15424 |
LAIS / HIST 120 ModERn Latin america since IndepENDENCE |
Miles Rodriguez |
M . W . . |
10:10am- 11:30am |
OLIN 305 |
HIST/DIFF |
Cross-listed: History This is an introductory survey of the history
of Modern Latin America since Independence. The course traces the process of
Independence of the Latin American nations from the Spanish and Portuguese
Empires in North and South America 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 “Latin
America,” slavery and empire in nineteenth-century Brazil, and the roles of
race, religion, women, and indigenous peoples in
Latin American societies. Class
size: 20
15363 |
LAIS / HIST 339 Cuba & THE Spanish Caribbean in global perspective:
sugar, slavery & revolution |
Miles Rodriguez |
. . W . . |
1:30pm-3:50pm |
HEG 200 |
HIST/DIFF |
Cross-listed: Africana Studies,
American Studies, Global & Int’l Studies, Human Rights, LAIS The Americas
began in the Caribbean and its islands were at the origin of Latin America. In the
Caribbean, global empires established African slavery and the first sugar
plantations in the “New World.” Sugar soon became a tropical commodity for
local production and global consumption. The Spanish Empire, the first major
empire in the Caribbean in the sixteenth century, reasserted its power there in
the nineteenth century. The Spanish colonial legacies of sugar, slavery, and
revolution influenced Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico through the
twentieth century and continue to influence these countries today. This seminar
explores global connections and hybridities involving
sugar, slavery, and revolution in the Spanish Caribbean, from the nineteenth
century to the mid-twentieth century. The seminar focuses on the world’s sugar
made after slavery in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico under
United States influence in the first half of the twentieth century to the Cuban
Revolution. Class size: 15
15291 |
ARTH 160 Survey of Latin american Art |
Susan Aberth |
M . W . . |
11:50am-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 Latin America, including South and Central America, 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 the
Americas 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. (Art History requirement: Americas) Class size: 25
15399 |
ANTH 201 Gender & Sexuality in Latin america |
Diana Brown |
M . W . . |
1:30pm-2:50pm |
OLIN 205 |
SSCI/DIFF |
15870 |
HIST 2315 HOW TO WAGE WAR IN COLONIAL AMERICA |
Christian Crouch |
M . W . . |
11:50am-1:10pm |
OLIN LC 206 |
HIST |
15539 |
PS 222 LATIN AMERICAn POLITICS AND SOCIETY |
Omar Encarnacion |
M . W . . |
11:50am- 1:10pm |
OLIN 301 |
SSCI |
15616 |
SPAN
110 ACCELERATED Spanish I |
Hilda Puig |
M T W Th . |
8:50am-9:50am |
OLINLC 120 |
FLLC |
Cross-listed: LAIS A first-year course
designed for the student who has had some prior exposure to Spanish or who has
excellent command of another Romance language. All the major topics in grammar
will be covered, and the course will provide intensive practice in the four
skills (speaking, comprehension, reading and writing). The course will provide
a streamlined review of basic topics in grammar and provide more detail and
exercises for advanced topics. The textbook will be supplemented with authentic
video material from Spain and 'Latin America. One additional hour per week of
practice with the Spanish tutor and a substantial amount of work in the
language resource center will also be required. The course will prepare the
student for summer language programs abroad or Spanish 201 the following
semester. Prospective students should contact Professor Nicholson at [email protected]. Class size: 18
15054 |
SPAN
201 Intermediate Spanish I |
Melanie Nicholson |
M T W Th . |
8:50am-9:50am |
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
15055 |
SPAN
202 Intermediate Spanish II |
Nicole Caso |
M . W . . . . . Th . |
10:10am- 11:30am 10:10am- 11:30am |
OLIN 202 OLIN 308 |
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
15056 |
SPAN
240 Testimonies of Latin america |
Nicole Caso |
M . W . . |
11:50am-1:10pm |
OLIN 202 |
FLLC/DIFF |
Cross-listed:
Gender & Sexuality Studies; Human Rights (core course); LAIS
This course provides the opportunity for students to engage critically
with texts that serve as a public forum for voices often silenced in the past.
Students will also learn about the broader context of the hemisphere's history
through the particular experiences of women from Bolivia, Guatemala, Argentina,
Mexico, and the U.S.-Latino community, including Rigoberta
Menchú, Domitila Barrios de
Chungara, and Cherríe
Moraga. We will read testimonial
accounts documenting the priorities and concerns of women who have been
marginalized for reasons of poverty, ethnic difference, political ideologies,
or sexual preference. The semester will
be devoted to analyzing the form in which their memories are represented
textually, and to the discussion of the historical circumstances that have led
to their marginalization. Some of the
central questions that will organize our discussions are: how to represent
memories of violence and pain? What are the ultimate effects of mediations of
the written word, translations to hegemonic languages, and the interventions of
well-intentioned intellectuals? How best
to use writing as a mechanism to trace a space for dignity and
"difference"? We will
integrate films that portray the issues and time-periods documented in the
diaries and testimonial narratives to be read - including "Men With
Guns", "El Norte," "Historia oficial," and "Rojo amanecer." Conducted in English. Class
size: 20
15015 |
SPAN
301 Introduction to Spanish Literature |
Patricia Lopez-Gay |
M . W . . |
3:10pm-4:30pm |
OLINLC 120 |
FLLC |
This
course explores some of the major literary works produced on the Iberian
Peninsula from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Students will become familiar with the general contours of Spanish history as
they study in depth a selected number of masterpieces, including works by
Miguel de Cervantes, Calderón de la Barca, Teresa de Jesús, Cadalso, Larra, Galdós, Emilia PardoBazán,
Unamuno, Lorca, and Carmen Laforet. The course will
be organized around three thematic modules: Spanish culture’s engagement with
notions of purity and pollution; the emergence and evolution of the first
person singular in Spanish literature; and the representations of the country
and the city, the center and the periphery. In each module we will undertake a
survey of relevant literature occasionally put in conversation with the visual
arts. Conducted in Spanish.
Class size: 14
15058 |
SPAN
306 Five Latin american Poets |
Melanie Nicholson |
. T . Th . |
11:50am-1:10pm |
OLIN 310 |
FLLC |
Cross-listed: LAIS This course will
examine the work of five twentieth-century Latin American poets: Pablo Neruda (Chile), César Vallejo (Peru),
Octavio Paz (Mexico), Nicolás Guillén
(Cuba) and Alejandra Pizarnik (Argentina). Although students will be asked to read
extensively within the obra of each of these
writers, class time will be mainly spent in close analysis of selected
texts. Outside readings will help orient
students to the historical, social, and political contexts in which these
writers produced their work. In this
regard, we will attempt to answer these and other questions: What occasioned the shift, in Neruda and
Vallejo, from a vanguardist, hermetic poetry to a
more accessible and socially-oriented poetry?
How are Eastern religious and philosophical orientations, particularly
those of Buddhism, manifested in the work of Paz? In what ways does the poetry of Guillén respond to racial and socio-political issues
crucial to an understanding of Cuba's history?
How can we apply contemporary discourses concerning gender and the
representation of the body to the poetry of Pizarnik? In addition to writing critical essays,
students will be asked to memorize and recite short poems. Class
size: 15
15057 |
SPAN
345 ENGAGING The Other in LatIN amerICAN Theory |
Nicole Caso |
. T . . . |
1:30pm-3:50pm |
OLINLC 115 |
FLLC |
Cross-listed: Human Rights, LAIS Whether considered an opportunity for national enrichment or an obstacle
to assimilation and progress, the encounter among multiple cultures in Latin
America has made it a fertile terrain for theorizing about the self and the
other. In this seminar we will trace various ways in which “the problem of the Other” has been addressed in twentieth and twenty-first
century writings by a vast array of thinkers: anthropologists, literary
critics, politicians, art historians and intellectuals from indigenous
communities. Starting with Fernando Ortiz and Angel Rama’s subsequent use of
the concept of “Transculturation,” we will then analyze the implications and
effects of “Indigenismo” in post-revolutionary
Mexico. Nestor GarcíaCanclini’s thoughts on
“Hybridity” will inform Antonio CornejoPolar’s turn
to notions of “Heterogeneity” when addressing representations of Latin American
identity in the cultural realm. We will follow the Latin American Subaltern
Studies group’s reading of South Asian models of thinking about the subaltern.
Walter Mignolo, AníbalQuijano
and others will help guide our reading of the implications of the “Coloniality of Power” in the hemisphere. The semester will
culminate with writings from indigenous intellectuals from Guatemala, Mexico,
and the Andean region as they enter the discussion of cultural diversity and
the elaboration of socio-cultural constructs with direct repercussions on
policy and implications how people are perceived and treated. Conducted in Spanish.
Class size: 14