JINS 399 - Epidemic

This course will explore the history of a disease epidemic, the various populations impacted by the epidemic, the representation of the populations living with this disease, and the current status of the epidemic and current public health prevention efforts. This is a template course. Topics may include HIV and AIDS, influenza, Zika, Ebola or any other disease reaching epidemic or pandemic proportions. Note: Understanding diseases, such as HIV, requires an interdisciplinary lens. Some of the disciplines we will use to help gain insight about this disease are psychology, public health (subsets sexual health and epidemiology), women’s and gender studies, history, and media studies.

Prerequisite: JINS eligibility (55-95 credits applied).
Credit(s): 3
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This course fulfills the Junior Interdisciplinary Writing-Enhanced Seminar Interconnecting Perspective of the Dialogues.
This course is writing-enhanced course.