CMU Prison Education Project:

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(This course requires students to fill out a questionnaire and receive instructor approval.) We read newspapers for reports about what is happening in our world. But we also read fiction—novels and stories—that tell us about our world, and alternative worlds. In this course we'll read classic American fiction such as "Rip van Winkle" and by Rebecca Harding Davis, Melville, and Faulkner, as well as more contemporary fiction by Octavia Butler, Colson Whitehead, and others, and consider about what they say about their culture and society. This course is based on the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, and will be taught at SCI Somerset, a nearby prison. For more information about Inside/Out, see: https://www.insideoutcenter.org/prospective-students.html The course will include both "outside" students from CMU, as well as "inside" students at SCI Somerset. The course focuses on active participation and discussion between students. The Somerset class runs from 2:30-5:10 on Friday afternoons. CMU students will travel together by bus, leaving our campus at 12:30 sharp and return by around 7:15 pm. To enroll, students in the course will submit a brief application and interview with faculty. The course is part of an exciting new initiative by CMU to bring education into America's prisons. Course Website: https://bit.ly/f26cmupep236