Advanced - Level Three Workshop Description
Level Three Diversity Awareness workshops are geared for college students with the following skills sets:
- Students who possess a developed knowledge and understanding of the concepts of diversity, cultural diversity, social justice and the role of personal identity development in shaping one’s beliefs systems, as well as the ability to critically examine some of the institutionalized forms of oppression and how these constructs inhibit social justice.
- Typically these students have already attended diversity awareness workshops or other diversity training/awareness workshops and seminars during their college career.
- Have or are currently taking courses in issues surrounding diversity and or are focusing their area of study on issues surrounding diversity, oppression and social justice.
The workshops are designed to engage students in a challenging discussion that critically examine how some existing belief systems and institutional structures inhibit diversity awareness and the fostering of social justice.
Some of the workshops invite the students to further their personal knowledge and awareness of issues, by assisting them in creating action plans to foster ongoing learning.
Each workshop follows a similar format but addresses specific areas of diversity that are geared to actively engage the student in experiential learning via team building exercises and guided dialogue. Students are encouraged to step out side of their "comfort zone" in order to probe more deeply the complexity of issues of oppression.
All of the workshops outcomes are geared to raise awareness of cultural diversity, UB’s cultural diversity and diverse personal beliefs.
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Diversity and Your Cultural Lens- Level 3
Time Frame: 50 minutes
Intended OutcomesBy the end of the workshop students should have a comprehensive understanding and awareness of how the development of an individual’s personal cultural lens is shaped by personal experiences as well as how an individual is viewed by the larger society, e.g. how their race, ethnicity, gender, class and sexual orientation shape not only how they experience the world, but also how the world "views" them, and how this "world view" can operate to either foster or inhibit diversity awareness.
Objectives- Engage students in discussions about issues related to the messages that they have received from their families and the larger society about who they are, who they should be, and what they are capable of achieving.
- To offer students the opportunity to critically explore and discuss how having an awareness of "their place in society" has impacted their level of desire to further their knowledge and awareness of diversity related issues.
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Diversity and Social Justice – Level 3
Time Frame: 50 minutes
Intended OutcomesStudents will be given the opportunity to explore the co-curricular resources available to them at UB to further their knowledge of social justice issues, and advocating skills. Students create an action plan designed to foster ongoing development of their advocacy skills.
Objectives- Inform students of the co-curricular resources available to them to further their knowledge of social justice issues and advocacy skills.
- Assist students in creating an action plan that will foster on going development of their advocacy skills.
To register you may request a workshop online.