Topics vary by semester
Professor(s)
Notes
Professors: Michelle Kuo and Hannah Taïeb
Summer 2024 – six week session
June 4 – July 15
Tuesday and Thursday, 9-11am, at La Santé prison
Wednesday, 9-12, at AUP
Telling stories, crossing borders: mutual learning in prison education
This innovative class brings AUP students into a shared educational and creative space with people detained at La Santé prison in Paris.
After introductory classes at AUP, ten AUP students will spend the semester sharing readings, discussions, and creative activities with an equal number of detainees. In the past, authors studied have included Malcolm X, Bachir Kerroumi, Rigoberta Menchu, Azouz Begag, Jimmy Santiago Baca, W.S. Merwin, Alison Bechdel, Paulo Freire, and Franz Kafka. Tuesdays and Thursdays will be at La Santé prison, and Wednesdays will be at AUP.
In each class session at the prison, AUP participants (“outside students”) and people detained at La Santé (“inside students”) will participate in ice breakers, and read short texts in English and French together as a group. In small mixed groups inside and outside students go on to to exchange ideas and reactions. Circle pedagogy, deep listening and other egalitarian approaches are used to make the learning experience mutual. In the last three or four sessions of the class, inside and outside students put together a collaborative final project, which will be presented in a celebratory event, attended by invited guests from AUP and from the prison.
This class emerges from a collaboration between AUP and the cultural activities department of the Centre Pénitentiaire Paris La Santé, a newly-renovated remand prison in the 14th district of Paris. Detained participants, who primarily speak French (but also other languages), will learn alongside AUP participants, who primarily speak English (but also other languages). A creative, inclusive and experimental multilingual environment is maintained in the classroom. AUP students can participate with a low-intermediate conversa
Learning Outcomes
- Students will be able to formulate arguments within policy areas (assessed via two written assignments)
- Students will be able to identify theory and use it to recognize and compare policies between European states (assessed via classroom participation and discussion)
- Students will be able to summarize complex arguments in their own words, and discuss their significance (assessed via blackboard assignments and the final exam)
Syllabus
Schedule
Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
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Tuesday | 09:00 | 11:00 | VISIT-1 |
Thursday | 09:00 | 11:00 | VISIT-1 |
Wednesday | 09:00 | 12:00 | C-505 |