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INCARCERATION AND EDUCATION

CURRIC/EDPOL/LEGALST 250
Course Description

Investigates how the systems of incarceration and education operate alongside, within, around and through one another. Provides a historical examination of how education and incarceration have interacted. Examines how prisons operate as 'teaching institutions,' what it teaches all of us impacted by it, and what interventions have been designed to facilitate particular kinds of learning. Presents firsthand accounts of those who work and live in the carceral system currently.

Prerequisties

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Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

3

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Not Applicable

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