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

11902

HIST 137 Global Europe

Gregory Moynahan

. T . Th .

1:30 -2:50pm

OLIN 201

HIST