This course will explore trafficking in persons within the context of social justice, human rights, feminist, and person-in-environment perspectives. The course will engage students in discourse around historical/contemporary dialogue, theoretical debates, data and research findings, and issues related to direct social service delivery with human trafficking survivors. The course will also cover policy responses to human trafficking in national and international settings.

The aim of the course is to expose social work students to human trafficking and its various forms, to expose social work students to the intersection of various human rights concerns with human trafficking as an issue of concern, and to discuss the application of course content to social work at micro, mezzo, and macro levels of practice.