Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2021-2022
FWIS 178 - LITERATURES OF THE PRISON
Long Title: LITERATURES OF THE PRISON
Department: First-Year Writing Intensive
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Description: In this course, we will read literatures written about, within, and against prisons, developing critical perspectives on this institution and its functions. We will attend to a diverse set of voices, whose contexts include postcolonial and decolonial struggles, differently situated feminisms, the civil rights movement, and the prison abolitionist movement.