SOCI 2910
HIV/AIDS in the 20th Century: Historical, Cultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Winter 2026 · HIV/AIDS in the Twentieth Century
Topics
- Early history and discovery of HIV/AIDS
- Political, medical, social, legal and cultural responses
- Efforts to stop the pandemic
- Treatment
- People living with HIV/AIDS and activism
- Global and local conditions shaping the pandemic
- Race, stigma and marginalization
- Human rights
- HIV and the law
- Resource allocation and access to information
- Disability justice
- Indigenous health sovereignty
- Criminalization and sex work
Readings
- Assigned podcast 1: treatment, chronic illness and disability justice; title and creator not provided in the outline.
- Assigned podcast 2 with accompanying PDF: Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination in health; title and creator not provided.
- Assigned podcast 3 with accompanying PDF: law, criminalization and sex work; title and creator not provided.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Syllabus or course outline ↗Winter 2026
- Winter 2026 section EC outline and agenda. The actual outline title is “HIV/AIDS in the Twentieth Century”; the eConcordia listing uses “HIV/AIDS: An Interdisciplinary Introduction”. No named textbook or bibliographic reading list is public; thematic podcast assignments are preserved with their missing identifiers stated. Cross-listed source; shared materials are repeated for each explicitly published code.