This unique course combines three interlinked subjects: academic English, economics, economic history, and finance—occasionallly touching on political economy. Starting from a basic overview of economic and financial concepts, it quickly escalates and covers in sufficient depth the mechanics and personages behind the modern financial system: Adam Smith, Thomas Hobbes, and Alexander Hamilton.
The Academic English part of the course focuses on writing Oxford-style essays and research papers.
The Data Literacy section gives a solid foundation in technical skills: spreadsheets and Python.
这门独特的课程结合了三门相互关联的学科：学术英语、经济学、经济史和偶尔涉及政治经济学的金融学。从经济和金融概念的基本概述开始，它迅速升级并充分深入地涵盖了现代金融体系背后的机制和人物：亚当·斯密、托马斯·霍布斯和亚历山大·汉密尔顿。 本课程的学术英语部分侧重于撰写牛津风格的论文和研究论文。 数据识别符部分提供了技术技能的坚实基础：电子表格和Python。
This part of the course starts off with an intensive course in high- and low-frequency academic vocabulary employed in scietific papers and international English exams (IELTS, TOEFL, CAE-C1, CPE-C2). We base the course on two highly acclaimed vocabulary builders, Verbal Advantage by Charles Harrington Elster, and Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis. These two books are not made only for English learners, but for native English speakers who desire to broaden their vocabulary—ie., high-flying academics and business leaders. Both books contain words which abound in international tests like the ones mentioned above plus the GRE, and that are in the 95-99th percentile in terms of usage, ie. only 1-5% of native speakers know their meanings and proper usage. These are most commonly found in exam tasks that the vast majority of students fail to complete.
本课程的这一部分从一门关于科学论文和国际英语考试（雅思、托福、CAE-C1、CPE-C2）中使用的高低频学术词汇的强化课程开始。本课程以两位广受好评的词汇建设者为基础，查尔斯·哈林顿·埃尔斯特的《口头优势》和诺曼·刘易斯的《轻松掌握词汇》。这两本书不仅是为英语学习者编写的，而且是为那些希望扩大词汇量的以英语为母语的人编写的，例如，有才华的学者和商界领袖。这两本书中的词汇在国际测试中比比皆是，比如上面提到的那些加上GRE，在用法方面，它们的使用率在95-99%之间，也就是说，只有1-5%的母语人士知道它们的意思和正确用法。这些是最常见的考试任务，绝大多数学生没有完成
Each of the books has an audiobook version and offers plenty of exercises and vocabulary tests. Most of these will be automated in Canvas, our online learning system, to save time in class, and in class we will instead focus on the proper usage and context in which this vocabulary might appear.
每本书都有一本有声读物，并提供大量的练习和词汇测试。其中大部分将在Canvas（我们的在线学习系统）中自动完成，以节省课堂时间，而在课堂上，我们将关注这些词汇可能出现的正确用法和上下文。
Verbal Advantage: Ten Easy Steps to a Powerful Vocabulary
Word Power Made Easy: The Complete Handbook for Building a Superior Vocabulary (English Edition)
The articles and videos for this course are taken from reputable publications such as The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. These are excellent choices not only for their high-quality journalism and exemplary use of English, but also for the fact that most exam material for IELTS and TOEFL comes from these publications or ones closely resembling them, such as UK and US newspapers, and popular science magazines. In order to acquaint the students with their writing style and see how exam papers are made, we will be deconstructing their arguments and trying to find corroborating evidence or evidence to the contrary. The students will be required to present at least one article (~600-800 words) to class in under 7 minutes each day—this will allow ample practise in analysis and synthesis, as well as making concise slideshows and critical evaluation of arguments.
本课程的文章和视频来自著名出版物，如《经济学人》、《华尔街日报》和《金融时报》。这些都是很好的选择，不仅因为他们的高质量的新闻报道和模范的英语使用，而且因为大多数雅思和托福考试的材料都来自这些出版物或与之非常相似的出版物，如英国和美国的报纸和科普杂志。为了让学生们熟悉他们的写作风格，了解试卷是如何制作的，我们将解构他们的论点，并试图找到确凿的证据或相反的证据。要求学生每天在7分钟内至少向课堂提交一篇文章（约600-800字），这将有助于进行充分的分析和综合练习，并制作简明的幻灯片和批判性的论据评价。
The course will also give an introduction to the Thinking Skills Assessment, a test used by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and University College London for their Economics and PPE (Politics, Philosophy, and Economics) which combines questions on high-school-level mathematics with spatial reasoning and logic/critical thinking. The course teaches to spot underlying assumptions, premises of arguments, intermediate and final conclusions. An example of such an exercise is given below, and the answer for it is under the toggle below. We will start off the course by taking one practice test without prior instruction, and then check for progress after the class has fininshed in the same manner.
本课程还将介绍思维技能评估（Thinking Skills Assessment），这是牛津大学、剑桥大学和伦敦大学学院（University College London）的经济学和PPE（Politics，Philosophy，and Economics）考试，该考试将高中数学问题与空间推理和逻辑/批判性思维相结合。本课程教授发现基本假设、论点前提、中间结论和最终结论。下面给出了这样一个练习的例子，答案在下面的切换下。我们将在没有事先指导的情况下，先进行一次实践测试，然后以同样的方式在课程结束后检查进度。
This course is based on reading materials from the EC100 course at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Introductory Economics course at Oxford University, the primary textbook for this course is Gregory Mankiw's Principles of Economics (2021 ed.). It covers all major principles in economics and gives contemporary examples and case studies that are in the news, which allows us to make more references to texts from The Economist, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal:
本课程以伦敦政治经济学院EC100课程和牛津大学经济学入门课程的阅读材料为基础，本课程的主要教材是格雷戈里·曼昆的《经济学原理》（2021版）。它涵盖了经济学中的所有主要原则，并给出了新闻中的当代例子和案例研究，使我们能够更多地参考《经济学人》、《金融时报》和《华尔街日报》的文本：