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SOCY 406 Walls to Bridges - Socio-Legal Issues Units: 3.00
This is an experimental learning course based on the Walls to Bridges program model, which brings together students from Queen's University ('outside students') with students from a local federal prison ('inside students') to learn and share knowledge based on their lived experience and critical analysis of academic scholarship. Topics may vary.
NOTE This course will take place off campus at a local federal prison, as part of the Walls to Bridges prison education program - http://wallstobridges.ca.
NOTE This course will take place off campus at a local federal prison, as part of the Walls to Bridges prison education program - http://wallstobridges.ca.
Requirements: Prerequisite (Level 4 or above and registration in a SOCY Major or Joint Honours Plan and a [minimum grade of C in SOCY 210/3.0 and SOCY 211/3.0 and SOCY 226/3.0 and SOCY 227/3.0] and a [minimum GPA of 2.60 in SOCY 210/3.0 and SOCY 211/3.0 and SOCY 226/3.0 and SOCY 227/3.0] and a [minimum GPA of 2.60 in up to 18.0 units of SOCY option courses]).
Exclusion PHIL 406/3.0.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Acquire knowledge of the concept and process of 'othering' by bringing together course readings and lived experiences in both oral and written form.
- Challenge the stigma of incarceration by fostering dialogue between "inside" and "outside" students.
- Develop a clear understanding of the socio-political nature of incarceration and the othering process via intersectional analyses of race, gender, class, sexuality, and ability.
- Develop and demonstrate communication skills, self-reflexivity, and critical engagement with course material.
- Practice collaborative and reflective learning.
- Understand and enact the principles of non-hierarchical circle pedagogy, as practiced in the Walls to Bridges program.