Jul 04, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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SOC 3685 - Human Trafficking
This course examines human trafficking and efforts to combat it. Students investigate the causes of human trafficking, how human trafficking unfolds, and its effects on victims; examine competing frames and social constructions of human trafficking; analyze and assess governmental, non-governmental, and social movement organizations’ attempts to eradicate human trafficking; analyze media depictions of human trafficking; and critically evaluate anti-trafficking policies and programs and their effectiveness.
Requisites: 6 Hours in SOC including 1000
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to describe human trafficking as a social problem, including its root causes and impacts.
- Students will be able to Identify and discuss framing contests within the anti-human trafficking field.
- Students will be able to critically analyze human trafficking through different theoretical perspectives.
- Students will be able to critically assess media representations of human trafficking.
- Students will be able to compare and critically assess how different institutions and social movements have responded to human trafficking.
- Students will be able to discuss and critically evaluate the accomplishments of the anti-human trafficking field.
- Students will be able to identify the existing barriers to eradicating human trafficking.
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