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SPAN 106 Basic Intensive Spanish

Nicole Caso

M T W Th . M T W Th .

8:50 -9:50 am 10:10 - 11:10 am

Olin L. C. 210

FLLC

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 Spain or 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.

91244

SPAN 110 Accelerated First Year Spanish

Anna Cafaro

M T W Th .

1:30 -2:30 pm

Olin L. C. 208

FLLC

Cross-listed: LAIS A first-year 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). The course will 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. Prospective students must speak with instructor prior to registration.

91247

SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I

Gabriela Carrion

. T W Th F

8:50 -9:50 am

Olin L. C. 208

FLLC

Cross-listed: LAIS For students who have completed Spanish 106, 110, or the equivalent (  two or three solid years of high school Spanish). 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. Prospective students must speak with instructor prior to registration.

91249

SPAN 202 Intermediate Spanish II

Melanie Nicholson

M T W Th .

8:50 -9:50 am

Olin L. C. 206

FLLC

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 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.

91246

SPAN 240 Testimonial Literature

Nicole Caso

M . W . .

1:30 -2:50 pm

Olin L. C. 118

FLLC/DIFF

Cross-listed: Gender & Sexuality Studies; Human Rights (core course); 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.

91250

SPAN 265 Intro to Literary Analysis

Melanie Nicholson

. T . Th .

11:50 -1:10 pm

Olin L. C. 208

FLLC

This course is designed to be a bridge between Spanish language classes and 300-level seminars of literature and culture from Spain and Latin America.  We will develop a critical vocabulary that will provide the foundation for close readings and in-depth literary analysis, and will spend considerable time working on developing skills for writing analytical essays in Spanish.  The semester will be devoted to engaging with four literary genres:  poetry, narrative, drama, and essays.  The authors on our reading list will include many of the primary writers from Spain and Latin America, whose works span the vast historical period from the middle ages and the Spanish American colony to contemporary times.  This is not meant to be a survey of all literary periods, however.  Our focus will be on acquiring the basic skills for literary analysis.  Conducted in Spanish. 

91248

SPAN 301 Intro to Spanish Literature

Gabriela Carrion

. T . Th .

10:10 - 11:30 am

Olin L. C. 208

FLLC

Cross-listed: 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. Students will read texts in the original with special attention given to close readings. Conducted in Spanish.

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SPAN 351 Through Spanish Eyes: Recent and Past Cinema from Spain

Gabriela Carrion

. . W . F

10:10 - 11:30 am

Olin L. C. 208

FLLC

A number of works testify to the ways in which Spanish cinema has long stood on the vanguard of the “seventh art,” including Luis Buñuel’s surrealist experiments, Pedro Almodóvar’s provocative melodramas, and the recent explosion of short films (“cortos”) by both professional and amateur directors. This course will examine a selection of films from 1929—the year in which Buñuel made Un chien andalou— to the present. Special attention will be given to the historical and cultural frameworks of these films, particularly to the period of the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s subsequent dictatorship. These events had a dramatic impact on films produced both in and outside of Spain and resulted in censorship, propaganda (the NO-DO newsreels), and camp films known as españoladas. Despite these obstacles, however, Spanish film directors have consistently managed to create brilliant cinematic works. How have they achieved this success in the face of censorship, scant resources, and outside competition from Hollywood? Why do films such as Star Wars III and Torrente, el Brazo Tonto de la Ley register higher ticket sales than works by Luis Berlanga, Víctor Érice, or Carlos Saura? Assignments will include weekly essays as well as a final project.  Attendance at weekly screenings (times to be arranged) is also mandatory. Conducted in Spanish.