11723

HIST / LAIS 120 Modern Latinamerica Since Independence

Miles Rodriguez

M . W . .

10:10 - 11:30am

OLIN 310

HIST

Cross-listed: History, Global & Int’l Studies, Human RIghts This is an introductory survey of the history of Modern Latinamerica since Independence. The course traces the process of Independence of the Latinamerican nations from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires in North and Southamerica in the early nineteenth century, and the long-term, contested, and often violent processes of nation-formation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Primary source and historical texts examine the region’s main challenges in this period, including persistent inequality, regional disintegration, endemic violence, elite political control, revolution, military rule, and civil reconciliation. Major historical issues and debates for study and discussion include the meaning and uses of the idea of “Latinamerica,” slavery and empire in nineteenth-century Brazil, and the roles of race, religion, women, and indigenous peoples in Latinamerican societies. Class size: 18

11892

HIST/ LAIS 3225 Global Latinamerican Conjunctures

Miles Rodriguez

. . W . .

1:30 -3:50pm

HEG 200

HIST

Cross-listed: History, Human Rights In the twentieth century two moments stand out as global revolutionary conjunctures, the 1920s and 1960s. Both periods experienced original, wide-ranging, and open experimentation in many fields of human life including intense political protest, mass people’s movements, ideological ferment, and cultural effervescence. This seminar is on the ways in which Latinamerica experienced these two periods of globally-influenced revolutionary change. The goal of the seminar is to discover how the region was influenced by and integrated within two international postwar conjunctures but also developed autonomous responses to local and global changes. The seminar will read three major Latinamerican works in dialogue across both periods: the writings of the Peruvian intellectual José Carlos Mariátegui on revolutionary struggle and indigenous rights from the 1920s, as well as Ché Guevara’s Bolivian Diary and Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, both from 1967. It will also engage topics such as university reform in the 1920s, the 1968 student movements of Brazil and Mexico, military and religious rebellions, and other ideologically-influenced popular and revolutionary movements. Students will have the opportunity to produce original narratives based on Latinamerican historical sources and literatures from these past periods of global revolution. Class size: 15

11429

ARTH 160 Survey of Latinamerican Art

Susan Aberth

. T . Th .

11:50 -1:10pm

OLIN 102

AART/DIFF

Cross-listed: LAIS (core course) Related interest: Africana Studies, Theology A broad overview of art and cultural production in Latinamerica, including South and Centralamerica, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The survey will commence with an examination of major pre-Columbian civilizations and a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum. This is followed by an examination of the contact between Europe and theamericas during the colonial period, the Independence movements and art of the 19th century, and finally the search for national identity in the modern era. All students welcome.

Class size: 25

11428

ARTH 122 Survey of African Art

Susan Aberth

. T . Th .

3:10 -4:30pm

OLIN 102

AART/DIFF

11737

ARTH 286 El Greco to Goya

Susan Merriam

. . W . F

11:50 -1:10pm

OLIN 102

AART

11630

ANTH 243 African Diaspora Religions

Diana Brown

M . W . .

1:30 -2:50pm

OLIN 205

SSCI/DIFF

11977

ECON 221 Economic Development

Sanjaya DeSilva

. T . Th .

3:10 -4:30pm

OLIN 205

SSCI

11892

HIST 3225 Global Latinamerican Conjunctures

Miles Rodriguez

. . W . .

1:30 -3:50pm

HEG 200

HIST

11909

PS 222 Democracy in Latinamerica

Omar Encarnacion

M . W . .

3:10 -4:30pm

OLIN 307

SSCI

11528

SPAN 106 Basic Intensive Spanish

Nicole Caso

M . W Th F

12:15 -1:15 pm

1:30 -2:30 pm

OLINLC 120

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 Spain or Mexico in June). 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

11588

SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I

Patricia Lopez-Gay

M T W Th .

12:00 -1:00 pm

OLINLC 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. Permission of the instructor required for students who have not completed Spanish 106 or 110 at Bard. Class size: 20

11600

SPAN 202 Intermediate Spanish II

Melanie Nicholson

M T . Th .

8:40 -10:00 am

OLINLC 210

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: 20

11601

SPAN 302 Intro to Latin American Lit.

Melanie Nicholson

. T . Th .

3:10 -4:30 pm

OLIN 308

FLLC

Cross-listed: LAIS This course serves as an introduction to the interpretation of literary texts from Latin America. It covers a broad range historically—from pre-Conquest times to the present—and presents all literary genres, including poetry, short stories, novels, essays, and plays. In order to make sense of the broad chronological and geographical span of this literature, we will focus on seven separate modules, each highlighting a core moment or key figure in the development of Latin American culture. This course is intended to prepare students for more advanced and specialized seminars in Hispanic literature. Attention is paid to the expression of complex thought in response to literary texts, both verbally and in writing. Class size: 15

11587

SPAN 354 Contemporary Auto/biography

in Literature and the Visual Arts

Patricia Lopez-Gay

. T . Th .

10:10 - 11:30 am

OLIN 309

FLLC

Cross-listed: LAIS This interdisciplinary course will propose a possible archeology of auto/biographical visual and written accounts produced in contemporary Spain, put in dialogue with Latin American, including Brazilian, and French cultural manifestations. We will focus on some of the numerous literary, film and photography productions of our cultural present that seek to undermine the foundations of the split between fiction and reality. In this context, fiction will be understood as the space wherein the self –the author or the artist, the reader or the viewer– negotiates its relation to the world. Some questions that will arise throughout the semester are: What are the limits of art and literature? How does life interfere with fiction? How does fiction operate within life? We will consider works by writers, photographers and filmmakers such as Javier Marías, Enrique Vila-Matas, Clarice Lispector, Roberto Bolaño, Jorge Luis Borges, Agnès Varda, Sophie Calle, Isaki Lacuesta, Joan Fontcuberta, Joaquim Jordà and Víctor Erice. Conducted in Spanish. Prerequisite: Spanish 301 or 302, or the permission of the instructor. Class size: 15