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DEVS 355 AIDS, Power, and Poverty Units: 3.00
HIV/AIDS is one of the most pressing development issues in the world today. This course examines the cultural, political, economic, and other social factors that contribute to its transmission and intractability, and which help to explain the differential impact of the disease upon societies worldwide. Particular attention is paid to the ways that specific social/sexual identities and practices arising from inequitable class, gender, race, and ethnic relations, affect the prevalence of HIV, the ability to contain its spread, and the human costs that it entails.
Learning Hours: 120 (24 Lecture, 12 Tutorial, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (Level 3 or above and [DEVS 101/3.0 or GNDS 120/3.0 or POLS 110/6.0* or POLS 111/3.0 or POLS 112/3.0 or SOCY 122/6.0).
Equivalency DEVS 320/3.0*.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Apply core concepts and terminologies you will need to make effective public engagements on the issues in the future (e.g., seek an internship/employment, apply for grad school, write a letter to your MP).
- Identify and describe how specific factors have differentially affected HIV transmission (heterosexism, gender, racism, xenophobia, war on drugs, free trade, etc.).
- Conduct research including identifying and consulting primary sources.
- Explain the relative effectiveness (or not) of different public health interventions including harm reduction strategies, criminalization of non-disclosure, etc.
- Create oral and visual representations of written assignments.
- Articulate reasons for, and promising strategies to counter, political reactions against, and unintended political and social consequences of best practices and current trends and prospects.
- Apply critical reading skills to a wide range of sources including AI-generated text.