《经济学专业英语》教学大纲
大纲说明
课程代码： 3025050
总学时： 40 学时
总学分： 2.5
课程类别 : 必修
预修要求 : 西方经济学
一、课程性质、目的、任务:
本课程兼顾英语语言的学习应用和经济专业知识两个方面，学生在锻炼英语应用能力的
同时，又可学到经济学方面的知识。通过将英语与经济学方面的原理和基础知识相结合，培养学生具有较强的阅读能力、一定的会话及翻译能力，使他们能以英语为工具，顺利阅读本专业的英语材料、获取和交流本专业所需的信息、了解和熟悉经济学的最新发展与动态，并能在实践中加以运用。
二、课程教学的基本要求：
教学形式以课堂讲解为主，结合单元练习培养和提高学生应用英语的能力，能熟练掌握
经济学基本概念和基本理论以及专业术语。加强学生的口头交流能力和书面表达能力，个人发言和小组讨论相结合。除了完成课堂教学外，要求学生在课余进行广泛的相关内容的阅读。
三、大纲的使用说明：
1、推荐使用教材Pindyck和Rubinfeld合作编著的《Microeconomics》第6版，清华大学出版社
2、本课程建议学时为40 学时。根据计划课时的不同，授课内容可作适当调整。
大纲正文
Chapter 1 Preliminaries时间：4学时
Key points:limits;trade-offs;prices;markets; models; positive versus normative analysis
Contents:
①The importance of limits for economic analysis
②Why people have to face trade-offs?
③Why economists think with models?
④What difference is positive economic analysis from normative
economic analysis?
Additional Text: Markets for prescription drugs
Practice
①Vocabulary
②Complete the statements according to the text.
③Translation
④Role play
⑤Writing task
Chapter 2 The basics of supply and demand时间：4学时
Key points: supply curve; demand curve; market mechanism; elasticities of supply and demand; short run versus long run elasticities; price controls
Contents:
①The relationship of time and elasticities
②The result of price control
①Vocabulary
②Complete the statements according to the text.
③Translation
④Role play
⑤Writing task
Chapter 3 Consumer behavior时间：4学时
Key points:indifference curves; indifference maps; the marginal rate of substitution; budget constraints; corner solutions
Contents:
1.Consumer preferences
2.Budget constraints
3.Consumer choice
Discussion Questions:
①The types of indifference curves
②The solutions of consumer choice
Additional Text: Marginal utility and happiness
Gasoline rationing
Practice
①Vocabulary
②Complete the statements according to the text.
③Translation
④Role play
⑤Writing task
Chapter 4 Individual and market demand时间：4学时
Key points: normal versus inferior goods; engel curves; substitution effect;
income effect; the Giffen good; consumer surplus; the bandwagon effect; the
snob effect
Contents:
1.Individual demand
2.Income and substitution effects
3.Market demand
4.Consumer surplus
work externalities
Discussion Questions:
①The Engel curves and marketing in China
②Does Giffen good exist?
Additional Text: The effect of a gasoline tax
Network externalities and the demands for computers and E-mail
①Vocabulary
②Complete the statements according to the text.
③Translation
④Role play
⑤Writing task
Chapter 5 Production时间：2学时
products; the law of Key points: the production function;average and marginal
diminishing returns; returns to scale
Contents:
1.The technology of production
2.Production with one variable input
3.Production with two variable inputs
4.Returns to scale
Discussion Questions:
①Why do we have the law of diminishing
returns Additional Text: Malthus and the food crisis
Practice
①Vocabulary
②Complete the statements according to the text.
