Spring 2027

Sex Trafficking and Sex Trading

An anti-oppressive analysis of sex trading, including sex trafficking and sex work, focusing on risk, prevention, identification, intervention, and implications for practice and policy.

offering recorded2 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Lara Gerassi3.7/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.83 GPA, 95.7% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.96 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.79 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=24 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe all known forms of the sex trade(s) nationally and globally, including sex work and sex trafficking, and distinguish their commonalities and differences.

  • Identify how social oppressions increase risks of harm among people who are involved in the sex trades.

  • Evaluate sex trafficking and sex work political and feminist theoretical frameworks.

  • Identify practice and policy strategies that support people who are involved or may become involved in the sex trades.

  • Examine the influence that political and feminist theoretical frameworks relating to sex trafficking and sex work have on social work practice and policy.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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SOCWORK 627

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.83 GPA, 95.7% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.79 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=24 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

LARA GERASSI is recorded teaching in Spring 2022, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 300

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.83 GPA, 95.7% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.96 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.79 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=24 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Dynamics of sex trading, sex trafficking, and sex work
  • Risk, prevention, identification, and intervention strategies
  • Implications for social work practice and policy
  • Political and feminist theoretical frameworks

Skills

  • Describing forms of the sex trade and distinguishing commonalities and differences
  • Identifying how social oppressions increase risks of harm
  • Evaluating political and feminist theoretical frameworks
  • Identifying practice and policy strategies for support

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SOCWORK 627 · Spring 2027

Sex Trafficking and Sex Trading

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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