Course Details

As part of course requirements, students will participate in active learning assignments each week. Students will be required to turn in current news (from the popular press) related to each course lecture topic to earn participation points. The current event must be related to the relevant course lecture. Students must explain how each current event is related to and its impact on the lecture topic. Additional assignments relevant to weekly course lectures (i.e. movie reviews) will be announced in class, and will be posted on the Course Canvas website. Written current news event assignments will be due twice weekly. Discussions relevant to weekly current events or other assignments may be continued in class and on the Canvas website. Students must be present in class and active in discussions to earn participation points. Full participation points will be given for attendance, current events, and participation in 90% or more of course lectures.

Students will write a 15-page research paper focused on the Sustainable Development Goals, set in 2015 (http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/). Students will choose a lower or middle-income country and describe their country’s SDG Health Goal and specify each in-country AIDS epidemic goal. As part of SDGs, countries 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 behavioral), and social or economic programs designed to reduce the in-country AIDS epidemic. Students will document how their country is progressing in its 90-90-90 goals. Lastly, students will explain whether and why they think their chosen country will or will not achieve its 90-90-90 goal by 2030. Students will document evidence from research, WHO/UNAIDS/CDC/USAID reports, and in-country Ministry of Health reports to back up their explanations. PAPERS ARE DUE ON JUNE 1, 2018, by MIDNIGHT.