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• WGS 325: SOCIAL WORK & HUMAN SEXUALITY Opens in a new window or tab.

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of PennsylvaniaExternal linkOpens in a new window or tab.

  
  This course explores the socio-cultural, physiological, and psychological variables associated with human sexual expression, identity, orientation, and behavior. Attention will also focus on clinical issues most often presented in social work practice and women and gender studies by individuals and couples, e.g., desire discrepancy in couples and affairs outside a committed relationship. Specific sexual dysfunctions identified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) will be explored in terms of their etiology and the current treatment models used to address them. The field of Sex Therapy, past and present, will be discussed as well as the evidence-based practices for treatment. This course is not designed to create sex therapists but to help social workers feel more comfortable dealing with the sexual concerns of their clients.
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• WGS 329: FEMINIST AND GENDER THEORIES Opens in a new window or tab.

  3.00 Credits

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  This course provides an overview of the leading currents, issues, and debates in feminist literary theory, including gendered voice, difference vs. equality feminism, essentialism, and queer theory. Students will read theoretical and literary selections from nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first century feminists.
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• WGS 350: LEADRSHP:A COMM PERSPECTI Opens in a new window or tab.

  3.00 Credits

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  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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• WGS 359: FEMINIST FILM THEORY Opens in a new window or tab.

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of PennsylvaniaExternal linkOpens in a new window or tab.

  
  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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• WGS 370: SEL TPS N WOMEN'S STUDIES Opens in a new window or tab.

  3.00 Credits

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  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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• WGS 374: NINETENTH CENT WOMENS LIT Opens in a new window or tab.

  3.00 Credits

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  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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• WGS 380: INDEPENDENT STUDY Opens in a new window or tab.

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

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  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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• WGS 387: FAMILY COMMUNICATION Opens in a new window or tab.

  3.00 Credits

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  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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• WGS 390: INTERNSHIP WOMENS STUDIES Opens in a new window or tab.

  3.00 - 6.00 Credits

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  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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• WGS 394: HON: INDPT STUDY Opens in a new window or tab.

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

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  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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