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 |
Cross-listed: Experimental
Humanities 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. Conducted in Spanish.
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