For a long time, the goal of the teaching of British and American literature is not very clear, the level of the target content is vague, and so the British and American literature teaching reform progressed slowly. The level orientation and curriculum of British and American literature teaching in the new situation were found out the. British and American literature curriculum should be achieved two breakthroughs: First, to break the limitations of professional elective courses, the second, to

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... break the restrictions on English majors Keyword: British and American literature teaching, target connotation, curriculum setting 305 2 Understanding of the Connotation of English and American Literature Teaching Objectives According to the "Outline of English Teaching in Colleges and Universities" issued in 2000, the purpose of the course is to cultivate students' ability to read, appreciate and understand the original English literature and master the basic knowledge and methods of literary criticism. By reading and analyzing English and American literary works, to promote the basic skills of students and the improvement of human quality, enhance students' understanding of Western literature and culture. Teaching content can include: Introduction to literature; English literature; American literature; literary criticism. This statement is more general, lack of guidance teaching practice level, but for us to provide the basic framework of British and American literature teaching objectives. Combined with the specific situation of British and American literature teaching practice, we can divide the goal connotation of British and American literature curriculum into five levels. One is the reading experience of English and American literature, which is a kind of experience level based on perceptual knowledge. Its focus is to read the process of reading English and American literature to students, so that students through the British and American classical works of classical reading experience, and gradually cultivate the interest in literature and appreciation, judgment. At the same time, by reading a large number of literary original, to improve students' English level. Second, the basic knowledge of British and American literature, which is based on a rational knowledge of the level of knowledge. Its focus is to let students understand the development of English and American literature history and context, to understand the development of British and American literature in the process of important literary phenomena, genres, works and writers, so as to obtain the basic knowledge of British and American literature. The third is the basic knowledge and method of English and American literary criticism, which is a kind of aesthetic level based on theoretical speculation. Its focus is through the introduction of the theory and method of literary criticism, through the analysis of specific literary works to help students master the basic knowledge of literary criticism and analytical methods, and thus improve the students' theoretical accomplishment and speculative ability. English and American literature is a quality training course. Students read the British and American literary works, take the initiative to participate in the meaning of the text search, discovery, creation process, and gradually develop a keen sense of ability to master rigorous analytical methods to form an accurate expression.