12035

SPAN 110      Accelerated First Year Spanish

John Burns

M T W Th    3:10 pm-4:10 pm

OLINLC 208

FL

FLLC

Cross-listed: Latin American & Iberian Studies

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. 

Class size: 22

 

12034

SPAN 201      Intermediate Spanish I

Melanie Nicholson

M  W Th  3:10 pm-4:30 pm

OLINLC 210

FL

FLLC

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.

Class size: 20

 

12005

SPAN 202 A  Intermediate Spanish II

Patricia Lopez-Gay

T  Th   11:50 am-1:10 pm    F         10:10 am-11:30 am

OLINLC 118 OLINLC 118

FL

FLLC

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.

Class size: 20

 

12033

SPAN 202 B  Intermediate Spanish II

Melanie Nicholson

M  W Th  1:30 pm-2:50 pm

OLINLC 210

FL

FLLC

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.

Class size: 22

 

12032

SPAN 230      Short Narrative / Latin American Literature

John Burns

M  W    1:30 pm-2:50 pm

OLINLC 208

FL

FLLC

Cross-listed: Latin American & Iberian Studies

 This course will trace the development of brief narrative forms from the Modernista period at the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. Expanding the boundaries of the traditional short story, we will examine the ficciones of Jorge Luis Borges and short novels by Juan Rulfo, Elena Poniatowska, and Antonio Skármeta. In addition to these authors, we will read works by Horacio Quiroga, Julio Cortázar,  Rosario Castellanos, Rosario Ferré, and Roberto Bolaño, among others. Critical theory of the narrative as well as relevant historical and cultural issues will be part of class discussion. Conducted in Spanish.

Class size: 20

 

12031

SPAN 301      Intro to Spanish Literature

Patricia Lopez-Gay

T  Th  1:30 pm-2:50 pm

OLINLC 120

FL

FLLC

Cross-listed: Experimental Humanities; Latin American & Iberian Studies; Literature

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: 15

 

12474

SPAN 359      Haunted by Ghost of Cervantes

Patricia Lopez-Gay

W      10:10 am-12:30 pm

OLIN 307

FL

Cross-listed: Experimental Humanities; Latin American & Iberian Studies; Literature

Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, widely considered the first modern novel, is a work intra-textually attributed to a fictional Moorish author, at a time when the Moors were being expelled from Spain. Authors trapped in fiction are sometimes persecuted, and then killed by their characters; others feel terrified, and become invisible as they hide behind the lines they write. Lastly, some authors are dead (or said to be dead), and speak to us from their tombs. What are the changing ways in which the ghostly figure of the author returns to fiction? What does it mean to be an author? This course will be an experimental reflection on the notion of authorship as it was originally redefined with the birth of modern novel in Golden Age Spain, and reshaped during Romanticism and contemporary times, through old and new media. With an emphasis on Iberian and Latin American literatures occasionally put in conversation with film, we will explore selected writings by Cervantes, J. A. Bécquer, Unamuno, Machado de Asís, Fernando Pessoa, Clarice Lispector, and Roberto Bolaño, among others. Theoretical texts to be read will include essays by Roland Barthes, Jorge Luis Borges, and Michel Foucault. Conducted in Spanish.

Class size: 15

 

 

12483

LIT 203      The Rhetoric of Conquest and Contact: (De)Colonizing Narratives of Latin America

Nicole Caso

T  Th 11:50 am-1:10 pm

OLINLC 210

FL

Cross-listed: Human Rights; Latin American & Iberian Studies; Spanish Studies