Women's Studies (WMST) 302
Communication Skills: Feminist Practice (Revision 1)

This version of WMST 302 closed. To current version.
Delivery mode: Individualized study.
Credits: 3 - Social Science
Prerequisite: WMST 300 or equivalent.
Centre: Centre for Work and Community Studies
Challenge for Credit: WMST 302 has a Challenge for Credit option.

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Overview

This course provides an introduction to communication skills within the context of feminist counselling, emphasizing the micro-skills of communication and process rather than content. Experiential exercises will be used to practise a variety of basic skills and to further students' development of their personal counselling style

Outline

  • Unit 1 Key concepts
  • Unit 2 Basic counselling skills
  • Unit 3 Verbal attending skills
  • Unit 4 Responding skills
  • Unit 5 Influencing skills
  • Unit 6 Ethics.

Evaluation

To receive credit for WMST 302, students must achieve a course composite grade of at least "D" (50 percent).

The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:
Participation in Class
Discussion and Role-plays		 Completion of Worksheets
on Articles		 Videotape or Audiotape of
a Counselling Session		 Paper on Ethics
and Case Management
20% 25% 30% 25%

Course Materials

The course materials include a student manual and a book of readings. A videotape will be sent to each audioconference site (not individual students).

Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice.
Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.

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