Course	SPAN 106 Basic Intensive Spanish
Professor	Nicole Caso
CRN	95079
Schedule	M T W Th 9:50 -11:50 am OLINLC 208
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: FOREIGN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE

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.

Course	SPAN 110 Accelerated Spanish
Professor	Carmen Pascual Medrano
CRN	95078
Schedule	M T W Th 9:20 -10:20 am OLINLC 206
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: FOREIGN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE

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.

Course	SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I
Professor	Melanie Nicholson
CRN	95080
Schedule	M T W Th 2:55 -3:55 pm OLINLC 210
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: FOREIGN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE

For students who have completed Spanish 106 or 110, or permission of the instructor. 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.

Prerequisite: Spanish 106, 110, or permission of instructor

Course	SPAN 202 Intermediate Spanish II: Introduction to Hispanic Culture
Professor	Ronald Briggs
CRN	95075
Schedule	M T W Th 2:55 -3:55 pm OLINLC 208
Distribution	OLD: D	NEW: FOREIGN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE

Cross-listed: LAIS

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.

Course	SPAN 301 Interpretation of Hispanic Texts
Professor	Ronald Briggs
CRN	95081
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLIN 304
Distribution	OLD: B/D	NEW: FOREIGN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE

(LAIS core course)

This course will explore Spanish literature through a variety of lenses that will range from the essays of Benito Jerónimo Feijoo to the 19^th century realist narrative of Leopoldo Alas Clarín and Benito Pérez Galdós, to the twentieth century chronicles, in verse and prose, of the series of political and social spasms that culminate in the Spanish Civil War. The course will begin at the end of the 18^th century, when Spain’s intellectuals are preaching gradual reforms (a recipe that will soon be destroyed by Napoleon’s invasion and the popular resistance it spawns) and continue through the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath. Special attention will be paid to the “generations” of 1898 and 1927 and the links between poetic and novelistic expression and the philosophical debates raging behind the scenes. The basic question of self-identity—what does it mean to be Spanish? (vis à vis Europe, the Americas, and the rest of Western Culture)—will serve as a point of departure. Texts will be read in the original Spanish with a particular emphasis on developing close textual readings. Class discussion and written assignments will also be in Spanish.

Course	SPAN 306 Five Latin American Poets
Professor	Melanie Nicholson
CRN	95077
Schedule	Tu 9:30 -11:50 am OLIN 304
Distribution	OLD: B/D	NEW: FOREIGN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE

Cross-listed: LAIS

This course will examine the work of five twentieth-century Latin American poets: Pablo Neruda (Chile), César Vallejo (Peru), Octavio Paz (Mexico), Nicolás Guillén (Cuba) and Alejandra Pizarnik (Argentina). Although students will be asked to read extensively within the obra of each of these writers, class time will be mainly spent in close analysis of selected texts. Outside readings will help orient students to the historical, social, and political contexts in which these writers produced their work. In this regard, we will attempt to answer these and other questions: What occasioned the shift, in Neruda and Vallejo, from a vanguardist, hermetic poetry to a more accessible and socially-oriented poetry? How are Eastern religious and philosophical orientations, particularly those of Buddhism, manifested in the work of Paz? In what ways does the poetry of Guillén respond to racial and socio-political issues crucial to an understanding of Cuba's history? How can we apply contemporary discourses concerning gender and the representation of the body to the poetry of Pizarnik? In addition to writing critical essays, students will be asked to memorize and recite short poems. Optional assignments may include original poems written in Spanish and translations of poems into English.

Course	SPAN 356 Spanish Literary Translation
Professor	Melanie Nicholson
CRN	95076
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm OLIN 309
Distribution	OLD: B/D	NEW: FOREIGN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & CULTURE

This course is designed for students who have completed at least two years of college Spanish. A thorough knowledge of Spanish grammar and a broad vocabulary in Spanish are considered to be Prerequisites. Theoretical texts concerning translation will be discussed as a basis for every class meeting, and students will be required to write short reaction papers in Spanish. The first half of the semester will be dedicated to translation of brief texts from various genres, pre-selected by the professor. During the second half of the semester, students will choose their own longer texts to translate. The main intent of this course is to encourage a thoughtful examination of literary language as it manifests itself across linguistic and cultural boundaries. Conducted primarily in Spanish.