Don’t Call it a Comeback
It wasn’t too long ago that I was expecting not to teach for the Scholars Program anymore. Things don’t always work out as you expect! But, as of this past Wednesday, I was glad to find myself back in prison….
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classes
Teaching and Learning in a Maximum-Security Prison
When I tell people that I volunteer teach at a maximum-security prison, many people nod and tell me “that’s cool,” and some compliment me for being “generous.” But few understand what a deeply gratifying, enriching, and inspiring experience it is….
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Goodbye, Heart of Darkness
This has been a bit of a summer of upheavals for me, personally, so I hope you readers won’t mind a personal note to this post. After two years of having the privilege to work with the teachers and student…
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Reflections from the JCI Criminal Justice Class
It was a great pleasure to be in the company of you and the students. It’s refreshing to be able to let your hair down and just get to know people from the outside. But in prison you always have…
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Criminal Justice Group Projects
Visit the criminal justice class page to see examples of students group projects.
Advanced Literature 4/16/2014
Guest post from a MICA student, Jess Bither, who joined our class on April 16: After everyone introduced themselves, Mikita passed out copies of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde. Previously, they had been reading Macbeth. I was…
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Violence (5/2/14)
So, at the last Violence class, we were talking about both a section on the rise of the Black Panther Party (from Black Against Empire) and on the early inroads of militarization into police forces (from Rise of the Warrior…
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Violence (4/18/14)
So, the Violence class. I’ve wanted to teach a course like this for a while, for two reasons. First, it’s a matter of professional interest to me – especially to look at violence as a phenomenon that cross-cuts issues that…
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History of Economic Thought (4/18/14)
Rachel Donaldson writes: In class we have been reading Robert Heilbroner’s The Worldly Philosophers and this week we read the chapter on Thorstein Veblen. We began by discussing how Veblen’s economic views intersected with earlier economic theorists like Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, and…
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Labyrinth Lord (Games and Game Design, 4/11/14)
This is a bit belated, as it relates to last Friday’s class (but I thought I should write it up before I leave to teach this Friday’s class). Josh has already put together a nice write-up of basically what this class is on…
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