English Skills Workshop at Zhuhai

The Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai) organized an English language workshop on November 25, 2016. With full support from the English Backbone Curriculum Project Team, the objective of this workshop was to provide students with the basic skills to work in an international, English-speaking environment.

Prof. Kwak delivered the opening speech explaining way major in Philosophy and what are English courses for. Citing examples from the Silicon Valley, Prof. Kwak stated that studying Philosophy could promote new creativity with critical thinking which was key to change our world better. The English Courses provided by the Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai) were to make bridges between China and the world and provide students with the broader range of choices.

Dr. Rodrigues gave detailed guidelines about how to write a paper in English. From his point of view, having an audience in mind was crucial throughout the whole writing process. The capacity to do autonomous research , formulate an autonomous argument and writing skills also determined whether a paper was good.

Dr. Beaumont examined some guidelines which were particularly useful for writing philosophy papers. He maintained that one thing set philosophical arguments apart from arguments in history or empirical social science papers was the greater reliance on deductive reasoning. Giving an example of a deductively valid argument, he explained to the students what was deductively sound. As a native English speaker, Dr. Beaumont also provided etiquette advice for students.

As the last session of the workshop, the speech Dr. Pao-Shen Ho gave was about how to study English, how to improve English skills and how to read English Philosophical texts.

Many thanks for the kind efforts made by our excellent faculties!

全英骨干课程第一讲：English Skills Workshop at Zhuhai

2016年11月25日晚上，中山大学哲学系（珠海）全英骨干课程第一讲English Skills Workshop at Zhuhai在教学楼C212顺利举行。此次讲座由中山大学全英骨干课程项目资助，旨在教授本科生在国际化环境中工作的相关英语技能。

讲座由郭峻赫教授作开场致辞，他解释了为什么要学哲学以及为什么要开全英课程。郭教授由硅谷一位知名企业家的经历讲起，指出学习哲学能够锻炼批判性思维，启发创新，而这是推动世界不断变化的重要因素。哲学系（珠海）开设系列全英课程旨在搭建中国与世界沟通的桥梁，开阔学生们的视野，为学生们提供更多元化的选择。

Rodrigues博士详细介绍了英语论文写作的技巧，他认为始终站在读者的角度对于整个写作过程至关重要。而要写一篇好的论文，独立做研究的能力、形成独立观点的能力以及英语技能都是非常重要的。

Beaumont博士特别强调了写就一篇哲学论文的技巧，他认为哲学观点区别于其他学科观点（比如历史和强调实证的社会科学）的其中一点是前者高度倚赖演绎推理，并举例说明什么是演绎推理。Beaumont博士来自英国，他也用幽默诙谐的方式给学生们讲授了一些英语国家的基本礼节。

何宝申博士结合自己的经历，给学生了提出了学习英语的几点建议，他特别提出要善用工具书，化被动为主动，化零碎为综合。关于如何阅读哲学英语，何博士的建议是抓重点，从一篇文章的形式上来说就是要重点看摘要、开头、结尾和每段的第一行，从内容来说就是要弄清楚这篇文章要解决什么问题和如何解决问题。

哲学系（珠海）的本科生们精心准备了贺卡，写上自己对老师的祝福，由学生代表葛钰婷送给老师们，讲座在轻松愉快的氛围中圆满结束！感谢全英骨干项目组老师们的辛勤付出！

文稿：赵珍珍 

编辑：冼欣彤