CRN |
94030 |
Distribution |
D |
Course No. |
SPAN 106 |
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Title |
Basic Intensive Spanish |
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Professor |
Aranzazu Borrachero |
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Schedule |
T W Th F 9:20 am - 10:20 am LC 120 T W Th F 11:00 am - 12:00 pm LC 120 |
8 credits. This course is designed to enable students with little or no previous knowledge of Spanish to complete three semesters of college Spanish in five months (eight credits at Bard and four credits in Mexico in January). Students will attend eight hours of class per week plus two hours with the Spanish tutor. Oral communication, reading and writing skills will be developed through a variety of approaches.
CRN |
94033 |
Distribution |
D |
Course No. |
SPAN 110 |
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Title |
Accelerated Spanish |
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Professor |
Lauren Shaw |
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Schedule |
Mon Wed 10:00 am - 11:00 am LC 210 Tu 10:00 am - 11:00 am LC 208 Th 10:00 am - 11:00 am LC 115 |
Designed for the student with some prior exposure to Spanish or with excellent command of another Romance language, this course covers all the major topics in grammar with intensive practice in the four skills (speaking, comprehension, reading, writing). A new textbook specially designed to provide a streamlined review of basic topics in grammar and more detail and exercises for advanced topics will be used. Authentic video material from Spain and Latin America will supplement the textbook. One additional hour per week of practice with the Spanish tutor and a substantial amount of work in the language lab are required. This course prepares the student for summer language programs abroad or Spanish 201.
CRN |
94032 |
Distribution |
D |
Course No. |
SPAN 201 |
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Title |
Intermediate Spanish I |
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Professor |
Carmen Garcia Rasilla |
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Schedule |
M T WTh 8:50 am - 9:50 am LC 118 |
For students who have completed Spanish 101-102. This course is designed to perfect the student's command of all four language skills (speaking, aural comprehension, reading, and writing). This will be achieved through an intensive grammar review, conversational practice, reading of modern Spanish texts, writing simple compositions, and language lab work.
CRN |
94027 |
Distribution |
D |
Course No. |
SPAN 202 |
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Title |
Intermediate Spanish II |
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Professor |
Melanie Nicholson |
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Schedule |
M T W Th 8:50 am - 9:50 am LC 115 |
This course continues refining and perfecting the student's mastery of speaking, reading, comprehending and writing Spanish. The textbook, which focuses on advanced topics in syntax as well as building vocabulary and idiomatic expressions, is supplemented by a variety of authentic readings, including several full-length modern novels. We will also be working with audio and video materials from Spain and Latin America. The course also serves to expand the student's understanding of the richness and variety of Hispanic cultures in Latin America, Spain and in the United States.
Prerequisites: Spanish 201 or7 consent of instructor.
CRN |
94328 |
Distribution |
B/D |
Course No. |
SPAN 301 |
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Title |
Advanced Spanish: Interpretation of Hispanic Texts |
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Professor |
Carmen Garcia Rasilla |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 11:30 am - 12:50 pm LC 208 |
This course will provide an introduction to the literary analysis of texts-- novels, short stories, poetry, and essays from Latin America and Spain. This course should serve as a preparation for more advanced courses in Spanish literature. Attention will be paid to developing skills in reading and analytical writing. Students will improve their spoken Spanish through class discussions and oral presentations.
CRN |
94031 |
Distribution |
B/D |
Course No. |
SPAN 309 |
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Title |
Women Writing in Latin America |
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Professor |
Aranzazu Borrachero |
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Schedule |
Wed 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm OLIN 307 |
Cross-listed: Gender Studies, LAIS
Starting with the extraordinary work by the seventeenth-century Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the female literary tradition in Latin America, often excluded from academic curricula, is examined. The focus is on fiction, poetry, and essays written since the 1920s, with an emphasis on issues of gender, race, and class within a broad sociopolitical context. Literary issues as well as the specificity of Latin American feminist practice is an important part of class discussion. Authors include Clorinda Matto de Turner, Marla Luisa Bombal, Victoria Ocampo, Gabriela Mistral, Elena Poniatowska, Domitila Barrios de Chungara, Rosario Castellanos, Luisa Valanzuela, Rosario Ferr‚, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Isabel Allende. Conducted in Spanish
CRN |
94550 |
Distribution |
B/D |
Course No. |
SPAN 332 |
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Title |
Politics and Aesthetics of Spanish Film |
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Professor |
Carmen Garcia Rasilla |
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Schedule |
Mon 10:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 309 Screenings: Tu 7:00 pm - 10:00 OLIN 303 |
This course will present the different stages of Spanish cinema in connection to historical events, social changes, and artistic trends of twentieth century Spain. Theory of narrative and film will be employed to explore the relations between literature and cinema. Conducted in Spanish.
CRN |
94034 |
Distribution |
B/D |
Course No. |
SPAN 360 |
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Title |
Borges and His World |
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Professor |
Melanie Nicholson |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 107 |
Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges has been described as the greatest 20th-century writer never to receive the Nobel Prize. Borges became the leading figure of the Argentine avant-garde, and from there developed into the most influential Latin American writer of the century. His work not only changed the direction of literary production in his own continent and abroad; it left its mark on thinkers who have shaped the course of literary and cultural theory in the last three decades, from Harold Bloom to Umberto Eco to Michel Foucault. This course will examine Borges not only as a solitary genius-which he was-but also as a kind of literary aleph, a point in which multiple (if not infinite) lines of thought converge. We will read Borges as poet, as fiction writer, as essayist, as philosopher, and perhaps most importantly, Borges as reader. We will try to determine how his particular views of books and libraries, of time and space, of the very acts of reading and writing, contributed to a kind of paradigm shift in the ways in which we regard the human relationship to the written word. Conducted in English with a required concurrent tutorial for advanced students of Spanish.