91290

SPAN 106 Basic Intensive Spanish

Nicole Caso

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1:30 -2:30 pm

3:10 -4:10 pm

OLINLC 208

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. Class size: 18

91301

SPAN 110 Accelerated First Year Spanish

Jose Montelongo

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10:10 - 11:10 am

OLINLC 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. Class size: 18

91569

SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I

David Rodriguez-Solás

. T W Th F

10:10-11:10 am

OLINLC 115

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. Class size: 18

91302

SPAN 202 Intermediate Spanish II

Jose Montelongo

. T W Th F

12:00 -1:00 pm

OLINLC 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. Class size: 18

91571

SPAN 221 Literature, Film & Theater

in Spain’s Transition to Democracy

David Rodriguez-Solás

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11:50 -1:10 pm

OLINLC 118

FLLC

Cross-listed: LAIS Thirty years after the events that led Spain to a democratic form of government, politicians are still being praised as the only agents of change. However, playwrights, novelists, filmmakers, and artists paved the way for the dramatic transformation Spanish society was about to experience. This course will begin exploring how Transition is perceived nowadays in Spain, and will analyze some of the films and dramas produced those years by Pedro Almodóvar, Víctor Erice, José Luis Alonso de Santos, and Fernando Fernán Gómez. Among the topics we will examine are censorship, sexual liberation, urban culture, women and workers’ rights, and collective memory. Conducted in Spanish. Prerequisite: Spanish 202 or permission of instructor. Class size: 18

91570

SPAN 301 Introduction to Spanish Literature

David Rodriguez-Solás

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1:30 – 2:50 pm

ASP 302

OLINLC 118

FLLC

Cross-listed: LAIS This course is an introduction to Spanish literatures and cultures from the Middle Ages to the 21th century. Materials for this course include an anthology of texts in Spanish that presents all literary genres. Students will be introduced to the critical analysis of literature through short analytical papers. We will also read García Lorca’s Bodas de sangre and watch Saura’s homonymous film, where we will study the particularities of adaptation. Conducted in Spanish. Prerequisite: Spanish 202 or permission of instructor. Class size: 18

91291

SPAN 357 Writing Toward Hope:

Literature of Human Rights in Latin America

Nicole Caso

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10:10 - 11:30 am

OLINLC 118

FLLC/DIFF

Cross-listed: LAIS, Human Rights 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. Class size: 14