We always are happy to develop new workshops based on requests from students. As of January 2009, 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 one.
MySpace or Yours? Your online profile lists your birth date, your relationship status, your class schedule, your activities, your AIM, your e-mail, your campus address, your phone numbers, your hometown and much more. Plus you have 942 Facebook friends. Is there a down side? Explore the challenges of connecting your online life with your offline life and leave with a better understanding of online safety.
Making the Most of Your College Experience: Want to have the most meaningful friendships and relationships possible during your time at USC and beyond? Being able to befriend new people takes some skills used in everyday interaction. Just being aware of these commonalities regarding interaction and practicing them little by little will lead to you enhancing your social interactions and relationships with others.
Defining Beautiful: Critique and discuss what advertisements, television shows and movies tell us about how we should look. Learn ways to recognize when someone is struggling with body image issues or eating disorders and about campus resources.
It’s Not You. It’s Me. (OK, It’s You.): When you end a relationship, you can avoid creating bitterness and minimize hurt feelings. Practice breaking up and find ways to get through the often-difficult days immediately following a breakup.
Using the “F Word" in Your Sorority: Explore different understandings of sisterhood and their connections to feminism.
Helping Friends through a Crisis: Understand types of crises that occur on college campuses and ways to support friends experiencing such crises.
Understanding Sexual Violence: Dispel misconceptions about sexual assault, discuss scenarios and learn about common tactics that perpetrators use.
The Men Care Suite
Consent is Sexy: 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.
Fight On for Equality: This workshop teaches practical skills and helps participants identify options they could apply in real-life scenarios to intervene as bystanders.
Providing Care: Understand common reactions that survivors of sexual assault experience and discuss ways to be a supportive friend.
Masculinity and Gender Roles: Participants look at societal messages about how men are supposed to behave, how those messages affect relationships and what healthy ways of expressing their masculinity may look like.
GBT Sexual Assault: Discuss scenarios and concerns encountered by gay, bisexual and male-identied transgender college students in sexual situations. Learn ways to intervene when you spot red flags in social situations, whether you're an ally or GBT-identified yourself. (A lesbian and female-identified transgender student discusion also is available through the USC Center for Women & Men.)
To learn more about USC Men Care, please visit its website.
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. And throughout the year, the USC Center for Women & Men hosts a series of talks about the intersection of gender and different dimensions of diversity. To learn about upcoming events, visit our calendar.
To schedule a program, contact Danielle Lançon or Todd Henneman.