Undergraduate Program

Spring 2010 Courses

Summer / Fall 2009 Courses

BA Required Courses Checklist


A major in Southern Studies for the BA degree consists of:

101 Introduction to Southern Studies I: Defining the Southern region by studying its people, environment, and culture. Sample syllabus.

102 Introduction to Southern Studies II: Study the development of the Southern region, with emphasis on the economy, social structure, politics, and arts. Sample syllabus.

401 Southern Studies Seminar, Society: An interdisciplinary seminar that examines the South through a close study of social groups, social structures, and social forces. Fall 2008 syllabus.

402 Southern Studies Seminar, Culture: An interdisciplinary seminar that explores the South's past and the contemporary era, focusing on the literature, music, folklore, art and architecture, religion, and other cultural forms that have been especially associated with the region.


History HIS

331: The South through the 19th Century
332: The South in the 20th Century

An additional 24 hours taken from the following list of undergraduate courses. Students must complete courses from a minimum of four departments. Please see the Undergraduate Catalog for additional Liberal Arts degree requirements.

Southern Studies SST

303 Southern Women: A historical survey of Southern women with emphasis on research through documentary sources and oral history. (Same as ENGL 310 and G ST 310.)

334 Studies in Documentary Fieldwork: Interdisciplinary study of the theory, practice, and tradition of documentary field research through readings, photography, films and video tapes, audio recordings, and field notes. (Same as ANTH 534, ART 534). Spring 2008 Syllabus

406 Southern Literature and the Oral Tradition: Sermons, folk tales, ballads, blues, and other oral forms in works of writers such as A. B. Longstreet, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, and Ernest Gaines.


533 Documentary Photography and Oral History


534 Studies in Documentary Fieldwork: Interdisciplinary study of the theory, practice, and tradition of documentary field research through readings, photography, films and video tapes, audio recordings, and field notes. (Same as ANTH 534, ART 534).

597, 598, 599 Special Topics: Interdisciplinary study of specialized topics in Southern culture. May be repeated once if topic varies.

African American Studies AAS

201: African American Experience I
202: African American Experience II

302: Judicial System and the African American Experience
307: Peoples of Africa

308: Politics of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
310: Experiences of Black Mississippians

320: African American Politics
325: African American History to 1865
326: African American History since 1865
337: Anthropology of Blues Culture

341: African American Literary Tradition I

342: African American Literary Tradition II

386: African and African American Arts

395: Survey of Black American Art
420: Richard Wright

440: History of African Americans in Sport

441: Comparative Black Literatures
504: Research in African American Studies
593: African American Literature

Art History AH

365: Southern Folks Arts
366: History of Southern Art and Decorative Arts
367: Southern Architecture and Interiors
369: Survey of Black American Art
386: African and African American Arts

Economics ECON

335: Economic History of the South

English ENGL

310: Women in the South
322: Survey of African American Literature from the Beginning to the 20th Century
323: Survey of African American Literature of the 20th Century
324: The Blues Tradition in American Literature
368: Survey of Southern Literature
373: Caribbean Literature
466: Faulkner
467: The South in Film
566: Faulkner Studies

History HIS

307: African American History to 1865
308: African American History since 1865

328: History of African Americans in Sport
330: The History of Mississippi
333: The Era of the Civil War, 1850-1877
334: The Blue and the Gray
335: The Economic History of the South
336: Women in Southern History
337: History of Religion in the South

Music MUS

321: The Development of Country Music
517: African American Musical Traditions
518: The History of Jazz

Political Science POL

307: Constitutional Law II: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

317: Mississippi Politics
318: Politics of the American South

320: African American Politics

Sociology (SOC) and Anthropology (ANTH)

SOC 315: Leisure and Popular Culture

SOC 334: Intro to Field Work Techniques

SOC 351: Social Change

SOC 413: Race and Ethnicity
ANTH 309: Indians of Mississippi and the South
ANTH 317: Indians of the Southern Frontier
ANTH 319: Environmental History of the South
ANTH 334: Introduction to Field Work Techniques
ANTH 337: Anthropology of Blues Culture