Course: |
SPAN 106 Basic Intensive Spanish |
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Professor: |
Patricia Lopez-Gay |
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CRN: |
90228 |
Schedule: |
Mon Tue Thurs 10:40 AM
- 12:40 PM Olin Languages Center 115
Wed 9:40 AM - 11:40
AM Olin Languages Center 115 |
Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
8 |
Cross-listed: Latin American/Iberian Studies
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.
Course: |
SPAN 201 Intermediate Spanish I |
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Professor: |
Nicole Caso |
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CRN: |
90229 |
Schedule: |
Mon Tue Thurs 12:10 PM
- 1:30 PM Olin Languages Center 208 |
Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
Class cap: |
20 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Latin American/Iberian Studies
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.
Course: |
SPAN 202 Intermediate Spanish II |
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Professor: |
John Burns |
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CRN: |
90509 |
Schedule: |
Mon Tue Thurs 12:10 PM
- 1:30 PM Olin 304 |
Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
Class cap: |
15 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Latin American/Iberian Studies
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.
Course: |
SPAN 223 Cultures and Societies of Latin America and Spain |
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Professor: |
Melanie Nicholson |
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CRN: |
90231 |
Schedule: |
Mon Wed 10:20 AM - 11:40
AM Olin 305 |
Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
Class cap: |
18 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Latin American/Iberian Studies
The Spanish speaking world comprises a rich variety of cultures that have
historically been in dialogue as well as in resistance--continuously informing
each other over the centuries. This course focuses on key moments and events
that have defined the multi-faceted societies of Spain and Latin America.
Broadly interdisciplinary in nature, it is an introduction to the historical
development of a plurality of Hispanic societies, cultures, and politics.
Special emphasis is placed on elements such as social movements, questions of
race and ethnicity, (post)modernity, constructions of gender and sexuality, and
national and diasporic identities. Conducted in Spanish. Prerequisites: Spanish
202 or prior approval by instructor.
Course: |
SPAN 241 20th Century Spanish American Short Story |
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Professor: |
John Burns |
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CRN: |
90267 |
Schedule: |
Tue Thurs
2:00 PM - 3:20 PM Aspinwall
302 |
Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
Class cap: |
22 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Latin American/Iberian Studies; Literature
The 20th Century Spanish American short story embodies cultural traditions
and literary currents unique to the American continent and encapsulates
important philosophical discussions that resonate in contexts far beyond the
region. This course explores the major themes and styles of short stories by
key Spanish American writers in English translation.These authors include Jorge
Luis Borges, MarÍa Luisa Bombal, Juan Rulfo, Elena Garro, Gabriel GarcÍa
Márquez, Luisa Valenzuela and Roberto Bolaà±o, among others. We will examine
detective fiction, fantastic literature and examples of magical realism, as
well as writing that explores politics, the effects of colonial history on the
present and representations of desire and gender relationships. Conducted in
English.
Course: |
SPAN 302 Introduction to Latin American Literature |
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Professor: |
Melanie Nicholson |
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CRN: |
90232 |
Schedule: |
Tue Thurs
10:20 AM - 11:40 AM Olin
Languages Center 120 |
Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
Class cap: |
18 |
Credits: |
4 |
Cross-listed: Latin American/Iberian Studies
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. Conducted in Spanish.
Course: |
SPAN 352 Mapping the City in Latin American Literature |
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Professor: |
Nicole Caso |
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CRN: |
90233 |
Schedule: |
Tue Thurs
2:00 PM - 3:20 PM Olin
Languages Center 208 |
Distributional Area: |
FL Foreign Languages and Lit |
Class cap: |
14 |
Credits: |
4 |
Latin American cities have often been the site where received codes from
abroad are both imitated and rearticulated based on local particularities. In this course we will read several
twentieth-century texts that address the many tensions that arise in the
process of modernization in the region.
We will pay close attention to considerations of centers and margins,
inclusions and exclusions, feelings of alienation and, ultimately, a search for
community. We will explore how the
danger of state violence enters domestic spaces, the role of mass media in
shaping local culture, and the effects of globalization on identity
formation. Among the authors we will
read are Carlos Fuentes from Mexico, Roberto Arlt from Argentina, Fernando
Vallejo from Colombia, Mario Vargas Llosa from Perú, and Diamela Eltit from
Chile. Conducted in Spanish.