Course	SPAN 106 Basic Intensive Spanish
Professor	Melanie Nicholson
CRN	97101
Schedule	M T W Th 9:20 - 10:20 am OLINLC 210 M T W Th 10:45 - 11:45 am OLINLC 210
Distribution	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	Jose Fernandez Castillo
CRN	97102
Schedule	M T W Th 9:20 - 10:20 am OLINLC 115
Distribution	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	Gabriela Carrion
CRN	97103
Schedule	M T W Th 10:30 - 11:30 am OLINLC 208
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature & Culture

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.

Course	SPAN 202 Intermediate Spanish II
Professor	Nicole Caso
CRN	97104
Schedule	M T W Th 10:30 - 11:30 am OLINLC 206
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature & Culture

Cross-listed: LAIS (core course)

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 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 may read a short modern novel. Prerequisite: Spanish 201 or permission of instructor. Prospective students must speak with instructor prior to registration.

Course	SPAN 240 Testimonies of Latin America: Perspectives from the Margins
Professor	Nicole Caso
CRN	97034
Schedule	Tu Th 2:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 203
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature & Culture /Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: Human Rights; LAIS

This course provides the opportunity for students to engage critically with texts that serve as a public forum for voices often silenced in the past. Students will also learn about the broader context of the hemisphere's history through the particular experiences of women from Bolivia, Guatemala, Argentina, Mexico, and the U.S.-Latino community, including Rigoberta Menchú, Domitila Barrios de Chungara, and Cherríe Moraga. We will read testimonial accounts documenting the priorities and concerns of women who have been marginalized for reasons of poverty, ethnic difference, political ideologies, or sexual preference. The semester will be devoted to analyzing the form in which their memories are represented textually, and to the discussion of the historical circumstances that have led to their marginalization. Some of the central questions that will organize our discussions are: how to represent memories of violence and pain? What are the ultimate effects of mediations of the written word, translations to hegemonic languages, and the interventions of well-intentioned intellectuals? How best to use writing as a mechanism to trace a space for dignity and "difference"? We will integrate films that portray the issues and time-periods documented in the diaries and testimonial narratives to be read - including "Men With Guns", "El Norte," "Historia oficial," and "Rojo amanecer." Conducted in English.

Course	SPAN 301 Interpretation of Hispanic Texts
Professor	Gabriela Carrion
CRN	97105
Schedule	Tu Th 1:00 -2:20 pm OLINLC 206
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature & Culture

(LAIS core course) This course provides an introduction to Spanish literature through a variety of genres including poetry, short stories, novels, dramas, and essays. We will begin in the 11^th century when the first literary texts in Spanish were written, and continue through to the twentieth century. Special attention will focus on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, an especially rich period of literary production in Spain. Discussions will take into account the historical and cultural contexts in which these texts were produced in order to provide students with a greater understanding of Spanish culture. We will also explore other artistic contributions to this culture from the fields of music, painting, and sculpture. Students will read texts in the original with special attention given to close readings. Conducted in Spanish.

Course	SPAN 340 Cervantes' Don Quixote
Professor	Gabriela Carrion
CRN	97033
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 – 2:50 pm OLIN 303
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature & Culture

Cross-listed: Human Rights, LAIS

This course examines the role of difference in Miguel de Cervantes’ masterpiece, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha.  In this “first modern novel” conflict erupts when an old man, moved by his readings of chivalric literature, pronounces himself a knight in shining armor to rescue those in need.  Believing in evil enchanters, Don Quijote and his rotund alter ego, Sancho Panza, set out to rectify the wrongs of the world. However, Don Quijote takes up this mission when knighthood has long ceased to be a social reality in sixteenth-century Spain.  Difference and conformity thus become critical issues at every turn of this novel.  What are the ideological forces that compel conformity in Don Quijote?  How are language and violence posited as instruments of change?  How does literature change its readers and, alternatively, how do readers change literature? Apart from Don Quijote readings will include Lazarillo de Tormes, Amadis of Gaul, and El abencerraje, among others.  Conducted in English.

Course	SPAN 357 Writing Toward Hope: The Literature of Human Rights in Latin America
Professor	Nicole Caso
CRN	97107
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 -2:50 pm OLINLC 206
Distribution	Foreign Language, Literature & Culture /Rethinking Difference

Cross-listed: Human Rights; LAIS

Based on Marjorie Agosín’s recent compilation with this same title, this seminar considers the regenerative power of language after the experience of traumatic historical and political events in Latin America. We will read well-known and less familiar voices that attest to a variety of instances of crises: bearing witness, confronting silenced memories, exile, giving voice to fear, women’s roles in Latin America, and various expressions of hope. Among the authors we will read are: Jacobo Timerman, Reinaldo Arenas, Griselda Gambaro, Víctor Montejo, Luisa Velenzuela, Homero Aridjis, and Claribel Alegría. Agosín’s anthology includes fiction, essays, plays and poems that “capture the creativity and expression born out of the various social and political struggles that took place in Latin America during the last century.” Conducted in Spanish. Please note: Spanish 301 or 302 are prerequisites for all 300-level literature seminars in Spanish. Prospective students must speak with instructor prior to registration.