PEP offers 16 on-site courses per year to incarcerated students and can offer online courses for up to twenty Department of Corrections (DOC) staff students. Courses cover a wide range of disciplines, including math, sociology, biology, English, philosophy, astronomy, psychology, economics, art history, drama, physics, history, and anthropology. Most students take three courses each semester, and many choose their classes based on their career goals and personal interests. Courses are taught by Washington University faculty and graduate students, and academic support is available to students through tutoring and academic advising. Danforth Campus graduate and undergraduate students are engaged as teaching assistants, tutors, and research assistants.
Analytical Writing
Exposition
The Boundaries of Equality: The Social, Ethical and Legal Challenges of Sex, Gender and Sexual Orientation Civil Rights
The Research Process: The Civil Rights Movement
Landscape Architecture: Crafting Design
College Transition Seminar
Finite Mathematics
Introduction to STEM: The World’s Greatest Discoveries
Research and Literature Analysis in STEM Fields
Approaches to the Civil Rights Movement: Individuals, Organizations, Media
Crossing Borders: Introduction to Global Studies
Biological Psychology
Modern Genetics
Research and Experiment Design in STEM Fields
Social Psychology
Ecology
Leaders in Context
Elementary Spanish II
Arboriculture: Path to International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) Licensure
Nutritional Science
Introduction to Statistics
Engineering Research II
James Baldwin: Life, Letters & Legacy
The Mind, The Brain, and Everyday Behavior: Topics of Attention and Memory
Elementary Spanish I
Landscape Architecture: The Art & Science of Garden Design
Environmental Science
Discrete Mathematics
Engineering Research
U.S. Social Movements
Human Biology
Finite Mathematics
The Art and Science of Placemaking: Charette
Argumentation
Introduction to Creative Writing
Introduction to Psychology
Social Conflict
Landscape Architecture: The Art and Science of Placemaking II
General Biology I
College Algebra
Critical and Researched Writing
Classical to Renaissance Literature
Introduction to Computer Science
Precalculus II
Solar System Astronomy
Landscape Architecture: The Art and Science of Placemaking II
Introduction to Public Speaking
Religion in American Society
Precalculus
Language & Thinking: Modernisms
Reading and Doing Ethnography
Chinese Civilization
Introductory Psychological Statistics
Introduction to Macroeconomics
Japanese Civilization
Introduction to Literature
Greek Mythology
Between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Freedom
Citizen Scholar: The Civic Role of the Academic Writer
Calculus I
International Politics
Issues in Applied Ethics
Order and Change in Society
Topics in Renaissance Literature: Sex, Politics, and Poetry in Early Modern England
Topics in Language and Thinking: Democracy and Citizenship
Topics in Language and Thinking: Utopia
General Biology I
Mindfulness: Science and Practice
Topics in Precalculus II
Japanese Civilization
Argumentation
Anthropology and Development
The City in American Arts and Popular Culture
Topics in Political Thought: Bureaucracy and Its Critics
Introduction to General Chemistry
The Art of Poetry
Public Speaking: Embodied Communication
Introduction to Psychology
America in the Age of Inequality: The Gilded Age & the Progressive Era
Critical and Researched Writing
Fundamentals of Writing
Foundations in Chemistry
Power, Justice, and the City
Losing the Farm: 20th Century Agriculture in a Global Context
Reading Shakespeare
Global Energy and the American Dream
American Literature Before 1865: The Making of America
Manifesto, Story and Verse
Genetics in Everyday Life
Classical to Renaissance Literature: Text and Tradition
Introduction to Gender Studies
Topics in Precalculus
College Writing I
History of Political Thought: Theoretical Foundations of the Market Society
“Based on a True Story”: Creative Nonfiction Writing
Expository Writing
Physics & Society
Western Civilization II: 1500 – Present
Understanding Human Nature
Introduction to Archaeology
Introduction to Theater: Plays, Performance & Public Speaking
Genetics in Everyday Life
Great Philosophers
American Literature Before 1865: The Making of America
Introduction to Psychology
Classical to Renaissance Literature: Text and Tradition
Freedom, Citizenship and the Making of American Life