Teachers and students worked together at the University of Alabama to evolve a literature course that dealt with the Southern regional character and culture as manifested in the writings of women. The course began with an orientation to the region, with emphasis on the images and stereotypes of Southern women. Literary material included in the course was divided into four sections determined by subregions and covering lowland white, lowland black, mountain, and Cajan, Acadian, and Creole. Planned activities integrated reading, discussion, and a number of research tasks that included collection of oral history, study of folklore, and archival work with manuscripts. Regionalism was approached as a whole perceptual structure manifested in each piece of writing through the language, structure, details of climate, setting, flora, fauna, social relationships, community layout, and individual character types. (MAI)