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, Experimental Humanities 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