QRC PRACTICA OPPORTUNITIES!

Want to get involved with a leadership project through the QRC and earn credit? Check out our new practica opportunities for students beginning this fall:

1. Practicum: Queer Resource Center, Speaker's Bureau (1-2 credits available)

The Queer Resource Center is offering a 1-2 credit practicum experience (30 hours - 60hours, averaging 3-6 hours a week) during Fall 2010 and Winter 2011 terms. Practicum students will work with the Queer Resource Center Speaker's Bureau. The Bureau is committed to contributing to a Portland State University campus environment that is free from homophobia, heterosexism and gender bias. Speakers accomplish this by sharing their stories and experiences around gender identity, sexual orientation, and all marginalized and intersecting identities in classrooms, student groups, faculty gatherings and in the Portland community. Practicum students will:

*Read and understand the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of the Speaker's Bureau model
*Revise and update the existing Queer Resource Center Speaker's Bureau Manual
*Assist the Queer Resource Center Coordinator to train new panelists
*Develop a panelist recruitment plan with the QRC Coordinator and Volunteer Coordinator
*Recruit panelists
*optional: Become a trained facilitator to serve as a moderator during panels

2. Practicum: Queer Resource Center, BriGAYde (1-2 credits available)

The Queer Resource Center is offering a 1-2 credit practicum experience (30 hours - 60hours, averaging 3-6 hours a week) during Fall 2010 and Winter 2011 terms. Practicum students will work with the Queer Resource Center BriGAYde. The BriGAYde's purpose is to serve as a visible representative from the Queer Resource Center at events throughout campus. Gender identity and sexual orientation are are not always readily discernible and the BriGAYde members serve to build community among populations on campus that might not otherwise find each other.

*Read and understand the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of the BriGAYde model
*Become a trained BriGAYde member
*Develop a plan of events to attend throughout the Fall and/or Winter terms
*Attend events
*Contribute these experiences to the Queer Resource Center volunteer blog


3. Practicum: Queer Resource Center, Queer Ally Training (1-2 credits available)

The Queer Resource Center is offering a 1-2 credit practicum experience (30 hours - 60hours, averaging 3-6 hours a week) during Fall 2010 and Winter 2011 terms. Practicum students will work with the Queer Resource Center Queer Ally Training. The purpose of these trainings are to provide facilitations, experiential learning opportunities, and exercises that promote a campus environment free of heterosexism, homophobia and gender bias.

*Read and understand the Queer Resource Center facilitator's manual
*Attend at least one training intake
*Learn agenda design for the trainings
*Attend at least one training as an observer
*Create an outreach plan to advertise trainings to the PSU campus
*Optional: Deliver a training with the Queer Resource Center Coordinator

NOTE: students can also participate without earning credit