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Women's Studies (WMST) 302
Communication Skills—Feminist Practice (Revision 4)

WMST 302 closed, replaced by WGST 302.

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Delivery mode: Individualized study; video component.*
*Overseas students, please contact the University Library before registering in a course that has an audio/visual component.

Credits: 3 - Social Science

Prerequisite: WMST 266 or equivalent.

Precluded course: None

Centre: Centre for Work and Community Studies

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 theory and practice. The course focuses particularly on increasing communications knowledge and skills, and developing beginning counselling. Emphasis is placed on enhancing self-awareness, skill development, and understanding counsellors’ roles and responsibilities.

Outline

Unit 1: The Communication Process

Unit 2: Enhancing Interpersonal Skills

Unit 3: The Counselling Process

Unit 4: Introduction to Feminist Counselling

Unit 5: Skill Development in Counselling

Unit 6: Ethical Issues

Unit 7: Evaluating Risks and Accessing Resources

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Evaluation

To receive credit for WMST 302, you must complete four quizzes and submit two major assignments, achieve a minimum overall composite grade of “D” (50 per cent) and an overall grade of “D” (50 per cent) or better on Assignment 2.

Unit 1: Quiz
10%
Unit 2: Quiz
10%
Unit 3: Quiz
10%
Unit 4: Quiz
10%
Assignment 1 (paper)
25%
Assignment 2 (demo)
35%
Total
100%

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.

Course Materials

Textbooks

Adler, R. B., Towne, Rolls, J. A. (2004). Looking out/looking in (2nd Canadian ed.). Scarborough, ON: Thomson/Nelson.

Adler, R. B., Towne, Rolls, J. A. (2004). Activities manual/study guide to accompany looking out/looking in (2nd Canadian ed.). Scarborough, ON: Thomson/Nelson.

Other Materials

In addition to the textbooks, the course materials include a study guide, course manual, reading file, and a videorecording.

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