Special topics courses which may be used as major electives in women's studies: AFAM 4860 Topics in African American Studies is allowed only when the topics is "Afro-Hispanic Identity: Women of the Hispanic Caribbean" or "Caribbean Women Write Back"; other relevant topics may be petitioned* to WMST. ENGL 4590 Topics in Nineteenth-Century British Literature is allowed only when the topic is "Romantic Opera"; other relevant topics may be petitioned* to WMST. ENGL 4690 Topics in Twentieth-Century British Literature is allowed only when the topic is "Virginia Woolf"; other relevant topics may be petitioned* to WMST. ENGL 4860 Multicultural Topics in American Literature is allowed only when the topic is Native Women Writers. ENGL 4870 Folklore Studies is allowed only when topic is "Women in Folklore." ENGL(AFAM) 4880 Topics in African American Literature is allowed only when the topic is "African Diasporic Women Representing Slavery"; other relevant topics may be petitioned* to WMST. HACE 4900 Seminar in Housing and Consumer Economics allowed only when the topic is "Exploring Family and Consumer Sciences History" HIST 4000/6000 Studies in American History is allowed only when the topic is "History of Women in the American South"; other relevant topics may be petitioned to WMST. "Women Private Property, and the State," "Sexuality in U.S. History," "Race, Gender, and Sport," and "Women in the North American West." Other topics may be petitioned* to WMST. HIST 4200/6200 Studies in Latin American History is allowed only when the topic is "Race, Gender and Revolution in the Americas" HIST 4600/6600 Studies in Asian History is allowed only when the topic is "Women, Gender, and Family in Traditional Japan"; other relevant topics may be petitioned* to WMST. HIST 4960 Directed Reading in History is allowed only when the topic is "Reacting to the Past: Greenwich Village 1913: Suffrage, Labor and the New Woman"; other relevant topics may be petitioned* to WMST. SOCI 3250: Social Movements and Collective Behavior (when it is taught by Dr. Patricia Richards) RELI 4900 Topics and Problems in Religion is only allowed when the topic is "Women in Religion and Literature"; other relevant topics may be petitioned* to WMST. *It is expected that petitioned courses will have a significant focus on gender, sexuality, and/or feminist theory. Questions Email wspinfo@uga.edu if you have any questions.
