5.1.AP课程课程标准及体系


课程名称:AP课程

适用专业:国际商务英语

1.课程定位和设计思路

1.1课程定位

该课程为三年制国际商务英语(以下简称商英)专业的必修课,适用于该专业高三年级学生。学生在学习该课程之前应先完成高中英语初级阶段学习,具备800个单词以上的词汇量, 有一定的英语阅读能力和书面表达能力基础。

1.2设计思路

Bonus Economics AP》是商英AP课程使用的教材,此教材主要由英语国家的专业教育人士编写,它专为非英语国家的AP学习者编写,内容包括宏观经济学和微观经济学,经济学的基本原理和要素,政府在经济中的作用等等。

特色:

1、经济学原理与当代经济学问题相结合。具有话题性,与教师和学生的生活都密切相关。

2、注重应用型技能培养。应用型技能通过具体实例练习来训练。

3、教师和学生的任务。教师的任务是讲解新的学习要点。在做个人练习、小组活动和角色扮演的时候,教师的作用是辅助性的,同学们运用所掌握的知识点完成活动。

2.工作任务和课程目标

2.1 工作任务

注重知识运用和能力综合培养。将知识点、运用功能和具体生活环境紧密结合,教学遵循循序渐进的原则,逐级提高。

学习活动实用有趣。大量的环境练习,角色扮演练习,以及班级活动,不仅使课堂的节奏得到调整,也使每个学生都有更多的与同学交流和分析的机会。

2.2 课程目标

针对经济学基础的初学者,讲解基础基础经济学。学完本级后,可以顺利与国外大学经济学课程对接。

2.2.1能力目标

习得经济学英语的基础词汇、语言结构和各种知识点,能够用关键知识点分析生活中各个经济学现象和背后因素。

2.2.2知识目标

能说出各个经济学基础理论,并将理论运用到各个生活具体环境中去。具备一定的经济学理解能力和遇到问题的分析并创造和适应新观念能力。

2.2.3素质目标

养成良好经济学分析习惯,提升个人素养,并且能与国外大学经济学科目融洽对接,达到将经济学基础理论融会贯通的目标。

AP课程体系


Introduction


  1. The AP Exams in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics

The Exams

How This Book Can Help

Multiple-Choice Questions

Free-Response Questions



  1. The Discipline of Economics

Economics Defined

Resources

Opportunity Cost

Production Possibilities Frontier

Law of Increasing Costs

Comparative Advantage



  1. Economic Systems

Fundamental Economic Issues

Strategies for Addressing Economic Questions

The Circular Flow Diagram



  1. Demand and Supply: The Basics

Introduction

Things to Know

Competitive Markets

Market Equilibrium---Demand and Supply



  1. Applications of Demand and Supply---Elasticity

Introduction

Things to Know

Limits and Degrees of Elasticity

Cross-Elasticity of Demand

Income Elasticity of Demand

Price Elasticity of Supply

Incidence of Tax on Suppliers and Consumers



  1. Theory of Consumer Choice or Behavior

Introduction

Things to Know

Basic Tenets of the Theory of Consumer Choice

Consumer Surplus

Income and Substitution Effects


  1. Government and Public Sector: Market Failure, Rents, Externalities, Public Goods, Efficiency

Things to Know

Private Goods and Public Goods

Measures of Efficiency

Bases for Public Goods or Government Interference with Market Outcomes



  1. Costs, Production, Supply

Introduction

Things to Know

Production

Costs



  1. Product Markets: Types, Characteristics, Pricing Strategies

Introduction

Things to Know

Product Markets: Definitions



  1. Perfect Competition

Introduction

Things to Know

Expanded Concepts

Evaluation of Perfect Competition

The Long Run

Consumer and Producer Surplus



  1. Monopoly

Introduction

Things to Know

The Nature of Monopoly and Its Types

Price Discrimination

Types of Monopolies and Their Potential Regulation



  1. Imperfect Competition: Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly

Introduction

Things to Know

Monopolistic Competition

Oligopoly: The Non-Collusive Model

Oligopoly: Game Theory







  1. Resources Markets with Applications to Labor

Connections Between Product Markets and Resource Markets

Things to Know

Derived Demand: Wage Elasticity of Demand

The Demand for a Resource (Labor)

Shifts in Demand for a Resource (Labor)

Supply of Resources

Shift in Supply

The Bases of Wage Differentials

Income Inequality


Model AP Exam in Microeconomics


Macroeconomics



  1. The National Economic Accounts

The Accounts

Gross Domestic Product

The Expenditures Approach

The Income Approach

Adjusting for Price Changes

The Underground Economy

Other Things Not Counted in GDP

Other Measure in the National Economic Accounts



  1. Inflation and Unemployment

The Twin Evils

Inflation

Unemployment



  1. Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand

Why the Economy Moves in Cycles

Classical Economic Theory

Keynesian Theory

Using the AS/AD Model



  1. Fiscal Policy

Keynes’ Remedy for the Great Depression

Fiscal Policy



  1. Money and Banking

The Supply of Money

Fiat Money

The Federal Reserve System


  1. Monetary Policy

Definition

Changes in the Money Supply



  1. Economic Growth

Living Standards

Determinants of Economic Growth



  1. International Trade and Exchange

The Balance of Trade

Trade Restrictions

The Balance of Payments

Exchange Rates

Monetary and Fiscal Policy in an Open Economy


     Model AP Exam in Macroeconomics