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Nov 21, 2024
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Academic Bulletin 2024-2025
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WGSS 503 - Internship: Women’s Prison
Credits: 2
An internship at the State Correctional Institution at Cambridge Springs (SCICS), a minimum-security women’s prison. The intern works with the prison’s treatment staff, interacts with inmates, observes group therapy and other group counseling techniques (such as those for learning parenting skills or treating substance abusers or sexual offenders) and learns about the issues involved in the incarceration of women, as well as the multidisciplinary approach to inmate rehabilitation.
Prerequisite: WGSS 100 and approval of the internship liaison. Corequisite: PSYCH 540 .
Distribution Requirements: none.
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