WGSS 230
Gender, Sexuality, and Global HIV/AIDS
Last Offered Fall 2017
Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed AFR 230
This course is not offered in the current catalog

Class Details

The global pandemic of HIV/AIDS is now entering into its fourth decade. Throughout this history sexuality, gender and race and inequality have played a central role in the spread of the virus, and its apparent entrenchment in certain communities. This class will use a gendered, interdisciplinary perspective to investigate the pandemic’s social, economic and political causes, impact, and conundrums–the problems it poses for scholarship, activism, public policy, and public health. Issues discussed will include the role of transaction sex and economic structures in both susceptibility to HIV and vulnerability to its impact; stigma and its challenges for HIV prevention, testing and treatment uptake; the role of positive youth in the next stages of the pandemic; and the evolving expressions of biopower in the global AIDS response. The class will look at examples of successful policies and activism as well as the failures, corruption and complacency that have characterized the global pandemic. There will be a particular geographical focus on experiences in the U.S. and sub-Saharan Africa.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 25
Expected: 20
Class#: 1589
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: two short papers and a research paper; class participation will form part of the grade
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies majors, Public Health concentrators
Distributions: Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
AFR 230 Division II WGSS 230 Division II
Attributes: PHLH Social Determinants of Health

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  • WGSS 230 - SEM Global HIV/AIDS
    WGSS 230 SEM Global HIV/AIDS
    Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
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