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Class Detail:
WN 2013 American Culture AMCULT 206 - Themes in American Culture Section 001 AIDS and America
Credits:	3
Requirements & Distribution:	SS
Waitlist Capacity:	unlimited
Consent:	With permission of instructor.
Repeatability:	May be elected twice for credit. May be elected more than once in the same term.
Primary Instructor:	Meisler,Richard A
	(real time availability for all sections)

This is a truly interdisciplinary course, working with materials from the natural and social sciences and the arts and humanities. We will deal with a wide range of subjects from the biology of HIV and the medical treatment of AIDS to the politics and sociology of a world-wide epidemic and the nature of artistic creations in the midst of a terrible epidemic. Students will write papers, do class projects, and participate in discussions. There will be frequent quizzes. Class attendance is required, and classes will be devoted to discussion, conversations with guests, and occasional films. Attendance at the first class is mandatory. No student will be admitted to this course after the first class.

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Textbooks/Other Materials (data maintained by department in Wolverine Access)



ISBN: 0812973011	Mountains beyond mountains, Author: Tracy Kidder., Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Random Hou 2009
Required	Other Textbook Editions OK.

ISBN: 0156005816	Borrowed time : an AIDS memoir, Author: Paul Monette., Publisher: Harcourt Brace 1st Harves 1998
Required	Other Textbook Editions OK.

ISBN: 0143035991	We are all the same : a story of a boy's courage and a mother's love, Author: Jim Wooten., Publisher: Penguin Books 2005
Required	Other Textbook Editions OK.