夏纪梅主编的《大学学术英语读写教程(上补充教案)》以5个专题(theme)为主线，每个专题由2个主题(topic)内容组成，每个主题介绍4个社会关注点(concern／issue)。这样的内容布局有利于学生对同一个人生问题或社会问题进行多方面或较全面的关注、考察、思考和讨论，并且从中反复接触、应用和熟悉同一话题的语言。

UNIT 1 Belonging to a Group

 Chapter 1 Marriage, Family and the Home

Text 1 The Family Today

Text 2 Alternative Lifestyles

Text 3 How We Learn to Behave

Text 4 The Importance of the Social Environment

 Chapter 2 The Power of the Group

Text 1 The Influence of Culture

Text 2 Peer Group Pressure

Text 3 Crowds

Text 4 Panic!

 Unit Summary (1)

UNIT 2 Gender and Sexuality

 Chapter 3 Growing Up Male or Female

Text 1 Bringing Up Boys and Girls

Text 2 Fairy-Tale Lessons for Girls

Text 3 Learning Gender Lessons at School

Text 4 Gender Roles in the Media

 Chapter 4 Gender Issues Today

Text 1 Balancing Home and Work

Text 2 It's Not So Easy Being Male

Text 3 Inequality at Work

Text 4 Sexual Harassment

 Unit Summary (2)

UNIT 3 Media and Society

 Chapter 5 Mass Media Today

Text 1 The Role of Mass Media

Text 2 What Is Newsworthy?

Text 3 Reporting the Facts

Text 4 Advertising in the Media

 Chapter 6 The Influence of the Media

Text 1 Privacy and the Media

Text 2 Internet Issues

Text 3 Propaganda and the Media

Text 4Television and Children

 Unit Summary (3)

UNIT 4 Breaking the Rules

 Chapter 7 Crime and Criminals

Text 1 Deviance and Crime

Text 2 Who Commits Crime?

Text 3 Computers and Crimes

Text 4 Techniques for Solving Crimes

 Chapter 8 Controlling Crime

Text 1 What Stops Us from Committing Crimes?

Text 2 Prisons

Text 3 The Death Penalty

Text 4 The War on Drugs

 Unit Summary (4)

UNIT 5 Changing Societies

 Chapter 9 Cultural Change

Text 1 Cultural Variation and Change

Text 2 Subcultures and Cults

Text 3 Changing Communication

Text 4 The Changing Workplace

 Chapter 10 Global Issues

Text 1 Population Change

Text 2 Flight to the Cities

Text 3 The Environment

Text 4 Into the Future

 Unit Summary (5)