Spring 2006 Multicultural Workshops
This series of diversity workshops are offered throughout the Spring 2006 semester. Together, the series provides a fairly comprehensive curriculum addressing a variety of diversity topics including: socio-economic status, religion & spirituality, sexual orientation, gender identity, race & ethnicity, privilege, gender roles, and disABILITY. Individually, each workshop will allow participants to gain awareness and knowledge about that particular topic as well as determine what skills will be required in order to take action and act as an ally. We encourage everyone to assess their individual needs and plan to attend those workshops they feel will be most helpful.
The following workshops are also part of the Center for Student Involvement & Leadership's Leadership Workshop Series
THE MANY FACES OF SPIRITUALITY: RELIGIOUS PLURALISM ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS
Tuesday, January 235:00-6:30pm
SABINO ROOM, SUMC
Join us as we explore the role of religion and spirituality in the college experience. Can multiple faiths and multiple beliefs coexist on a college campus? With what religio-spiritual narrative do you identify? How do your beliefs affect your perception of other narratives? What is the role of pluralism and inter-faith dialogues in higher education? Come to this elMundo Multicultural Workshop and examine these questions. This program is part of the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership's Leadership Workshop Series.
WHO OWNS THE WEALTH?
Tuesday, February 65:00-6:30pm
SABINO ROOM, SUMC
The topic of Socio-Economic Status is an emotional one; however, class has a profound impact on all of us. In the US, discussion involving issues of class and money are often more taboo than discussing sexuality. Deep-seated prohibitions about disclosing the facts of one's class identity are learned quite early in our lives. Most parents or caregivers do not disclose to us as children how much money they have or earn; if they do tell us, we learn not to discuss the topics with others. Shame at being poorer or richer than others leads to secrecy and silence. This silence powerfully maintains the invisibility of class and supports the dominant myth that this is largely a classless society, or at least one in which class does not matter very much because we are all assumed to be able to move up in class if we work hard enough. This program is part of the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership's Leadership Workshop Series.
WHERE DOES THE "T" GO? DEVELOPING A SENSE OF PLACE FOR TRANSGENDER PEOPLE
Tuesday, February 205:00-6:30pm
SABINO ROOM, SUMC
Most people think gender is fixed and immutable and that everyone is either a man or a woman, male or female. Yet, gender and gender identity is far more complex than merely the description of a person's genitalia. Gender identity is determined by many factors, the most important of which is considered by some to be psychological, even spiritual, rather than physical. As transgender people "come out of the closet" of rigid gender roles and identities, we find ourselves lacking even a basic understanding of transgenderism, transsexuality and gender identity. Join us as we face the challenge to create a sense of place for transgender people. This program is part of the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership's Leadership Workshop Series.
disABILITY DISMANTLED
Tuesday, MARCH 65:00-6:30pm
SABINO ROOM, SUMC
This interactive workshop will dismantle current concepts of and biases around disability. Through personal reflection, small and large group dialogue, and media clips, participants will participants will explore ways to create and promote an inclusive community on their wings, in their building, and in the larger society. This program is part of the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership's Leadership Workshop Series.
MARS OR VENUS... WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM? GENDER ROLES IN SOCIETY
Tuesday, APRIL 175:00-6:30pm
SABINO ROOM, SUMC
"Gender roles." The term sometimes causes us to smile or laugh at the idea how anyone, in this day and age, would allow their roles to be dictated by societal norms. "My sister used to mow the lawn." "My brother washed the dishes." "Your gender doesn't matter anymore - just look at women like Condoleezza Rice..." But while things may have changed in the last 20 years, many things have remained the same. Come explore gender roles and see just how far we've come and how far we have yet to go. This program is part of the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership's Leadership Workshop Series.
