Contact: julierey@uri.edu

Course Description
 
This course will focus on historical and contemporary campaigns for ending human trafficking and slavery and on providing services to contemporary victims of human trafficking and slavery. The course will include discussion of sex trafficking, slavery, bonded labor, traditional practices of domestic servant slavery, and child soldiers. Physical and psychological harm to victims will be covered. Services needed for victim rehabilitation and recovery, including protocols for raids, shelters, and repatriation will be discussed. Course materials include history texts, research reports, survivor testimonies, description of campaigns for public awareness, protocols for services, and outlines for recovery programs.

More information on the course and registration can be found at https://webct.uri.edu/public/2079-URIPS-WMS-490-SEC0200-7221/index.html

Instructor
 
Dr. Donna M. Hughes, Professor and Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Chair in Women's Studies. Her work on human trafficking is on her web site at http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes
 
Course Delivery
 
Students will access and participate in the course through WebCT at the University of Rhode Island. (For more information, go to http://www.uri.edu/webct/). In the past, students and service providers have enrolled from Thailand, Canada, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Albania, as well as from all over the U.S.
 
The class begins on September 5 and runs through December 10, 2007. (Registration is now open for non-URI students. For more information, see http://www.uri.edu/webct)
 

Tuition

Tuition for this three credit course is:

Rhode Island residents – $268/credit ($804 for the course)

Non-Rhode Island Residents & International Students (who are not service providers) – $887/credit ($2661 for the course)

Non-Rhode Island Residents and Service Providers) - $469/credit ($1407 for the course) A Service Provider is anyone who on a professional or volunteer basis provides services to victims of violence or trafficking, or who works for or is affiliated with a service agency, for example: The Salvation Army, Catholic organizations, law enforcement agents, non-governmental organizations that assist victims. Please request agency to send information regarding your position as a service provider, identifying the organization with which you work, to Donna M. Hughes at dhughes@uri.edu at the time of registration.

A non-URI student can audit the course for $927.00

For additional questions and assistance with registration and payment, please contact Julie Reynolds at  julierey@uri.edu or 1 401 874 2806