Southern Studies (SOST)
The Southern Studies minor is designed to provide students with a thorough, interdisciplinary grounding in the major themes, issues, and theoretical assumptions concerning southern history, literature, and politics. Students who secure a southern studies minor will be prepared to pursue careers in business, education, law, and in post-graduate work in history, literature, or political science, particularly as it relates to the Southern region of the United States.
Courses
- AAST 32303 — African American History to 1877
- AAST 32403 — African American History Since 1877
- AAST 32903 — Black Politics
- AAST 43803 — The American Civil Rights Movement
- AAST 49303 — African American Political Ideology
- ENGL 31103 — Folklore
- ENGL 38503 — Topics in African-American Literature and Culture
- ENGL 38603 — Topics in Literature and Culture of the American South
- HIST 32303 — African American History to 1877
- HIST 32403 — African American History Since 1877
- HIST 33803 — Arkansas and the Southwest
- HIST 43803 — The American Civil Rights Movement
- HIST 45003 — History of Political Parties in the United States, 1789-1896
- HIST 45603 — The Old South, 1607-1865
- HIST 45703 — The New South, 1860 to the Present
- HIST 45803 — Arkansas in the Nation
- HIST 45903 — The Colonial French in the Mississippi Valley
- HIST 46503 — Antebellum America, 1828-1850
- HIST 46603 — Rebellion to Reconstruction, 1850-1877
- HIST 46703 — The American Civil War
- PLSC 32103 — The South and the Law: Race, Gender, and Citizenship
- PLSC 32203 — Arkansas Politics and the Nation
- PLSC 32903 — Black Politics
- PLSC 43303 — Southern Politics
- PLSC 49303 — African American Political Ideology
- SOCI 31703 — Latinos, Migration, and the U.S. South
- SOST 20003 — Introduction to Southern Studies
- SOST 3990V — Special Topics in Southern Studies
- WLLC 30503 — The Colonial French in the Mississippi Valley