1、引導學生閱讀中西重要小說文本,理解中國現代小說發展的軌跡
2、理解相關外緣社會歷史文化論述
3、瞭解掌握文本背後的種種對於人性、道德，以及歷史社會文化的重要意涵，成為更具人文素養的大學生

1. Guide students to read important Chinese and Western novel texts and understand the development trajectory of modern Chinese novels.
2. Understand the relevant historical and cultural discussions of peripheral societies
3. Understand and grasp the important implications behind the text for human nature, morality, history, society and culture, and become a college student with more humanistic qualities.

1. 唐翼明、張堂錡（編選）《大學短篇小說選》；游喚、張鴻聲、徐華中（編），《現代小說精讀》；
2. 講義（包括不在《現代小說精讀》中的小說，西方小說之譯本，如：霍桑，《年輕的布朗大爺》（Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown”），湯馬斯•曼，《魂斷威尼斯》（Thomas Mann, Death in Venice），佛克納，〈給艾蜜莉的一朵玫瑰〉（William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”等）；
3. 佛斯特(E. M. Forster)，《小說面面觀：現代小說寫作的藝術》（台北：商周出版社，2009）；
4. 大衛•洛奇，《小說的五十堂課》（台北：木馬出版社，2006）；
5. 錢理群、溫儒敏、吳福輝等著，《中國現代文學三十年》（修訂本）（北京：北京大學出版社，1998）。

1. Tang Yiming and Zhang Tangqi (editors), "Selected College Short Stories"; You Huan, Zhang Hongsheng, Xu Huazhong (editors), "Intensive Reading of Modern Novels";
2. Handouts (including novels not included in "Intensive Reading of Modern Novels", translations of Western novels, such as: Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown" (Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown"), Thomas Mann, "Death in Venice" (Thomas Mann, Death in Venice), Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily" (William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily", etc.);
3. E. M. Forster, "Aspects of the Novel: The Art of Modern Novel Writing" (Taipei: Shangzhou Publishing House, 2009);
4. David Lodge, "Fifty Lessons in Fiction" (Taipei: Trojan Press, 2006);
5. Qian Liqun, Wen Rumin, Wu Fuhui, et al., "Thirty Years of Modern Chinese Literature" (revised edition) (Beijing: Peking University Press, 1998).