An interdisciplinary seminar that examines the South through a close study of social groups, social structures, and social forces. The seminar explores the social traits that have provided the foundation for Southern regional distinctiveness, using the methodology of the New Social History pioneered by European historians. Course work involves reading, discussion, and preparation of a research paper. 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. The seminar looks at the South as a geographical culture area and attempts to outline the characteristic cultural ways in the region.
Course work involves reading, discussion, and preparation of a research paper.
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. Interdisciplinary study of the theory, practice, and tradition of documentary field research through readings, photography, films and video tapes, audio recordings, and field notes. Interdisciplinary study of specialized topics in Southern culture. The School of Dentistry Courses of Instruction Administration, Faculty, and Staff Please be aware that while the information contained herein was current when this edition of the catalog was posted on this site, changes may have occurred in the interim. The University of Mississippi.