Spring 2025
GWS 181AC 001 - LEC 001
Prison Abolition
Keith P Feldman, Eric A Stanley, Ianna Hawkins Owen, Erin Michelle Turner Kerrison
Class #:33775
Units: 4
Instruction Mode:
In-Person Instruction
Offered through
Gender and Womens Studies
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
1
Enrolled: 59
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 60
Waitlist Max: 0
Open Reserved Seats:
4 reserved for Gender & Women's Studies Majors
4 reserved for Legal Studies Majors
Hours & Workload
1 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week, 3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, and 8 hours of outside work hours per week.
Other classes by Keith P Feldman
Other classes by Eric A Stanley
Other classes by Ianna Hawkins Owen
Other classes by Erin Michelle Turner Kerrison
Course Catalog Description
Taking a broad interdisciplinary approach, this course introduces students to the long history of the prison in the American experience, questioning the shadows of inevitability and normality that cloak mass incarceration in the contemporary United States and around the globe. While directly addressing the prison system, and related institutions like the police and probation, this course intends to engage with the full range of carceral geographies in which social life is penetrated with the state’s power to surveil, arrest, judge, and punish its citizens and the organizations and capacities through which that power is carried out.
Rules & Requirements
Repeat Rules
Course is not repeatable for credit.
Requirements class fulfills
Meets Historical Studies, L&S Breadth
Meets Social & Behavioral Sciences, L&S Breadth
American Cultures Requirement
Reserved Seats
Reserved Seating For This Term
Current Enrollment
Open Reserved Seats:
Terms in Attendance:
Undergraduate Classifications Information
Textbooks & Materials
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