Comparative SOUTHERN STUDIES

Southern Studies Courses Currently Offered: 

ANTH 407     Urban Anthropology of New Orleans

ANTH 611     Afro-America

ANTH 614     Southeastern United States Prehistory

Architecture UARC 131 Louisiana Architecture, 1700-1865

Architecture UARC 132 New Orleans Architecture

Architecture HSTY 365 Historic Preservation in the South

Architecture 374 New Orleans as a Cultural System

COMM 350   The Rhetoric of Civil Rights

ENGL 119     New Orleans Literary Festival

ENLS 373      Introduction to African-American Literature

ENLS 442      Southern Literature

ENLS 444      Issues in African-American Literature

FREN 410      French in Louisiana

FREN 411      Field Research on French in Louisiana

HISB 323       The Atlantic Slave Trade

HISU 344       African-American Religious History

HISU 347       Colonial Louisiana, 1700-1812

HISU 348       Louisiana History

HISU 349       The Coming of the Civil War

HISU 350       Civil War & Reconstruction

HISU 357       Race Relations in the American South, 1865-1970

HISU 358       Slavery and Freedom in the Antebellum South

HISU 369       African-American History to 1865

HISU 370       African-American History since 1865

HISU 381       Southern Folk Culture

HISU 382       Southern Music

HISL 420       History of Voodoo

HISU 440       American Race Relations

HISU 449       The 1850s: Union in Peril

HISU 462       Autobiography and Southern Identity

HISU 654       African-American Cultural History

HISU 661       The Old South

HISU 662       The New South, 1865-1935

HISU 663       The Modern South, 1935-1990

HISU 675       Africans in the Americas: Comparative Social and   Cultural History of the African Diaspora

HISU 741       Creation of Southern Political Culture

MUSC 189    Music in New Orleans

MUSC 334    History of Jazz

POLA 412     Louisiana Politics

WMST 350    African-American Womanhood

Southern Studies courses offered occasionally:

New Orleans History

The Mississippi River in History

Indians of the Old South

Louisiana Plantation Archaeology and History

Historic Preservation in the South

Applied History.

M. L. King & Civil Rights

Paris, New Orleans, and Baroness Pontalba

Violence in the South (Rebecca Mark)

Courses offered in other areas that might be adapted as Southern Studies core courses:

ADST 482 Women Writers of the African Diaspora / Women Writers of the South

AMST 201     American Identity / Southern identity

ANTH 306     South American Indians / Southern Indians

ANTH 309     Anthropology of Gender / Gender in the South

HISB 313       Southern Africa / Race in the South

HISU 368       American Immigration / Gulf-Caribbean immigration

HISU 354       Women & Gender in US History / Women in the South

HISL 378       Women in Latin American History / Women in the South

HISB 607       Women in Africa / African-American Women in the South

HISU 393       Early American Jewish History / Jewish Experience in the South

HISU 394       Irish America / Irish in South

HISU 394       U.S. Labor History / Southern labor

HISL 395       Religion in Latin America / Religion in the South

JWST 320      Modern Judaism / Jewish Experience in the South

LAST 102      Cultural Heritage of Latin America / Cultural Heritage of the South

LCTL 111      Haitian Creole / Louisiana Creole

MUSC 330    Folk Music of the World / Folk Music of the South

POLA 315     Elections in America / Elections in the South

POLA 425     Power and Poverty in America / Power and Poverty in the South

SOCI 201      Cuban Society Today / Southern Society Today

SOCI 201      Gender in Latin America and the Caribbean / Gender in the South

SOCI 203      Sociology of the Family / Southern Families

SOCI 213      Families & American Welfare / Southern Families

SOCI 606      Issues in the Sociology of Gender / Gender in the South

New Courses for possible consideration:  

ARHS            Southern Art

ANTH            Pre-Columbian Peoples in the Gulf South and Yucatan

ANTH            Mound Cultures in the Americas

ENGL            Contemporary Southern Literature

ENGL            The Afro-Creole Literary Tradition

ENGL            Slave Narratives in the Americas

ENGL/THEA Southern Dramatists

ENGL/THEA The Free Southern Theater

HIST              Gulf-Caribbean Immigration and Ethnicity

HIST              The Asian and East Indian Presence in the South

HIST              Systems of Segregation in the Atlantic World (emphasis on Southern US & South Africa)

HIST              New Orleans, Honduras, and the Banana Trade

HIST              Acadian to Cajun: Making an American Folk Tradition

HIST              Regionalism in North America: Quebec and the American South

HIST              Southern Exceptionalism

HIST              Plain Folk in the United States

HIST              Tourism & Underdevelopment: New Orleans & the Caribbean

HIST              Documentary Film Production: Southern Topics

HIST              Systems of Labor in the Atlantic World

HIST              Planter Society in the South, the Caribbean, and Central America

HIST              Port Culture: New York, New Orleans, Havana, Buenos Aires

HIST              Cultural History of the Civil Rights Era

MUSC           Southern Music

POLS             Politics in the South

Made possible by the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Lupin Foundation, the Georges Lurcy Charitable and Educational Trust and Tulane University.