The Office of Multicultural Affairs & Diversity offers workshops and training programs that cover a variety of topics. Our programs provide opportunities for discussion, interactive activities, and reflective exercises that encourage participants to examine their own cultural heritage while embracing others.

Appetizers

(Approximately 30 minute programs)

Classism Quiz
Test your knowledge! How much do you know about class in the U.S.?

Status of Women Quiz
Test your knowledge! How much do you know about women in the U.S.?

Media Images of
Men and Women
YouTube helps us take a look at how the media powerfully influences gender roles.

Desserts

(Approximately 30 minute programs)

Barnga
An engaging card game where participants learn that they must understand and reconcile differences if they want to function effectively in a cross-cultural group.

Ally Rainbow Exercise
This exercise explores what it means to be an ally as well as participants’ own sexual orientation and the safety/unsafety they feel around it.

Classism at UNE
Participate in a brainstorming session regarding examples of classism observed at University of New England.

Entrees

(Approximately 60-90 minute programs)

Act Like a Man/
Act Like a Woman
Activity and dialogue reflect on overt and covert messages from family, peers, neighborhood, media (TV, movies, books), schools, and churches/synagogues/temples.

“Guess Who’s Gay?” Panel
This interactive and fun exercise exposes the discrepancies between social stereotypes of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people and reality.

Who Am I?
Who Do I Pretend To Be? Who Do You Think I Am?
A powerful exercise that challenges participants to face who they have been, who they want to become, and who others perceive them to be.

Personal Timeline/Cycle of Socialization
The goal of this activity is to draw out participants’ early memories of being consciously or unconsciously taught messages about race and racial groups in order to build an awareness of how racism has affected their lives.

Understanding the Complexity of Sexuality and Gender
The object of this activity is to help participants think about the complexity of gender and sexuality, and to understand the role of homophobia in maintaining what we accept as “normal”.

Institutional Heterosexism and Heterosexual Privilege
This exercise explores how institutional forces impact our lives differently, depending on our sexual orientation.

Privilege Walk
This exercise encourages participants to become conscious of their personal privileges associated with race, ethnicity, class, ability, religion, and sexual orientation.

Workshop & Training Programs have been constructed using Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice as well as assistance from other universities.