Open Course Space

Slavery and Human Trafficking in the 21st Century

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21A.445J
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2015English
Go to course on MIT OpenCourseWare

This course explores the issue of human trafficking for forced labour and sexual slavery, focusing on its representation in recent scholarly accounts and advocacy as well as in other media. Ethnographic and fictional readings along with media analysis help to develop a contextualized and comparative understanding of the phenomena in both past and present contexts.

Description from MIT OpenCourseWare.

Where to take this course