Associate of Arts (Prison Education Program)

Associate of Arts (Prison Education Program) Website

The SLU Prison Education Program offers credit-earning courses to currently incarcerated people and Department of Corrections employees at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Missouri, culminating in an Associate of Arts degree from Saint Louis University.

Curriculum Overview

Two cohorts of 20 students each take SLU courses that operate on a nine-week term and convene once per week for four hours at a time. Students take a total of five classes per year. To complete the total 61 credits required for the degree, each cohort remains in the program for about four years.

Careers

An Associate of Arts degree prepares students for a wide range of employment possibilities and for further study.

  1. Graduates will be able to use research to sustain an argument and conduct analysis through an academic essay. 
  2. Graduates will be able to apply logical and analytical problem-solving through effective methods of inquiry. 
  3. Graduates will be able to utilize intentional reflection. 
  4. Graduates will be able to apply theories and/or practices of social justice and civic engagement in the Ignatian spirit.
CORE 1000Ignite First Year Seminar2
CORE 1200Eloquentia Perfecta 2: Oral and Visual Communication3
CORE 1500Cura Personalis 1: Self in Community1
ENGL 1500The Process of Composition3
CORE 1900Eloquentia Perfecta 1: Written and Visual Communication3
CORE 1600Ultimate Questions: Theology3
CORE 1700Ultimate Questions: Philosophy3
CORE 2800Eloquentia Perfecta 3: Creative Expression3
CORE 3200Ways of Thinking: Quantitative Reasoning3
CORE 3400Ways of Thinking: Aesthetics, History, and Culture3
CORE 3600Ways of Thinking: Social and Behavioral Sciences3
CORE 3800Ways of Thinking: Natural and Applied Sciences3
AS 2960Associate of Arts Capstone1
University Electives26
University Electives include at least one course with each of the Eloquentia Perfecta: Writing Intensive attribute, Equity and Global Identities: Identities in Context attribute, Equity and Global Identities: Global Interdependence attribute, and the Dignity, Ethics, and a Just Society attribute.
Total Credits60