Course Details

Course offered Summer 2018

HONORS 230 B: In Your Name: Education Inside Prison (SSc, DIV)

HONORS 230 B: In Your Name: Education Inside Prison (SSc, DIV)

SLN 11752 (View UW registration info »)

Claudia Jensen (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Phone: 206-543-6848
Email: cjensen@uw.edu

Credits: 5
Limit: 12 students

Summer B-Term

Students do not need to be in the Honors Program to enroll. All students must be over 18 and must receive clearance from the Dept. of Corrections; class size limited to 12 (no auditors). Please note that accommodations may not be possible in some cases, due to the nature of the prison environment. Contact the instructor, Claudia Jensen (cjensen@uw.edu), for more information and for the add code for this class.

Take a class that will change your life and change the lives of others! Join us this Summer B Term (2018) for a series of classes at the Monroe Correctional Complex (about 45 minutes outside of Seattle, transportation provided). We will study collaboratively with a group of student-inmates at the Twin Rivers Unit and we will tour the facility and meet with the prison’s administrative and correctional staff.

This class will offer an extraordinary opportunity to be involved in the creation of an educational effort that will potentially have very large impact. We will be working with student-inmates to craft and define the education components of a larger program designed to facilitate educational opportunities inside prison and their continuation after release from prison. This project emerged from previous sessions of this Honors class, so you will be building on work accomplished by many other students, both from inside the prison and at the UW.

Our class sessions at the prison will be on Wednesdays during B term (leaving from campus at 11:00 am, returning at around 5:00 on the following dates: July 25, Aug. 1, 8, and 15). These classes are at the heart of this course, so please be sure to check your calendars and verify that you’ll be able to attend all of these sessions. On-campus sessions will include visits to local nonprofits working in the area of prison education.