CRN	93220	Distribution	D
Course No.	SPAN 106
Title	Basic Intensive Spanish
Professor	Melanie Nicholson
Schedule	Mon Tu Wed Th 9:20 am - 10:20 am LC 120 Mon Tu Wed Th 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. Prospective students must interview with the instructor prior to registration.

CRN	93224	Distribution	D
Course No.	SPAN 110
Title	Accelerated Spanish
Professor	Daniel Noemi
Schedule	Mon Tu Wed Th 8:50 am - 9:50 am LC 210

A course designed for the student who has had some prior exposure to Spanish or who has excellent command of another Romance language. All the major topics in grammar will be covered, and the course will provide intensive practice in the four skills (speaking, comprehension, reading and writing). We will be using a new textbook specially designed to provide a streamlined review of basic topics in grammar and provide more detail and exercises for advanced topics. The textbook will be supplemented with authentic video material from Spain and Latin America. One additional hour per week of practice with the Spanish tutor and a substantial amount of work in the language resource center will also be required. The course will prepare the student for summer language programs abroad or Spanish 201 the following semester.

CRN	93225	Distribution	D
Course No.	SPAN 201
Title	Intermediate Spanish I
Professor	Daniel Noemi
Schedule	Mon Tu Wed Th 10:00 am - 11:00 am LC 210

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	93222	Distribution	D
Course No.	SPAN 202
Title	Intermediate Spanish II
Professor	Gabriela Carrion
Schedule	Mon Tu Wed Th 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm LC 208

This course continues refining and perfecting the student’s mastery of speaking, reading, comprehending and writing Spanish. Advanced study of grammar is supplemented by a video series and authentic readings on a wide variety of topics related to Spanish and Latin American history, literature, music, and art. Current topics in culture such as the Latin American military dictatorships or the issues surrounding the Hispanic presence in the United States will be discussed. In addition to shorter readings, such as excerpts from Don Quixote and indigenous Mexican poetry, students will read one or more full-length modern novels.

Prerequisites: Spanish 201 or consent of instructor.

CRN	93223	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	SPAN 301
Title	Interpretation of Hispanic Texts
Professor	Gabriela Carrion
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm LC 208

This course will provide an introduction to the literary analysis of texts-- novels, short stories, poetry, and essays from 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	93862	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	SPAN 343
Title	Poverty in Latin American Literature and Culture: (Looking for) the desert of the real
Professor	Daniel Noemi
Schedule	Tue Th 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm OLIN 302

In this course we will focus on the construction and characteristics of poverty/the poor in the novels of contemporary Latin American writers including Chejfec, Eltit, Aira, Gutierrez. We will discuss the relation of these works to a “realist tradition” by taking into consideration social, political and cultural aspects of Latin America from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In turn, we will be asking whether we are facing a new kind of realism. This course also engages the problem of the “role of literature” (ethics and literature) and its relation with politics and the global economy (literature and the market) in the Latin American context. Conducted in Spanish.

CRN	93221	Distribution	B/D
Course No.	SPAN 423
Title	Literature of the Conquest
Professor	Melanie Nicholson
Schedule	Tu Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm LC 120

Cross-listed: Human Rights

Reading selections from texts written during the first century of the Spanish Conquest by indigenous and European writers, the class explores such questions as: How did Native Americans find a place in their established mythologies for these often brutal strangers? How did Europeans find a language, a mode of expression adequate to the utterly new reality that confronted them? Upon what motivations and ideological justifications did Europeans base their treatment of the indigenous populations? The course attempts to establish links between the recorded experiences of the Conquest and certain characteristics of present-day writers as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Octavio Paz.