This unique course combines three interlinked subjects: academic English, economics, economic history, and finance—occasionallly touching on political economy. Starting from a basic overview of economic and financial concepts, it quickly escalates and covers in sufficient depth the mechanics and personages behind the modern financial system: Adam Smith, Thomas Hobbes, and Alexander Hamilton.

The Academic English part of the course focuses on writing Oxford-style essays and research papers.

The Data Literacy section gives a solid foundation in technical skills: spreadsheets and Python.

这门独特的课程结合了三门相互关联的学科：学术英语、经济学、经济史和偶尔涉及政治经济学的金融学。从经济和金融概念的基本概述开始，它迅速升级并充分深入地涵盖了现代金融体系背后的机制和人物：亚当·斯密、托马斯·霍布斯和亚历山大·汉密尔顿。 本课程的学术英语部分侧重于撰写牛津风格的论文和研究论文。 数据识别符部分提供了技术技能的坚实基础：电子表格和Python。

This part of the course starts off with an intensive course in high- and low-frequency academic vocabulary employed in scietific papers and international English exams (IELTS, TOEFL, CAE-C1, CPE-C2). We base the course on two highly acclaimed vocabulary builders, Verbal Advantage by Charles Harrington Elster, and Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis. These two books are not made only for English learners, but for native English speakers who desire to broaden their vocabulary—ie., high-flying academics and business leaders. Both books contain words which abound in international tests like the ones mentioned above plus the GRE, and that are in the 95-99th percentile in terms of usage, ie. only 1-5% of native speakers know their meanings and proper usage. These are most commonly found in exam tasks that the vast majority of students fail to complete.

本课程的这一部分从一门关于科学论文和国际英语考试（雅思、托福、CAE-C1、CPE-C2）中使用的高低频学术词汇的强化课程开始。本课程以两位广受好评的词汇建设者为基础，查尔斯·哈林顿·埃尔斯特的《口头优势》和诺曼·刘易斯的《轻松掌握词汇》。这两本书不仅是为英语学习者编写的，而且是为那些希望扩大词汇量的以英语为母语的人编写的，例如，有才华的学者和商界领袖。这两本书中的词汇在国际测试中比比皆是，比如上面提到的那些加上GRE，在用法方面，它们的使用率在95-99%之间，也就是说，只有1-5%的母语人士知道它们的意思和正确用法。这些是最常见的考试任务，绝大多数学生没有完成

Each of the books has an audiobook version and offers plenty of exercises and vocabulary tests. Most of these will be automated in Canvas, our online learning system, to save time in class, and in class we will instead focus on the proper usage and context in which this vocabulary might appear.

每本书都有一本有声读物，并提供大量的练习和词汇测试。其中大部分将在Canvas（我们的在线学习系统）中自动完成，以节省课堂时间，而在课堂上，我们将关注这些词汇可能出现的正确用法和上下文。

The articles and videos for this course are taken from reputable publications such as The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. These are excellent choices not only for their high-quality journalism and exemplary use of English, but also for the fact that most exam material for IELTS and TOEFL comes from these publications or ones closely resembling them, such as UK and US newspapers, and popular science magazines. In order to acquaint the students with their writing style and see how exam papers are made, we will be deconstructing their arguments and trying to find corroborating evidence or evidence to the contrary. The students will be required to present at least one article (~600-800 words) to class in under 7 minutes each day—this will allow ample practise in analysis and synthesis, as well as making concise slideshows and critical evaluation of arguments.

本课程的文章和视频来自著名出版物，如《经济学人》、《华尔街日报》和《金融时报》。这些都是很好的选择，不仅因为他们的高质量的新闻报道和模范的英语使用，而且因为大多数雅思和托福考试的材料都来自这些出版物或与之非常相似的出版物，如英国和美国的报纸和科普杂志。为了让学生们熟悉他们的写作风格，了解试卷是如何制作的，我们将解构他们的论点，并试图找到确凿的证据或相反的证据。要求学生每天在7分钟内至少向课堂提交一篇文章（约600-800字），这将有助于进行充分的分析和综合练习，并制作简明的幻灯片和批判性的论据评价。

The course will also give an introduction to the Thinking Skills Assessment, a test used by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and University College London for their Economics and PPE (Politics, Philosophy, and Economics) which combines questions on high-school-level mathematics with spatial reasoning and logic/critical thinking. The course teaches to spot underlying assumptions, premises of arguments, intermediate and final conclusions. An example of such an exercise is given below, and the answer for it is under the toggle below. We will start off the course by taking one practice test without prior instruction, and then check for progress after the class has fininshed in the same manner.

本课程还将介绍思维技能评估（Thinking Skills Assessment），这是牛津大学、剑桥大学和伦敦大学学院（University College London）的经济学和PPE（Politics，Philosophy，and Economics）考试，该考试将高中数学问题与空间推理和逻辑/批判性思维相结合。本课程教授发现基本假设、论点前提、中间结论和最终结论。下面给出了这样一个练习的例子，答案在下面的切换下。我们将在没有事先指导的情况下，先进行一次实践测试，然后以同样的方式在课程结束后检查进度。

This course is based on reading materials from the EC100 course at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Introductory Economics course at Oxford University, the primary textbook for this course is Gregory Mankiw's Principles of Economics (2021 ed.). It covers all major principles in economics and gives contemporary examples and case studies that are in the news, which allows us to make more references to texts from The Economist, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal:

本课程以伦敦政治经济学院EC100课程和牛津大学经济学入门课程的阅读材料为基础，本课程的主要教材是格雷戈里·曼昆的《经济学原理》（2021版）。它涵盖了经济学中的所有主要原则，并给出了新闻中的当代例子和案例研究，使我们能够更多地参考《经济学人》、《金融时报》和《华尔街日报》的文本：

Since this textbook is pricey, it will be loaned out to students as an ebook and they will not be required to buy one.

由于这本教科书价格昂贵，它将作为电子书借给学生，他们不必购买。

The course also touches on different political economies, thus allowing students to acquire some intracurricular links and expanding their thinking on how the worlds of politics and economics are interlinked and influence each other. Time permitting, the course will also give suggestions for further viewing and reading, eg. films about the Great Recession (financial crisis of 2008-09), articles on certain historical and contemporary economic events that help increase engagement and provide greater academic context for the material being taught. Making references to modern-day phenomena such as food delivery & carsharing economies will be encouraged, and the class will be a place for lively debate, not dull lectures.

本课程还涉及不同的政治经济学，从而使学生获得一些课内联系，并扩展他们对政治和经济世界如何相互联系和影响的思考。如果时间允许，本课程还将提供进一步观看和阅读的建议，例如关于大萧条（2008-09年金融危机）的电影、关于某些历史和当代经济事件的文章，这些文章有助于提高参与度，并为所教材料提供更大的学术背景。将鼓励参考现代现象，如食品配送和汽车共享经济，课堂将成为活跃辩论的场所，而不是枯燥的讲座。

The course starts with a placement test for those who already have some background in economics so that we can skip or reinforce material that has already been taught, this test will be held via either the KhanAcademy website or Canvas.

本课程首先为那些已经有一些经济学背景的学生进行一次实习测试，这样我们就可以跳过或加强已经教过的材料，该测试将通过KhanAcademy网站或Canvas进行。

We proceed by reading the textbook before the class and making a quick applied presentation of the concepts covered, ie. after finishing a chapter, two students will be required to form a study group and prepare 3-5 slides on the concepts and the way they can apply them to what they already know. In class, we proceed to check student's understanding by doing end-of-chapter exercises and pop quizzes done in Canvas for instant marking and feedback. Constant contemporaneous feedback will also be given for each homework assignment and essay question, all available to view via Canvas to students and parents, our online Learner Management System (LMS), which is also used by the University of Oxford.

我们在上课前先阅读课本，并对所涉及的概念做一个快速的应用性陈述，即在完成一章后，要求两个学生组成一个学习小组，准备3-5张幻灯片，介绍这些概念以及如何将它们应用到他们已经知道的东西上。在课堂上，我们继续检查学生的理解，通过做章末练习和在画布上做的弹出式小测验，即时评分和反馈。我们还将为每个家庭作业和论文问题提供持续的同期反馈，所有这些都可以通过画布查看给学生和家长，我们的在线学习者管理系统（LMS）也被牛津大学使用。

Any and all readings and video materials will be fodder for the Academic English section of the class: students will be required to write out unknown words and expressions and make sentences with them, which will then be checked for grammar during class. All video and audio materials will also be available in text form via speech recognition service Otter.ai, as will the recordings of classes for students' benefit during exam revision and research phases. There will be multiple pre-recorded lectures and automated exercises for students who seem to lag behind to view and complete using KhanAcademy.

所有阅读材料和视频材料都将作为课堂学术英语部分的素材：学生将被要求写出未知的单词和表达，并用它们造句，然后在课堂上检查语法。所有视频和音频材料也将通过语音识别服务以文本形式提供Otter.ai在考试复习和研究阶段，为学生提供的课堂录音也会对学生有利。将有多个预先录制的讲座和自动练习，供似乎落后的学生使用[KhanAcademy]查看和完成(http://khanacademy.org).

The course ends with an end-of-term test comprising a few multiple-choice questions in the style of an iGCSE / A-level paper and more essay questions to afford the students an opportunity to practice their writing skills and utilise the vocabulary and expressions they will have acquired from Part 1 of the course (Academic English). The final exam is a real paper from the LSE EC 100 couse for Michaelmas Term 2020 (autumn term).

本课程以期末考试结束，考试内容包括以iGCSE/a-level论文形式提出的多项选择题和更多的随笔问题，让学生有机会练习写作技巧，并运用从本课程第1部分（学术英语）学到的词汇和表达。期末考试是LSE EC 100 couse针对Michaelmas 2020学期（秋季学期）的真实试卷。

It is no secret that with the explosion of data in the world, it is getting more and more inexcusable to be data illiterate, especially in the sciences. For all the elegance of theory, nothing can compete with a well-argued case that relies on empirical data. But where does one obtain the data, how does one prepare it for analysis, and how do we not fall victim to the many fallacies that can come from data interpretation and visualisation?

众所周知，随着世界数据的爆炸式增长，数据文盲越来越不可原谅，尤其是在科学领域。尽管理论如此优雅，但没有什么能与一个基于经验数据的论证充分的案例相抗衡。但是，人们从哪里获得数据，如何为分析做好准备，我们如何不成为来自数据解释和可视化的许多谬误的牺牲品？

This third part of the course focuses on introducing students to the basic statistical concepts used across all sciences, but it focuses on using data from the areas of marketing, international trade, and financial trading. We reply on the DataCamp platform used by top-notch universities and Fortune 500 companies to train their students and employees respectively in being statistically literate users of the vast quantities of data they encounter daily. We work on removing cognitive biases to make sure the decisions they make based on data are sound and reproducible.

本课程的第三部分着重向学生介绍所有科学中使用的基本统计概念，但重点是使用市场营销、国际贸易和金融贸易领域的数据。我们在一流大学和财富500强公司使用的DataCamp平台上进行回复，分别培训学生和员工，使他们能够熟练掌握每天遇到的大量数据。我们致力于消除认知偏见，以确保他们根据数据做出的决定是合理的和可重复的。

This course will dig deeper into some of the core functionality of Google Sheets. There's a whole bunch of predefined functions we'll cover, like `SUM()` and `AVERAGE()`, and `VLOOKUP()`. We'll apply these techniques to do some analysis on your grades in school, look at performance statistics within a company, track monthly sales, and look at some real geographical information about the countries of the world.

本课程将深入探讨googlesheets的一些核心功能。我们将介绍一大堆预定义函数，比如“SUM（）”和“AVERAGE（）”，以及“VLOOKUP（）”。我们将应用这些技巧对你在学校的成绩做一些分析，查看公司内的业绩统计数据，跟踪每月的销售情况，并查看一些有关世界各国的真实地理信息。

This chapter introduces a very useful feature in Google Sheets/Microsoft Excel: predefined functions. You'll use these functions to solve complex problems without having to worry about specific calculations. We’ll cover a lot of predefined functions, including functions for numbers, functions for strings, and functions for dates.

本章介绍Google Sheets/微软Excel中一个非常有用的特性：预定义函数。您将使用这些函数来解决复杂的问题，而不必担心具体的计算。我们将介绍许多预定义函数，包括数字函数、字符串函数和日期函数。