Southern Studies (BA)

Description

The B.A. in Southern studies involves the interdisciplinary study of the American South. The program brings together faculty members from the humanities and social sciences to explore the importance of region as a context of human experience. Through a variety of disciplines, including African American studies, anthropology, art, history, literature, music, politics, religion, and sociology, Southern studies seeks to investigate the challenges and contributions of the region, in order to situate the South in the fabric of American life. The undergraduate program teaches students both knowledge about the people, past and present, of the American South and a variety of techniques about studying those people.

Beginning with the fall 2023 semester, admission to the Bachelor of Arts in Southern studies will be by admission only. See admission process and deadlines in the Academics and Admissions section of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture in this catalog. This program is part of the Academic Common Market of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB).

Minimum Total Credit Hours: 120

Degree Requirements

The academic regulations for this degree program, as entered in the University of Mississippi Catalog, are in effect for the current or selected academic year and semester. The University of Mississippi reserves the right to 1) change or withdraw courses; 2) change rules for registration, instruction, and graduation; and 3) change other regulations affecting the student body at any time.

General Education

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Select one of the following First Year Writing I courses:		3
WRIT 1000	Introduction to College Writing
or WRIT 1010	First-Year Writing I
Select one of the following First Year Writing II courses:		3
WRIT 1020	First-Year Writing II
or LIBA 1020	First Year Seminar
Select six hours of literature survey from the following:		6
ENGL 2220	Survey in Literary History
ENGL 2221	Survey of World Literature to 1650
ENGL 2222	Survey of World Literature since 1650
ENGL 2223	Survey of American Lit to the Civil War
ENGL 2224	Survey of American Lit since Civil War
ENGL 2225	Survey of British Lit to 18th Century
ENGL 2226	Survey of Brit Lit since Romantic Period
Select six hours of one modern or ancient language at the 2000 level or above 1		6
Select six hours in History (HIST) course work 2		6
Select three hours of humanities courses from the following areas:		3
African-American Studies
Classical Civilization
ENVS 1010	Humanities and the Environment
ISOM 2010	Introduction to Gender Studies
ISOM 2020	Introduction to Queer Studies
ISOM 3100	Topics in Gender and Culture
ISOM 3110	Women, Gender & the Environment
ISOM 3130	Theories in Gender
ISOM 3140	Men, Women, and Greek Life
ISOM 3150	Gender and Sexuality in Cinema
ISOM 3153	Gender and Sexuality in the Media
ISOM 4120	Advanced Queer Studies
Philosophy
Religion
Southern Studies (any 1000 level only)
RHET 2010	Introduction to Rhetoric
LIBA 2020	Interdisciplinary Humanities
LIBA 3050	Humanities and the Experience of War
LIBA 3120	Advanced Interdisciplinary Humanities
Select three hours of Fine Arts courses from the following:		3
any Art History (ARTH) course
DANC 2000	Dance Appreciation
MUSC 1010	Introduction to Music Literature
MUSC 1020	Fundamentals of Music Theory
MUSC 1030	Introduction to Music
MUSC 1040	Introduction to World Music Cultures
MUSC 1050	Music Theory and Analysis I
THEA 2010	Appreciation of the Theatre
THEA 2020	Introduction to Cinema
LIBA 1300	Introduction to the Fine Arts
LIBA 2040	Interdisciplinary Arts
LIBA 3140	Advanced Interdisciplinary Arts
Select three hours of Math at the 1000 level or above 4		3
Select six hours of Social Science from the following areas:		6
Anthropology
Economics
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
LIBA 2030	Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
LIBA 3130	Advanced Interdisc Social Science
3 science courses, of which 2 must have labs 5		9-11
Astronomy OR Physics (must be 2 courses in Astronomy or 2 courses in Physics)
Biology
Chemistry
Geology
LIBA 1500	Integrated Science I
LIBA 1510	Integrated Science II
LIBA 2050	Interdisciplinary Sciences
LIBA 2051	Interdisciplinary Lab Sciences
LIBA 3150	Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences
LIBA 3151	Advanced Interdisciplinary Lab Sciences
Total Hours		48-50

¹

Modern Languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, & Swahili.

Classics: Ancient Greek and Latin.

Communication Sciences & Disorders: American Sign Language

Philosophy and Religion: Hebrew

²

Freshmen may not register for 3000 level courses.

³

In addition, gender studies courses that are cross-listed with African American studies, classical civilization, English, modern languages, philosophy, or religion curses will satisfy this requirement. 

⁴

Except for MATH 2451 Mathematics for Elementary Teachers I and MATH 2452 Mathematics for Elementary Teachers II.

⁵

Courses may be chosen from astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, LIBA 2050 Interdisciplinary Sciences, LIBA 2051 Interdisciplinary Lab Sciences, LIBA 1500 Integrated Science I, LIBA 1510 Integrated Science II, LIBA 3150 Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences, LIBA 3151 Advanced Interdisciplinary Lab Sciences and physics. Two semesters of coursework in one subject and one semester in a subject from another department are required. Each course must be a minimum of 3 credit hours. At least two of the courses taken must include laboratories. For some classes, the required laboratory will be an additional 1-hour course. For example, a student might take two 3-hour lecture courses in chemistry along with the two associated 1-hour laboratory courses, and one 3-hour course in biology without laboratory. As a second example, a student might take two 4-hour lecture/laboratory courses in geology and one 3-hour course in astronomy. As a third example, a student might take two chemistry courses, one with lab and one without, and a geology course with lab. Note that a student taking the required 6 hours of one subject (astronomy or physics) from the Department of Physics and Astronomy must take the remaining 3 hours from another department. ASTR 1110 Descriptive Astronomy does not include laboratory work; ASTR 1212 Intro Astronomy of the Solar System and ASTR 1312 Intro Astronomy of Stars and Galaxies include laboratory work and satisfy the requirements for lab-based science credits. A student may not receive credit for taking ASTR 1110 Descriptive Astronomy with either ASTR 1212 Intro Astronomy of the Solar System or ASTR 1312 Intro Astronomy of Stars and Galaxies.

Major Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
SSTU 1010	Introduction to Southern Studies I	3
SSTU 4010	Southern Studies Seminar	3
Select two of the following:		6
SSTU 1030	Southern Mythologies and Popular Culture
SSTU 1040	The South and Race
SSTU 1050	Introduction to the South and Food
SSTU 1060	Introduction to Southern Documentary
SSTU 1070	Intro to Gender & Sexuality in the South
SSTU 1080	Music and Southern Society
SSTU 1090	Rights and Southern Activism
SSTU 1100	Slavery and the University
SSTU 1180	Introductory Topics in Southern Music
18 hours of Southern Studies elective coursework		18
Total Hours		30

Overall Major GPA

Please contact your academic advisor for grade point requirements.

Resident Major GPA

Please contact your academic advisor for grade point requirements.

Major Requirements II

Select 18 hours of Southern studies electives from at least two different departments:

African American Studies

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
AAST 2010	African American Experience I	3
or AAST 2020	African American Experience II
AAST 3020	Judicial System & African Amer Community	3
AAST 3080	Const Law II: Civil Lib & Civil Rights	3
AAST 3100	Experiences of Black Mississippians	3
AAST 3160	The African Diaspora	3
AAST 3200	African American Politics	3
AAST 3250	African American History to 1865	3
AAST 3260	African American History since 1865	3
AAST 3340	Introduction to Field Work Techniques	3
AAST 3370	Anthropology of Blues Culture	3
AAST 3410	African American Lit Survey to 1920	3
AAST 3420	African American Lit Survey Since 1920	3
AAST 3670	Blues Tradition in American Literature	3
AAST 3730	Studies in Comparative Black Lit	3
AAST 3860	African and African American Arts	3
AAST 3950	Survey of Black American Art	3
AAST 4130	Race and Ethnicity	3
AAST 4140	Race, Place, and Space	3
AAST 4210	Readings in U.S. Black Feminism	3
AAST 4380	The Rise and Fall of American Slavery	3
AAST 4400	History of African Americans in Sports	3
AAST 4430	The Civil Rights Era	3
AAST 4680	Major African American Writers	3
AAST 4790	Special Topics in Comparative Black Lit	3
AAST 4930	Special Topics in Race and Ethnicity	3
AAST 5040	Research in African American Studies	3
AAST 5170	African American Musical Tradition	3
AAST 5180	History of Jazz	3
AAST 5430	African American Literature	3

Art

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
ARTH 3690	Black American Art	3
ARTH 3860	African and African American Arts	3

Economics

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
ECON 4530	An Economic History of the South	3

English

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
ENGL 3140	The Cinematic South	3
ENGL 3550	Studies in Southern Literature	3
ENGL 3570	Women in the South	3
ENGL 3610	African American Lit Survey to 1920	3
ENGL 3620	African American Lit Survey Since 1920	3
ENGL 3670	Blues Tradition in American Literature	3
ENGL 3540	Survey of Southern Literature	3
ENGL 3730	Studies in 20th & 21st c. Comp Black Lit	3
ENGL 4140	Special Topics in the Cinematic South	3
ENGL 4580	Southern Environmental Literature	3
ENGL 4600	Faulkner	3
ENGL 4610	Special Topics in Southern Literature	3
ENGL 4620	Special Topics in the Global South	3
ENGL 4680	Major African American Writers	3
ENGL 4790	Special Topics Comparative Black Lit	3
ENGL 5140	Studies in Faulkner	3

Gender Studies

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
ISOM 3370	The South and Sexuality	3
ISOM 4190	African American Women's History	3
ISOM 4210	Readings in Black Feminism	3
ISOM 4540	Women in Southern History	3

History

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
HIST 4040	US- The Civil War Era, 1848-1877	3
HIST 4140	African American History to 1865	3
HIST 4150	African American History since 1865	3
HIST 4180	African American Women’s History	3
HIST 4200	History of African Americans in Sports	3
HIST 4220	The Rise and Fall of American Slavery	3
HIST 4230	History of Mass Incarceration in the US	3
HIST 4240	The Civil Rights Era	3
HIST 4400	The Military History of the Civil War	3
HIST 4500	Southern History to 1900	3
HIST 4510	The South in the Twentieth Century	3
HIST 4520	The History of Mississippi	3
HIST 4530	Environmental History of the South	3
HIST 4540	Women in Southern History	3
HIST 4550	History of Religion in the South	3
HIST 4560	Southern Music History	3

Journalism

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
SJNM 5130	The Press and the Changing South	3

Music

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
MUSC 5170	Afri-American Musical Traditions	3
MUSC 5180	History of Jazz	3
MUSC 5077	Diasporic African Music Cultures	3

Political Science

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
POLS 3105	Const Law II: Civil Lib & Civil Rights	3
POLS 3113	Mississippi Politics	3
POLS 3114	Politics of the American South	3
POLS 3116	African American Politics	3

Sociology and Anthropology

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
SOCY 4130	Race and Ethnicity	3
SOCY 4140	Race, Place, and Space	3
SOCY 4400	Sociology of Music	3
ANTH 3090	Indians of Mississippi and the South	3
ANTH 3150	The African Diaspora	3
ANTH 3160	Rise and Fall of the Mississippian World	3
ANTH 3170	Indians on the S. Frontier	3
ANTH 3190	Environmental History of the South	3
ANTH 3330	The Mississippian Shatterzone	3
ANTH 3370	Anthropology of Blues Culture	3

Southern Studies

Any course

Writing and Rhetoric

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
RHET 4770	Rhetorics of Race in the US South	3