目前,国内开设有中国少数民族语言文学专业的高等院校甚少。如何在综合性高校展开包括汉族文学与少数民族文学的文学教育,始渐为国内学界所重视。在国内高校不被普遍重视的“中国少数民族语言文学”,却在美国大学课堂里作为中国整体文学的重要部分出现。以俄亥俄州立大学东亚语言文学系为例。其“东亚民俗”、“中国的生态文学”、“中国的民族文学与文化”、“中国的表演传统”等课程及教学都秉持“多民族”理念,努力呈现中国文学的整体面貌。其教学内容与课堂设计的展开或可为国内高等院校多民族文学教育提供一借鉴。
At present, only a few universities have set the major of Chinese Minority language and literature. How to expand the literature and literary education which including the Han and minorities' literature in comprehensive universities has gradually aroused great attention by domestic scholars. Compared with the universities in China, "Chinese Ethnic Language and Literature" has appeared as an important part of China's overall literature in the US university classrooms. In East Asian Languages and Literature Department of Ohio State University, aiming to present the whole outlook of Chinese literature, its courses design and teaching are to uphold the "multi-ethnic" concept. They uphold the tradition of opening "East Asian Folklore", "Eco-Literature in China", "Ethnic Literature and Culture in China", "Performance Traditions of China" courses. Its teaching contents and class designs might provide a reference for domestic universities' multi-ethnic literature teaching.