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  • WGST 350: Leadership: A Communication Perspective

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course serves as an introduction to the study and practice of leadership from a communication perspective. To this end it explores communication variables involved when leaders attempt to influence members to achieve a goal. Particular focus will be on the relationship between communicating and leading. Topics include power, credibility, motivation, research on leadership traits, styles and situations, global leadership, ethics, and current models of leadership such as transformational, charismatic, and functional approaches.
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  • WGST 359: Feminist Film Theory

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    In this course, students will investigate the intersections of feminist film theory and cinematic representations of gender as both subject and object. Gender equality, identity, fluidity, and freedom have been foregrounded in contemporary political and social conversations and accordingly in cultural products such as film. The course will examine the political, social, economic, and cultural implications of gender representations within the narrative, documentary and avant-garde traditions of feminist and anti-feminist film practices and theory. Special attention will be paid to marginalized and underrepresented communities to highlight conversations about human rights, civil rights, and equality.
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  • WGST 370: Selected Topics in Women's Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This is a course for students who wish to deal with a specific women's issues topic or system in greater detail than current offerings permit. Topics will depend on needs and interests of students and faculty interest and expertise. May be taken a maximum of three (3) times.
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  • WGST 374: Nineteenth Century Women's Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course covers selected literary texts by nineteenth-century British and American women writers. It also focuses upon gender-specific conflicts and changing perceptions about the nature, roles, and rights of women during this important era in the history of literature by women.
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  • WGST 380: Independent Study

    1.00 - 3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    This course is designed for students who wish to study a particular problem or selected topic in Women's Studies in depth with a qualified instructor. The student, in consultation with the designated instructor, will propose his/her program of study by defining the focus, setting objectives, and planning outcomes. Depending on the complexity or magnitude of the study, the student will be awarded one, two or three credits.
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  • WGST 387: Family Communication

    3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    Family Communication is designed to introduce students to communication in the family setting. The overall goal is to help you understand how, through communication, we develop, maintain, enhance or disturb family relationships. The course will examine the role of communication as it relates to family identities, family roles, relational maintenance, intimacy, conflict, decision-making, family stress and well-being. Students will learn verbal and nonverbal skills that can promote healthy family communication. This course will potentially be an important beginning in assessing the communication skills, that are inherent in your own family.
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  • WGST 390: Internship in Women's Studies

    3.00 - 6.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    Students with a Women's Studies Minor are provided with an opportunity to apply skills and knowledge gained in the minor to a supervised work experience in an agency concerned with women's issues. Junior or Senior standing and approval of The Women's Studies Director are required.
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  • WGST 394: Honors Independent Study

    1.00 - 3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    Through this course, the student will do work appropriate to their field of study. The specific methodology, content, and background required for this course depends on the field or fields in which it is completed. The student should develop their Independent Study proposal the semester before they register for the course. The course involves individual or small group independent study. A student may register for this course more than once. Maximum of 9 credits.
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  • WGST 395: Honors Capstone Project / Independent Study

    1.00 - 6.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    Through this course, the student will create a project or related set of projects of near professional quality in their field. The specific methodology, content, and background required for this course depends on the field or fields in which it is completed. Students should begin gathering background, skills and knowledge to take it as early as their sophomore year. They should develop their capstone project proposal the semester before they register for the course, and ideally will take two semesters to complete it. The course involves individual or small group independent study. A student may register for this course more than once. Maximum of 6 credits.
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  • WGST 398: Honors Supplemental Work

    1.00 - 3.00 Credits
    Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

    Through this course, the student will do work appropriate to their field of study. The specific methodology, content, and background required for this course depends on the field or fields in which it is completed. The student should develop their Honors Supplemental Work proposal the semester before they register for the course. The Supplemental Work involves individual or small group independent study attached to another course. (This is analogous to a lab attached to a science course.) A student may register for this course more than once. Maximum of 9 credits.
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