Hiram College
Lorain Community College
Interdisciplinary - INTD 30110
Spring Semester 2012
Roger Cram and Dee West

WEC - Spring Semester, 2012
4 Credit Hours
Syllabus

Hiram College - Friday evenings - 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm - January 13 through March 30, 2012
Lorain Community College - Saturday afternoons - 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm - January 14 through March 31, 2012

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Hiram - Session One: January 13, 2012
Lorain - Session One: January 14, 2012
Orientation: Discuss class and expectations, go over WEC policy, and divide class into research groups
Dee West: Ice breaker exercise at the beginning of class
Text: Reading the first four chapters of Disposable People – New Slavery in the Global Economy, was assigned. A discussion about this material will take place in class.
Lecture: Roger Cram - The Economics of Slavery
Video: Children Underground
For Session Two, read chapters 5 and 6 in Disposable People – New Slavery in the Global Economy and the pages 7 through 23 in  "The 11th annual Trafficking in Persons Report for 2011” and be prepared to discuss them in class.

Hiram - Session Two: January 20, 2012
Lorain - Session Two: January 21, 2012
Discuss chapters 5 and 6 of  Disposable People – New Slavery in the Global Economy and on pages 7 through 23 in "The 11th annual Trafficking in Persons Report for 2011.”
Lecture:  Roger Cram - Our Border Crossings and Human Trafficking - The Mexican Cartels, The Train of Death
Writing assignment one issued- due next class.
Lecture: Dee West - The psychological ramifications of Human Trafficking – victim, perpetrator, and society
Groups: Break into study groups, receive subject research and presentation assignments
Quiz One Issued – take home exam – due next class.
For Session Three, read the first four chapters in The Slave Next Door and the following pages 24 through 49 of "The 11th annual Trafficking in Persons Report for 2011” and be prepared to discuss them in class.

Hiram - Session Three: February 3, 2012
Lorain - Session Three: February 4, 2012
Discuss the first four chapters of The Slave Next Door and pages 24 through 49  in "The 11th annual Trafficking in Persons Report for 2011.”
Collect writing assignment one and Quiz One
Pizza Party in class
Video: The Ratanak Foundation - 30 minutes
Lecture: Roger Cram - Human Trafficking in The United States and Ohio including search and seizure regulations.
Video: Trade - 119 minutes
Groups: Break into study groups to discuss the research and presentation assignments
Writing assignment two issued – due next class.
For Session Four, read chapters five and six of The Slave Next Door and the pages 50 through 63 (Tier structure) in "The 11th annual Trafficking in Persons Report for 2011” and be prepared to discuss them in class.

Hiram - Session Four: February 17, 2012
Lorain - Session Four: February 18, 2012
Discuss chapters seven – five and six of the book The Slave Next Door and the pages 50 through 63 of "The 11th annual Trafficking in Persons Report for 2011”
Collect writing assignment two.  Return writing assignment one and quiz one.
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm - Guest Lecturer: Professor Carol Donley discussing Half the Sky – Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
7:40 pm to 8:30 pm - Study Group Class presentations:  Presentations from groups ONE and TWO
Video (first half) Human Trafficking - 90 minutes
Quiz Two issued – take home exam – due next class.
For Session Five, Read chapters seven and eight in The Slave Next Door and the following Country Narratives in "The 11th annual Trafficking in Persons Report for 2011” and be prepared to discuss them in class: Algeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Madagascar

Hiram - Session Five: March 2, 2012
Lorain - Session Five: March 3, 2012
Collect written presentation reports from groups ONE and TWO and Quiz Two. Return writing assignment two.
Discuss chapters seven and eight in The Slave Next Door and the following Country Narratives in "The 11th annual Trafficking in Persons Report for 2011” and be prepared to discuss them in class: Algeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Madagascar
6:30 pm to 7:30 pm - Study Group Class presentations:  Presentations from groups THREE and FOUR
Writing assignment three issued – due next class
Video: (second half) Human Trafficking - 90 minutes
For Session Six, read chapter 7 in  Disposable People – New Slavery in the Global Economy and Chapter 10 in The Slave Next Door, and pages 403 through 409 of "The 11th annual Trafficking in Persons Report for 2011” as well as the Country Narratives for: USA, Brazil, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela

Hiram - Session Six: March 16, 2012
Lorain - Session Six: March 17, 2012
Collect written presentation reports from groups THREE and FOUR and writing assignment three. Return Quiz Two.
Discuss chapter 7 in  Disposable People – New Slavery in the Global Economy, Chapter 10 in The Slave Next Door, and pages 403 through 409 of "The 11th annual Trafficking in Persons Report for 2011” as well as the Country Narratives for: USA, Brazil, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela
Optional: appetizer party provided by class
Video: At the End of Slavery - the battle for justice in our time - 30 minutes
Video: Look Behind the Surface - Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking in the U.S. - 20 minutes
Lecture:  Dee West - What Makes Humans Behave So Poorly?
Study Group Class presentations:  Presentations from groups FIVE at Hiram College
Take Home final exam issued. Due the last class.

Hiram - MARCH 23, MAKE UP DAY IF HIRAM COLLEGE WAS CLOSED ON PRIOR CLASS DAYS DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER
Lorain - MARCH 24, MAKE UP DAY IF HIRAM COLLEGE WAS CLOSED ON PRIOR CLASS DAYS DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER

Hiram - Session Seven: March 30, 2012
Lorain - Session Seven: March 31, 2012
Hiram Field Trip – Alumni Heritage Room in Teachout-Price - Sister Ann Victory - The Collaborative Initiative to End Human Trafficking - Alumni Heritage Room Teachout Price, dinner, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm, guests are welcome - sign up in class.
Lorain Field Trip - Luncheon held in classroom 2PM to 4PM - Sister Ann Victory - The Collaborative Initiative to End Human Trafficking -  lunch, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm, guests are welcome - sign up in class.
Collect take-home final exams
Collect written presentation reports from groups FIVE

Videos Recommended:

Blood Diamond (2006)
Taken (2008)
The Whistle Blower (2010)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Holly (2007)
Trade (2009)
 

Group research projects: (any form of credible and documented research may be used if referenced.) Note:  All written papers must be in the student's own words. Your professors are interested in what you have learned and your ability to express this knowledge; we are not interested in your ability to copy the work of another. Any quotes must be properly indicated and referenced. These quotes need to be limited; however, for too many quotes means you are not responsible for writing the majority of your paper. Any copying, cut-and-pasting, or other forms of plagiarism will result in an "F" for that particular paper as well as a disciplinary meeting with the Dean. Such behavior could result in expulsion from Hiram College.

Group 1
Research the economics of human trafficking - poor families selling their children because they can’t support them, slave labor being used more in poor economic times, child solders used because they are easy to control and are plentiful.

Group 2
When slavery is illegal in every country in the world, how can slavery exist today in more abundance than the entire 450 years of the Atlantic slave trade ? Examine various cultures and values in the world utilizing slave labor and explore how laws are often in conflict with the customs, ethics, and controlling religions. Compare the business ethics of the slave sex trade with the ethics of their customers. Study how tribal chiefs and village traditions have more influence allowing human trafficking than national laws forbidding it.

Group 3
Explore the complex issues of human trafficking rescues when freed slaves often become more endangered than during their captivity. Should a sweat-shop slave be freed if she must result to prostitution for survival afterwards? If an illegal alien serving as a domestic slave in the U.S. would be deported if discovered, should efforts be undertaken to liberate her? Should business and political tactics considered corrupt in the U.S. (bribery, price fixing, and favoritism) be employed in other countries if they help emancipate human captives?

Group 4
Research companies whose products are sold in the U.S. that are manufactured by raw material obtained by or produced by slaves, especially child slaves (Firestone, Dell, HP, Nestle, Hersey, Nike).  Suggest methods of creating greater public awareness of these issues. Critique for effectiveness legal documents and current efforts in place designed to combat these company’s activities.

Group 5
Explore several NGO’s currently combating human trafficking, and do a comparative analysis on their methods and success rates. Look for commonly shared methodologies that are the most productive in combating this issue.

Group 6
Research the psychological ramifications where victims have no social, cultural, or political voice in their life, where former slaves become future traffickers, where prolific human trafficking becomes normalized and the culture becomes desensitized to its horrors.

GROUP RESEARCH PROJECTS AND PRESENTATIONS

Groups will be comprised of 4 to 6 students in the class randomly assigned by the instructors. The groups will be issued a number and a corresponding group research project and presentation as listed above. Any documented material from a reliable source may be used to gather information about the group project. Each group will make a presentation to the class. These presentations will be a minimum of 10 minutes and a maximum of 20 minutes in length. Each group will be given an additional 10 minutes for class Q & A.

Groups are autonomous in their presentation style. For example, each member of a four-person group may speak for 5 minutes totaling 20 minutes, or the group may choose a spokesperson to speak representing the group. Some groups may share in assigning portions of the research to various members while others might create a PowerPoint presentation or other presentation media (if desired). A written report of the presentation or speech must be turned in by each group to serve as a reference for the instructors grading the presentation. There is no required length for this written report, but is should accurately cover the material presented and include a list of references. Is one member of your group a good writer? If so, this written speech might be assigned to that individual.

The final presentation grade will consist of two grades averaged together - the presentation grade and the written report grade. The written report will be due two weeks after the presentation. This averaged grade will be given to each member of the group; therefore, it is wise to select the individual talents of each member to best be utilized by the group (speaker, presenter, writer, researcher, etc.).  Great care must be taken to assure that each member of the group significantly participates in the project. Frequently a few caring members do all the work while other less ambitious members allow this unequal process.  This should be avoided. Working in groups is difficult, but is often the way problems are solved. If you find this assignment difficult, imagine trying to work in a group assigned to pass legislation in a third-world country to end slavery. You are in charge of a group consisting of politicians who are are crooked, the police who work for whomever pays them the most, and judges who are slave owners. By the way, you don't speak any of the fifteen languages in the area and the local economy depends of slavery for its existence.

Writing Assignments: (Minimum of 750 words each)

Assignment 1
How can human beings turn from caring, ethical, responsible citizens into human traffickers using cruelty and violence against their victims? How does ones culture help or hinder this transition? How does the economy play a role in human trafficking?  Pages 24 - 33 Slave Next Door plus class lectures and exercises plus independent documented research

Assignment 2
Write a paper involving the psychological theory of human trafficking, such as Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need, where people behave differently when their physiological and safety needs are not met.  Extremely poor parents have sold their children to human traffickers believing the child will have at least one meal per day. Examine and analyze the psychological motivating factors of the perpetrator, the victim, and society. Research the psychological framework and dynamics of the poor and the psychological impact of human trafficking on society.

Assignment 3
Discuss several of the economic issues involving modern slavery as discussed in our texts and class presentations. Discuss the economics of government slavery, for profit and non-profit organizations, child soldiers, and the competitive labor costs in various labor markets. Mention the cost to these organizations for ending slavery.

Hiram College
Team-Taught Interdisciplinary
Human Trafficking - INDT 30110
WEC - Spring Semester, 2012
4 Credit Hours
Course Description

Instructors: 
     Mr. Roger Cram, B.A. in Business Management, Hiram College; M.B.A., Kent State University, adjunct faculty for Hiram College, President Modeling Future Heroes, Inc., member of Free the Slaves and the Polaris Project, consultant and spokesperson for World Peace Partners of Winnipeg, MB, instructor for the Collaborative Initiative to End Human Trafficking.
     Ms. Dee West, B.S. in Sociology and Psychology, Valdosta State University; M.A. in Psychology with emphasis in diversity specialization, Cleveland State University. Associate Dean of Students for Hiram College, Director of Ethnic Diversity Affairs.

Course Description:
     Is there really any slavery left in today’s modern World?  Didn’t the 1865 Emancipation Proclamation end slavery in the U.S.? Third only to drugs and weapon sales, human trafficking is the largest and fastest growing organized crime activity in the world resulting in a multi-billion dollar industry. Forced factory and agricultural labor, the sex trade, debt bondage, domestic help, children soldiers, and the selling of human organs comprise the many facets of this contemptible trade.
     There are 27 million slaves in the world today secretly held captive and forced into manual labor and the sex trade. In this course we will explore the world slavery problem with emphasis on women and children. The political and economic reasons slavery is so prolific, the legal and ethical standards that clash with different cultures, and the undertakings currently trying to combat this scourge will also be investigated.

Required Reading Materials:

1. Disposable People – New Slavery in the Global Economy, Bales, Kevin.  University of California Press, Berkley 2004

2. The Slave Next Door - Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today, Blaes, Keven and Soodalter, Ron. University of California Press, Berkley 2009

 3. "The 11th annual Trafficking in Persons Report for 2011” June 2011, The United States State Department, available for download at: http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2010/index.htm#rpt

(Note: Supplemental reading assignments may be provided by the instructors.)                               

First Assignment: Students are to arrive for the first class having read the first four chapters of
Disposable People – New Slavery in the Global Economy and prepared to discuss this material.

Teaching Methods: There will be small discussion sections, open classroom discussions, lectures, videos, exercises, guest speakers, PowerPoint presentations, and a field trip.

Course Requirements and Grading:

^{1.                   30% - Three (3) papers (10% each) or other written assignments. These papers must be in the student’s own
        words and contain a minimum of 750 words.}

^{2.                   30% - Two (2) take-home quizzes (15% each)}

^{3.                   5% - Attendance in class and field trip attendance}

^{4.                   15% - A group presentation on an assigned human trafficking issue}

^{6.                   20% - Take-Home Final Exam}

<sup>Both instructors are very invested in your success in the course. Thus, if at any time you need clarification, assistance, or additional guidance, please feel free to contact us at the following:

Roger Cram                                                                                   Dee West                  
Adjunct Faculty, President Modeling Future Heroes, Inc.              Assistant Dean of Students/Director of EDA
                                                                                                     The Kennedy Center- 1st Floor
330-569-4912 (C)  330-569-7962 (H)                                           330.569.5237  (W)  440.826.2434 (H)
cramRF@hiram.edu                                                                        westde@hiram.edu</sup>      

^{*The instructors retain the right to change or modify any aspect of the syllabus.  In the event that changes or updates are made, students will be notified in a timely manner.}

Hiram Weekend College
Human Trafficking
Take Home Test One
January 20-21, 2012

For this test refer to the book Disposable People by Kevin Bales, The June 2011 Trafficking in Persons Report,  and presented class material. Answer all questions on separate sheets of paper, refer to the question number, place your name on each sheet, indicate if you are taking this class at Hiram or LCCC, print your answers on a printer, staple your sheets together with a copy of this test (no paperclips).

Name ____________________________________________ (PRINT) - 100 possible points

SECTION ONE: Definitions and Short Answer (less than 150 words)
ANSWER ALL OF THE FOLLOWING FIVE QUESTIONS – WORTH 4 POINTS EACH (16 points)

(1)    According to our United States Department of State, what is human trafficking or trafficking in persons?

(2)  How are slaves controlled and kept from trying to escape? (class lecture)

(3)   Give brief descriptions of chattel slavery, debt bondage, contract slavery: Page 19

(4)  What is sex tourism? Pages 75-77

SECTION TWO:  Short Essay (less than 250 words)
PICK ONLY FIVE OF THE FOLLOWING EIGHT QUESTIONS – WORTH 5 POINTS EACH (25 Points)

(5) How do women rank compared to men or television sets in Thailand? Do they owe a debt to their parents? Pages 38-40

(6)    What social, political, and economic conditions are necessary to support slavery?
Pages 31-32

(7)    What is the devadasi in India? Pages 199-201

(8)     Does “race” have anything to do with slavery in modern times - why or why not?
Page 10

(9)    Why did the prime minister in Thailand declare that HIV/AIDS is no problem in his country when it was actually reaching epidemic proportions?
Page 76

(10) In Pakistan, what is the “peshgi “ system?

(11) Human rights groups lobbying for government action, magazine articles revealing the horrors of child slavery, and television programs denouncing the abuses in the charcoal batterias in Brazil generated no change. Independent NGOs (Non-governmental organizations) continuously feeding commissions of inquiry about human rights violations yielded little positive movement as well. So what is the key to reducing human rights violations and slavery if laws, publicity, and public outcry have no affect? Pages 143-148.

(12) How many slaves existed during the 450 years of the Atlantic Slave Trade?  How many slaves exist today? (class lectures)

(13) In India, children make up a large portion of the bonded work force. What do they do? Is it dangerous? Pages 199-200

SECTION THREE: Essay Section (Over 300 words each)
PICK ONLY FOUR OF THE FOLLOWING SEVEN QUESTIONS:  WORTH 15 POINTS EACH (60 points)

(14) Why is the government in Thailand so inefficient in preventing sex slavery and trafficking?
Pages 72-75, 77-78

(15) Of all the countries in the world, Mauritania has the largest percentage of its people in slavery, yet it has no slaves. Explain this. Starting on page 80.

(16) Describe the process of recruiting slaves for the production of charcoal in Brazil. Pages 126-128

(17) In Brazil, describe the relationship between the identity card and the labor card, the purpose these two items serve, and how slave traders exploit these documents to control their workers.

(18) Regarding the last question (17), compare this type of control over the Brazilian charcoal workers and the how the girls are controlled in the brothels in Thailand. Pages 134-139

(19) In the United States in the 1800s and early 1900s, people of the southern states had definite stereotypical prejudices against blacks. The beliefs that blacks were lazy, superstitious, and not intelligent had a strong influence on their unfair treatment by whites. In Pakistan, family, religion, and caste position determine your occupation as well as the religious affiliation of your ancestors as far back as 300 years. Discuss prejudices in Pakistan similar to those against blacks in our early southern states? Pages 171-174

(20) When humans were hunters and gatherers, little slavery existed, for one’s hunting skill often found favor and recognition within one’s tribe. About 11,000 years ago in the areas of India, Egypt, and Mesopotamia, farming became the developing way of obtaining food. This was labor intensive and did not encompass the spirit of the chase or the social status of great hunters.  Soldiers and rulers had to eat; therefore, discuss what started to develop to enable them to do so? Pages 197-198

 

Hiram Weekend College
Human Trafficking
Spring 2011
Take Home Test two
February 17-18, 2012
 

Name  (PRINT)_______________________________________________________________

Section One:  Reference the U.S. Department of Justice Trafficking in Persons Report 2011 http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2011/index.htm#rpt  and our class texts. Submit your answers on separate sheets of paper, printed, and double spaced. Staple ALL your answers together as one test. DO NOT hand in separate stapled sheets for each answer! This is one test in its entirety and all questions and answers should be stapled together as a unit.

(1)     Write about the Tier Placement of classifying countries by their human trafficking activities. (500 word minimum)

(2)    Write about the Palermo Protocol and the TVPA (U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act) minimum standards including the 3P Paradigm program. (500 word minimum)

(3) Read the last chapter in Disposable People to answer this question: How are the population explosion, economic globalization, modernized agriculture, greed in profitability, and violence all related? Pages 232-234 Minimum 300 words, printed, doubled spaced.

(4)   In not less than 500 of your own original words, research what you can do to help combat human trafficking.

Section Two: The Slave Next Door (minimum 250 word answers)

(5)  Describe “Peonage Slavery”

(6)   What signs might be noticed indicating a young female is enslaved as a domestic servant or used in the sex industry?

(7) Discuss the problems in finding and rescuing the enslaved domestic servants of foreign diplomats.

 

Hiram Weekend College
Human Trafficking
Spring 2011
FINAL EXAM
Due in class on March 30, (Hiram) and March 31 (LCCC), 2012

Answer this final exam question on separate sheets of paper, printed, double spaced, stapled together, with your name printed on the top
of the first page and entitled Human Trafficking - Final Exam - Spring 2012 and indicate whether your class is on the Hiram or LCCC campus. Bring this completed exam to our last class.

For this question, use the information in the Trafficking in Persons Report for 2011, the section entitled Definitions and Methodology, Pages 13-19, the section entitled Moving Toward a Decade of Delivery, the (TVPA) Trafficking Victims Protection Act found on Pages 404-405, both out text books and other material and as presented in class.

1. The United States, through the TVPA, 3P Paradigm, and Palermo Protocol, rate other country's effectiveness and cooperation in combating human trafficking through their self-created Tier system. The nine publications of the the Trafficking in Persons Report for prior to 2010 omitted the United States in the world rankings of Human Trafficking. Starting in the 2010 report, the United States Department of State has included the U.S.A. in this publication, thus recognizing that there is a human trafficking problem in our country, and has ranked itself (the U.S.A.) as a Tier 1 country.  By understanding the TVPA, 3P Paradigm, and Palermo Protocol, and comparing their requirements to what is actually being done in the U.S.A. to combat Human Trafficking, should our country really be ranked Tier 1?  Why if "yes" or why not if "no."  In not less than 1,500 words,  argue whether or not the United States should really be ranked as Tier 1?