Young, Caroline
MTWRF 10:30 AM
Park Hall 139
This course explores social equity in relation to academic access through direct engagement with Georgia state prison education curricula. In this course, students will be asked to consider: What is education and how does it translate to personal freedom? How does writing foster classroom communities, and how does shared knowledge acquisition enhance individual scholarship? How does cross community collaboration foster self and societal awareness within community members? How can writers contribute to others’ learning processes through a reflection on their own? Specifically, students will study composition as transformative practice in incarcerated education programs and the role that democratic access to the humanities plays in self and societal awareness. Students collaborate to create open access course materials/scholarship exchange with incarcerated learning communities.
This summer course section will explore the role of and access to the arts in prison education. Writing assignments will include individual and collaborative reflections on art alongside individual reflections on American Incarceration systems as revealed through the reading of literature, history, philosophy, and art history texts covering the topic. The service-learning component is a collaborative venture with Common Good Atlanta and the Georgia Museum of Art. Students will research and reflect on the museum collections and experiences shared in the museum, adding fresh materials to a teaching packages to be delivered to Common Good prison classrooms across north Georgia. Our goal: to bring the museum experience into the incarcerated Art History classroom. The service learning component will be completed on campus and in the classroom - there is no required travel. If circumstances permit (pandemic restrictions) students can optionally join a class session with students at Whitworth Women's Facility in Hartwell, GA. We are working on a future exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art, and students will be part of that preparation.