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• WS 211: Women & Creativity

  3.00 Credits

  Carlow University

  
  An interdisciplinary approach to how women have been valued for their creativity and how women value and express their own creativity. The course takes a broad cultural approach to creativity and innovation across the disciplines
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• WS 219: Boy Cultures

  3.00 Credits

  Carlow University

  
  The course is designed to invite male and female students who have a scholarly and/or personal interest in both understanding the complexity of the subject and considering implications for positive changes in areas where males struggle. The class explores constructs of masculinity in the U.S. using an intersectional approach, which assumes that there are multiple masculinities that intersect with race, class, ableism, sexuality and gender identity. Masculinity is a powerful vehicle that motivates the behavior of boys and men, and if it is redefined and constructed as responsibility for others (and not domination) the impacts can be tremendous
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• WS 221: Women & Religion

  3.00 Credits

  Carlow University

  
  Exploration of the religious experiences of women and the expectations placed on women by churches. The course will discover women?s place as participants in the believing and ministering community
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• WS 228: Gender, Law and Public Policy

  3.00 Credits

  Carlow University

  
  This course analyzes laws, public policies, and practices that have constructed and regulated gender in and across public and private sectors, with special attention to employment and education. It examines the historical constructions of gender as a concept in American society, including how and why this concept was institutionalized publicly and privately in various arenas of the United States at different historical junctures. The course will conclude with a study of the progress that has been made in dismantling gendered institutions and the challenges that remain
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• WS 230: Women in Culture & Society

  3.00 Credits

  Carlow University

  
  An interdisciplinary examination of issues of gender in U.S. society and across other cultures. The basis of gender differences is explored, and then the course examines a number of aspects of society and culture-economics, politics, families, education, communication, and religion-in terms of gender differences
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• WS 236: Gender Differences in Comm

  3.00 Credits

  Carlow University

  
  An examination of gender differences in communication that are sustained by cultures. Students will explore how gender roles are created and perpetuated. They will then examine the ways our interpersonal and social interactions, including our experience with the mass media, influence our probability of success, satisfaction, and self-esteem. In assignments and discussion, students will link theory and research on gender and communication with their personal lives
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• WS 237: Special Topics: Women's Studi

  3.00 Credits

  Carlow University

  
  Course to be offered in a topic area of a women's studies core course. Course satisfies Women's Studies Core and Women's Studies Minor requirements
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• WS 250: Film Studies: Images of Women

  3.00 Credits

  Carlow University

  
  Introduction to the basic vocabulary and techniques of analysis and criticism by examining images of women in film
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• WS 262: Women's Writing Illness & Heal

  3.00 Credits

  Carlow University

  
  Women's Writing on Illness and Healing is an interdisciplinary course about women writers whose works explore mental health, physical health, and healing from a social justice perspective. Students read a range of literary genres on topics such as mental health/illness, health care workers, family and disability, facing mortality, and healing, hope, and grace. The course uses both literary analysis and Women's and Gender Studies approaches
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• WS 265: Psychology of Women

  3.00 Credits

  Carlow University

  
  An overview of theories and current research on the psychological nature of women, specifically related to the adult life cycle of women from adolescence through maturity. Adult female life will be examined with particular emphasis on critical periods of development as these developments affect the emotional life of the modern woman
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