AAS 3405 - Human Trafficking: Public Health Response

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENG 1009 or ENG 1010 or ENG 1020 or ENG 1021

Description: Students explore human trafficking utilizing global public health frameworks to examine the interprofessional nature of community response in Colorado. A review of multidisciplinary perspectives on labor and sex trafficking provides a comprehensive understanding of this human rights issue. Further, students examine the tactics used by traffickers to recruit and control victims and the effects of abuse on survivors. Students will be presented with an overview of the United Nations, U.S. federal and Colorado state laws to curb trafficking. Finally, students evaluate global and local efforts of the current anti-trafficking movement, including ways to be involved.

Note: Credit may be granted for only one prefix.

Cross Listed Course(s): CJC 3650, GWS 3400, HSP 3405, SWK 3405, PUB 3400