ENG 975 - Writing in the Prisons

.5 course unit

Students in this course will help facilitate a creative writing class in a minimum security unit at Lehigh Valley County Corrections Center or Northampton County Prison, both in Bethlehem. In addition to facilitating weekly workshop sessions, students meet periodically with the professor to discuss assigned readings and discuss drafts of a required writing project. At the end of the semester, students will also be required to edit an anthology of the prisoner’s work and help organize a public reading for the inmates at Muhlenberg College. Signature of professor required.