Course Details

Course offered Spring 2016

HONORS 222 A: HIV/AIDS: Issues and Challenges (NSc, DIV)

HONORS 222 A: HIV/AIDS: Issues and Challenges (NSc, DIV)

SLN 14935 (View UW registration info »)

Dan Montano (Family & Child Nursing)
Phone: 206.616.0709
Email: montano@uw.edu
Danuta Kasprzyk (Family & Child Nursing)
Phone: 206-524-9314
Email: kasprzyk@uw.edu

Credits: 5
Limit: 30 students

Honors Credit Type

As part of course requirements, students will participate in pre-assigned discussion groups. A discussion question will be presented each week on Wednesday in class, and then posted on the Course Canvas website. E-discussions will be conducted within each assigned group. Your discussion comments are due by the following Monday. Participation in discussions will be graded.

Students will be required to write a 15 page research paper focused on the Sustainable Development Goals, set in 2015 (http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/) to be achieved by 2030. Students will choose a lower or middle-income country and describe what their country’s Health Goal is, and how it applies to the in-country AIDS epidemic. As part of SDGs, countries have committed to a 90-90-90 target for their AIDS epidemics. Students will summarize the current in-country AIDS epidemic in terms of its epidemiology (disease transmission and spread) and compare it to the epidemic in that country in 2000. Students will describe in-country HIV/AIDS evidence-based prevention and treatment (medical/clinical and/or behavioral), and social or economic programs that were designed to reduce the in-country AIDS epidemic. Students will then document the evidence on how their country is progressing in its 90-90-90 goals, and explain whether and why they think their chosen country will or will not achieve its 90-90-90 goal by 2030. Students will provide documented evidence from research, WHO/UNAIDS/CDC/USAID reports, as well as in-country Ministry of Health reports to back up their explanations. Papers will be due last week of class (week of May 30, 2016) on JUNE 3, 2016.

For Honors students: Students are encouraged to archive items from this course in their Honors learning portfolios. Readings, lecture notes, and your paper, are examples of items that might assist with reflection on experiential learning and ways of thinking within and across disciplines. The Honors electronic learning portfolios span students’ undergraduate years and are best used as an ongoing, dynamic forum for the integration of knowledge. In addition to archiving items, students are also asked to take a few minutes to write-up a paragraph or two describing the significance of the archived items and how what they learned in the course contributed to their larger experiences, goals, and thoughts about education and learning.
The course grade is based on the weighting of the paper at 90%, 10% for participation in discussions.