Completion of core prison course
Participation in a Project TURN course taught on-site in a local prison.
Completion of one additional course approved by the director that addresses questions relevant to prison studies (for example, treating approaches to justice, atonement, race, gender, conflict, or contextual ministry). An appropriate course or directed study approved by the certificate director may be substituted for this requirement.
Completion of a suitable field education placement
Participation in a designated prison-oriented spiritual formation group, or, on petition, completing an approved research project

Completion of core prison course
Participation in a Project TURN course taught on-site in a local prison
Completion of one additional course approved by the director that addresses questions relevant to prison studies (for example, treating approaches to justice, atonement, race, gender, conflict, or contextual ministry). Examples of such courses named above. An appropriate directed study approved by the certificate director may be substituted for this requirement.
Completion of an MTS thesis that focuses on some aspect of prison studies that (1) takes the voices of incarcerated people (past or present) seriously and (2) views the prison as a site of significant learning and investigation

Completion of two courses related to carceral studies. These courses can be in any department and may be directed studies. Options include any course that the student believes will advance their knowledge in the fields of prisons, pathways to prisons, criminal or restorative justice, alternatives to addressing social harm, or the race, class, gender, and sexuality biases in and impacts on policing and incarceration. Creative learning around theologies that acknowledge Jesus as a policed, sentenced, and executed person, carceral themes in the Bible, the Christian history of complicity with and resistance to incarceration, etc, are encouraged. Demonstrate relevance to certificate director for pre-approval.
Service as a Teaching Assistant for one Project TURN class, taught inside of a local NC prison comprising half Duke students and half students incarcerated at the facility under the leadership of a Duke professor.
- Plan B be simply attendance in a TURN course or the approved equivalent
Complete a significant research project related to carceral studies. This might be an article-length final project for a class, a presentation at an academic conference, a published journal article, a dedicated exam in carceral studies with attendant reading list, or significant inclusion of carceral themes in the dissertation.

D-PRISON-C - Prison Studies Certificate

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