AIDS Across the Diaspora

4.0 credits

This 200-level undergraduate course examines the world’s deadliest epidemic, HIV/AIDS, through the lens of its most severely impacted population—people of African descent. Students will explore the cultural and sociopolitical impact of living with (and dying from) HIV/AIDS in a world structured by anti-Blackness. Drawing from critical, in-depth texts from political scientists, cultural theorists, sociologists, essayists, and epidemiologist, students will gain a rich, theoretically-sound understanding of how AIDS has re-shaped the medical, political, and intimate social realities of sub-Saharan African, Afro-Caribbean, and Black American communities around the globe.