Es una muy buena introducción al estudio de la cultura del sur de los Estados Unidos y al mismo tiempo un panorama para buscar más información sobre ciertos temas como el blues, las tradiciones orales, la religión, la vida cotidiana y los grandes creadores de la literatura y la música inmersos en la tradición del sur estadounidense.

I watched many of the videos. It was very interesting. I particularly liked the stories/video clips of musicians. I do hope you have seen The Song Catcher..this reminded me of it.

This course is complete and does offer very good information on the music, stories, and art of the American South. I really enjoyed the blues music information presented to students.

interesting, the photos, the film and voice records really bring us back to the time in the past, which also help me know what the real south is.

It's a great course with a lot of background on Blues music. Tho I wish there were more music pieces to listen as examples.

Great Material. Quizes and discussions didn't work, But i was only auditing the course. There is a wealth of information.

A good course for anyone who want to know more about the American South, but a little boring~

rich and engaging documentaries took 80% of the class content - but still fun to watch!

Great course with a different perspective on history&people. Fun and simple.

Interesting course covering various aspects of the south americans culture.

Good course with lots of educator's personal experience and footage.

Great reflections on some wonderful oral history research.

Really good course. Happy I had a chance to take it :)

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Interesting introduction to the South, Professor Ferris tries to be as exhaustive as the format allows however the exhaustivity leads to a sense of barely skimming the surface over too many topics. I would have preferred a little less and a few more in depth analysis.

Impressive archives collection, definitely a plus of this course.

The best part of this course was, of course, the videos. But it just scratched the surface. I would have been happy to have a whole unit on Eudora Welty or B B King or the Chitlen Circuit. Each and every one of the films was priceless. But the course didn't fully exploit the possibilities of the web and I felt it was very static.

This was a really good course. I was mostly interested in the music and related culture, but I will be interested to read some of the books that were discussed. Thanks!

Too reliant on materials directly collected by professor, too little context of larger artistic community.

Examples are good. Lecturer could be more interesting

This course would work better if the material wasn

It was interesting to a point, but there was no application of the knowledge gained. It was merely a regurgitation of facts.

useless