WRTG 3090
WRITING FOR COMMUNITY JUSTICE, Dr. Tracy Ferrell
Writing for Community Justice is an upper division class for students interested in learning about writing as a civic practice that works toward justice through community partnership and education. This course includes a practicum in which you team up with UC Denver's Prison Education Program to broaden access to higher education by going to Colorado state prisons to provide writing tutoring/writing center consultation services to incarcerated students. For this course, you will not only have the first hand opportunity to share your writing skills with the underserved populations of the prisons, you will learn specific skills such as writing consultation, interpersonal communication, and critical understanding of educational and societal disparities. In addition to 8-10 hours of practicum working in the prison classrooms (and via Zoom), you will study best practices for writing center tutoring; read about and gain an understanding of carceral systems and education within those systems; and reflect on your own experiences working in and writing with the incarcerated student community.Ìý