英美文学课程是我国高校英语院系开设的主干课程之一,在英语专业人才培养中起着十分重要的作用。据南京师大程爱民教授调查,“大多数院校在70年代以前已经有了这门课程”。然而,近年来,由于高师院校教育改革的需要,该门课程在英语专业课程教学中的地位逐渐呈下降趋势。具体表现在:部分地方院校将英美文学课程的设置和课时数都进行了调整,将原来的几门课压缩到一、两门课并相应地减少 Anglo-American literature courses are one of the main courses offered by English departments of colleges and universities in our country and play an important role in cultivating English professionals. According to a survey conducted by Nanjing Normal University Professor Cheng Aimin, “most institutions already had this course before the 1970s.” However, in recent years, due to the need of higher education reform in normal universities, the status of this course in teaching of English majors has been gradually declining. Specifically, some local colleges and universities have adjusted the setting of English and American literature curriculums and the number of class hours, and reduced the original ones to one or two courses and correspondingly reduced them