SPAN W 1101x and y-W1102x an Elementary First-Year Course

Introductory course to Spanish as a vehicle for oral and written communication. Emphasis on speaking, listening comprehension, reading, and writing. Fundamentals of grammar.
Prerequisites: "L" course; enrollment limited to 15 students.
4 points

SPAN BC 1103x Intensive Review of Elementary Spanish

Course for incoming students whose score on the placement examination puts them between the beginning and intermediate levels. To be followed by BC1202.
Prerequisites: "L" course. Enrollment limited to 15 students.
4 points

SPAN W 1201x and y Intermediate Course, Part I

Further development of spoken and written communication skills. Review of grammar and syntax. Discussion and analysis of short literary texts. Some linguistic and cultural analysis of contemporary internet materials, videos and films.
Prerequisites: W1102 or W1103 or the equivalent. "L" course. Enrollment limited to 15 students.
4 points

SPAN W 1202x and y Intermediate Course, Part II

Review of more advanced grammar points. Readings, discussions, and analysis of important literary works by Spanish and Latin American authors. Analysis and discussions of contemporary internet materials, videos and films.
Prerequisites: W1201 or equivalent. Please notice Barnard's SPAN 1203/04 have become SPAN 1201/02. Thus, if you previously took 1203, you should register for 1202.
"L" course. Enrollment limited to 15 students.
3 points

SPAN W 1208x Spanish for Native Speakers

Designed for heritage and non-heritage students from Spanish-speaking backgrounds who have listening/speaking proficiency beyond the intermediate level, but little or no formal instruction. Introduction to Spanish grammar with emphasis on syntax, writing/reading skills, and vocabulary acquisition. May be taken instead of Intermediate Spanish (1201/1202) to satisfy language requirement.
Prerequisites: Oral fluency. "L" course. Enrollment limited to 15 students.
3 points

SPAN W 3300x or y (Section 20) Advanced Language through Content: Translating Cultures - Advanced Spanish for Native Speakers

Content-based advanced study of selected aspects of grammar and vocabulary, aimed at increasing proficiency in speaking, listening comprehension, and reading comprehension, with a special emphasis on writing. Topic varies according to instructor.

Through special attention to translation theory and practice in the context of an examination of the issue of multiculturalism in New York, the course aims to increase critical skills, awareness of formal/informal registers, and command of academic writing structures among native speakers with varying degrees of previous language instruction.
Prerequisites: Completion of the language requirement or the equivalent. Enrollment limited to 15 students. IMPORTANT: This course replaces the former W3200 and BC3004. If you have taken those courses, do not enroll for W3300. Although section topics vary, you may only take 3300 ONCE. Corequisites: This course should be taken simultaneously with, or followed by, SPAN W3330.
3 points

SPAN W 3300x (Section 21) Advanced Language through Content: Hispanic Cultures in the Age of Globalization

Content-based advanced study of selected aspects of grammar and vocabulary, aimed at increasing proficiency in speaking, listening comprehension, and reading comprehension, with a special emphasis on writing. A look at the changes and challenges in Latin America and Spain brought about by the circulation of cultures, people, ideas and images in an increasingly "global" world. Topics may include migration, narcotráfico, gender and sexuality, language plurality, the environment and the use of new technologies.

SPAN W 3300x or y (Section 22) Advanced Language through Content: Minimal Fictions: Short Stories in the Iberian Peninsula

Content-based advanced study of selected aspects of grammar and vocabulary, aimed at increasing proficiency in speaking, listening comprehension, and reading comprehension, with a special emphasis on writing. A critique, through the short story genre, of the long-standing hierarchical relationship between the literary production of central Spain and the periphery of the Iberian peninsula (Portugal, Galicia, Cataluña, Andalucía), to examine the periphery's contribution to the main literary movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.

SPAN W 3300x or y (Section 23) Advanced Language through Content: Reading and Interpreting Narrative

Content-based advanced study of selected aspects of grammar and vocabulary, aimed at increasing proficiency in speaking, listening comprehension, and reading comprehension, with a special emphasis on writing.

In conjunction with the work on language skills, a guide to the practices of close reading and textual interpretation, illustrated with modern and contemporary Hispanic texts.

SPAN W 3300x or y (Section 24) Advanced Language through Content: Cultura - An Online Cross-Cultural Dialogue

Content-based advanced study of selected aspects of grammar and vocabulary, aimed at increasing proficiency in speaking, listening comprehension, and reading comprehension, with a special emphasis on writing. Topic varies according to instructor.

An online cross-cultural exchange with students from León, Spain, focusing on an exploration and comparison of the values, attitudes and assumptions of Spanish and US societies. Students communicate through forums, read cultural materials and discuss and analyze their findings.

SPAN W 3300x (Section 25) Advanced Language through Content: Interpreting Poetry
Content-based advanced study of selected aspects of grammar and vocabulary, aimed at increasing proficiency in speaking, listening comprehension, and reading comprehension, with a special emphasis on writing. Topic varies according to instructor.

In conjunction with the work on language skills, a guide to the practices of close reading and textual interpretation of poetry, illustrated with modern and contemporary Hispanic texts.

SPAN W 3300x (Section 4) Advanced Language through Content: Theatre & Society in Contemporary Spain

Content-based advanced study of selected aspects of grammar and vocabulary, aimed at increasing proficiency in speaking, listening comprehension, and reading comprehension, with a special emphasis on writing.

An examination of how contemporary Spanish theatre reflects and reacts to important sociopolitical and cultural issues. Reading and analysis of one-act plays.

SPAN W 3300x (Section 9) Advanced Language through Content: Short Stories in Latin America

Content-based advanced study of selected aspects of grammar and vocabulary, aimed at increasing proficiency in speaking, listening comprehension, and reading comprehension, with a special emphasis on writing.

An exploration of short stories written by Jorge Luis Borges, Jose Maria Arguedas, Julio Cortazar, Juan Rulfo, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Silvina Ocampo, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Luisa Valenzuela.

SPAN W 3330x or y (Section 26) Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Cultures

Information and skills needed to interpret a wide variety of cultural objects produced in Spain and Spanish America: literary, filmic, artistic, architectural, urban, etc. Focus on interpretation as an activity and as the principal operation though which culturally sited meaning is created and analyzed. Among the categories and topics discussed will be history, national and popular cultures, literature (high/low), cultural institutions, migration, and globalization. This course also continues work on speaking, listening, and reading comprehension, with a special emphasis on writing, begun in W3300.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15. Sophomore standing or permission of instructor. Corequisites: This course follows W3300 in the bridge course sequence; but may, with instructor/advisor permission, be taken concurrently. General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
3 points

SPAN W 3349x and y Hispanic Cultures I: Islamic Spain through the Colonial Period

Provides students with an overview of the cultural history of the Hispanic world, from eighth-century Islamic and Christian Spain and the pre-Hispanic Americas through the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period until about 1700, covering texts and cultural artifacts from both Spain and the Americas.
Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

SPAN W 3350x and y Hispanic Cultures II: Enlightenment to the Present

Survey of cultural production of Spain and Spanish America from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, focusing on how the 19th-Century rupture of the political ties between Spain and the new nations opened new spaces for cultural exchange and for the articulation of cultural, national and linguistic identity.
Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

SPAN BC 3099x or y Independent Study

Enables students to pursue subjects not covered by courses currently taught. To arrange this course, a student must present a member of the faculty with a program of study and obtain an Independent Study form. This form (and the program of study) must be approved both by the sponsoring faculty member and the chair of the department. The form must then be submitted to the Committee on Programs and Academic Standing for final approval. No faculty member of any rank may direct more than one BC3099 in any given semester.
Prerequisites: Spanish W3300, W3330, W3349, and W3350. Other upper-level courses as determined by instructor.
3 points

SPAN BC 3110x or y An Introduction to Spanish Theatre

Analyses of the varied functions and forms of theatre in representative Spanish plays of the 17th through the 20th centuries: the comedia, the entremés, Romantic drama, the esperpento, surrealist theatre, absurdist comedy, and political satire. Authors include Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Zorrilla, Valle-Incln, Lorca, Arrabal, and Ruibal.
Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART).
3 points

SPAN BC 3112x or y Love and Eroticism in Contemporary Latin American Literature

Introduction to the artistic manifestations of love and eroticism and their relationship to social attitudes. Works by Gabriela Mistral, Vicente Huidobro, Neruda, Paz, Borges, Isabel Allende, Vargas Llosa, and Garcia Marquez.
Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).
3 points

SPAN BC 3117x or y Literature of the Southern Cone: The Dialects of Fantasy and Reality

Examination of the literature of the Southern Cone: Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile; the tension between fantastic literature and literary realism. Readings include Borges, Casares, Ocampo, Onetti, Donoso, and Roa Bastos.
Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

SPAN BC 3119x or y Literature of the Andes: Revolution and Identity

The region of the Andes (Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, and Chile) has produced great poets - Mistral, Neruda, and Vallejo - as well as extraordinary novelists, Donoso and Vargas Llosa. This course seeks to identify the essential traits of the region's literature and relate them to its tumultuous history.

SPAN BC 3120x or y Twentieth-Century Puerto Rican Literature

A study of Puerto Rican authors (Ferre, Sanchez, Pedreira, Julia de Burgos, Gonzalez, Marques) and their interpretation of socio-historical development in Puerto Rico. The relationship of these texts to historical writing (e.g., Quintero Rivera), and the revisionist trend in Puerto Rican historiography.
Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).
3 points

SPAN BC 3122x or y Contemporary Latin American Short Fiction

Readings of short stories and novellas by established and emerging writers from Spanish America and Brazil. Defines the parameters of Latin American short fiction by exploring its various manifestations, fantastic literature, protest writing, satire, and realism. Among the authors to be studied will be: Machado de Assis, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Ana Lydia Vega, Clarice Lispector, Silvina Ocampo, and Jose Donoso.
Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).
3 points

SPAN BC 3127x or y Don Quijote

Study of Cervantes' masterpiece, concentrating on the narrative models available to him and his own creation of the novel. Readings also include selected Novelas Ejemplares and critical studies.
Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).
3 points

SPAN BC 3131x or y Memory and Violence: Film and Literature of Spanish Civil War

Contemporary Spanish films serve as a point of departure for the study of the Civil War and Franco periods as both historical fact and myth. Includes an analysis of its representation in memoirs and literary works and its significance in light of Spain recent political transformation.
Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART).
3 points

SPAN BC 3134x or y Marriage and Adultery in 19th-Century Spanish Fiction

Consideration of the conflicting interests of 19th-century society as represented through the themes of marriage and adultery: the desire for social stability vs. the potentially subversive drive for freedom and self-affirmation. The roles of women, class, culture, and religion emphasized in works by Galdos, Clarin, Caballero, and others.
Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).
3 points

SPWS BC 3135x or y Reading for Difference: Lesbian and Gay Themes in Hispanic Literature and Film

Homosexual issues and images in major literary works and films of Spain and Latin America. Themes include the social construction of sexuality, political contexts, gay and lesbian self-representation, homosexual desire, closeting and disclosure, and defining gay poetics. Authors include Lorca, Arenas, Tusquets, Molloy, Peri Rossi, Puig, and Almodóvar.
Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

SPAN BC 3141x or y La Novela del Boom, 1962 - 1970

Close reading of the novels that place Spanish America in the mainstream of worldwide literary production during the sixties. Authors include: Fuentes, Cortazar, Cabrera Infante, Vargas Llosa, Puig, and Donoso.
Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).
3 points

SPAN BC 3142x or y Film-Literature Relations in Modern Latin American Narrative

Intertextual relations between film and literature. Authors and film makers include: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Laura Esquivel, Borges, Maria Luisa Bemberg, Vargas Llosa, and Fina Torres.
Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART).
3 points

SPAN BC 3143x or y Literature of the Spanish Caribbean

Study of works from the Spanish-speaking islands of the Caribbean, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico, in order to unravel the cultural traits, historical patterns, and politicoeconomic realities that these islands may or may not have in common.
Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

SPAN BC 3144x or y Daughters of La Malinche: Women and Culture in Mexico

Explores the contribution of women towards the development of Mexican culture from pre-Hispanic times through the 20th century, with an emphasis on the latter. The works of such artists and writers as Frida Kahlo and María Izquierdo, Elena Garro, and Rosario Castellanos will be considered in light of their historical and political contexts.
Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).
3 points

SPAN BC 3146x or y 20th-Century Women Writers of Colombia

Works by such authors as Laura Restrepo, Alba Lucia Angel, Emilia Ayarza, Matilde Espinosa, and Maria Mercedes Carranza studied in the context of and in contrast to literary movements such as Magical Realism, Piedracielismo, and Nadaismo.
Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

SPAN BC 3148x or y ¿Contra Franco Vivamos mejor? Literature and Popular Culture of the Spanish Dictatorship (1936-75)

Examination of the literature and culture produced in Spain during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco: the interaction between culture allowed and sponsored by the regime, and the voices of resistance against repression and censorship.
Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).
3 points

SPAN BC 3151x or y Spanish Film: Cinematic Representation of Spain

Examination of Spanish film in both theoretical and historical terms. Considers political and ideological changes through the 20th century and their repercussions in cinematic representation. Topics include: surrealism and Bunuel's legacy; representations of Franco and the civil war; censorship and self-censorship; gender, sexualities, and national identities; film, literature relations.
Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART).
3 points

SPAN BC 3159x or y Angels and Seagulls: the Cultural Construction of Womanhood in Nineteenth Century Spain

Reading of 19th-Century Spanish journalistic, medical, and legal texts, conduct manuals, and novels by both men and women, to assess how they come together in configuring new ideas of female identity and its social domains, as aristocratic rule is gradually being replaced by a new bourgeois order.
Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350).
3 points

SPAN BC 3435x Enlightenment and the Spanish American Essay

Kant's Enlightenment motto, sapere aude, took on political significance for Spanish American revolutionaries who made their case in prose, pushing against the constraints of the essay. This course traces the genre's evolution from the transatlantic debate over political independence to the exuberant declarations of intellectual independence that would follow. - R. Briggs
Prerequisites: SPAN W3349 or SPAN W3350; Sophomore standing. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

SPAN BC 3442x or y The Bourgeois Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Spain

Through both literary and popular print culture, examination of the new class in 19th century Spain produced by economic industrialization and political liberalism and how it ensured its hegemony. Negotiates its foundational issues - power, money, law, city life, education, aesthetics, virtue, marriage, sexuality, and style.

SPAN BC 3445x (Section 1) Novel and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Spain and Latin America

Examination of the scope and limits of the novel as a tool in the enterprise of constructing the modern nation in early 19th-Century Spain and Latin America. Selected texts exemplify the exploration of nascent national identities after the dissolution of the Spanish Empire, with emphasis on polemical struggles over the definition of "nation" and "novel" on both sides of the Atlantic.

SPAN BC 3447x or y Mysteries, Manuscripts, and Secret Societies: Twentieth Century Rewritings of the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Novel

A look at the recasting of Spain�s nineteenth century and its novels through contemporary rewritings of the detective, historical fiction, and mystery-thriller genres. Recent works will be read alongside original nineteenth-century texts that they imitate and parody, to explore this trend�s significance in the context of modern Spanish literature and culture.

CPLS BC 3455x or y Empire and Technology in the Colonial World

Exploration of the scientific and technological practices through which the Spanish Empire established and legitimated itself during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Chronicles and travel literature will show how knowledges such as cartography, metallurgy, and botany grounded technological expansion and its deployment of indigenous peoples and resources.

SPAN BC 3470x Latin(o) American Art in New York City: Critical Interventions, Institutions, and Creative Lives

Considers the trajectory and intervention of Latin(o) American art in New York City's artistic landscape. We will map the relation between Latin(o) American art and key art institutions, study critical receptions, and look at some of the lives and works of Latin(o) American artists in NYC. - M. Horn
Prerequisites: SPAN W3300, SPAN W3330, SPAN W3349, SPAN W3350; Sophomore standing.
3 points

SPAN BC 3510x or y (Section 1) Gender and Sexuality in Latin American Cultures

Examines constructions of gender and sexuality in Latin American cultures. Through a close analysis of critical, literary, and visual texts, we explore contemporary notions of gender and sexuality, the socio-cultural processes that have historically shaped these, and some theoretical frameworks through which they have been understood.

SPAN BC 3655x or y The Films of Luis Buñuel and the Spanish Literary Tradition

Journey through the works of the renowned Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel and the literary movements from which he drew inspiration. We will establish a dialogue between his films and Spanish artistic trends such as surrealism, the picaresque, esperpento, and relalism. Authors include Garcia Lorca, Valle Inclan, Perez Galdos. [In Spanish].
Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART).
3 points

SPAN BC 3671x or y Spanish Literature from 1975: The Postmodern Discourse

Close reading of some of the most significant works and trends of post-Franco Spain in the light of postmodern theories. Readings will include works by Martin-Gaite, Vazquez Montalban, Montserrat Roig, Lourdes Ortiz, J.J. Millas, Ana Rosetti, Paloma Pedrero, Antonio Gala, Almudena Grandes.
Prerequisites: "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330), and introductory surveys (W3349, W3350). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

SPAN BC 3990x Latin American Perspectives on Violence, Colonization and Globalization

Examines global and local foundational discourses on imperial expansion and globalization from the sixteenth century to the present through a close analysis of Iberian and Latin American texts. - O. Bentancor
Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Course intended to be taken by all Spanish majors during the fall of their senior year. "L" course: enrollment limited to 15 students. Completion of language requirement, third-year language sequence (W3300; W3330), and introductory surveys (W3349,W3350). General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

SPAN BC 3990x or y (Section 1) Senior Seminar for Majors: Transatlantic Documentary Film and Historical Memory

Broad topic-based seminar in the context of which seniors will write their senior research project. An examination of documentary film 's contribution to the way in which Spain, Argentina, and Chile depict their recent past. Analysis of the visual and narrative composition of the documentaries in the light of relevant theories of representation, historical discourse, testimony, and trauma, in order to determine how democratic societies perceive their transitions from authoritarian rule.

CPLS BC 3142x (Section 1) The Spanish Civil War in Literature and the Visual Arts

The Spanish Civil War (1936-39), which culminated with the beginning of Francisco Franco's long dictatorship, foreshadowed the WWII European conflict. It generated unprecedented foreign involvement, as well texts and images by artists from both within and outside Spain--from film (documentary and fictional), through painting (Picasso), to narrative and nonfiction.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

SPWS BC 3205x or y Hispanic Gay and Lesbian Representations in the Literatures of the Americas

Lesbian and gay images and issues in literary and theoretical writings of Latin American authors and of the United States. Hispanic and North American constructions of homosexual/heterosexual and male/female forms of erotic desire; the relationship of politics, sexuality, and race. Authors included Puig, Arenas, Peri Rossi, Anzalda, and Moraga. May not be taken with SPWS BC 3135.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

SPAN BC 3264x The Boom: The Spanish American Novel, 1962-70

The writing that catapulted Latin America into the mainstream of world culture: Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, Manuel Puig, Julio Cortïzar, Jose Donoso, and Mario Vargas Llosa.

SPAN W 3265y Latin American Literature in Translation

Study of contemporary Latin American narrative; its origins and apotheosis. Readings include Machado de Assis, Borges, García Marquez, Puig, and others.
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points