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91670 |
LAIS / HIST 110 Colonial Latin America |
Miles Rodriguez |
M . W . . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
OLIN 202 |
HIST/DIFF |
(LAIS core course. )This is an introductory survey of the history of Colonial
Latin America since Conquest. The course traces the complex processes of conquest,
empire building, and the creation of many diverse, complex, and dynamic
communities, societies, and cultures from the convergence of Native, European,
African, and Asian peoples. The course considers peoples in the Spanish and
Portuguese Empires of North and South America in three centuries, from the late
fifteenth to early nineteenth centuries, starting with the first native
settlements and indigenous societies. These empires later transformed into
places like California, Texas, and the US Southwest, and nations as diverse as Argentina,
Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. Using sources like codices, native language
writings, and other readings and writings of men and women in Colonial Latin
America, the class will reflect on the peoples, places, events, as well as
beliefs, cultures, and conflicts of a world different from our own. The course
allows for a consideration of the historical legacies of the colonial period in
contemporary Latin America. No previous study of Latin American history is
required for this course. Class size: 22
|
91671 |
LAIS / HIST 221 Brazilian and Mexican History and Culture |
Miles Rodriguez |
. T . Th . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
OLIN 204 |
HIST/DIFF |
Cross-listed: Africana Studies This is an interdisciplinary course on the
histories and cultures of the two largest countries in Latin America, Brazil
and Mexico. It studies culture, broadly defined, with readings drawn from some
of the major anthropological and historical writings on these two countries from
the early twentieth century to the present. Each period of twentieth-century
Brazil and Mexico will be studied. As the class examines the scholarship of
anthropologists and historians, it problematizes the ethnography and textual
production of scholars with distinct relationships to the cultures in question
as well as from different gendered and ethnic backgrounds. Topics for study and
discussion include: the indigenous community, cultural results of slavery and
ethnic mixture, the family and the nation, violence and death, religious ritual
and the sacred, and music and dance, such as in the case of Afro-Brazilian Candomblé and Samba. Class
size: 22
|
91552 |
ARTH 273 Religious Imagery in Latin America |
Susan Aberth |
. T . Th . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
OLIN 102 |
AART |
|
91483 |
DAN 243 AP Flamenco: Beginner |
Aileen Passloff |
. T . . . |
10:10 am- 11:30 am |
STUDIO SOUTH |
PART |
|
91486 |
DAN 343 AP Flamenco: Intermediate |
Aileen Passloff |
. T . . . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
STUDIO SOUTH |
PART |
|
91858 |
THTR 343 Latino Theater and Performance |
Jorge Cortinas |
. . W . . |
1:30 pm -4:30 pm |
FISH CONF |
PART |
|
91783 |
HIST 2139 Atlantic North America: 1492-1765 |
Christian Crouch |
M . W . . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
RKC 102 |
HIST |
|
91787 |
HIST 2631 Capitalism and Slavery |
Christian Crouch |
M . W . . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLIN 201 |
HIST |
|
91965 |
PS 214 US / LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS |
Omar Encarnacion |
M . W . . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
OLIN 301 |
SSCI |
|
91590 |
SPAN
106 Basic Intensive Spanish |
Melanie Nicholson |
M T W Th . |
9:30 am - 11:45 am |
OLINLC 210 |
FLLC |
8 credits. Cross-listed: LAIS
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. Class size: 20
|
91593 |
SPAN
201 Intermediate Spanish I |
Patricia Lopez-Gay |
M T W Th . |
12:00 pm -1:00 pm |
OLINLC 210 |
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. Permission
of the instructor required for students who have not completed Spanish 106 or
110 at Bard. Class size: 20
|
91591 |
SPAN
202 Intermediate Spanish II |
Nicole Caso |
M . W Th . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
OLINLC 208 |
FLLC |
Cross-listed: LAIS This course continues refining the student's
mastery of the four basic skills in Spanish at a post-intermediate level. The
textbook offers an integration of literature, culture, and film. Our study of
both visual and written texts focuses on critical thinking, interpretation,
speaking, and writing skills. Prerequisite: Spanish 201 or equivalent;
permission of instructor required for those who have not completed 201 at Bard.
Class
size: 18
|
91594 |
SPAN
245 IS THE AUTHOR DEAD? HAUNTED BY The Ghost of Cervantes |
Patricia Lopez-Gay |
. T . Th . |
10:10 am- 11:30 am |
OLIN 309 |
FLLC |
Cross-listed:
Literature, LAIS Miguel
de Cervantes’ first modern novel, Don Quixote, is a work intra-textually
attributed to a fictional Moorish author, at a time when the Moors were being
expelled from Spain. Authors trapped in fiction are sometimes persecuted, and
then killed by their characters; others feel terrified, and become invisible as
they hide behind the lines they write. Lastly, some authors are dead (or said
to be dead), and speak to us from their tombs. What are the changing ways in
which the ghostly figure of the author returns to fiction? What does it mean to
be an author? This course will reflect on the notion of authorship as it was
originally redefined with the birth of modern novel in Golden Age Spain, and
reshaped during Romanticism and contemporary times. What is the mysterious
position from which the author speaks to us? With an emphasis on Spanish
literature put in conversation with Latin American and Portuguese literatures,
we will explore selected writings by Larra, Unamuno, Azorín, Machado de Asís, Fernando
Pessoa, Carmen Martín Gaite, Luis Buñuel, Borges,
Juan Goytisolo, Merino, Cristina Fernández
Cubas, Bolaño, and Muñoz
Molina, among others. Theoretical texts to be read will include essays by
Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, J.M. Coetzee and Roger Chartier.
Conducted in English. Class size: 18
|
91592 |
SPAN
265 Introduction to Literary Analysis |
Patricia Lopez-Gay |
M . W . . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLINLC 115 |
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. Class size: 20
|
91608 |
SPAN
356 Spanish Literary Translation |
Melanie Nicholson |
M . W . . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLIN 305 |
FLLC |
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. Class size: 14
|
91595 |
SPAN
358 Inventing Latin America: THE Essay |
Nicole Caso |
. T . Th . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLIN 304 |
FLLC |
Cross-listed:
LAIS “America is an Essay,” writes Germán
Arciniegas in the vein of Michel de Montaigne’s Essais (1580), in which the essay is conceived as a
literary genre for reflection, hybrid experimentation and the formulation of
ideas. Anticipating independence from
Spain after a long colonial period, writers in the American hemisphere used the
form of the essay to imagine what the possibilities of an emerging “Latin
America” could be. Throughout the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries, issues of citizenship, nationhood, collective values
and identity have been re-framed and rethought by a long line of thinkers,
including: Simón
Bolívar, Andrés Bello, Simón Rodríguez, Esteban Echeverría, Domingo F. Sarmiento, José Martí,
José Enrique Rodó, José Carlos Mariátegui,
José Vasconcelos, Roberto Fernández
Retamar, Octavio Paz and Eduardo Galeano.
Tropes and expectations emerging from Western Enlightenment and Modernity are
mapped onto the foundations of Nationhood and Citizenship. This attempt to
inscribe foundational models will be tried out and ripped apart in writing, as
history and human experience force abstract conceptualizations of identity to
be continually re-assessed locally.
Theodor Adorno, Georg Lukács,
Walter Mignolo, Julio Ramos and others will provide
the theoretical framework to situate the genre of the Latin American essay
within a broader discussion of this literary form. Conducted in Spanish. Class
size: 14