POV 296 - Special Topics in Poverty Studies

Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring, 2015.

Prerequisite: Instructor consent. An intensive, in-depth examination of particular thinkers, approaches, policies or debates in the field of poverty and human capability studies.

Spring 2015 topic:

POV 296: Incarceration and Inequality (4). This course is taught in a classroom at the Augusta Level-3 Correctional Center in Craigsville, Virginia. Students attend class together with offenders who are pursuing higher education while in custody at the center. We examine the issue of incarceration in the United States using ethical and social scientific approaches while paying special attention to the relationship between incarceration, socioeconomic inequality, and poverty. (HU) Brotzman. Spring 2015