美国文化美国文化美国文化美国文化 American Culture and Education 主讲教师：田祥斌 Lecture 10

美国文化美国文化American Culture and Education

主讲教师：田祥斌Lecture 10

American Culture and EducationAmerican Culture and Education

-- American Higher Education

-- Texas and the Cities

I. American Higher Education

American Education American Education

1. Higher Education -- There are over two thousand

universities, colleges, or other higher education institutions in the USA.

--A university may have many branches.eg.

-- The University of California, with several branch campuses, has more than 128,000 students.

American Education American Education

Earliest Colleges in the USA (P17) Original Name Present Name Founding Year

Harvard College Harvard University 1636 Rank 1

Yale College Yale University 1701 11 Col of New Jersey Princeton University 1746 7 Col of Philadelphia Uni. of Philadelphia 1749 14 King’s College Columbia University 1754 8 Rhode Island Coll. Brown University 1764 65 Dartmouth College Dartmouth College 1754 93

American EducationAmerican Education

-- Almost a quarter of all the colleges and universities are private. Every state has at least one public university. And in the USA there are several hundred state and locally-supported colleges. But the academic programs are similar in these private and public institutions.


--There are three types of institutions of higher education in the USA.

1. two-year college. Now it is named a community college. 社区学院

2. four-year college: liberal arts college, or college of arts and science which can offer the degrees of the Bachelor of Arts (BA) and the Bachelor of Science (BS)


3. University. A university may have several colleges within it, such as a College of Arts and Science, or have one or more professional schools, such as medicine, dentistry, law, veterinary medicine.


--There are three ways to divide up the academic year.

1. The semester system is divided into 2 equal term of about 16 weeks.

2. It consists of 3 terms of about 11 weeks 3. It is 3 equal terms of about 15 weeks

each


--One credit: 16 hours-- It is common for the students to work to

earn money not only in vacations but sometimes working part-time during the term. They can use the earnings for their tuition and living expenses. But the students who have scholarship cannot be allowed to do.


-- Two kinds of master’s degree: 1. A dissertation paper + some credits2. More credits without dissertation paper.

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II. Texas and the Cities

Location of TexasLocation of Texas

TexasTexas

-- Texas is the second most populous and the second-largest of the 50 states in the USA, and the largest state in the 48 contiguous United States.

--Texas has an area of 696,200 km2, and a growing population of 25.7 million residents.

TexasTexas

-- Houston is the largest city in Texas and the fourth-largest in the United States, while San Antonio is the second largest in the state and seventh largest in the United States. Dallas–Fort Worth and Greater Houston are the fourth and fifth largest United States metropolitan areas, respectively.

TexasTexas

-- Other major cities include El Paso and Austin—the state capital. Texas is nicknamed the Lone Star State to signify Texas as a former independent republic and as a reminder of the state's struggle for independence from Mexico. The "Lone Star" can be found on the Texas state flag and many buildings.

TexasTexas

--One Texas industry after the Civil War was cattle. Texas is associated with the image of the cowboy.

--The state's economic fortunes changed in the early 20th century, when oil discoveries initiated an economic boom in the state.

--With strong investments in universities, Texas developed a diversified economy and high tech industry in the mid-20th century.

TexasTexas

-- As of 2010 it shares the top of the list of the most Fortune 500 companies with California at 57.

--no state tax-- The state's Bill of Rights is much larger

than its federal counterpart, and has provisions unique to Texas.

Texas: BasketballTexas: Basketball

Basketball ：　　 NBA 　　达拉斯小牛队（ Dallas Mavericks ）

　　易建联休士顿火箭队（ Houston Rockets ）姚明，林书豪






Texas: PresidentsTexas: Presidents总统：美国第 34 任总统德怀特•艾森豪威尔（ Dwight Eisenhower ）美国第 36 任总统林登•贝恩斯•约翰逊（ Lyndon Baines Johnson ）美国第 41 任总统乔治• H•W• 布什（ George H. W. Bush, 1924-- ）美国第 43 任总统乔治•沃克•布什（ George Walker Bush,1946 ）

AustinAustin

The Capitol: AustinThe Capitol: Austin

Texas State Capitol Texas State Capitol

--The Texas State Capitol is located in Austin, and is the fourth building to be the house of Texas state government in Austin. It houses the chambers of the Texas Legislature and the office of the governor of Texas. It was originally designed in 1881

Texas State Capital : Texas State Capital : AustinAustin

AustinAustin

Austin

AustinAustin

Austin: Austin: 森林城市森林城市

AustinAustin

Houston

HoustonHouston

-- Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people.

-- Greater Houston is the fifth largest United States metropolitan area.

HoustonHouston

-- Houston became the home of the Texas Medical Center—the world's largest concentration of healthcare and research institutions—and NASA's Johnson Space Center, where the Mission Control Center is located.

Houston: Texas Medical CenterHouston: Texas Medical Center

Houston City HallHouston City Hall

HoustonHouston

--Four separate and distinct state universities are located in Houston. The University of Houston is a nationally recognized Tier One research university.

----Several private institutions of higher learning are located in the city. Rice University is widely recognized as one of the top twenty universities.

HoustonHouston

HoustonHouston

San Antonio

San AntonioSan Antonio

--San Antonio is the second largest City in Texas State and the 7th in the USA with the population of 1,330,000.

-- 德州第二大城市：圣安东尼奥： 133 万人，全美国排名第 7 。

San Antonio San Antonio



Dallas-Fort Worth

Dallas-Fort WorthDallas-Fort Worth

-- Dallas is the ninth most populous city in the USA and the third most populous city in the state of Texas. The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Dallas had a population of 1,197,816 in 2010, according to the United States Census Bureau.

Downtown of DallasDowntown of Dallas


1. Airport--Dallas/Fort Worth International

Airport- DFW (Major/International)-- It is one of the largest and busiest airports

in the world.

-- In terms of size, DFW is the largest airport in the state, the 4th largest in the United States, and 6th largest in the world;


-- DFW International Airport is larger than the island of Manhattan.

-- In terms of traffic, DFW is the busiest airport in the state, 5th busiest in the United States, and 6th busiest in the world.

-- The headquarters of American Airlines.Secondary Airport:--Dallas Love Field- DAL

DallasDallas


--Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area had a population of 3,371,773. The metroplex economy is the sixth largest in the United States, with a 2010 gross metropolitan product of $374 billion. Its 2010 Real GDP amounted to $325 billion (3250 亿） according to ‘Urban America: US cities in the global economy,’ which was published in April 2012.

DallasDallas

--Dallas arose from its historical importance as a center for the oil and cotton industries. --Dallas became an east/west and north/south focal point of the interstate system with the convergence of four major interstate highways in the city, along with a fifth interstate loop around the city.

-- Dallas is also ranked 14th in world rankings of GDP.


Education in DFW-- There are 38 colleges and universities,

337 public schools, 89 private schools, and 32 libraries in Dallas.

-- Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a private, the best overall undergraduate University in the DFW Metroplex and the third best in the State of Texas.


--The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School

--Texas Woman's University (TWU)--The University of North Texas at Dallas

(UNT)-- Dallas Theological Seminary-- Dallas Baptist University (DBU)-- The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD),


-- The University of Dallas (UD)-- The University of Texas at Arlington

(UTA)-- University of Phoenix, Dallas Campus -- Texas Christian University (TCU)-- Texas Wesleyan UniversityOthers are Colleges or Centers.


Highways in DFW-- The following is a list of the freeways

and tollways in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area: Interstate 20 Interstate 30 Interstate 35E Interstate 35W Interstate 45 Interstate 635 Interstate 820


U.S. Highway 67 U.S. Highway 75 U.S. Highway 80 U.S. Highway 175 U.S. Highway 287 State Highway 114 State Highway 121 State Highway 161 State Highway 183 State Highway 190 State Highway 360 Loop 12 Spur 366 Spur 408 Spur 482


-- TollwaysDallas North Tollway President George Bush Turnpike Sam Rayburn Tollway--The DART Rail System --Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is the

Dallas-area public transportation authority, providing rail, buses and HOV lanes to commuters.






Assassination of John F. Kennedy-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th

President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally and his wife Nellie.






Fort Worth 沃斯堡市（牛仔城）-- Fort Worth is the sixteenth most populous

city in the USA and the fifth most populous city in Texas. The city is a cultural gateway into the American West. According to the 2010 Census, Fort Worth had a population of 741,206. The city is the 2nd most populous in the DFW metropolitan area.


-- Fort Worth became the center of the cattle drives, and later, the ranching industry.

-- Fort Worth has, in recent years, begun promoting itself as the "City of Cowboys and Culture."

-- Downtown Fort Worth is the central business district of Fort Worth.


Texas Longhorn (cattle) are driven for exhibition purposes through the Fort Worth Stockyards at 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. daily.


-- The stockyards offer a taste of the old west and the Chisholm Trail 奇泽姆牛车道at the site of the historic cattle drives and rail access. The Old West comes alive again each year during the Fort Worth Stock Show.


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