Southwestern Studies
The Southwestern Studies minor fosters an interdisciplinary examination of an historically and culturally significant region-the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The program offers opportunities for students to explore important topics in a regional context, including multicultural diversity, economic development, political and social change, art and literature, environment, cultural and historical geography, historical cartography, and architectural and urban history. The minor is supported by faculty from seven departments and is sponsored by the University's Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and the History of Cartography, which promotes the use of the UT Arlington Special Collections and the Minority Cultures Collection in the Central Library.
With the permission of their departmental advisor, students enroll in 18 hours selected primarily from the courses listed below. These hours must be distributed among at least three different departments.
Some of the following courses change content from offering to offering and might not be relevant to the minor during a particular year. In addition, special topics courses and/or courses taught outside the College of Liberal Arts may also be used to fulfill the Southwestern Studies minor with the permission of the Director of Southwestern Studies. For these reasons it is important that students consult with the Southwestern Studies faculty advisor before registering each semester.
| Course Descriptions | ||
| (Select 6 classes from the below to equal 18 credit hours. 3 credit hours must be distributed among at least 3 different departments.) | ||
| Anthropology | ||
| NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS | ||
| NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY | ||
| Architecture | ||
| HISTORY OF URBAN FORM | ||
| Art History | ||
| ART OF THE ANCIENT AMERICAS | ||
| English | ||
| TOPICS IN LITERATURE | ||
| AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE | ||
| MEXICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE | ||
| CREATIVE WRITING | ||
| TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE | ||
| Geography | ||
| IMAGES OF THE SOUTHWEST | ||
| HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHY | ||
| GEOGRAPHY OF THE GREATER SOUTHWEST | ||
| SPECIAL TOPICS IN MODERN GEOGRAPHY | ||
| CONFERENCE COURSE | ||
or GEOG 4291 | CONFERENCE COURSE | |
or GEOG 4391 | CONFERENCE COURSE | |
| History | ||
| HISTORY OF THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH METROPLEX | ||
| THE SOUTHWEST | ||
| THE EARLY FRONTIER | ||
| THE LATER FRONTIER | ||
| TEXAS TO 1850 | ||
| TEXAS SINCE 1845 | ||
| AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY | ||
| MEXICAN AMERICAN HISTORY | ||
| THE IMAGE OF THE AMERICAN WEST | ||
| IMAGES OF THE SOUTHWEST | ||
| HISTORY OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL | ||
| LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY: ORIGINS THROUGH INDEPENDENCE | ||
| LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY: POST-INDEPENDENCE TO THE PRESENT | ||
| HISTORY OF MEXICO | ||
| Spanish | ||
| LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO HISPANIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE | ||
| TOPICS IN HISPANIC CULTURE | ||
| TOPICS IN LATIN-AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE TO MODERNISM | ||
| TOPICS IN CONTEMPORARY LATIN-AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE, MODERNISM TO THE PRESENT | ||
| CHICANO LITERATURE | ||
| MEXICAN LITERATURE | ||
| Political Science | ||
| DICTATORSHIP AND DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS | ||
| MEXICAN POLITICS AND U.S.-MEXICO RELATIONS | ||
| POLITICS OF MEXICAN AMERICANS | ||