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Graduate Courses in American and Southern Studies

 

The graduate-level component of the American and Southern Studies Program provides a sequence of courses by which students enrolled in graduate programs in disciplinary departments (e.g., History, English, Political Science) may gain knowledge and expertise in the interdisciplinary study of the history and culture of the U.S. South and its relationship to America. The program's intent is to bring graduate students and faculty together who share an interest in American and Southern studies, allow them to share one another's disciplinary views, and stimulate further interest in interdisciplinary study. The program is directed by Larry J. Griffin (Sociology) and supervised by a committee that includes David Carlton (History); Joyce E. Chaplin (History); Dale Cockrell (Blair); Thadious Davis (English); Don Doyle (History); Vivien Green Fryd (Fine Arts); Michael Kreyling (English); Bruce I. Oppenheimer (Political Science); and Richard A. Pride (Political Science); Cecelia Tichi (English).

 

No degree is currently offered, but a field of minor concentration may be constructed with the approval of the student's adviser and the director of American and Southern Studies. Courses in this program are customarily offered in alternate years.

 

204. Self, Society, and Social Change. (Also listed as Sociology 204) Problems and prospects for individual participation in social change; volunteering, community service, and philanthropy; role of individuals and voluntary associations in social change. SPRING. [3] Cornfield (Sociology).

 

247. American Political Culture. (Also listed as Political Science 247) Content, historical development, and political consequences of the American public's deeply rooted values concerning how the political system ought to work and the ends it ought to serve. Attention to regional variation. SPRING. [3] Pride (Political Science)

 

258. The South in American Culture. (Also listed as Sociology 258) The changing relationship between the South and the rest of the country and its effects on understandings and definitions of the South in southern social structures and patterns, race relations, and economic and political institutions. [3] Griffin (Sociology). (Not currently offered)

 

278. History of Appalachia. (Also listed as History 278) The region from first European intrusions to the present. Frontier era white-indigenous contact, antebellum society and economy, relations with the slave South, the Civil War and postwar politics, increasing social strainings, industrialization and labor conflict, poverty, and out-migration. Examination of mountain culture, tourism, and the construction of the "hillbilly" image. SPRING. [3] Carlton (History).

310. Topics in American Culture and Character. Topics as announced in the Schedule of Courses. May be repeated twice for credit when topics vary. SPRING. [3] Walker (English).

 

311. Introduction to Southern Studies. Major texts and methodologies of Southern Studies. [3] Griffin (Sociology) and Kreyling (English). (Offered 1998/99)

 

312. Research Seminar in Southern Studies. Disciplinary approaches to research. research methodologies, resources, archival sources. [3] Doyle (History). (Not currently offered)

 

 

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