民国时期,伴随着世界文学观念的普及,一些理念先进的大学开设了世界文学课程。其中最具特色的就是在中文系设置世界文学课程。这一课程模式最早可追溯至清末京师大学堂时期,民国初年和20世纪30年代后期通过国民政府教育部文件的形式得以官方化和正式化。同时,民国时期一些高校的外文系也十分重视包括中国文学在内的世界文学课程设置。1940年代中文系和外文系的沟通渐成焦点,引发了有识之士对相关系别课程设置的精密讨论。在中文系中强调借鉴世界文学的重要性,在外文系中重视中国文学功底,这种课程结构的出现,既是世界文学观念在现代中国的具体实践,也反映了民国时期的大学教育乃至国民教育理念,并直接影响了新中国成立以后世界文学课程和学科的进一步发展,带给后人诸多的历史启示。 During the period of the Republic of China, with the popularization of the concept of world literature, some advanced universities opened World Literature Courses. One of the most distinctive is to set the world literature course in the Department of Chinese. The earliest model of this course was formalized and formalized through the documents of the Ministry of Education of the National Government in the late Qing Dynasty, during the period of the Capital University, the early Republic of China and the late 1930s. At the same time, some foreign universities in the Republic of China also attached great importance to the setting of world literature courses including Chinese literature. In the 1940s, the communication between the Department of Chinese and the Department of Foreign Languages ​​became more and more focused, which led to the insightful discussion of the related departmental curriculum. Emphasizing the importance of drawing lessons from world literature in the Department of Chinese, attaching great importance to the foundation of Chinese literature in the Department of Foreign Languages, the emergence of this curriculum structure is not only the concrete practice of world literary concepts in modern China, but also the concept of university education and even the concept of national education during the Republic of China , And directly affected the further development of world literature courses and disciplines after the founding of New China, bringing many historical enlightenments to posterity.