OUR COURSES

Our organization’s top priority is providing high-quality, college-level writing courses to our students on the inside. Our facilitators are experts in their fields, many of them college professors or longtime professionals who are interested in sharing their knowledge with the incarcerated population.

The common thread throughout our wide breadth of courses is writing. All courses are designed to strengthen a student’s writing skills, whether they be creative, analytical, or professional. We believe that with a pen and paper, students can become agents of social change across different communities in ways they may otherwise have never encountered.

Each semester ends with a graduation ceremony that is open to the public. At this ceremony, our students perform pieces they have produced in an Exchange for Change class during the semester. Interested in joining us? Register now!

We regularly publish our students’ writing on our webpage to share their voices with the community.

Are you interested in teaching a class with Exchange for Change? Click the button below to learn more about what it takes to become a facilitator.

courses we have offered

    • Acting

    • Acting Workshop

    • Advanced Creative Writing

    • AI in Short Fiction

    • Art Appreciation

    • Art of Visual Storytelling

    • Artificial Intelligence

    • Artificial Intelligence and Society

    • Befriending Yourself

    • Best of Commencement

    • Black History 101

    • Black History 202

    • Book Club

    • Book Discussion

    • Breathing Tools

    • Breathwork & Meditation

    • Broadcast Journalism

    • Building Your Career: Practical Writing Skills for Reentry

    • Burgeoning Space Industry Opportunities

    • Burst Writing

    • COE

    • Commencement Speeches

    • Communities of the Word

    • Construction

    • CORE

    • Core Writing

    • Crafting the Short Story

    • Creative Mindfulness

    • Creative Nonfiction

    • Creative Writing

    • Critical Writing

    • Debate

    • Developing a Scene

    • Dialogue

    • Digital Marketing

    • Dream Defenders

    • Exchange

    • Fictional Character Building

    • Film Review

    • Finding Your Leisure

    • Flash Fiction

    • Flash Fiction/NonFiction

    • Flash Non-Fiction

    • Forensics Debate

    • Freedom Justice Writing

    • Gender Based Violence

    • Graphic Novel

    • Health & Healthcare Disparities

    • Hip Hop Poetics

    • How to be Successful In Life

    • How to Go Public

    • Human Rights

    • Human Rights, Philosophy, and Art of Writing

    • Intermediate Journalism

    • Introduction to Creative Writing

    • Introduction to Ethics

    • Introduction to Fiction

    • Introduction to Journalism

    • Introduction to Philosophy

    • Introduction to Poetry

    • Introduction to Shakespeare

    • Introduction to Sociology

    • Journal Writing

    • Journaling

    • Journalism

    • Just Write

    • Just Write Classic

    • Leadership and Development

    • Legal Studies

    • Legal Writing 1

    • Legal Writing 2

    • Leisure Education

    • Leisure in Your Life

    • Lists for Life

    • Literature

    • Love, Race, and Empire

    • Lyrical Literature

    • Math4U

    • Meditation

    • Memoir

    • Mindful Meditation

    • Mindfulness

    • Mindfulness for Inner Balance

    • Mindfulness in Daily Life

    • Movie Review

    • Navigating Tomorrow & Embracing Change

    • Novel Construction

    • Partnerships of the Pen

    • Personal Essay

    • Perspectives on Justice

    • Persuasive Writing

    • Philosophy

    • Plato's Dialogues

    • Play writing

    • Poet Laureate

    • Poetry

    • Poetry For The People

    • Poetry in Spanish

    • Poetry Workshop

    • Polished Pieces

    • Polished Pieces for PEN

    • Prison Visits

    • Prison Visits / Leadership

    • Rap

    • Reading and Writing Short Fiction

    • Religion in America

    • Respira Mejor

    • Restorative Justice

    • Rhetoric

    • Safegaurds in the US Constitution

    • Science Fiction & Fantasy Writing

    • Science Fiction Writing

    • Screenwriting

    • Selections from The Canterbury Tales

    • Sexual Violence 2

    • Shakespeare

    • Shakespeare's Sonnets

    • Shakespeare's Strong Women

    • Short Fiction Workshop

    • Short Stories

    • Short Stories of James Baldwin

    • Short Stories of James Joyce

    • Sketch Humor Writing

    • Sociology

    • Song Writing

    • Speculative Fiction

    • Spoken Word

    • Stoicism

    • Stories and People: Comics, Journalism and DND

    • Student Leadership Council

    • Survey

    • Technology

    • Tell Me More

    • The Art of Argument

    • The Decameron Project

    • The Hero's Journey

    • The Power of Breathing

    • The Short Stories of Ana Menendez

    • Theater in Spanish

    • Tiny Forms

    • Tiny Forms: Flash Fiction and Haiku

    • Trauma Toolbox

    • Trauma Writing

    • True Stories

    • Trumanity

    • UM Exchange

    • Understanding Sexual Violence

    • Veterans

    • Voices of the Incarcerated

    • Word and Art

    • Words are Paintbrushes: Ekphrastic Writing and The Study of Images

    • Write It Out

    • Writing & Resilience Workshop

    • Writing About Art

    • Writing About Literature

    • Writing About The Exile Experience

    • Writing About You

    • Writing as Resilience

    • Writing as Social Action

    • Writing Correspondence Course

    • Writing in Spanish

    • Writing on Spirituality

    • Writing on Trauma

    • Writing Your Wrongs

    • Writing, Rhetoric, and Community

    • Writing, Rhetoric, and Community 2

    • Yoga

    • Yoga Iyengar

    • Yoga Workshop