Course level

Undergraduate

Faculty

Humanities and Social Sciences

School

Historical & Philosophical Inq

Units

2

Duration

One Semester

Delivery mode

Internal

Class hours

2 Lecture hours
1 Tutorial hour

Assessment methods

Assignments

Course enquiries

Dr Cassandra Byrnes

Study Abroad

This course is pre-approved for Study Abroad and Exchange students.

Course description

The trafficking of human bodies (both living and dead) in the 21st century is a global trade with a long history. Whether people were born into slavery or captured and sold into slavery, women, children and men become involuntary commodities traded worldwide. Spanning the ancient world through to the present, this interdisciplinary course examines the changing conditions in which living and dead bodies are trafficked. It charts the conditions in which bonded labour and slavery, that is hereditary bondage, can occur. We contextualize these practices through an investigation of the changing cultural, religious, philosophical, social and economic justifications over time that have been used both to defend, and abolish the trafficking of bodies.

Archived offerings

Course offerings Location Mode Course Profile
Semester 1, 2019 (25/02/2019 - 22/06/2019) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 1, 2017 (27/02/2017 - 24/06/2017) St Lucia Internal Course Profile