CRN

94030

Distribution

D

Course No.

SPAN 106

Title

Basic Intensive Spanish

Professor

Aranzazu Borrachero

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

Title

Accelerated Spanish

Professor

Lauren Shaw

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

Title

Intermediate Spanish I

Professor

Carmen Garcia Rasilla

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

Title

Intermediate Spanish II

Professor

Melanie Nicholson

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

Title

Advanced Spanish: Interpretation of Hispanic Texts

Professor

Carmen Garcia Rasilla

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

Title

Women Writing in Latin America

Professor

Aranzazu Borrachero

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

Title

Politics and Aesthetics of Spanish Film

Professor

Carmen Garcia Rasilla

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

Title

Borges and His World

Professor

Melanie Nicholson

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.