本课程按中国古代文学发展的轨迹介绍中国古代诗歌、散文、戏曲、小说在创作和理论上的不断发展，通过的学习，使学生对中国古代文学有一个系统的认识，能有较清晰的中国文学发展史脉络，对古代文学的各代表时期及主要文体有较好的把握，能感悟以中国古代文字为载体的中国古代文学在内涵上的极大丰富和巨大张力，能从古代文学的精华中吸收良好的语言文化养料，立足于传统文化的土壤，切实提高语言的理解能力和表达能力以及自学古代文学和文化知识的能力。

This course introduces creatively, theoretically the continuous development of poetry, prose, and novels, according to the trace of Chinese Ancient Literature. By studying, students can get a comprehensive cognition about this course. First, it will help students to have a clear underline of its development; second, students can grasp all of the representative period and the main literary form well; third, students will explore the great affluence and tension of Chinese ancient literature in its content; forth, a lot of good nutrients of linguistic culture can be discovered from the essence of ancient literature; fifth, students can improve the ability to understand and express as well as the capacity to study ancient literature and knowledge independently based on the soil of traditional culture.