Social Thought & Polic. Econ 397C - ST-Impact/MassCrimnlztn/Women
Fall
2013
01
2.00
Michael Ash;Tina Rynolds
M 7:00PM 9:00PM; F 12:00PM 2:00PM; M 7:00PM 9:00PM; F 12:00PM 2:00PM
UMass Amherst
40416
This course will introduce the contemporary history of incarceration, Abolitionist and Revolutionary perspectives on the incarceration crisis, and prospects for healing, organizing, and social change.
Interested students should contact Michael Ash, mash@econs.umass.edu to learn more about course admission and requirements. To request enrollment in this course please submit Name, Class Year, Major, SPIRE ID number and, in a statement of one page or less, answer these questions: (1) What is your interest in incarceration? (2) Have you experienced directly or indirectly the impact of incarceration? and (3) What might a highly incarcerated society mean to you in the future?
The class will be taught by Tina Reynolds, who will be a resident Five College Social Justice Practitioner for the Fall 2013 semester. Tina Reynolds is co-founder and Executive Director of Women on the Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH; http://www.womenontherise-worth.org/), an NYC-based association of currently and formerly incarcerated women that uses organizing, leadership development, mentoring, mutual support, and storytelling, to transform the lives of women affected by incarceration and change public perception and policy.
The class will be taught by Tina Reynolds, who will be a resident Five College Social Justice Practitioner for the Fall 2013 semester. Tina Reynolds is co-founder and Executive Director of Women on the Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH; http://www.womenontherise-worth.org/), an NYC-based association of currently and formerly incarcerated women that uses organizing, leadership development, mentoring, mutual support, and storytelling, to transform the lives of women affected by incarceration and change public perception and policy.