The Women's Center provides honest, accurate information through interactive educational workshops and presentations.  Workshop topics, for students, faculty and staff, include:

•  Healthy Relationships

•  Boundaries in Relationships

•  Consent

•  Personal Safety

•  Women's Health Issues

•  Gender Equality

•  Communications Issues

•  Vicarious Tramatization

•  Eating Disorders

Some of our Programming Highlights:

"WHY JOHN CUSACK SCARES ME!"

This program explores healthy and unhealthy relationships with a focus on stalking .  We explore these issues by viewing clips from the film, Say Anything staring John Cusack.

“ON RELATIONSHIPS.”

This is a shorter program also based on Say Anything – we explore starting and building a healthy relationship , the foundations of healthy communication and consent.

“IT AIN'T LOVE: HEALTHY/UNHEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS.”

This program explores healthy and unhealthy relationships with a focus on relationship violence . In this program we explore what defines a healthy relationship. We then explore what constitutes an unhealthy relationship by viewing and discussing sections of the documentary, It Ain't Love .

"THE PORN PROGRAM."

Another popular program explores the use of porn on college campuses and in our culture at large.  Using examples from everyday life, this program looks at how we define porn and how it affects our perceptions of women and men.

"SEXUAL HARASSMENT."

In the workplace or on campus, people need to know what sexual harassment is and how to reduce the incidents of harassment.

Film Fest: We have documentaries we can show, in full or in part, and discuss after the viewing:

HIP-HOP: BEYOND BEATS and RHYMES (by Byron Hurt) is a riveting documentary that examines representations of gender roles in hip-hop and rap music through the lens of filmmaker Byron Hurt, a former college quarterback turned activist. Conceived as a “loving critique” from a self-proclaimed “hip-hop head,” Hurt examines issues of masculinity, sexism, violence and homophobia in today's hip-hop culture. (this program will be available after September 19 th , 2007.)

KILLING US SOFTLY 3: ADVERTISING'S IMAGE of WOMEN (by Jean Kilbourne) reviews if and how the image of women in advertising has changed over the last 20 years. Kilbourne uses over 160 ads and TV commercials to critique advertising's image of women.

TOUGH GUISE: VIOLENCE , MEDIA & the CRISIS in MASCULINITY (featuring Jackson Katz) is the first video geared toward college students to systematically examine the relationship between pop-cultural imagery and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at the dawn of the 21st century.

RAPE IS… a documentary exploring the meaning, severity, and consequences of rape. Rape Is… looks at rape from a global and historical perspective, but focuses mainly on the domestic cultural conditions that makes this human rights violation the most underreported crime in America .

SPIN the BOTTLE (featuring Jean Kilbourne and Jackson Katz) shows the difficulties students have in navigating a cultural environment saturated with messages about gender and alcohol . Interviews with campus health professionals provide a clear picture of how drinking impacts student health and academic performance, but it is the students ' own experiences and reflections that tell the real story behind alcohol's alluring public image.