Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 310

Overview

WGST 310: Feminist Approaches to Counselling Women focuses on crisis, or short-term, counselling. Students will have the opportunity to practice their skills and receive feedback. Students will gain an understanding of the major conceptual, ethical, and theoretical issues in the field of counselling women.

Course Outline

The course consists of the following five units.

Unit 1: Foundations of Feminist Counselling

Unit 2: Crisis Counselling in Action

Unit 3: Ethics and Feminist Crisis Counselling

Unit 4: Application of Feminist Counselling Skills to Special Issues

Unit 5: Safety Planning and Beyond

Evaluation

To receive credit for WGST 310, you must achieve a course composite grade of at least "D" (50 percent). The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:

Course Materials

Students will access all course materials online.

Challenge for Credit Course Overview

The Challenge for Credit process allows students to demonstrate that they have acquired a command of the general subject matter, knowledge, intellectual and/or other skills that would normally be found in a university level course.

Full information for the Challenge for Credit can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar.

• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Policy
• Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Procedures

Challenge Evaluation

To receive credit for the WGST 310 challenge registration, you need to complete each component and receive an overall grade of "D" (50 percent).

Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Course Registration Form

• Challenge for Credit Form