We always are happy to develop new workshops based on requests from students. The Center for Women & Men offers the following programs:
Cultivating Healthy Relationships: Explore the equality wheel, identify your "non-negotiables," discuss what a “perfect partner” may look like, and learn the difference between a bad relationship and an abusive relationship.
Defining Beautiful: Available for all-female, all-male and co-ed audiences, this interactive program encourages students to analyze and discuss media images. Students learn some of the ways to recognize when someone is struggling with eating issues and about campus resources that provide help.
Putting the “F” Word Back in your Sorority: This program explores individual understandings of sisterhood and their connections to feminism.
Helping Friends through a Crisis: This educational look at the types of crises that occur on college campuses.
Understanding Sexual Assault: Intended for all-female audiences, this interactive and educational workshops helps dispel misconceptions about sexual assault as students discuss scenarios.
The Men CARE Suite
Straight Talking: In this introductory workshop, peer educators facilitate a discussion about sex, sexual assault, consent and the idea of bystander intervention. Guys participate in a "my universe" empathy exercise and explore scenarios.
Looking to Lead: This new workshop explores what violence prevention has to do with leadership, exploring the ideas of accountability, integrity and empathy.
Taking a Stand: This interactive workshop teaches practical skills and helps participants identify options they could apply in real-life scenarios to intervene as bystanders.
Taking the Mask out of Masculinity: Participants look at societal messages about how men are supposed to behave, how those messages affect relationships and what healthy masculinity looks like.
In early April, the Women’s Student Assembly in conjunction with the USC Center for Women & Men holds a weeklong series of events that culminates with the Take Back the Night rally and candlelight march. In late April, the USC Center for Women & Men organizes the campus participation in Denim Day.
To request more information or to schedule a program, contact lancon@usc.edu or henneman@usc.edu.