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Dr. Silvia Behrend introduces us to Leadership & Aesthetics in the video found here. This course is taught regularly; and the fall course closed out with a gallery and reception. (See photos from the December 7, 2012 reception here.)

Marnie’s office hours during Christmas break will be:

• Out of the office December 6,7, & 10.
• Regular office hours December 11-21.
• In the office December 27-28, and January 2, 3 & 4, 2013.

Doctoral faculty will be out of the office December 17 through January 14.

Grades for the Fall term are due December 19. Also, please remember to fill out student evaluations for fall classes before then.

Students who are enrolled in classes this fall term are highly encouraged to provide feedback to their instructors. Please take 30 minutes to complete the course evaluations, which are now up on Zagweb for two more weeks. Instructions are below.

1. Go to Zagweb
2. To Login: Click “Enter Secure Area” and input your “User ID” and “PIN”.
3. Click the “Student & Financial Aid” menu selection.
4. Click the “Registration” menu selection.
5. Click “Online Course Evaluations”
6. Select a “Registered Term”
7. Select a course
8. Complete standard questions and comment questions
9. Remember to  “Save” your responses

On behalf of the faculty who gain valuable feedback from students, thank you!

The Leadership and Aesthetics Class, DPLS 773, cordially invites you to the gallery showing of their stone carvings in the Tilford lobby on December 7 from 5-6:30 p.m. Students will be available to talk about their creative process and how that aligns with leadership theory and praxis. Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome.

The syllabus for DPLS 748 Feminist Ethics in the Spring 2013 term is now up on the web. You may find it here. Please note the dates of this class, as the classes land on weeks different from other terms.

To those of you taking the DPLS 708 Servant-leadership, Restorative Justice, and Forgiveness course in the spring, the syllabus is in need of a clarification. We will be using the Forgiveness and Power book (listed in the course texts section of the syllabus), not The Spirit of Servant Leadership book (listed in the modules on the syllabus). The syllabus, which may be found here, has been updated to reflect this change.

Attention new students for spring 2013! Please join us Friday, January 18, 2013, for Orientation from 3-5 p.m. in Tilford 117. Refreshments will be served.

UPDATE: Registration has been enabled; students may now sign up for this course on Zagweb.

A new, one-credit special topics course has been added to the Spring 2013 term. This course is DPLS 775 Contemporary Thought on Servant-Leadership. The syllabus may be found here. One class session will occur March 21, 2013, 8 a.m.-Noon, location TBA somewhere on the Gonzaga campus. All other coursework will take place online. Students may register on Zagweb as soon as the CRN becomes available. We will do our best to notify you when that happens.

I am grateful for the opportunity to engage with you in multiple dialogues on feminist ethics in the spring of 2013. I am in the process of making changes to the syllabus; the focus of the course will be on a contemporary understanding and application of feminist ethics with an appreciation for its philosophical antecedents. Assignments and a final project will change to reflect the content and discourse of the class. I will have a final syllabus posted here as soon as possible. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact me at behrend@gonzaga.edu or 360-259-3971.

The following books listed in the syllabus will be required:

• DesAutels & Waugh, Eds. (2001). Feminists Doing Ethics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
• Hinman, L.M. (2008). Ethics: A pluralistic approach to moral theory, 4th ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth
• Nussbaum, M. (2000). Women and Human Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Recommended texts are:

• Noddings, Nel (2003). Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, 2nd ed., University of California Press.
• Whisnant & DesAutels, Eds. (2008). Global Feminist Ethics. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
• Moyers, Bill (1995). The Language of Life. New York: Doubleday.