0138
開課單位
人文與社會中心
類別
其他通識
上課時間表
| 節 | 週五 |
|---|---|
1 08:00–08:50 | 英文閱讀與溝通 2 節連堂 |
2 09:00–09:50 |
* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列
週次計畫
| 週次 | 主題 |
|---|---|
| 第 1 週 | Introduction Introduce the materials that will be used for the course, how those materials are used and what students are expected to do in this course. Some demonstration will be conducted to help students visualize what this course will be like for the rest of the semester. |
| 第 2 週 | Relationship Reading: 1.Obsessed (Cosmopolitan February 2015) 2.I want to get married for the status (Cosmopolitan June 2015) 3.First comes love, then comes (Cosmopolitan February 2015) 4.When happens when your great love already had his great love (Cosmopolitan June 2015) 5.Boys on the side (Women’ health September 2015) 6.The big Bang theory 7.The new dating game. (TIME, February 17, 2014) |
| 第 3 週 | Leadership Reading: 1.The power of talk: Who gets heard and why? (Harvard Business Review, Spring 2017) 2.Harness the science of persuasion (Harvard Business Review, Spring 2017) 3.The necessary art of persuasion (Harvard Business Review, Spring 2017) 4.The decision to trust (Harvard Business Review, Spring 2017) 5.Connect, then lead (Harvard Business Review, Spring 2017) 6.Get your team to do what it says it’s going to do (Harvard Business Review, fall 2015) |
| 第 4 週 | Do you want a baby? Reading: 1.Love , Sex, Freedom and the Paradox of the Pill: (TIME, May 3, 2010). 2.The credible, surprising, controversial new ways to make a baby (Time May 2015) 3.Who crowdfunds a baby? (Cosmopolitan February 2015) 4.Editing humanity (the Economist August 2015) 5.The age of the red pen (the Economist August 2015) 6.You got to be kidding (New Science September 2015) 7.How to make it rarer (The economist, December 2016) |
| 第 5 週 | Being old Reading: 1.The next social security crisis (Time August 2015) 2.The age of unreason (the Economist July 2015) 3.Age and Enlightenment (Discover October 2015) 4.Final Certainty (the Economist June 2015) 5.Do you really need a long-term care plan? (Money May 2015) 6.How to retire without slowing down (Harvard Business Review June 2016) |
| 第 6 週 | Online networking Reading: 1.Facebook: friends without borders. (TIME, May 31, 2010) 2.How twitter will change the way we live (in 140 characters or less). (June 15, 2009) 3.Linkedln’s networker in chief. (Fortune, August 11, 2014) 4.Instagram is ready to take its shot (Fortune, July 2014) 5.From Weibo to WeChat (the Economist, January 2014) 6.Snapchat faces the public (Time March 2017) |
| 第 7 週 | Day off |
| 第 8 週 | Our neighbor country: China Reading: 1.How to think about China. (TIME, April 19, 2010) 2.The end of cheap labor in China. (TIME, June 27, 2011) 3.The China effect. (TIME, April 25, 2011) 4.Split personality. (TIME, January 24, 2011) 5.China’s new continent. (TIME, July 5, 2010) 6.How China Sees the world (Time June 2013) 7.Crouching tiger, slowing dragon (Bloomberg Market July-August 2015) 8.The China decade (Time August 2015) |
| 第 9 週 | Mid-term exam |
| 第 10 週 | Hackers Reading: 1.Hackers: Can they be beaten (Science Focus, July 2017) 2.The hackers (Time, December 2016) 3.Cybersecurity’s human factor: Lessons from the Pentagon (Harvard Business Review September 2015) 4.Head Trip. (TIME, April 7, 2014) |
| 第 11 週 | National health service Reading: 1.Heath care: Can Obama find a cure? (TIME, August 10, 2009). 2.America, the doctor will see you now (Time, May 2010) 3.Why the doctor takes only cash (Time, February 2017) 4.Beyond repeal and replace (Time, July 2017) 5.Health care needs real competition (Harvard Business Review, December 2016) 6.The $272 billion swindle. (The Economist, May 31, 2014) 7.Young, fit and uninterested. (The Economist, January 18, 2014) 8.Uphill all the way (The Economist, March 29, 2014) 9.Health reform in a cold climate. (The Economist, March 29, 2014) |
| 第 12 週 | Food Reading: 1.Should we get over GM food? (Time, ) 2.What’s so great about organic food? (TIME, September 6, 2010) 3.Nutrition in a pill? (TIME, October 10, 2011) 4.The Oz diet. (TIME, September 12, 2011) 5.Balance your diet (Complete wellbeing April 2015) 6.The end of eating 7.How safe is your beef? Consumer Report October 2015) |
| 第 13 週 | Day off |
| 第 14 週 | Our brain Reading: 1.Can you super charge your brain 2.Meet your second brain 3.The amazing teen brain (Scientific American June 2015) 4.Brain under siege (New Scientist June 2015) 5.Secrets: are yours slowly killing you? (Men’s Health January 2015) 6.Revenge (Men’s Health September 2015) 7.Bored? Well, Don’t be (New Scientist August 2015) 8.Under the radar |
| 第 15 週 | All about sex Reading: 1.Asian values (The economist, December 20166) 2.How gay marriage won? (TIME, April 8, 2013) 3.Windsor’s knot. (The Economist, June 29, 2013) 4.Fifty shades of pink. (The Economist, July 6, 2013) 5.Pride and prejudice. (The Economist, January 25, 2014) 6.What is it about power that makes men crazy? (TIME, May 30, 2011) 7.What the Bible really says about sex? (Newsweek, February 14, 2011 ) 8.He says goodbye, he says hello (Vanity Fair July 2015) 9.The truth about sex addition. (TIME, March 14, 2011) 10.Insatiable (GQ May 2015) |
| 第 16 週 | Young generation Reading: 1.It takes practice. You build up to saying O.K., this is me (Time, March 2017) 2.The new greatest generation. (TIME, May 20, 2013) 3.The broken hopes of a generation. (TIME, June 20, 2009) 4.They want to be heard. (TIME, August 31, 2009) 5.Taking it to the street. (TIME, October 24, 2011) 6.Rage, rap, and revolution. (TIME, February 28, 2011) 7.Intern Planet. (TIME, September 12, 2011) 8.Is college worth it? (The Economist, April 5, 2014) income inequality Reading: 1.It’s expensive to be poor (the Economist September 2015) 2.Is a $15 minimum wage too high? 3.Can a hedge fund manager fix income inequity? (Fortune September 2015) 4.The new grad’s guide to money (Money May 2015) |
| 第 17 週 | Tiger mother Reading: 1.The roar of the tiger mom. (TIME, January 31, 2011) 2.Why genes aren’t destiny. (TIME, January 18, 2010) 3.The upside of being an introvert. (TIME, February 12, 2012) 4.Playing favorites. (TIME, November 14, 2011) 5.Depression child, big worries. 6.Tales of a tiger mother. (Reader Digest, June 2011) 7.Sit, stay, Whoa! (Reader Digest, May 2011) 8.Teachers, leave those kids alone. (TIME, October 3, 2011) 9.The superiority complex (TIME, February 3, 2014) 10.In praise of the ordinary child (Time August 2015) |
| 第 18 週 | Final examination |