Critical Social Inquiry 0191 - School to Prison Pipeline

This course is designed to engage students in a semester long examination of the complex systems that link schools with the juvenile and adult correctional system. Students will use original texts, documentaries, and research to understand the history of the school to prison pipeline. Students will examine the role that race, ethnicity, linguistic differences, and disabilities affect the risk of suspension, dropout, delinquency, and criminality. Students will use the knowledge developed over the semester to develop their own empirically supported theories on the school to prison pipeline phenomenon, and to present these theories in an end of the semester poster session.

Power, Community and Social Justice Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research Students are expected to spend at least six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time.