ANTHROPOLOGY
Institution: Albion
College, Albion, MI 49224
Course Title: Animals and Human Societies
(ANT 220)
Instructor: Molly H. Mullin, Associate Professor of Anthropology,
Department of Anthropology and Sociology, 317 Robinson Hall, 517-629-0432, [email protected]
Summary: Class size 25. This course explores historical and cultural variation
in how humans have imagined, represented, exploited, and interacted with animals.
For cultural anthropologists, humans' relationships with animals have long been
of interest, but mostly for what they might reveal about humans' relationships
with other humans. But aren't human-animal relationships worthy of investigation
in themselves? And have anthropologists been overly "human-centered"
in their research and writing? Other topics may include the role of animals in
consumer capitalism and eco-tourism, animals in the lives of children, changing
understandings of animal domestication, and conflicts over the preservation of
species and habitats.
SOCIOLOGY
Institution: Albuquerque
TVI College, Albuquerque, NM 87106
Course Title: Animals and Society
Instructor: Margo DeMello, Arts & Sciences Department, 505-771-3157,
[email protected]
Summary: This
course explores the spaces that animals occupy in human social and cultural worlds
and the interactions humans have with them. Central to this course will be an
exploration of the ways in which animal lives intersect with human societies.
We will also examine how different human groups construct a range of identities
for themselves and for others through animals.
ANIMAL STUDIES
Institution:
Anne Arundel Community College, Anne Arundel, MD 21012
Course Title:
Pets and Parenting: Creating a Positive Experience
Instructor:
Joseph Lamp, Ph.D., 410-647-7100
Summary: Introducing companion
animals and caring for them in the household pose unique challenges and positive
opportunities for parents to teach social skills, and responsibilities to children.
Understand the role companion animals can play in the American household today
and their usefulness in the socialization of children. Learn how to create and
maintain a positive experience for your children from the time of animal adoption,
to helping them come to terms with coping with pet loss. Gain
an understanding of the laws pertaining to pet ownership in Anne Arundel County. Focus
will be on dogs and cats as companion animals.
ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY
Institution:
Animal Behavior Institute,
Inc. Furlong, PA 18925
Course Title: Animal Assisted
Therapy (ABI 211)
Instructor: Janis G. Hammer, VMD, [email protected]
, 866-755-0448
Summary: This is an online course. There is
a rapidly growing movement to incorporate animals as part of the therapeutic setting.
Students learn about the difference between animal assisted activities, therapy
and education (AAA/T/E), working animals and assistance animals. The course covers
working with animals and children, adults, the elderly, and the disabled in various
settings including hospitals, nursing homes, schools and prisons. We will also
review what is required to start and run a safe and effective program.
Institution:
Animal Behavior Institute,
Inc. Furlong, PA 18925
Course Title: The Human-Animal
Bond (ABI 232)
Instructor: Janis G. Hammer, VMD, [email protected]
, 866-755-0448
Summary: This course explores the history
and psychology of human relationships with animals and nature and will be run
completely online. The student will learn about the relationship between people
and animals by discussing domestication, socialization, religion, culture, farming,
research, and pets. Other topics include pet overpopulation, relinquishment, bonding,
and health benefits from the bond (for people and animals). The principal objective
is to gain an understanding of the various roles animals play in our lives.
Course offering information: This course will be taught for the first time
beginning in January 2006.
ANIMAL WELFARE
Institution:
Animal Behavior Institute,
Inc. Furlong, PA 18925
Course Title: Animal Enrichment
(ABI 222)
Instructor: Dr. Fortier, [email protected]
Summary: Behavioral and environmental enrichment is explored
in a comprehensive approach. This includes an overview of animals' psychological
needs, a systematic approach for coupling enrichment solutions to animal problems,
practical suggestions on design and application, and a discussion of assessment
and long-term application. Major components of enrichment are reviewed with respect
to the Animal Welfare Act and the principles of animal management.
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SOCIOLOGY AND RESEARCH
ETHICS
Institution: Arizona
State University, PO Box 871802, Temple, AZ 85287-1802
Course Title:
Animal-Human Connections
Instructor: Christina Risley-Curtiss, MSSW,
Ph.D. College of Public Programs, 480-965-6076,
[email protected]
Summary: This course focuses on two broad areas of current significance
for social work practice; (1) the link between animal abuse and other forms of
violence such as domestic violence, child and elder abuse; and (2) the powerful
potential that positive connections with animals have for healing and promoting
resiliency in human beings while at the same time benefiting the animals. This
course examines issues of prevention and treatment and builds practice skills
in both areas. It considers animal abuse and healing animal connections within
an ecological and empowerment context; and works to build sensitivity to various
cultural contexts. Assignments in the course focus on these issues.
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Course Syllabus
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Institution:
Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798
Course Title: Field Studies in Captive
Animal Enrichment (ENV 4613)
Instructor: Heidi Marcum, [email protected]
Summary: This class is designed to provide hands-on training in the enrichment
of captive animals through individual and group work, often without direct supervision.
Class objectives include: experience in enriching captive animals; hands-on, practical
experience with a current environmental problem; experience with designing enrichment
activities, taking data and writing up results; experience presenting results
using PowerPoint.
BIOLOGY
Institution:
California State University, San Bernardino, CA 92407
Course Title:
Ethics and Animal Use in Science (Biol. 590: Senior Seminar)
Instructor:
Richard Fehn, Ph.D., Department of Biology, (909) 880-5310
Summary:
Examines the scientific, philosophical and political issues surrounding the use
of animals in science, how animal models are selected, and alternatives to animal
use. Each meeting is used to address a set of related questions about one aspect
of the topic. Selected readings provide a foundation for student panel discussions
of the issues. Research proposals are also evaluated. Questions addressed include:
Why are animals used for experimentation? What moral obligations do we have to
animals? What is pain and distress?
HISTORY AND HUMANITIES
Institution:
California State University, San Bernardino, CA 92407
Course Title:
Interpretation and Values
Instructor: Susan Finsen, 909-880-5871,
[email protected]
Summary:
This upper division interdisciplinary general education course is designed to
allow students to reflect on the values and assumptions implicit in their daily
lives, culture, science, media and technology. Examines global environmental crises
(global warming), intensive agriculture, and the values that have put us in these
crises. Also examines the plight of animals and explores the moral status question.
PSYCHOLOGY
Institution: California
State University, Bakersfield, CA 93311-1099
Course Title: People,
Ethics, and Other Animals (INST 348)
Instructor: Carol Raupp, Department
of Psychology, 661-664-2370, [email protected]
Summary: Examines peoples' attitudes toward other animal species and the
current psychological research describing our differing relationships with companion
animals, animals used for food, animals used in research, sports or entertainment,
and so-called "wild" animals. This course is now available online to students
everywhere.
Institution: California
State University, Bakersfield, CA 93311-1099
Course Title: People
and Animal Companions (INST 349)
Instructor: Carol Raupp, Department
of Psychology, 661-664-2370, [email protected]
Summary: The psychology of peoples' relationships with animal companions
(pets). Topics include motivations for pet-keeping, personality research, attachment,
companion animals and human development, and ethical issues in relationships with
animal companions. This course is now available online to students everywhere.
Institution: California
State University, Bakersfield, CA 93311-1099
Course Title: Applied
Experience in Human-Animal Studies (INST 351)
Instructor: Carol Raupp,
Department of Psychology, 661-664-2370, [email protected]
Summary: Volunteer experience in a community setting relevant to human-animal
studies. Only one unit may be earned per term, and no more than three units may
be applied toward the baccalaureate degree. Prerequisites: INST 348 and three
additional units in Human-Animal Studies courses. Offered on a credit/no credit
basis only. Supervised online and available to students everywhere.
LAW
AND CRIMINOLOGY
Institution: California Western School of Law
Course Title: Animals and the Law - pending
Instructor:
Summary:
ANIMAL-ASSISTED THERAPY
Institution: Camden
County College, Blackwood, NJ 08012
Course Title: Independent Study
Course in Animal-Assisted Therapy and Animal-Assisted Activities
Instructor:
Phil Arkow, Animal Technology Program, [email protected]
Coordinator: Kathy Forsythe, Continuing Education Office, 856-374-4955,
[email protected]
Summary:
A 12-week Continuing Education Certificate program course offered in the Fall
semester, combining supervised independent study, clinical internship, and research
components. Targeted to professionals and volunteers who are already working in
the AAT/AAA fields and who have a firm grounding in the principles of the human-animal
bond and its therapeutic applications. Instruction is individualized to each student's
research needs and internship opportunities.
Institution: Camden
County College, College Drive, Blackwood, NJ 08012
Course Title:
Survey Certificate Course in Animal-Assisted Therapy and Animal-Assisted Activities
Coordinator: To register, contact Kathy Forsythe, Continuing Education
Office, 856-374-4955, [email protected]
Instructor: Phil Arkow, Animal Technology Program, 856-627-5118, [email protected]
Summary: A 12-week Continuing Education Certificate program course
offered in the Spring and Fall semesters to introduce students to the human-companion
animal bond and its therapeutic applications in a variety of healing environments.
Designed for professionals in the animal care and human health fields as well
as individuals seeking vocational and volunteer opportunities. Curriculum includes
renowned guest lecturers and field trips to explore such topics as AAT in hospitals,
nursing homes, and children's institutions; therapeutic riding; animal welfare
issues; the human-companion animal bond in different cultures; service animals;
pet loss; animal behavior; and the link between animal abuse and interpersonal
violence. For students who are unable to attend locally, a Distance Learning version
is available through Harcum College in Bryn Mawr, PA.
PHILOSOPHY
Institution:
Carleton College, Northfield, MN 55057
Course Title: Animals: Minds,
Morals and Nature (Phil/ENTS 243)
Instructor: Dale Jamieson, Henry
R. Luce Professor in Human Dimensions of Global Change, 507-646-4121, [email protected]
Summary: Discusses the relationships of humans to animals in the philosophy
of mind, ethics, and environmental policy. Among the questions explored are: Do
animals have minds? Do humans have duties to animals? How seriously should we
take the interests of individual animals in our decision-making? How should the
interests of animals be weighed against various environmental goods such as the
conservation of rare plants? The course is strongly focused on student participation,
and encourages critical thinking, argumentation, and formation and refinement
of one's personal viewpoints.
SOCIOLOGY
Institution: Central
Connecticut State University, 1615 Stanley Street, New Britain, CT 06050
Course
Title: Animals and Society (upper-level sociology)
Instructor:
Jessica Greenebaum, Sociology Dept., 860-832-2822, [email protected]
Summary: This course explores the social relationship between humans and
animals and examines the social meanings which shape the role and status of animals
in society. Some animals are loved as family members, while others are treated
as objects to be used by industries and individuals. This course also explores
the ideas behind the animal rights and animal welfare movements. This course will
introduce you to alternative perspectives and will (hopefully) challenge your
standpoint on human-animals relations. We will be discussing controversial and
disturbing topics in this class.
ANIMAL SCIENCE
Institution: Colorado
State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
Course Title: Ethical Issues
in Animal Agriculture
Instructor: Bernard Rollin, 970-491-6315, [email protected]
Summary: This pioneering course has been a part of the required block for
agricultural students at Colorado State University since 1980. It deals with issues
of farm animal welfare, ethical theory, and emerging social ethics for animals.
Institution: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
Course
Title: Agricultural Ethics
Instructors: Bernard Rollin, 970-491-6315,
[email protected]
and Robert Zimdahl, 970-491-5261, [email protected]
Summary: This course, open to all undergraduates, deals with issues such
as pesticides and herbicides, animal welfare, environmental despoliation, family
farms, agricultural biotechnology, rural communities, and husbandry-based versus
industry-based agriculture.
PHILOSOPHY
Institution: Colorado State
University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
Course Title: Animal Ethics
Instructor: Bernard Rollin, 970-491-6315, [email protected]
Summary: Surveys some of the major issues that have emerged in the past
30 years regarding the moral status of animals.
Institution: Colorado
State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
Course Title: Ethical Issues
in Genetic Engineering
Instructor: Bernard Rollin, 970-491-6315, [email protected]
Summary: Examines ethical issues and questions that emerge from the new
technologies of genetic engineering.
Institution: Colorado State University,
Fort Collins, CO 80523
Course Title: Science and Ethics
Instructor:
Bernard Rollin, 970-491-6315, [email protected]
Summary: Offered for graduate students in the biomedical sciences, this
course deals with research on human subjects, research on animal subjects, scientific
ideology, biosafety issues, science and democracy, fraud and deception in science,
and issues in genetic engineering and biotechnology. [This course is also offered
for Cell and Molecular Biology majors]
PHYSIOLOGY
Institution: Colorado
State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
Course Title: Proper Care
and Use of Laboratory Animals
Instructors: Bernard Rollin and Martha
L. Kesel, 970-491-6315, [email protected]
Summary: An approach to ethical and practical issues that arise in
the course of doing animal research. Topics include animal pain and distress,
anesthesia, analgesia, euthanasia, surgical technique, and trying to justify animal
research.
Status: Taught on an occasional basis.
VETERINARY MEDICINE
AND MEDICINE
Institution: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
80523
Course Title: Veterinary Medical Ethics
Instructors:
Bernard Rollin and A. P. Knight, 970-491-6315, [email protected]
Summary: This pioneering course, implemented in 1978, is required
in the veterinary medicine curriculum at Colorado State University. It deals with
ethical theory, animal welfare, and animal rights.
Institution: Colorado
State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
Course Title: Proper Care
and Use of Laboratory Animals
Instructors: Bernard Rollin and Martha
L. Kesel, 970-491-6315, [email protected]
Summary: An approach to ethical and practical issues that arise in
the course of doing animal research. Topics include animal pain and distress,
anesthesia, analgesia, euthanasia, surgical technique, and trying to justify animal
research.
Status: Taught on an occasional basis.
HISTORY AND HUMANITIES
Institution:
Columbia University in the City of New York, Mail Code 2527, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue,
New York, NY 10027
Course Title: Animals from Aristotle to Agamben
Instructor: Samuel Moyn, Associate Professor of History, [email protected]
Summary: This class is a reading survey about how the Western philosophical
and theological tradition has conceptualized the difference between humans and
(other) animals. Are humans animals? (What are animals, first of all?) If humans
are animals, how to conceptualize their differences? Either way, what are the
consequences for how to understand oneself and treat animals? What is the nature
of human dignity, and does it depend on some plausible distinction of humans from
animals? The course culminates in six prominent contemporary philosophers who
have turned the traditions they have inherited towards the problem of animals.
(Note: this is not a class about animal rights except indirectly, insofar as the
question of whether rights might or might not accrue to animals will depend on
a prior study of the status of the human-animal border.) View Samuel Moyn's syllabus
at http://www.columbia.edu/~sam2008/Animals.html
ANIMAL STUDIES
Institution: Community College of
Baltimore County, Dundalk, Baltimore, MD 21222
Course Title: Animals
and Society—Online Course (ANST 101). Spring 2007.
Instructor:
Melba Green, 410-664-2236, x315; [email protected]
Summary: Explores the ways animals are viewed by various subcultures
in American society. Students explore sociological, historical, economic, philosophical,
and public policy issues regarding the treatment of animals. Factory farming,
medical research, hunting and trapping, and entertainment industries will be examined.
ANIMAL
SCIENCE
Institution: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4801
Course Title: Ethics and Animal Science (AN SC 414)
Instructors:
Debbie Cherney, 607-255-2882, [email protected];
A. van Tienhoven, 607-255-4407, Department of Animal Science, Morrison Hall
Summary: Explores the place of humans in the biological world, origins
of ethics and morality, speciesism, the use of animals for research and agricultural
purposes, and transgenic animals. Student performance is based on a report of
a farm tour, participation in discussion, and a project of the student's choice.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Institution: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Course Title: Humans and Animals
Instructor: Nerissa Russell,
Dept. of Anthropology, 203 McGraw, 607-255-6790, Email: [email protected]
.
Summary: Human-animal relationships are often seen in utilitarian,
especially nutritional terms. This is especially true of the analysis of animal
remains from archaeological sites. This course focuses on non-dietary roles of
animals in human societies. We will explore a broad range of issues. Domestication
involves not only the technical process of controlling animal movements and breeding,
but requires a fundamental shift in the human perception of animals and their
relationship to them. Are pets domestic animals in the same sense as animals that
are eaten, or does their owners' relationship with them more closely resemble
that of hunters with their prey? Do wild animals mean the same thing to hunter-gatherers
and farmers who hunt? We will also consider the importance of animals as wealth,
as objects of sacrifice, as totems (metaphors for humans), and as symbols in art.
Meat has undeniable dietary value, but the social aspect of consumption is also
important. Meat can be used in the context of such behaviors as feasting and meat
sharing to create, cement, and manipulate social relationships. We will examine
these issues primarily (but not exclusively) in the context of the ethnography
and archaeology of the Old World with which the instructor is most familiar. Spring
2007. Offered every 2-3 years.
BIOLOGY
Institution: Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4801
Course Title: Physiology of Welfare
(BioSci 711)
Instructors: Katherine Houpt, 607-253-3450, [email protected]
Summary: A seminar course for 1 credit in which the latest literature on
animal welfare is read and discussed. The course is open to graduate students
and advanced undergraduates who have had a course in physiology or endocrinology.
Each student is responsible for leading the discussion on one or two weeks of
the semester. Taught periodically.
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Institution:
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4801
Course Title: Religion, Ethics, and the Environment (NTRES 407)
Summary:
Examines how religion, philosophy, and ethics influence our treatment of nature.
Terms like religion, nature, fact, value, knowledge, and public interest are examined
in detail. Particular themes include character and moral development, similarities
and differences between moral and scientific claims, truth telling, public reason,
and property. Also, animals rights versus ecosystem concerns, responsibility to
future generations, the limitations of rationalism in ethics, and discussion of
whether women approach moral issues differently from men.
Institution:
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4801
Course Title: Seminar in Environmental Ethics (NTRES 411)
Summary:
Moral concerns relative to the natural environment and agriculture. In successive
years, the seminar will focus on such topics as:
1. Animal rights vs. ecosystem
concerns.
2. Natural resource management and the concept of the public interest.
3. Environmental ethics in a democratic and pluralistic society.
4.
Land use ethics.
NUTRITION AND NATURAL SCIENCE
Institution: Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4801
Course Title: Vegetarian Nutrition
(NS 300)
Instructor: T. Colin Campbell, Division of Nutritional Sciences,
[email protected]
Summary: Provides
a general overview of various issues surrounding the practice of vegetarian nutrition.
Presents some of the empirical evidence supporting the consumption of plant based
diets, and introduces new thinking into the discipline of nutritional science.
Questions existing principles and assumptions of nutrition knowledge and challenges
some of the more fundamental assumptions of the "rules" of scientific investigation.
Particular attention is given to the relationships of vegetarianism to the etiology
of chronic degenerative diseases.
VETERINARY MEDICINE AND MEDICINE
Institution:
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4801
Course Title: Biomedical
Ethics and Clinical Genetics (VTMED 527)
Instructor: John Edward Saidla,
Veterinary Medicine, Pop. Medicine & Diagnostic Science, 607-253-3201, [email protected]
Summary: This course enters into a study of ethical issues related to animal
use, animal welfare, animal genetics, clinical application of genetics, genetics
counseling, and clinical day-to-day ethics.
PHILOSOPHY
Institution: Creighton University,
Omaha, NE 68178
Course Title: Environmental Ethics (PHL 354)
Instructor:
William O. Stephens, Department of Philosophy, 402-280-2632, [email protected]
Summary: This ethics course examines what duties and responsibilities human
beings have to the natural environment and the organisms within it. If speciesism
is morally unacceptable by unjustifiably excluding nonhuman animals from the moral
community, then what exactly are our ethical obligations to nonhuman animals?
If anthropocentrism is in general defective, what implications do these defects
have for the moral standing of individual plants, insects, and animals, entire
species of organisms, waters, land, ecosystems, and the planet as a whole.
ANIMAL
STUDIES
Institution:
DePaul University, Chicago, IL 60604
Course
Title: Externship: Animals in Contemporary Life
Instructors: Betta
Lo Sardo, School for New Learning, Oak Forest, IL 60452, [email protected]
, 708-633-9091
Summary:
This faculty designed independent study course is designed to address the externship
requirement of the School for New Learning. Students will consider their learning
styles by revisiting David Kolb's Learning Styles Inventory first introduced in
the initial stages of the SNL program. Learners will develop ways of expanding
their learning repertoires, and of examining their own ideas as well as those
of experts. Specifically, students will pursue information on the historical connections
between animals and humans, and on philosophies and issues concerning breeding
and use of domestic animals. Students will also be exposed to current issues in
animal welfare, including a volunteer experience in an animal shelter. In this
course, faculty will provide a framework for assessing the roles and condition
of animals particularly domestic animals, in our culture. Readings will include
Peter Singer's noted work on animal experimentation, Animal Liberation. Students
will track their own interests through further readings and commentary on their
experiences.
Course website: http://snl.depaul.edu/about/fac_directory.php#L
(see under Lo Sardo)
Course offering information: This course is offered
every quarter.
SOCIOLOGY AND RESEARCH
ETHICS
Institution: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 02755
Course
Title: Animals and Society
Instructor: Judy E. Stern, Ethics Institute
at Dartmouth College, 603-650-8218 (Ethics Institute: 603-646-1263), [email protected]
Summary: This course explores a variety of topics in which the practice
of scientific research may require moral decision making. Through case analysis
and discussion we will help students to distinguish behaviors that are morally
questionable from those that are morally encouraged. Topics will include deception
in research, research methodology, mentoring and interpersonal interaction, publication,
institutional responsibilities, and human and animal experimentation. The course
is taught by a team of basic scientists and philosophers. It is open to all graduate
students and may be used to fill the ethics requirement for students on NIH training
grants.
ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY
Institution:
Delaware Valley College, Doylestown, PA 18901-2697
Course Title:
People and Animals
Instructor: Janis G. Hammer, VMD, [email protected]
Summary: The course covers many topics regarding the positive
aspects of our relationship with animals as well as the much less common but negative
aspects. The topics discussed include but are not limited to; animals in religion,
domestication, service and working animals, the changing role of animals in society
over time (e.g. ownership vs. guardian, pet insurance), the role of animals in
different cultures, animal abuse, inappropriate bonding, and the health benefits
of the bond for both man and animals. This course is a prerequisite for the spring
course; Animal Assisted Activities and Therapy; Programs, Procedures, nad Responsibilities.
ANIMAL
WELFARE
Institution: Duquesne University, School for Leadership and
Professional Advancement, Pittsburgh, PA
Course Title: Animal Health
and Behavior in the Sheltering Environment
Instructor: Wendy Blount,
DVM, [email protected]
Summary:
This course examines basic health and behavioral management issues involving shelter
animals. Topics include epidemiology, shelter design and sanitation, immunization
and vaccination policy, management of data, disease treatment protocols, the basic
principles of nutrition and feeding, and collaboration with public health agencies.
[This course is part of the Humane Leadership Bachelor's Degree Program offered
in partnership between Duquesne University and Humane Society University; see
http://www.humanesocietyu.org/degrees_and_certificates/du/undergrad/index.html
for more information on the program and additional courses.]
Institution:
Duquesne University, School for Leadership and Professional Advancement, Pittsburgh,
PA
Course Title: Current Topics in Animal Sheltering (may vary year
to year)
Institution: Duquesne University, School for Leadership and
Professional Advancement
Course Title: Current Topics in Animal Sheltering
(may vary year to year)
Instructor: varies, [email protected]
Summary:
The course reviews the history of animal sheltering and municipal animal control,
evolving trends in the keeping of companion animals, and contemporary policy questions
relevant to the work of animal care and control agencies. These include such topics
as the relationship between humane societies and the veterinary community, the
legal status of animals, the feral cat dilemma, the debate over limited vs. open
admission shelter policies, the hoarding phenomenon, and exotic animal concerns.
[This
course is part of the Humane Leadership Bachelor's Degree Program offered in partnership
between Duquesne University and Humane Society University; see http://www.humanesocietyu.org/degrees_and_certificates/du/undergrad/index.html
for more information on the program and additional courses.]
HUMANE
EDUCATION
Institution: Duquesne University, School for Leadership
and Professional Advancement, Pittsburgh, PA
Course Title: Studies in
Humane Education
Instructor: Kim Charmatz, [email protected]
Summary:
This course examines the history and theory behind the teaching of kindness to
animals, and explores some of the most important topics in contemporary studies
of humane education. These include the development of empathy, the theory of transference,
controversy inherent in teaching ethical subject matter, how
humane education is situated within other educational frameworks, and
the evaluation of humane education's impacts and outcomes. Some questions we will
explore are: What do children think about animals? How do children think about
animals? What are positive examples of humane education in action, and how can
those apply in various contexts? Does teaching children to be kind to animals
lead to increased empathy toward animals or toward other people? What is the relationship
between humane education and character education? Between humane education and
environmental education? We will discuss all of these topics in this course designed
for teachers, animal care and control personnel, and other interested individuals.
[This course is part of the Humane Leadership Bachelor's Degree Program offered
in partnership between Duquesne University and Humane Society University; see
http://www.humanesocietyu.org/degrees_and_certificates/du/undergrad/index.html
for more information on the program and additional courses.]
LAW
AND CRIMINOLOGY
Institution: Duquesne University, School for Leadership
and Professional Advancement, Pittsburgh, PA
Course Title: First Strike:
Cruelty to Animals and Interpersonal Violence
Instructor: Diana Clement,
[email protected]
Summary:
During the past two decades, the relationship between cruelty to animals and interpersonal
violence--once a subject of common anecdotal knowledge--has been substantiated
by a significant body of work in social science. Participants in this course will
gain a fundamental knowledge of this connection (as explained by sociologists,
psychologists, law enforcement professionals, and others); examine both qualitative
and quantitative studies and case histories of the correlation between cruelty
to animals, child abuse, domestic violence, elder abuse, and teen violence; and
explore the broad terrain of community level partnerships involving humane societies,
social service providers, and law enforcement agencies. Participants will learn
how to recognize the connection between cruelty to animals and human violence
and will review a variety of intervention programs for victims and at-risk or
offending populations. The course is designed for educators, investigators, animal
care and control personnel, law enforcement officials, protective service professionals,
and other anti-violence workers. [This course is part of the Humane Leadership
Bachelor's Degree Program offered in partnership between Duquesne University and
Humane Society University; see http://www.humanesocietyu.org/degrees_and_certificates/du/undergrad/index.html
for more information on the program and additional courses.]
PSYCHOLOGY
Institution:
Duquesne University, School for Leadership and Professional Advancement, Pittsburgh,
PA
Course Title: Compassion Fatigue
Instructor: Kathleen
Figley, [email protected]
Summary:
This course, designed especially for animal care and control professionals and
other animal advocates, will provide students with the expertise to assess the
signs and symptoms of compassion stress, and to utilize appropriate strategies
to prevent compassion fatigue and its related stresses, traumas, and illnesses.
Particular emphasis is placed on the animal care community, including volunteers
and workers in community animal shelters and emergency animal shelters in a catastrophic
environment.
[This course is part of the Humane Leadership Bachelor's Degree
Program offered in partnership between Duquesne University and Humane Society
University; see http://www.humanesocietyu.org/degrees_and_certificates/du/undergrad/index.html
for more information on the program and additional courses.]
SOCIOLOGY
AND RESEARCH ETHICS
Institution: Duquesne University, School for
Leadership and Professional Advancement, Pittsburgh, PA
Course Title:
Animal Protection as a Social Movement
Instructor: Jennifer Jackman,
[email protected]
Summary: In
the past four decades, the modern animal protection movement in the United States
has worked to improve the lives of animals by providing shelter and safety, winning
local, state and national policy protections, and transforming social attitudes
and human behavior. Drawing on both sociological and political science literature
on social movements, the course explores the ideas, activists, issues and organizations
that comprise the animal protection movement and the diverse set of strategies
employed by the movement, including public education, protest, lobbying, litigation,
direct service, and elections. The course also examines the myriad of economic
interests that oppose efforts to gain protections for companion animals, farm
animals, wild animals, and animals in research.
[This course is part of the
Humane Leadership Bachelor's Degree Program offered in partnership between Duquesne
University and Humane Society University; see http://www.humanesocietyu.org/degrees_and_certificates/du/undergrad/index.html
for more information on the program and additional courses.]
PHILOSOPHY
Institution: East Carolina
University, Greenville, NC 27858-4353
Course Title: Ethics and Animals
(PHIL 4270)
Instructor: Richard McCarty, Department of Philosophy,
252-328-1018, [email protected]
Summary: The primary goal of the course is to learn more about ethics or
morality from considering the significance of animals in moral deliberation. So
in thinking about whether animals have rights, for example, we shall also need
to ask wider questions such as, what are rights? and how do they fit into the
system of morality? Questions such as these lead us to investigate theoretical
approaches to the study of morality in general.
Status: Taught every
other year at most.
Institutions: Tufts
University (undergraduate students), Medford, MA 02155; and Episcopal Divinity
School (graduate students), Cambridge, MA 01238
Course Title: Religion,
Science, and Other Animals
Instructor: Paul Waldau, Center for Animals
and Public Policy, Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, 200 Westboro
Rd., North Grafton, MA 01536-1895, 508-887-4671, [email protected]
Summary: Focuses on how nonhuman animals have been seen in both religious
and scientific circles. Prompts the student to ask a wide range of questions,
including:
1. To what extent have religious traditions affected the ways in
which contemporary scientists view and speak about animals other than humans?
2. In what ways do contemporary religious traditions now deal with new findings
of various life sciences that are pertinent to an understanding of nonhuman animals?
Answers to these questions are explored in several ways, including an examination
of whether the vocabularies and concepts used by those who practice both the physical
and "softer" sciences when talking about animals outside the human species remain
value-laden. The course also seeks clarification of the claims about other animals
generally implicit and explicit in many religious traditions' writings and beliefs.
Status: This course recently won an award in an international competition
sponsored by the Templeton Foundation for courses dealing with religion and science.
It is also open to students at the other nine schools in the Boston Theological
Institute.
MARINE MAMMAL BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
Institution:
George Mason University, 4400
University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030
Course Title: Marine Mammal Biology
& Conservation (EVPP 490-004/505-010/ BIOL 507-001)
Instructor:
Chris Parsons, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy,
[email protected]
Summary: This lecture course (3.0 credit hours) covers the biology, ecology
and behavior of marine mammals from polar bears and sea otters to whales and dolphins.
Marine mammal conservation is a major component of the course. There are several
lecture sessions devoted to the issue of whaling, threats to marine mammal populations,
and current conservation topics such as wild captures of marine mammals and noise
pollution, tuna dolphin and Canadian seal issues. The course includes a field
trip to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum and a number of guest lectures
from a variety of marine mammal international experts.
Institution:
George Mason University, 4400
University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030
Course Title: Endangered Mammals
Instructor: Chris Parsons, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental
Science and Policy, [email protected]
Summary: Students cover a variety of endangered mammal species from
whales to black-footed ferrets, and issues such as the bushmeat trade, hunting
and the problem of exotic pets. Guest speakers discuss international laws and
treaties governing endangered mammals and how conservation and welfare ccan be
improved. A final assignment for students is an evaluation of both US and domestic
laws with respect to endangered and vulnerable mammals.
SOCIOLOGY AND RESEARCH ETHICS
Institution:
George Mason University, Fairfax,
VA 22030
Course Title Gender, Race and the Natural World (SOC 590/EVPP
636) graduate course
Instructor: Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
703-993-1443
Summary: Engages students in an interdisciplinary critical
analysis of the ideologies that underpin the interlocking cultural narratives
of speciesism, racism, and sexism. We address the role of science in the production
of the ideology of domination and dualism, the cultural representations of nonhuman
and human animals, and theoretical critiques of the oppression of the other.
PHILOSOPHY
Institution: George
Washington University, 2121 I Street, NW, Washington, DC 20052
Course
Title: Ethics: Theory and Applications
Instructor: David D. DeGrazia,
Department of Philosophy, 202-994-6913, [email protected]
Summary: This course is an introduction to ethical theory, methods of ethical
reasoning, and several concrete moral problems, including ethics and animals.
It is based on the assumption that critical ethical reflection and open-minded
engagement with diverse viewpoints can improve the quality of moral judgment.
Students are expected to identify and rigorously examine their own moral presuppositions
and take responsibility for developing a body of ethical reflection that withstands
critical scrutiny.
Institution: George
Washington University, 2121 Eye Street, NW, Washington, DC 20052
Course
Title: Moral Status and Personal Identity
Instructor: David D.
DeGrazia, Department of Philosophy, 202-994-6913, [email protected]
Summary: This course integrates the important and challenging philosophical
issues of moral status and personal identity, taking advantage of significant
recent developments in the literature, and bringing the treatment of these issues
to bear in investigating four areas of practical concern: the definition of death;
the authority of advance directives in cases of severe dementia and persistent
vegetative states; genetic engineering and cloning; and "cosmetic psychopharmacology."
The first part of the course, focusing on moral status, places a strong emphasis
on animals.
LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY
Institution: Georgetown
University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001
Course Title: Animal Law Seminar
Instructor: Valerie Stanley,
301-594-3126, [email protected]
Summary: Examines the realities of life and death for animals used for
experimentation, food, entertainment and sport, and introduces the federal and
state laws governing, and purporting to protect, animals used for these purposes.
Examines whether these laws accomplish their purposes through a review of relevant
case law and other materials. Addresses the societal, legislative, and judicial
mechanisms that maintain animals as property by reviewing and comparing the personal
accounts of advocates who have battled government and corporate institutions to
effect societal change in other areas. Standing, and legal rights for animals
are also addressed.
NUTRITION AND NATURAL SCIENCES
Institution: Hampshire
College, Amherst, MA 01002
Course Title: pending
Instructor:
Summary:
ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY
Institution: Harcum College,
750 Montgomery Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Course Title: Introduction
to Animal-Assisted Therapy and Animal-Assisted Activities--Distance Learning Certificate
course
Coordinator: To register, contact Kelly Wilson, Continuing Studies,
(610) 526-6083, [email protected]
Instructor:
Phil Arkow, (856) 627-5118, [email protected]
. NOTE: Class is limited to 12 students.
Summary: This comprehensive
Introduction to Animal-Assisted Therapy & Activities is offered entirely
online by internationally renowned human-animal bond and AAT author Phil Arkow.
The course offers a Certificate of Completion: this Certificate may be eligible
for employer reimbursement and Continuing Education Units depending upon the requirements
of the student's employer and/or professional association. This course covers
the human-animal bond and its therapeutic applications. It is designed both for
professionals from a wide range of disciplines, and for volunteers, students and
newcomers who wish to further their knowledge and explore career opportunities
in this emerging, multi-disciplinary field. International students are particularly
welcomed. Students will examine how contact with animals can enhance human well-being
when incorporated into health care, social services, psychology, psychiatry, education,
allied health, therapy, and many more fields. Students may already be trained
in these or similar fields, or may be seeking to enter the field. The course explores
conceptual frameworks, research, and practical techniques that will empower you
to introduce animals in a variety of milieus. It enhances students' personal growth
and professional development. Through extensive reading, on-line research, site
visits to local facilities, and networking in on-line discussion groups, students
will obtain both an overview of the human-companion animal bond (HCAB) and Animal-Assisted
Therapy & Activities (AAT/AAA), and opportunities to concentrate on specific
programs or applications of particular personal and/or professional interest.
RELIGIOUS
STUDIES
Institution: Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA 02138
Course Title: Animals and Religion
Instructor: Kimberley Patton, Harvard Divinity School, 617-496-3395, [email protected]
Summary: Focuses on the symbolism and ritual function of animals
in human religious worlds. Using particular cultural histories as paradigms, considers
themes such a cosmogony, hierarchy, magic, metamorphosis, antinomianism, prophecy,
mimesis, hunting, sacrifice, and the role of fantastic creatures. Central to the
course is the evaluation of developmentalist and other theoretical models and
their impact on the history of religion. (This course is taught periodically.
Please contact the instructor for scheduling.)
Institution:
Hastings College of the Law, 200 McAllister, San Francisco, CA 94102
Course
Title: Animal Law
Instructor: Bruce Wagman, 415-896-0666, [email protected]
Summary: A survey of the law's understanding and treatment of animals by
looking at the development of federal and state policies towards wild, domestic,
and companion animals. Specific topics may include the history of animal law,
the concept of animals as property, the application of tort and remedies law to
injuries by and to pets, protection of animals by anti-cruelty and other laws,
and constitutional issues raised in cases involving animals. The course incorporates
legal concepts from other fields, encourages critical thought and new approaches
to doctrines developed in other areas, and addresses a broadened integration of
the realities of animals and society with the particularities of the law.
PHILOSOPHY
Institution:
Hiram College, Hiram, OH 44234
Course Title: Animals and Ethics (Philosophy
270)
Instructor: Prof. Colin Anderson, Department of Philosophy, [email protected]
Summary:
Course Description: This class is concerned with ethical questions involved
in our relationship to other animals. The first concern of the class will
be to consider the implications of various moral theories for our consideration
of non-human animals. Among the moral theories we will consider are Utilitarian,
Deontological (rights and duty based), and Social Contract Theories. Each of these
theories can be utilized to examine our treatment and use of animals within a
number of different domains including the use of animals for food and experimentation.
Since the application of some of these theories to our treatment of animals depends
upon empirical questions about the nature and capabilities of other representative
species, we will devote some of our time to the consideration of questions concerning
animal intelligence, consciousness, and social formations.
Course Goals:
This course shares the goals of the liberal arts tradition. It is committed to
the vision of education as broadly preparing students to be free human beings,
equipped to confront their lives thoughtfully and seriously and to question the
society, the times, and the beliefs within which they live. The course intends
to foster an independent and inquiring attitude to fundamental beliefs; to begin
a confrontation with both the perennial questions of the Western philosophical
tradition and contemporary philosophical problems; to develop the intellectual
attitudes necessary for a full engagement with important philosophical problems;
to practice and strengthen the abilities to formulate thought clearly and rigorously
in both verbal and written communication.
PSYCHOLOGY
Institution:
Hiram College, Hiram OH 44234
Course Title: Ethics in Research on Animal
Behavior
Instructor: Kimberley A. Phillips, Departments of Psychology
and Biology, 330-569-5229, [email protected]
Summary: An intensive exploration into the ethical issues involved in animal
behavior research. The course begins with a discussion of philosophical positions
on the moral standing of animals. Other topics of discussion include animals in
behavioral research, ethology and animal minds, psychological well-being, how
to determine pain and suffering, and regulatory issues in present day research.
LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY
Institution: Hudson
Valley Community College (State University of New York)
Course Title:
Animal Law I (CRJS 230)
Instructor: Valerie A. Lang, J.D., M.L.S.,
[email protected], 518-629-7319
Summary:
This is an introductory course designed to acquaint the student with the fundamental
principles of Animal Law and the Criminal Justice system. Specific topics include
the history of animal law, state anti-cruelty laws, the nature of animal cruelty,
the link between animal cruelty and violence against humans, the media's influence,
investigative techniques, animal fighting, hoarding, control of wildlife, the
Animal Welfare Act, the animal rights debate, and overpopulation. Visit to a local
animal shelter is included. Textbook: Animals: Welfare, Interests and Rights
by David Favre.
Institution: Humboldt State University, Arcata,
CA 95521
Course Title: Animal Ethics
Instructor: Susan J.
Armstrong, Department of Philosophy, 707-826-5754, [email protected]
Summary: A seminar course offered for the first time in Spring 2000. Deals
with animal awareness, moral development, language ability, pain and suffering,
personhood, factory farming, experimentation, genetic engineering, sport hunting,
legal rights and zoos.
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Institution: Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN 47401
Course Title: Science, Religion, and the Environment
Instructor: Lisa Sideris, Department of Religious Studies, 812-330-1573
Summary: Examines arguments that hold scientific and religious world views
responsible for our environmental crisis and the devaluation of nonhuman animal
life. The structure of the course follows a thesis-antithesis-synthesis format.
We start with a historical survey of Christian thinkers (Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin,
Luther) up to and including modern Christian thinkers who have been criticized
by environmentalists. We then cover scientific thinkers such as Bacon and Descartes,
and modern physicists. The third section involves a reconsideration of the thesis
that science and/or religion have been responsible for environmental problems
and disregard for animals. We look at thinkers both in science and religion who
have contributed positively to the human-nature relationship, both in the past
and present.
HUMANE EDUCATION
Institution:
International Institute for Humane
Education
Course Title: Introduction to Humane Education (EIH 620)
Instructor: Zoe Weil, International Institute for Humane Education, P.O.
Box 260, Surry, ME 04684, (207) 667-1025, [email protected]
Summary: This directed study introduces the field of humane education and
helps students acquire skills and knowledge needed by the humane educator. Specifically,
the course introduces teaching and learning styles and provides strategies to
present and communicate principles and issues of humane education in the community.
(Distance learning module available through affiliation with the International
Institute for Humane Education, Surry, ME) Other interrelated humane education
courses in the program include Animal Protection, Environmental Preservation,
Culture and Media, and Human Rights.
Institution: International
Institute for Humane Education
Course Title: Animal Protection
(EIH 630)
Instructors: Zoe Weil, International Institute for Humane
Education, P.O. Box 260, Surry, ME 04684, (207) 667-1025, [email protected]
Summary: Prerequisite: EIH620 Through books, articles and videos, students
are exposed to a variety of issues (animal agriculture, experimentation,entertainment,
hunting, companion animal) and views pertaining to animal protection and rights.
This module provides information for students to consider and evaluate for the
purpose of educating others, who play various roles in society and assume different
positions on these issues. Students respond in essays and projects, and participate
in regular consultation with the instructor. (Distance learning module available
through affiliation with the International Institute for Humane Education, Surry,
ME). Other interrelated humane education courses in the program include Environmental
Preservation, Culture and Media, and Human Rights. IIHE's M.Ed.Program is offered
through an affiliation with Cambridge College, and its Humane Education Certificate
Program is offered independently. Both are distance learning programs.
BIOLOGY
Institution: James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807
Course Title: Animal Welfare (BIO 312)
Instructor: Ruth E. Chodrow,
Biology Department, 540-886-9371, [email protected]
Summary: Examines the biological basis of animal welfare. Topics include
the evolution of domestic animals, physiological and behavioral measurements of
stress, welfare assessment, and pain perception. Case studies examine the use
of animals for companionship, food, medical research, and entertainment. Limited
enrollment to 24 students. Spring class.
ANIMAL SCIENCE
Institution: Kansas
State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-0201
Course Title: Contemporary
Issues in Animal Science
Instructor: Janice Swanson, Department of
Animal Science and Industry, 134C Weber Hall, 785-532-1244, [email protected]
Summary: This student-driven, experiential learning course uses the development
of animal rights philosophy to teach students how to think critically and to illustrate
the development of issues from inception to the political arena. Projects involve
problem solving; information acquisition, assimilation and communication skills;
network development; team work; conflict resolution; case study and debate; and
use of electronic information/communication technologies. Two major projects involve
the production of a class briefing report on a variety of animal issues and a
mock congressional hearing with students from the University of Nebraska.
SOCIOLOGY
AND RESEARCH ETHICS
Institution: Keene State College, Keene, NH 03435-3400
Course Title: Environmental Sociology (SOC 399)
Instructor:
Kathleen R. Johnson, Dept. of Sociology, 603-358-2594, [email protected]
Summary: Examines some of the important concepts and theories used by environmental
sociologists to address the following substantive issues: how society and the
economy have developed their relationship to the environment; efforts to expand
our moral circle to include nonhuman life; a variety of environmental movements
such as the environmental justice movement and the animal rights movement; how
we measure and interpret studies of environmental concern; and some of the problems
and possible solutions of building sustainable and alternative environmental societies.
LAW
AND CRIMINOLOGY
Institution: Lewis
& Clark College, Northwestern School of Law, 615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road
Portland, OR 97219
Course Title: Animal Law Clinical Internship Seminar
(CIS)
Instructors: Laura Ireland Moore, Executive Director of the
National Center for Animal Law, 503-768-6849, [email protected]
Summary: The Animal Law CIS helps law students learn the tools of the trade,
exposing them to different work place environments, and to people working in the
field both in nonprofit and law firm settings. The course is certainly educational
for students, but also provides attorneys and organizations with much needed legal
assistance. The Animal Law CIS is the only animal law course in the nation that
allows students to earn credit for interning with animal law attorneys and organizations,
and the only one that teaches practical skills, rather than simply the history
and theory, of animal law.
Institution: Lewis & Clark College,
Northwestern School of Law, 615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland, OR 97219
Course Title: Animal Law Overview Course
Instructor: Pamela
Frasch , Animal Legal Defense Fund, 919 SW Taylor St., Fourth Floor, Portland,
OR 97202, 503-231-1602, [email protected],
and Georgie Duckler, Animal Law Practice
Summary: A 15-week course
covering a broad array of animal legal issues; readings draw from many relevant
examples of case law.
Institution: Lewis & Clark College,
Northwestern School of Law, 615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland, OR 97219
Course Title: Animal Law Seminar
Instructor: Pamela Frasch,
Animal Legal Defense Fund, 919 SW Taylor St., Fourth Floor, Portland, OR 97202,
503-231-1602, [email protected],
and Georgie Duckler, Animal Law Practice
Summary: This couse is offered
every other spring (the next course will be spring 2006). This class is limited
to twelve students and is more focused on cutting-edge areas in the field of animal
law. This course began in spring of 2002 and has 4-6 students each spring.
PHILOSOPHY
Institution:
McNeese State University,
P.O. Box 92335, Lake Charles, LA 70609
Course Title: Animal Ethics
Instructor: Stephen Hanson, Department of Social Sciences, 337-475-5311,
[email protected]
Summary:
What ethical obligations do we have towards animals, if any, and why? What ought
we conclude about factory farming, the use of animals in medical research, and
our general attitude towards nonhumans? This course will examine these and other
related questions in light of several of the more prevalent ethical theories in
today's philosophy. We will examine utilitarianism, as elaborated by Mill and
later by Peter Singer, and the way the greatest happiness principle it discusses
may affect our obligations towards animals, at least those that feel pleasure
and pain. We will also look at contractarian theory, and ask whether or not animals
are to be included in the social contract. Finally, we will discuss how Kant's
notion of rights and respect for persons should impact our attitude about possible
animal persons.
ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY
Institution: Mercy
College, New York
Course Title: Animal Assisted Therapy (Course
as part of Certificate Program)
Instructor: Suz Brooks, Psy.D., Adjunct
Professor at Mercy College in the Veterinary Technology Department, and Psychologist
at the Green Chimneys Farm, [email protected]
Other Contact: Kelly, Mercy College, 914-674-7560
Summary: This
year long certificate program has been in existence as a single course since 1991,
and has existed as a certificate program since 1996 encompassing 6 classes and
a 150 hour internship. The certificate combines both hands-on training in animal
behavior as well as training in learning to build a relationship to work within
the human - animal bond. Currently the courses in this certificate include: An
Overview into AAT, Applied Animal Behavior, Animal Behavior, Learning Disabilities,
Working with the Elderly, and Abnormal Psychology. Each course is 8 weeks long,
and 5 or 6 hours per course, depending on the course. Class size has ranged from
7-15 students, most who are already licensed in a field and are learning how to
bring animals into their practices. The basic format of hands-on learning is integrated
throughout all classes with theory, principles, and issues.
HUMANE EDUCATION
Institution: Miami-Dade College, Miami, FL 33176
Course Title:
Humane Education: Compassion Across the College Curriculum
Instructor:
Joyce DiBenedetto-Colton, Animal Ethics Study Center, 1101 SW 104 St., Miami,
FL 33176-3393, 305-237-2990, [email protected]
Summary: The Animal-Ethics Center provides training and educational events
for faculty, students and the local community in Miami. The center runs humane
education training programs for faculty, encouraging teachers to consider and
incorporate ideas of compassion and community in the college curriculum. The center
also holds an ‘animal awareness week’ with events, films and keynote,
highly reputed speakers [such as Steven Wise and Tom Regan]. The center’s
wide reach into the community and its focus on teacher training ensures that their
efforts to increase knowledge and understanding of animal issues will be highly
effective.
PHILOSOPHY
Institution: Miami-Dade
Community College, Kendall Campus
Course Title: Ethics (PHI 2600)
Instructor: Charles Fink, 305-237-2030, [email protected]
Summary: Introduces students to some of the most influential theories and
writings in ethics, and provides a philosophical framework for thinking constructively
about moral problems. Among the problems discussed are abortion, world hunger,
euthanasia, and capital punishment, as well as issues in environmental and animal
ethics.
Michigan State University
SOCIOLOGY
Institution:
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Course Title: Animals
and Social Transformations (SOC 840)
Instructor: Prof. Linda Kalof,
Department of Sociology, [email protected]
Summary: This course is an historical overview of the relationship between
humans and animals and how those relationships have changed with changing social
conditions. Designed to enhance the Sociology Department's theme in Global Transformations,
the course is the first formal, regularly scheduled graduate course in animal
studies and is open to graduate students in the College of Social Sciences. Offered
in the Spring of every year.
Monash University
PSYCHOLOGY
Institution:
Monash University, Victoria, Australia
Course Title: Animal Welfare,
Department of Psychology
Instructor: Pauleen Bennett, Ph.D. [email protected]
Summary: I started and still coordinate Australia's first postgrad degree
in Animal Welfare, which is offered at the graduate certificate level. It consists
of four units and particularly focuses
on human-animal interactions rather
than other aspects of animal welfare. Information about the course can be obtained
from:
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/spppm/pgrad/aw-info.html
I also supervise quite a large group of postgrad students (about 10 at
any given time) working in the area of human-animal interactions. Our research
group website is at:
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/spppm/research/carg/
I believe my group is the first group of its type in Australia, so any help
to develop international links would be terrific. Note that my Graduate Certificate
in Animal Welfare course is offered completely through distance education. At
the moment it is only available to Australian students but we are currently negotiating
with a major US university to offer some of the units over there.
Monash University
is one of Australia's leading universities (in the top 8) and has a strong focus
on international education, which has allowed me to develop really good quality
teaching resources. We use an online learning platform (password protected) to
engage students in weekly discussions, etcetera, and provide all reading materials,
course notes
in both printed and electronic forms. View
Course Syllabus Through Links
MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
Institution:
New York University, New York, NY
Course Title: Performing Beyond the
Human: Animals, Ecology, Theatre
Instructor: Una Chaudhuri
Summary:
This course will explore intersections between theatre practice, performance theory
and the emerging fields of animal studies and ecocriticism. How has performance,
and specifically theater, reflected, affirmed, contested or flagrantly ignored
the growing cultural awareness of threats to the environment? What models has
it proposed for encountering, understanding and responding to these threats? Although
the course will focus on dramatic literature and performance from the modern period,
the age of ecology, we will compare modern and post modern "animal plays" and
"eco-plays" with classical plays on similar themes. Among the themes and topics
to be explored in relation to modern and contemporary theatre practice are: eco-catastrophe,
eco-apocalypse, animality and the construction of the human, zoo culture and post
humanism. A fundamental inquiry of the course will concern the intersection of
ecocritique and theatrical semiosis: Can performance, by virtue of its unique
ontology and phenomenology, offer new and unique approaches to the ecological
crisis before us?
Institution: New York University, New York, NY
Course Title: Animal Rites
Instructor: Una Chaudhuri
Summary:
This course will explore the relationship between performance and the fast-growing
new field of Animal Studies, which examines the cultural meaning of human animal
practices. These include not only literary representations of animals (from Aesop's
Fables to Will Self's Great Apes), not only dramatic representations
of animals (from Aristophanes' The Frogs to Shaeffer's Equus to
Albee's The Goat), not only animal performances in circuses and on stage,
but also such ubiquitous or isolated social practices as pet-keeping, cock-fighting,
dog shows, equestrian displays, rodeos, bull-fighting, animal sacrifice, hunting,
animal slaughter, and meat-eating. We will study plays and films that explore
the ways our interaction with animals shapes our accounts of the human, the "other"
(including the racial and ethnic other), and the world. Plays: Rhinoceros
(Ionesco), Equus (Shaeffer), The Goat, The Zoo Story (Albee), The
Swan (Egloff), The Hairy Ape (O'Neill), Sylvia (Gurney) Far
Away (Churchill), Cries from the Mammal House (Johnson) The Gnadiges
Fraulien (Tennessee Williams). Films: The Silence of the Lambs, Amores
Perroes, Carnage, Twelve Monkeys, Planet of the Apes, Tarzan, Disney.
PSYCHOLOGY
Institution: Niagara County Community
College, Sanborn, NY 14132
Course Title: Psychology of Human-Animal
Relations (PSY 280)
Instructor: Kathleen C. Gerbasi, Ph.D., 716-754-2466,
[email protected]
Summary: Human-Animal Relations will introduce students to the interdisciplinary
field of Anthrozoology. Anthrozoology is the study of the many different
ways in which human and non-human animals relate to each other and impact each
other's lives. Since this is a psychology course, the main focus of the course
will be Anthrozoology from the psychological perspective, however we will also
touch on other academic fields in addition to psychology. Topics covered in this
course represent an overview of current issues in Human-Animal Studies. This includes
human's relationships with pets, psychological and physiological benefits of companion
animals, concern for animal rights and animal welfare, the link between cruelty
to animals and violence toward humans, individual differences in people's relationships
with animals (including sex differences), a study of the similarities and differences
between human and non-human animals, especially as related to language, communication,
cognition and problem solving, and a review of moral and ethical concerns about
eating meat, wearing fur and the use of animals for research and entertainment.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
Institution: North
Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27526
Course Title: Contemporary
Science, Technology and Values (MDS 302)
Instructor: Nell Kriesberg,
[email protected]
Summary:
This is an introductory course in the Science and Technology Studies minor in
the Division of Multidisciplinary Studies. Our goal is to gain insights about
the interactions between science, society values and animals using a multidisciplinary
approach. We will examine major questions/themes throughout the semester, for
example:
1. "Is science inherently ethical?"
2. "How do we go about
making moral decisions?"
3. "What is the proper place for animals in our
increasingly science and technology driven society?"
4. We will examine different
sorts of relationships we can have with animals.
Course offering information:
This course will be given as a Distance Education course summer 2005 and thus
will be open to anyone, as long as they register for it via Continuing Education
as a Post Baccalaureat Student (PBS). It is also available during the fall and
spring semesters.
Syllabus: Please see http://home.earthlink.net/~nellkmutz/
for a course syllabus and links to other courses.
PSYCHOLOGY
Institution: Northeastern
University, Boston, MA 02115
Course Title: Experiments in Learning
and Motivation (PSY 1530)
Instructor: Perrin Cohen, Department of Psychology,
[email protected]
Summary: Presents
alternatives to using laboratory animals for teaching purposes and thus provides
an ongoing forum for discussing issues concerning the use of animals in research
and teaching.
Institution: Northeastern
University, Boston, MA 02115
Course Title: Psychological Research
and Personal Values (PSY 1610)
Instructor: Perrin Cohen, Department
of Psychology, [email protected]
Summary:
Considers historical, psychological, philosophical, sociological, and spiritual
perspectives regarding animal experimentation. Includes evaluation of research
projects through written and oral reports.
Institution: Northeastern
University, Boston, MA 02115
Course Title: Ethics in Research Psychology
(PSY 3193)
Instructor: Perrin Cohen, Department of Psychology, [email protected]
Summary: This graduate seminar is required of all psychology graduates.
It addresses ethical concerns and dilemmas that psychology students and professional
research psychologists face in acquiring and using scientific knowledge.
PHILOSOPHY
Institution:
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115
Course Title: Animals,
Ethics, and the Environment
Instructor: Mylan Engel, Jr., Department
of Philosophy, 815-753-6405, [email protected]
Summary: This course seeks to determine whether and to what extent we have
duties and obligations toward animals and the environment. Prominent ethical theories
are first surveyed, then a range of questions are examined from the perspective
of several prominent ethical theories. These questions include:
- What is
the moral status of animals?
- Is it wrong to kill animals for fun?
-
Is it worse to kill animals than it is to kill plants?
- Is it wrong to torture
animals?
- Is it wrong to wear animals?
- Is vegetarianism morally obligatory
for people living in modern societies?
SOCIOLOGY AND RESEARCH ETHICS
Institution:
Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA 94002
Course Title: Animals
in Society (SO/PY 180)
Instructor: Cheryl Joseph, Ph.D., 650-508-3586,
[email protected]
Summary: This
course begins by exploring capabilities of animals other than humans along with
the implications of these faculties. Using experts in their various fields, we
examine the bond between people and animals, focusing on the cruelty and compassion
connections, then discuss ways in which humans and our furry, feathered and finned
friends can enhance the lives of others.
Institution: Notre Dame
de Namur University, Belmont, CA 94002
Course Title: Animals in Literature
(SO/EN 181)
Instructor: Ken White
Summary: Through fiction,
poetry, drama and literary nonfiction, this course examines the varied and significant
roles that animals have played in human life throughout history and continue to
play in contemporary society. Works by U.S. authors as well as some from other
cultures are read to explore the ways in which literature uses companion animals
and wildlife, real as well as imagined, to shape and reflect social values. Readings
are approached from sociological and literary perspectives. Students are asked
to develop creative writing exercises with animals as theme and/or character along
with a small literary body of their own.
Institution: Notre Dame
de Namur University, Belmont, CA 94002
Course Title: Sociology of the
Animal-Human Bond (SO/PY 182)
Instructor: Cheryl Joseph, Ph.D., 650-508-3586,
[email protected]
Summary: This
course explores the unique relationship that humans share with other animals,
the implications of this relationship and the potential. We examine the attitudes
our society holds toward animals other than ourselves as well as how and why our
social institutions create these attitudes. We also address the connection between
animal and human cruelty along with the similarities between animal oppression
and racism, sexism, ageism and social class privilege. Finally, we direct attention
to the ways in which animals enrich human lives and humans can benefit other animals.
This course uses historical, cultural, institutional, interpersonal and environmental
perspectives to examine the human-other animal bond.
Institution:
Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA 94002
Course Title: Animals,
People and the Environment (SO/SM 183)
Instructor: Cheryl Joseph, Ph.D.,
650-508-3586, [email protected] and Rob Fark
Summary: By combining natural science with social science, this class explores
the interactions between people, wildlife and our ecological environment. We focus
on the value of animal life and nature in such specific areas as conservation/wildlife
management, food production, energy needs assessment, biomes and populations,
urban sprawl, biomagnification and chemical pollution, environmental disease,
endangerment, extinction, globalization and ecotourism within the context of social
inequality and social justice. Particular emphasis is given to the deforestation
of Africa and the Amazon; the introduction of kingfish into the Quechua and Imara
Indians of Southern Peru; the Arctic wilderness and oil drilling; mountaintop
removal in West Virginia; chemical pollution of the Great Lakes; creation of compatible
eco-environments in Northern Minnesota; and the impact of tourism on Moorea. This
course uses historical, biological, sociological, cultural, institutional and
environmental perspectives to examine the connections between animals, people
and our environment.
ANIMAL SCIENCE
Institution: Ohio
State University, Columbus, OH 43210
Course Title: Issues Concerning
the Use of Animals by Humans (AS 597)
Instructors: David L. Zartman,
Department of Animal Sciences, 223 Plumb Hall, 614-292-1387, [email protected]
Summary: Topics pertinent to contemporary animal rights and animal welfare
issues are addressed using lectures, debates, videotapes, guest speakers, and
student presentations. Students prepare formal "position papers" on a variety
of topics throughout the quarter. Critical thinking, consideration of opposing
viewpoints, and evaluation of information sources are stressed. Class discussions,
and interaction with speakers representing diverse philosophies and interests,
are prominent features of the course. The course, which has been taught since
1990, fulfills a University General Education Curriculum requirement in the "Contemporary
World Issues" category. Enrollment is limited to seniors.
SOCIOLOGY AND RESEARCH ETHICS
Institution:
Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701
Course Title: Animals and Human Society
(Sociology 204)
Instructor: Aileen Hall, [email protected],
740-597-1444
Summary: Much of human society is structured through
interactions with non-human animals or through interactions with other humans
regarding animals, yet sociology has largely ignored these types of interactions.
This course is designed to bring into the realm of sociological study the relationships
that exist between humans and non-human animals. A major focus will be on the
social construction of animals in American culture. Students will learn how the
meanings attached to various animals determine the nature of the human/animal
and human/human interactions that occur, including how they are used to perpetuate
hierarchical human/human relationships such as racism, sexism, and class privilege.
This course will not be about animals, per se, but about the differences that
animals have made in human societies and the difference humans have made on the
lives of animals.
Course offering information: This course has been
taught annually since 1999, usually in the spring semester.
PHILOSOPHY
Institution:
Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701
Course Title: Speciesism and Animal
Rights
Instructor: Albert Mosley, Philosophy Department, 220 Ellis
Hall, 740-593-4640, [email protected]
Summary:
Speciesism is the view that human beings have an inherent right to dominate nonhuman
species and use them for human ends. The course examines critics as well as proponents
of the morality of speciesism. This involves synthesizing disparate areas in philosophy
(ethics, philosophical psychology, philosophy of science) and applying them to
the use of nonhumans in areas such as agriculture, biology, psychology, and medicine.
ANIMAL SCIENCE
Institution: Oregon State University, Corvallis,
OR 97331
Course Title: Contentious Issues in Animal Agriculture (ANS
315)
Instructor: Steve Davis, 541-737-1892, [email protected]
Summary: This course, available to all undergraduate students, features
a number of guest lecturers, and devotes several class sessions to each of the
following five issue areas:
1. Public lands and livestock grazing
2.
Animal products and human nutrition
3. Animal products and food safety issues
4. Animal rights/animal welfare
5. Animal biotechnologies
Institution:
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331
Course Title: Ethical
Issues in Animal Agriculture (ANS 420)
Instructor: Steve Davis, 541-737-1892,
[email protected]
Summary:
This is a senior level intensive writing course and is therefore required
of all animal science majors. The course combines the study of ethics and issues
in animal agriculture such as animal welfare, animal rights and animal liberation.
The students use different writing activities to explore and discuss these issues.
VETERINARY MEDICINE AND MEDICINE
Institution: Oregon State University,
Corvallis, OR 97331
Course Title: Veterinary Medical Ethics
Instructors:
Jill Parker, Large Animal Surgery, College of Veterinary Medicine 541-737-6949;
Courtney Campbell, Department of Philosophy, Director of the Program for Ethics,
Science, and the Environment, 541-737-6196
Summary: This is an intensive
elective course that offers an introduction to ethics in veterinary medicine,
with specific attention to the moral status of animals, the process of ethical
reasoning, and ethical decision making in practice.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
Institution: Pace
University, Bedford Road, Pleasantville, NY
Course Title: Animals
& Society
Instructors: Prof. Tracy Basile, 914-762-8898, [email protected]
Summary: “Animals & Society” stretches our everyday concepts
of civic engagement, community service, and citizenship to include the nonhuman
natural world. Students are urged to step outside of mainstream Western cultural
and to envision animals from an Indigenous perspective. Native Americans have
much to teach us about the importance of animals and that will be a theme that
we will return to as we examine our culture’s deeply engrained beliefs about
animals in medical research, animals raised for food, and captive and free-living
wildlife. Everyone is required to volunteer at one of three sites: a sustainable
farm, a wildlife rehabilitation center, and the local SPCA shelter. Emphasis is
on integrating in-class discussions, lectures, and films with students’ real-life
experiences in the nonprofit world of animal welfare and advocacy. In addition,
each student will be involved in planning and running on-campus events related
to animal welfare. Whenever possible, we will observe animals directly, through
fieldtrips, the on-campus farm, and volunteer opportunities. Taught in the Fall.
PHILOSOPHY
Institution:
Penn State University (Fayette Campus), Uniontown, PA 15401
Course Title:
Ethics and Social Issues (Phil 103)
Instructor: Evelyn B. Pluhar, Ph.D.,
724-430-4258, [email protected]
Summary:
This course examines a number of ethical issues, including the ways in which humans
use animals for their own benefit or convenience. Arguments for and against such
use are explored to help determine whether or not they are justified. Independent
thinking and discussion are strongly encouraged, and students are evaluated on
how well they can back up their views with clear, careful reasoning.
ANIMAL SCIENCE
Institution:
Purdue University, West Lafayette,
IN 47907
Course Title: Applied Animal Welfare (ANSC 404)
Instructors:
Department of Animal Science
Summary: Historical, current, and legislative
aspects of animal welfare; differentiating between animal welfare and animal rights;
interpreting, appraising, and measuring animal welfare; resolving animal welfare
problems in variable conditions.
PHILOSOPHY
Institution: Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1360
Course Title: Ethics
and Animals (PHIL 280)
Instructor: Lilly-Marlene Russow, Department
of Philosophy, 765-494-4290, [email protected]
Summary: An exploration through the study of historical and contemporary
philosophical writings of basic moral issues as they apply to our treatment of
animals. Rational understanding of the general philosophical problems raised by
practices such as experimentation on animals and meat-eating are emphasized.
Institution:
Purdue University, West Lafayette,
IN 47907-1360
Course Title: Environmental Ethics (PHIL 290)
Instructor:
Lilly-Marlene Russow, Department of Philosophy, 765-494-4290, [email protected]
Summary: An introduction to philosophical issues surrounding debates about
the environment and our treatment of it. Topics may include endangered species,
the "triangular affair" between animal rights and environmental ethics, the scope
and limits of cost-benefit analyses, and duties to future generations. This course
was first offered in 1980.
LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY
Institution: Rutgers
Law School, Newark, NJ 07102
Course Title: This is an entire program
in animal rights law; the focus is on clinical legal education, so the course
content changes every semester.
Instructors: Gary L. Francione and
Anna E. Charlton (Director), The Animal Rights Law Center, 15 Washington Street,
201-648-5989
Summary: Students receive six credits per semester, which
represents about one-half of the total academic credits taken by the average law
student per semester. Students spend an average of 18–24 hours per week working
on animal rights cases, and attend a comprehensive weekly seminar on the human/non-human
relationship.
Status: This program has been closed.
ANIMAL STUDIES
Institution:
Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas
Course Title: Animals
and Society (AGR236)
Instructor: Barry L. Williams, Ph.D., Department
of Agricultural Sciences,
[email protected]
936-294-1224
Summary: This core course, available
to all majors, is a discussion oriented course that will acquaint the student
with the broad role of animals in society from a national, global, and histories
perspective. The impact of animals and domestic livestock on economic, social,
and political policy will be discussed. Emphasis will be placed on non-agricultural
and agriculture uses, societal and cultural perspectives, consumer influences,
animal ethics, animal research, appropriate animal care, livestock quality assurance
programs, animal welfare, animal rights and the animal-human bond.
Course
offering information: The course is currently being offered three times a
year, during the fall, spring, and summer sessions.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY
STUDIES
Institution: Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA
Course Title: "Are There Dogs in Heaven?"
Instructors:
Kathleen Braden, Professor of Geography, [email protected]
, 206-281-2927
Summary: This seminar introduces the first-year college
student to the liberal arts in a Christian University through the investigation
of human relations with animals. Topics will include: Christian writing on whether
animals have souls, the issue of animal suffering, emotional bonds between people
and animals, ethics of laboratory testing and keeping animals in captivity (circuses
and zoos), cultural variations in attitudes toward animals, animals who perform
work for people, psychological benefits of pets to the elderly, teaching language
to animals, American habits and spending on pets, including the advent of pet
cemeteries and therapists. Students will explore these topics through their own
experience, current news events, examination of scholarly writing in theology,
ethics, and social science, art and poems that elicit our emotions about animals.
Course offering information: This course has been offered since Fall 2001
and will be offered next in Fall 2005.
PHILOSOPHY
Institution: Seattle University,
Broadway and Madison, Seattle, WA 98122
Course Title: Animal Rights
and Environmental Ethics (Phil 309)
Instructor: Daniel Dombrowski,
Department of Philosophy, 206-296-5465, [email protected]
Summary: This course deals with two main debates: (1) the debate between
anthropocentrists (those who favor a human centered view of the world) and non-anthropocentrists;
and (2) the debate between moral individualists and ecoholists. Readings include
Peter Singer, Holmes Rolston III, Henry David Thoreau, and others. The class also
examines the history of attitudes toward animals and the natural environment.
SOCIOLOGY AND
RESEARCH ETHICS
Institution: Siena College, Loudonville, NY 12211
Course Title: Animals and Society
Instructor: Janet Alger, Department
of Sociology, 518-783-2345, [email protected]
Summary: Documents the condition of oppression that marks the lives of
most nonhuman animals and the suffering they experience as a result. Demonstrates
the institutionalized nature of this oppression and identifies the major institutions
involved. Focuses on alternative ways of accomplishing human goals that are less
oppressive for animals.
Institution: Siena College, Loudonville,
NY 12211
Course Title: Factory Farms, Health and the Environment (SOCI
490)
Instructor: Janet Alger, Department of Sociology, 518-783-2345,
[email protected]
Summary: Contact
instructor for further information.
PYSCHOLOGY
Institution: Simon Frasier
University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Course Title: Beyond
puppy love: The social relationships between humans and animals
Instructor:
Antonia J.Z. Henderson, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, 604-291-3250
Summary: In the process of domestication and our subsequent treatment of
domestic animals, have we done them a great service in saving them from the forces
of nature? Or have we exploited animals to serve our own selfish needs? In this
course we will undertake a critical analysis of humankind's relationship with
domestic animals. We will explore the various ways in which humans have used domestic
animals and question who benefits in the human/animal domestic equation.
PHILOSOPHY
Institution: St.
Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN 56301
Course Title: Topics
in Ethics: Animal Ethics (BH 123)
Instructor: Jordan Curnutt, Department
of Philosophy, 320-255-4114 or 320-255-2234, [email protected]
Summary: Examines moral issues arising from our treatment of nonhuman animals.
Questions explored include: What is the moral status of animals? Do they have
moral rights? Do animals feel pain? Are they conscious? Do they have desires and
beliefs? What are the moral implications of attributing certain mental states
to animals? Is there a moral problem with euthanizing companion animals?
LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY
Institution: St. Thomas University, School of Law, Miami, FL 33076
Course Title: Animal Rights Law
Instructors: Steven Wise, [email protected]
, 954-648-9864
Summary: Unlike many animal protection or animal law
courses taught at American law schools, this course will focus on whether, and
to what extent, nonhuman animals ought be entitled to basic legal rights. What
the students learn will assist them tomorrow in maneuvering through the world
of animal slave law in which they will be forced to practice. But the real value
of the course is that it will arm them with the information and skills needed
to press for basic legal rights of nonhuman animals when the time to make those
arguments arrives.
Course offering information: This course will be
offered beginning January 2006.
ANIMAL STUDIES
Institution: Texas A&M
University, Commerce, TX 75429
Course Title: Animals and Society (AnS416)
Instructor: C. Pat Bagley, Professor and Department Head, Department of
Agricultural Sciences, [email protected]
, 903-886-5351
Summary: This captone course, available for all juniors
and seniors, is designed to provide a thorough understanding of how animals impact
our daily lives, our society, and our economic structure. While the majority of
the course is spent on the major companion animals (dogs, horses, and cats) time
is also spent on other novel species as well. Objectives include: 1. Economic
impact of animals on society. 2. Profile of a "typical" household that
has pets. 3. Prominent roles of animals in history. 4. The uses of horses in other
societies. 5. Impact of animals on the well-being of humans. Course projects include
volunteering at local humane shelter, therapeutic riding center,or elderly patient
care center. The course is also occasionally offered as a summer short-term travel
course in Mexico, where students observe animal therapy at a local orphanage.
Course offering information: The course will be offered Fall 2005.
It has been offered Spring 2000, Fall 2001, Spring and Fall 2002, Spring and Fall
2003, Summer and Fall 2004, and Summer 2005.
PHILOSOPHY
Institution:
Transylvania University, 300 North Broadway, Lexington, KY 40508
Course
Title: Animal Minds/Human Ethics
Instructor: Jack Furlong, Professor,
Philosophy Program
Summary: An examination of human attitudes and obligations
to non-human animals through an exploration of questions surrounding the existence,
kinds and implications of mental states in non-human animals; the conditions for
and implications of ascribing rights to these non-human species; and, overall,
the ways in which ideology figures in such arguments.
ANIMAL WELFARE
Institution:
Tufts University, North Grafton, MA 01536
Course Title: Masters of
Science in Animal Welfare and Public Policy
Instructor: Gary Patronek,
Director, 508-839-7991
Coordinator: Annete Rauch, [email protected],
508-887-4318
Summary: Course includes a variety of speakers, both Tufts
faculty and outside speakers. Main course goal for the fall semester: give students
the tools they need to create change for improving the lives of animals. Main
course goal for the spring semester: examine specific groups of animals and look
at the current challenges and emerging issues particular to that group of animals.
Example of course content: Fall semester: I. Historical Perspective and Defining
Public Policy, II. Tools for Creating Change, III. Understanding the Legal System,
IV. Analysis of Three Case Studies. Spring Semester: five modules, focusing on:
farm animals, companion animals, domestic wildlife, research animals and international
wildlife.
Course website: www.tufts.edu/vet/cfa
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Institution: Tufts
University (undergraduate students), Medford, MA 02155; and Episcopal Divinity
School (graduate students), Cambridge, MA 01238
Course Title: Religion,
Science, and Other Animals
Instructor: Paul Waldau, Center for Animals
and Public Policy, Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, 200 Westboro
Rd., North Grafton, MA 01536-1895, 508-887-4671, [email protected]
Summary: Focuses on how nonhuman animals have been seen in both religious
and scientific circles. Prompts the student to ask a wide range of questions,
including:
1. To what extent have religious traditions affected the ways
in which contemporary scientists view and speak about animals other than humans?
2. In what ways do contemporary religious traditions now deal with new findings
of various life sciences that are pertinent to an understanding of nonhuman animals?
Answers to these questions are explored in several ways, including an examination
of whether the vocabularies and concepts used by those who practice both the physical
and "softer" sciences when talking about animals outside the human species remain
value-laden. The course also seeks clarification of the claims about other animals
generally implicit and explicit in many religious traditions' writings and beliefs.
Status: This course recently won an award in an international competition
sponsored by the Templeton Foundation for courses dealing with religion and science.
It is also open to students at the other nine schools in the Boston Theological
Institute.
VETERINARY MEDICINE AND MEDICINE
Institution: Tuskegee
University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Tuskegee,
AL 36088
Course Title: Human-Animal Relationships Rotation
Instructor:
Sue-Ellen Brown, Psy. D. and Caroline B. Schaffer, D.V.M., 334-727-8122 [email protected],
[email protected]
Summary:
This clinical rotation is designed to give third-year veterinary medical students
the opportunity to learn communication and interpersonal skills that will enhance
their professional interactions with animals and people.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY
STUDIES
Institution: Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona
Course Title: Rights
of Animals and Ethics of Nature
Instructor: Dr. Marta Tafalla,
[email protected]
Summary:
Introductory course about the philosophical basis of animal and environment protection.
Main theories and actual debate on certain topics such as animal experiments,
vegetarianism, and hunting.
SOCIOLOGY AND RESEARCH ETHICS
Institution:
University College of Cape Breton, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Course
Title: Animals & People (AN/S 358)
Instructor: Tracey Smith-Harris,
Department of Anthropology & Sociology, 902-563-1328
Summary: A
critical and comparative examination of the relationship between people and animals.
This course explores human attitudes toward animals by examining such topics as
animal representations in art, literature and popular culture, as well as the
social and cultural constructions of legal, political, economic and philosophical
issues pertaining to animals. Much of the focus is on the controversies surrounding
this complex social relationship.
LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY
Institution: University
of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 South University Avenue, Little Rock, Arkansas
72204
Course Title: Animal Law
Instructors: Philip D. Oliver,
School of Law, 1201 McAlmont, Little Rock, AR 72202-5142
501-324-9943, [email protected]
Summary: Includes such topics as state and federal animal protection laws,
factory farming, vivisection, and statutes covering hunting (including interference
with hunting). Students, who present their seminar papers in class, have chosen
to write on topics ranging from standing to an examination of the link between
sadistic treatment of animals and sadistic treatment of people. Offered for the
first time in the Spring of 1999.
ANIMAL SCIENCE
Institution: University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
Courses:
1. Animals and Society
2. Animal Welfare and the Ethics of Animal Use
3. Topics in Animal Welfare
4. Tutorial in Animal Welfare Research
5.
Individual graduate instruction in animal welfare
Instructors: David
Fraser, Dan Weary and Marina von Keyserlingk, Animal Welfare Program, Faculty
of Land and Food Systems, and W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics. [email protected]
, [email protected]
Summary:
1. Animals and Society (AGRO 215)
A second year
course (first offered 2005) designed to introduce students to the role of animals
in human culture and the use of animals in food production, biomedical research,
companionship, and entertainment. The course also introduces students to the animal
protection movement and animal law.
2. Animal Welfare and the Ethics of Animal
Use (AGRO 315/ANSC 515)
A senior undergraduate/graduate course (first offered
1998) designed to expose students to many of the ethical issues surrounding the
use of animals in agriculture, science, and society. The course covers:
Scientific
research that attempts to understand and improve animal welfare.
Philosophical
positions on animals use.
Relevant developments in society, economics, and
the law.
3. Topics in Animal Welfare (ANSC 550)
A graduate seminar course
involving reading and discussion of current topics in animal welfare and ethics.
Topics are chosen to fit the interests of students, and may include the interplay
of science and value issues in assessing animal welfare, research on animal cognition
and its implications for animal ethics, effects of trade agreements on the welfare
of agricultural animals, use of animal and non-animal models in research, and
the relation between animal welfare and environmental concerns.
4. Tutorials
in Animal Welfare Research (ANSC 551)
A graduate seminar course based on critical
reading of research papers on animal welfare. Topics are chosen to fit the interests
of students and may include environmental preference research, studies of motivation
strength, the use of pathology and epidemiology in animal welfare assessment,
on-farm methods for welfare assessment, and studies of animal "stress".
5. Individual post-graduate instruction in animal welfare and animal ethics
The Animal Welfare Program creates individual graduate programs incorporating
a mixture of science and the humanities, on animal welfare and the ethics of animal
use. The overall goals of the program are to help students, animal users and society
to find practical solutions and build informed consensus about the use of animals
for food, research, entertainment and companionship.
Website: For links
to all courses: http://www.landfood.ubc.ca/animalwelfare/.
ANIMAL SCIENCE
Institution: University
of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616
Course Title:
Animal Welfare (ANS 103)
Instructors: Joy Mench, Department of
Animal Science, 530-752-7125, [email protected]
Summary: Examines animal welfare from the animals' point of view. Who are
animals, and what can they (do they) experience? Which practices compromise their
welfare, and which do not? How can management practices and environments be modified
to improve the welfare of animals?
ANIMAL SCIENCE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE
Institution: University
of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616
Course Title: Ethics of Animal
Use (ANS/VMD 170)
Instructors: Jerrold Tannenbaum, 530-754-8809, [email protected];
and YeunShin Lee, [email protected]
Summary: Ethical issues relating to animal use in contemporary society.
Integration of philosophical theories with scientific evidence relating to animal
behavior, mentality, and welfare. Uses of animals in agriculture, research, and
as companions. Ethical responsibilities regarding wildlife and the environment.
VETERINARY MEDICINE
Institution: University
of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine, Davis, CA 95616
Course
Title: Human-Animal Interactions: Benefits and Issues (PHR 106)
Instructor:
Professor Lynette Hart, 530-757-8444, [email protected]
Summary: The contributions of animals to human society, including historic,
anthropologic, developmental, human health and therapeutic perspectives, as well
as the effects of humans on animals.
Institution: University
of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine, Davis, CA 95616
Course
Title: Human-Animal Interaction in Veterinary Science (PHR 406)
Instructor:
Professor Lynette Hart, 530-757-8444, [email protected]
Summary: From the perspectives of veterinarians and their clients' needs.
Human relationships with companion animals, and secondarily, on food, laboratory,
and wild animals. Emphasis on the benefits of companion animals for human mental
and physical well-being, the role of animals in the human life cycle, societal
traditions in keeping animals, and types of specialized and more typical relationships
with animals.
Institution: University
of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine, Davis, CA 95616
Course
Title: Behavior and Biology of Mice as Domestic Animals (PHR 408)
Instructor:
Professor Lynette Hart, 530-757-8444, [email protected]
Summary: Background and current issues in laboratory mouse biology and
welfare, including the development and purposes of specialized strains of mice,
constraints on their care and environmental enrichment, relevant legislation and
regulation, and the human benefits of their use.
ENVIRONMENTAL
STUDIES
Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara,
CA 93106
Course Title: Animals in Human Society: Ethical Issues of
Animal Use
Instructor: Jo-Ann Shelton, Environmental Studies Program,
805-893-2968, [email protected]
Summary: Identification and exploration of the ethical issues which arise
when humans interact with other animals. Analysis of the philosophical debates
about the moral status of animals, and examination of the controversies surrounding
the extension of human rights concepts to nonhuman animals. Discussion of conflicting
attitudes toward the value of animal life in such specific areas as food production,
scientific research, recreational activities, pet ownership, and environmental
protection.
HISTORY AND HUMANITIES
Institution: University
of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Course Title: History
of Animal Use in Science (History 107E/Environmental Studies 107E)
Instructor:
Anita Guerrini, Department of History and Program in Environmental Studies, 805-893-7371,
[email protected]
Summary:
Using a variety of sources, this course will explore the ways humans have thought
about and used animals in science and medicine from the 17th century to the present.
How has science constructed the boundaries between humans and animals, and what
have the consequences been for each?
SOCIOLOGY AND RESEARCH ETHICS
Institution: University
of Colorado
Course Title: Animals and Society (SOCY 4017)
Instructor:
Professor Leslie Irvine, Department of Sociology, 303-492-7039, [email protected]
Summary: Non-human animals constitute an integral part of human society.
They figure heavily in our language, food, clothing, family structure, economy,
education, entertainment, science, and recreation. The many ways we use animals
produce ambivalent and contradictory attitudes toward them. We treat some species
of animals as friends and family members (e.g., dogs and cats), while others we
treat as commodities (e.g., cows, pigs, and chickens). This course will examine
the complex role of animals in human society. In particular, it will explore the
various social constructions of animals. It will challenge conventional representations
of non-human animals, presenting instead the evidence that many animals rely on
cognition and emotion. It will examine evidence for the link between animal and
human cruelty. It will also consider the similarities between animal oppression
and the oppression of other human beings. Finally, the course will explore the
moral status and rights of animals in human society.
ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY
Institution: University of
Denver, Denver, Colorodo
Course Title: Integration of Animals into
Therapeutic Settings
Instructors: Philip Tedeschi, MSSW, LCSW, Graduate
School of Social Work
Summary: This course is the prerequisite course
required for the Animal-Assisted Social Work Certificate offered at the University
of Denver. It is also a second year elective and will expose all participants
to the use of animals as an adjunct to Social Work practice. The course explores
the human-animal bond and potential for therapeutic intervention with the animal
as teacher, therapist, facilitator, and companion in a number of therapeutic settings.
It focuses on core skills for social workers seeking to integrate this clinical
approach into their practice.
Website: See www.du.edu/gssw/professionalDev/animalsHumanHealth/
for more information on the Animals and Human Health Certificate Program.
Institution:
University of Denver, Denver, Colorodo
Course Title: Animal Assisted
Application to Social Work Practice
Instructors: Philip Tedeschi, MSSW,
LCSW, Graduate School of Social Work
Summary: This course is the second,
more in-depth application course required for the Animal-Assisted Social Work
Certificate offered at the University of Denver. It is also a second year elective
and will expose all participants to the use of animals as an adjunct to Social
Work practice. Social Work Practice provides a comprehensive examination of approaches
to Animal-Assisted Social Work (AASW) and emphasizes clinical application skills
utilized with a broad array of persons and in a number of therapeutic settings.
Students will learn to design, implement, and analyze the efficacy of AASW approaches
within their chosen area of specialization, providing an opportunity to practice
these approaches at their field internships. Students will learn to clearly articulate,
assess and intervene in "link" violence as it relates to social work
pratice and AASW implications.
Website: See http://www.du.edu/gssw/certificate/animalAssisted.htm
for more information.
Institution: University of Denver, Denver, Colorodo
Course Title: Animals and Human Health
Instructor: Sue Teumer,
[email protected]
Summary:
Animals and Human Health course seeks to understand the remarkable human-animal
bond and potential for therapeutic intervention with the animal as teacher, therapist,
facilitator and companion in a number of therapeutic settings. Focus is placed
on developing knowledge, ethics, values and the skills for individuals seeking
to integrate these clinical approaches into a wide range of settings. Students
will also be expected to examine the link between animal abuse and other forms
of violence. This course is designed to provide students a foundation in understanding
human and animal connection. Animals can be introduced into a number of therapeutic
settings, with diverse populations. The application of Animal-Assisted Therapy/Activities/Leaning
(AAT/AAA/AAL) can be used with individuals, groups and families in varied settings.
LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY
Institution: University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611
Course Title: Animal Rights Seminar
Instructors: David Hoch, Adjunct Faculty, 352-375-7156 (no email)
Summary: Considers the philosophical and jurisprudential arguments in support
of the acknowledgment of moral standing for, and more importantly, the granting
of legal rights to non-human animals. The writings of animal rights attorney/advocate/philosopher
Steven Wise are crucial to this discussion and will be examined in detail, along
with the work of other important animal rights attorney/advocates such as Gary
Francione. The difference between animal rights and animal welfare, the latter
being the philosophical premise upon which most of today's animal law is founded,
will also be examined and discussed. First offered in Spring, 2000.
Syllabus:
http://bear.cba.ufl.edu/hoch/animallaw/Syllabus.htm
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Institution:
University of Florida, Gainseville,
Fl 32611
Course Title:
Religion and Animals
Instructor:
Richard C. Foltz, Ph.D., 352-392-1625, Theology Department, 513-745-3026, [email protected]
Summary: Humans are animals, or are they? Most,
though not all, religious traditions treat humans and animals as separate categories,
with different systems of ethical and values applied to each. How
cultures perceive the relationship between animals and humans affects choices
about diet, understandings of our place in the world, an increasingly today, the
ethics of scientific research.
ANIMAL SCIENCE
Institution: University
of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
Course Title: Principles
of Farm Animal Care and Welfare
Instructors: Ian J.H. Duncan, Chair
in Animal Welfare, 519-824-4120 ext. 53652, [email protected]
Summary: This senior undergraduate course introduces students
to the main ethical issues of using animals in contemporary agriculture and elsewhere.
The course deals with the following questions:
Do animals have moral standing?
What is animal welfare?
What are the main causes of reduced welfare in farm
animals?
How can we assess animal welfare?
How can we improve animal welfare?
Where does Canada stand in the world of animal welfare?
How can we regulate
animal welfare?
Will society pay for improved animal welfare?
ANIMAL WELFARE
Institution: University of
Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
Course Title: Animal Welfare:
Does it Matter? (UNIV*1200*24)
Instructors: Ian J.H. Duncan, Chair
in Animal Welfare, 519-824-4120 ext. 3652, [email protected]
Summary: This interdisciplinary course will examine animal welfare
from a variety of viewpoints. It will involve considerations of science, the philosophy
of science and ethical theory. It will consider questions like: How can animal
welfare be defined? Is it possible to study animal welfare scientifically? Can
we know what animals feel? Do animals have moral standing? Do we have obligations
to animals? Does any of this matter?
ENVIRONMENTAL
STUDIES AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Institution:
University of Idaho
Course
Title: Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management
Instructor:
Gerry Wright, 885-7990, [email protected]
Summary:
Objectives of this course include: "1. To examine the history of human associations
with wild animals and how they have influenced human development and the evolution
of human values and attitudes. Emphasis will be placed on the evolution of human
society and its relationship to wild animals in North America. 2. To examine how
wild animals are viewed by contemporary society and the impacts that contemporary
attitudes are having on traditional wildlife management actions.3. To examine
the impacts of recreation on wildlife and wildlife responses to recreationalists."
Course
webpage: http://www.cnr.uidaho.edu/wlf520/
ANIMAL
SCIENCE
Institution:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801
Course Title:
Human-Companion Animal Interactions (ANSC 305)
Instructor: Amy Lopez,
Department of Animal Sciences, 130 Animal Sciences Laboratory, 1207 West Gregory
Dr., 217-333-0625, [email protected]
Summary: An examination of historical, social, and cultural aspects of
human interactions with companion animals (CA). Topics include: human perceptions
of CA; benefits of CA; breeding, tail docking, ear cropping, etc.; legal aspects;
cruelty and neglect; pet overpopulation; greyhound racing; dissection. Several
case studies are also studied. This course serves 25 students per semester.
Sample syllabus: http://labs.ansci.uiuc.edu/companion/teaching/ansc305syllabus.htm
Institution:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801
Course Title:
Humane Education with Companion Animals (ANSCI 215)
Instructor: Prof.
Anna Lutgen, Department of Animal Sciences, 130 Animal Sciences Laboratory, 1207
West Gregory Dr., 217-333-0625, [email protected]
Program Coordinator: Amy Fischer, Ph.D., Teaching Associate and Extension
Specialist, Companion Animal Biology and Humane Education, 217-333-6462, [email protected]
Summary: This course explores the topic of humane education as it pertains
to companion animals, primarily cats and dogs. The course addresses the historical
aspects of domestication and humane education as well as modern-day relationships
between humans and companion animals, principally in American Society. Pet overpopulation
and resulting animal shelter issues are discussed in detail. The process of developing
and evaluating humane education programs is explored. Selection, behavior, and
care of companion animals are discussed with a focus on promoting the human-companion
animal bond, behavioral wellness and safety. Animal protection laws, animal control
laws and the connection between animal cruelty and violent behavior toward humans
are also examined. This course has been taught since 2000. The class serves 50
students per semester and also fulfills the university's general education requirement
for advanced composition
Sample syllabus: http://labs.ansci.uiuc.edu/companion/teaching/ansc215syllabus.htm
LITERATURE
Institution: University of Iowa, Iowa City,
Iowa
Course Title: Literature and Society: Capturing Animals
Instructors:
Teresa Mangum
Summary: In this
course, the overarching goal will be to develop an understanding of what animals
"mean" in our culture and of the many ways we use animals--as companions,
as metaphors and images to represent fears, pleasures, and assumptions, as food,
as objects for pleasure and sadly for abuse, as commodities, as projections of
qualities we wish to possess. We will be participating in a new educational approach
called Service-Learning so that in additon to using literary and theoretical printed
and visual work as our course texts, we will also be using your own experiences
and reflections. During your service at the Iowa City/Coralville Animal Center,
the stories and insights that you collect there will essentially form an additional
course text. In effect, we will be "capturing animals" throughout the
semester: in fiction, in the Animal Center, in advertisements, in theoretical
accounts of human-animal relations, in community policies governing animals, in
university policies on animal researhc, in popular culture, and in politics.
ANIMAL SCIENCE
Institution: University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742
Course Title: Animal Welfare (AN SCI 453)
Instructors: W. Ray Stricklin, Department of Animal and Avian Sciences,
301-405-1382, [email protected]
Summary:
Ethical concerns pertinent to the use of animals in modern society, historical
and philosophical aspects of human/animal interrelationships, animal intelligence
and awareness, and the treatment of animals in agriculture and scientific research
will be considered.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Institution: University
of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
Course Title: Perspectives: Interrelationships
of People and Animals in Society Today (UC 4301, CVM 6050, SACS 3050)
Instructors:
Pam Hand, DVM, 612-625-3140, [email protected];
Cassia Drake, 612-729-1207, [email protected]
Summary: This course explores various aspects of the interrelationships
of people and animals in society today, including the ecological, environmental,
cultural, economic, social, psychological, and health/medical dimensions of these
interrelationships. Multidisciplinary knowledge of how and why these factors interact
is considered to be essential to a better understanding of what is often called
the human-animal bond. The course is concerned with the ethical/moral dimension
of human-animal interrelationships. Students will be introduced to different philosophical
perspectives and moral positions on specific human-animal relationships and familiarized
with certain processes of ethical decision-making. In this way, the course should
prepare students to arrive at their own moral/ethical decisions with respect to
people-animal relationships in their personal, professional or public life. Thus,
this course aims:
1. To develop understanding of the issues involved in relationships
between people and animals.
2. To engage in critical considerations of differing
philosophical views regarding these issues.
ANIMAL SCIENCE
Institution: University of New
Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824
Course Title: Animals Rights and Societal
Issues (ANSC 602)
Instructor: William A. Condon, [email protected]
Summary: Undertakes a thorough examination of value judgments and belief
structures as well as the empirical evidence involved in the issue of animal rights.
Aims not to arrive at policy decisions, but to get students thinking about the
issue.
HISTORY AND HUMANITIES
Institution: University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Course Title: pending
Instructor:
Summary:
BIOLOGY
Institution: University
of North Carolina, Wilmington
Course Title: Animals in Society (HON
120; BIO 485)
Instructor: G. Robert Weedon, DVM, MPH, Honors and Biology,
910.297.2771, [email protected]
Summary:
Animals in Society explores the impact of the human-animal relationship. We begin
by looking at the history and domestication of animals, the role of pets in society,
the significance of the human-animal bond and its importance in animal behavior
and euthanasia. We will discuss how animals entertain and serve us, their role
in medicine, both in research and pet-facilitated therapy, as well as such controversial
topics as the economics of farming and animal rights. Other areas of interest
will include animal shelters, public health and zoonotic diseases and veterinary
medicine. Students are involved in several field experiences to augment the appropriate
topics of class discussion. The semester culminates with a Saturday daytrip to
the North Carolina Zoological Park in Asheboro, including a behind the scenes
tour of the medical facilities.
ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY
Institution: University
of North Texas, Denton, Texas 76203
Course Title: Animal Assisted
Therapy (COUN 5530)
Instructor: Cynthia Chandler, Ed.D., LPC, LMFT,
BCIA-C & EEG, Professor of Counseling,
[email protected] , 940-565-2910
Summary: This course is graduate level, but undergraduates may also take
it as a special problems course. The course covers research and methods for the
application of animal assisted therapy in the field of mental health counseling
and closely related fields. The course emphasizes how a professional counselor
may utilize the special relationship she/he has with his/her pet to provide services
for persons in need. The safety and welfare of the therapy pet are also emphasized.
Program Website: http://www.coe.unt.edu/CDHE/AAT/
VETERINARY
MEDICINE AND MEDICINE
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
PA 19104-6010
Course Title: Veterinary Ethical Issues (#9009)
Instructor:
James Serpell, Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine,
215-898-1004, [email protected]
Summary: A core course for first year vet students that addresses/introduces
the peculiar ethical dilemmas encountered by practicing veterinarians. Combines
both didactic and case-based teaching methods; the latter focusing primarily on
"real-life" ethical conflicts of interest between veterinarians, their clients,
and their patients.
Institution: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
PA 19104-6010
Course Title: Animals, Veterinarians and Society (#9823)
Instructor: James Serpell, Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary
Medicine, 215-898-1004, [email protected]
Summary: This third-year elective course aims to introduce veterinarians
to the current debate on animal use and includes the following topics: history
of ethical concerns about animal use; development of contemporary attitudes to
animals; animal consciousness and sentience; animal rights; animal welfare science;
animals and the law; welfare problems in companion animals; and various recent
areas of discussion and debate ( e.g., cloning/bioengineering).
SOCIOLOGY
AND RESEARCH ETHICS
Institution: University of South Carolina, Spartanburg,
SC 29303
Course Title: Animals and Society (SOC 321)
Instructor:
Dr. Clif Flynn, Department of Sociology, 864-503-5635, [email protected]
Summary: This course will examine the role of animals in human society.
It will examine how animals are socially constructed, it will challenge traditional
representations of nonhuman animals, and study animals as minded social actors.
It will apply sociological approaches to the study of human-animal relationships,
and even animal-animal relationships. Finally, it will explore the oppression
of nonhuman animals, and consider the moral status and rights of animals in human
society.
ANIMAL WELFARE
Institution: University
of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996
Course Title: Animals and Human
Welfare: Medical, Moral, and Social Connections
Instructors: Catherine
Faver, John New, and John Nolt
Summary: This course offers a multidisciplinary
exploration of the effects of animals on human health and well-being. Beginning
with an overview of scholarly and cultural perspectives on the relationship between
humans and animals, the course examines the benefits and risks of humans' relationships
with companion animals; the relationship between animal abuse and interpersonal
violence; and the costs and consequences of using animals as resources. In exploring
the interdependence of humans and animals, we will consider the argument that
fostering human welfare requires compassion and justice for animals as well as
for humans.
LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY
Institution: University of Tennessee,
College of Law, 1505 W. Cumberland Ave. Knoxville, TN 37996
Course Title:
Animals and the Law (one-credit hour short course for the Spring 2007 term)
Instructor: Joan MacLeod Heminway,
[email protected] , 865-974-3813
at the University of Tennessee
Summary: This course briefly surveys
the treatment and status of animals under local, state, and federal law in the
United States, including possible inquiries into: the philosophical and legal
conception of animals as property; the linkage between animal abuse and domestic
violence; the regulation of veterinarians and other animal caretakers; perceptions
and facts about humane societies, shelters, and animal welfare groups; torts and
crimes involving animals and related remedies and punishments; and
the economic
and social implications of legal rules governing pets, wildlife protection, agricultural
animals, and hunting and fishing. This course includes required participation
in in-class transactional and litigation exercises and related research and writing
assignments. Student performance will be evaluated and graded based on these exercises
and assignments. There will be no in-class or take-home examination for this course.
NUTRITION AND NATURAL SCIENCE
Institution: University of
Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-0230
Course Title: Issues in Vegetarianism
Instructors: Michael and Paula Zemel, Department of Nutrition, [email protected],
[email protected]
Summary: Examines
ethical and health issues related to vegetarian diets. Students will evaluate
mainly electronically-based materials on vegetarian issues, assess arguments that
are "pro" and "con" and create a technology-based resource to communicate these
issues.
ANIMAL SCIENCE
Institution: The University of Vermont
Course
Title: ASCI 122: Animal Welfare/Animals in Society (3 credits, spring)
Instructor: Assistant Professor Russ Hovey, 200E Terrill Hall, 570 Main
St, Burlington, VT 05405. [email protected]
Summary: This introductory course is a required class for all Animal Science
majors at UVM, and was one of the first offered in the United States. During the
semester, students are exposed to a variety of topics that encompass the use and
care of animals by mankind. We first examine the ethical issues of animal use,
different cultural standpoints and issues such as cruelty and hoarding. Students
then examine the biological basis of animal welfare - including aspects such as
stress, behavior and pain. Additional topics covered focus on relevant legislation
and animal activist groups. Toward the end of the semester the class focuses on
current topics in animal welfare, including specific coverage of issues relevant
to 1) biomedical research, 2) companion animals, 3) livestock, and 4) zoos/exotics.
Throughout the semester students hear from invited guests including scientists,
veterinarians and animal activists. Part of the course assessment is a semester-long
project where students work as teams to consult for a hypothetical client in a
real-life scenario for a variety of animal species. Students also have the opportunity
to train and participate as a team-member in an intercollegiate animal welfare
judging competition.
Institution:
The University of Victoria, Faculty of Law, PO Box 2400 STN CSC, Victoria, BC,
V8W 3H7 Canada
Course Title: Animals, Culture and the Law
Instructor:
Maneesha Deckha, Assistant Professor of Law, 250-721-8175, [email protected]
Summary: This seminar will explore the relationship between nonhuman and
human animals, focusing on the legal and ethical issues raised by the status of
animals as property. Specific topics include the examination of: 1) the current
law characterizing animals as property; 2) the various western philosophical positions
on animals that have animated the law; 3) the idea of animal rights and other
interests and different theories that argue for greater legal protection of animals;
4) the types of legal alternatives proposed to animals' current status as property;
and 5) the impact that greater legal protection for animals will have on marginalized
human communities and the commitment to cultural pluralism, the politics of animal
advocacy movements in this regard, and the possibility of human and animal rights
coexisting. The course adopts a novel theoretical framework through which to learn
about animals, cuture and justice. And the course uses innovative active learning
techniques such as drama, visual arts, reflective writing, small group work, concept
mapping, etc. This type of engaged pedagogy stimulates student learning and promotes
critical thinking.
Course offering information: This new seminar will
be taught in the Spring of 2007.
PHILOSOPHY
Institution: University
of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI 54481
Course Title: Environmental Ethics
Instructor: Michael P. Nelson, Department of Philosophy and College of
Natural Resources, 715-346-3907.
Summary: This course explores contemporary
approaches to environmental ethics, including Judeo-Christian stewardship, animal
liberation/rights, biocentrism, and the ecocentric Land Ethic of Aldo Leopold.
We also look at such contemporary topics as current land use practices, Gaia theory,
environmental economics, Deep Ecology, and radical environmental activism, and
we explore larger questions about the nature of nature, human nature, and what
an appropriate relationship between human beings and the natural environment might
look like.
Institution: University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI 54481
Course Title: Advanced Environmental Ethics: The Ethics of Hunting
Instructor: Michael P. Nelson, Department of Philosophy and of Natural
Resources, 715-346-3907, [email protected]
Summary: This course explores and evaluated the arguments that are typically
offered in support of, and in opposition to, hunting.
LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY
Institution:
Vermont Law School, Chelsea Street, P.O. Box 96 South Royalton, VT 05068-0096
Course Title: Animal Rights Law
Instructor: Steven M. Wise,
896 Beacon Street, Suite 303, Boston, MA 02215, 781-453-0802, [email protected]
Summary: Examines fundamental moral and legal rights and whether
nonhuman animals should have them; the nature and adequacy of current legal protections
for animals; the relationship between animal rights and environmental rights.
PHILOSOPHY
Institution: Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN 47933
Course
Title: Animals and Ethics. 25-30 class size. Offered every 2-3 years.
Instructor: Stephen Webb, Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy,
765-361-6264, [email protected]
Summary: Readings include:
- Carol Adams, The Sexual Politics
of Meat
- Andrew Linzey, Animal Theology
- Keith Tester,
Animals and Society
- Vicki Hearne, Adam's Task
BIOLOGY
Institution:
Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC 28815
Course Title: Animals and
Society
Instructor: Bob Eckstein, Department of Biology, P.O. Box 9000,
704-298-3325, ext. 452, [email protected]
Summary: Explores a variety of issues regarding the relationship between
human and non-human animals. Topics include animals in research and education;
philosophies of animal rights and animal use; animals in entertainment, agriculture
and wildlife issues; pet ownership; and cross-cultural comparisons. Discussions
revolve around ideas introduced through readings, videos, and presentations by
guest speakers.
SOCIOLOGY AND RESEARCH ETHICS
Institution:
Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA 24450
Course Title:
The Earth-Universe Relationship: Widening the Circle
Instructor:
J. William Holliday, Ph.D., 703-993-1443, JW
[email protected]
Summary: This Earth-universe relationship
course is subtitled: "Widening the Circle of Compassion." The latter phrase is
Einstein's. It has to do with his
sense that the more humans focus on all of creation's common cosmological origin
and appreciate the fact of space-time-matter's emergence out of what for Einstein
(and Berry, Swimme) was a numinous mystery—the larger our sense of Being will
become. It is a personal sense of
being as well, one large enough to encompass and include all other beings with
love and reverence. It is a sense that allows us to become, as Thomas Berry (The
Great Work) says, "a community of subjects" rather than of objects. Thus
we widen the circle of compassion to include oceans and rain forests, starving
infants and endangered species, and the individual suffering of factory farm animals
abused and tormented by the intensive confinement system of corporate agribusiness. Students
will explore the implications of the late 20th century scientific consensus of
astrophysics that the universe not only emerged 13.7 billion years ago out of
a quantum mystery but also is in fact omni-centered, a circle whose center is
everywhere, whose periphery nowhere. This
positive, postmodern scientific understanding of the origin and nature of the
cosmos means that all matter since the beginning of time is part and parcel of
an unbroken, ever-developing creativity that includes not only subatomic particles
but stars, planets, and more specifically, Earth, with its untold species of life,
the most recent and pertinent of which is homo sapiens.
ANIMAL SCIENCE
Institution:
Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164
Course Title: Rights
and Welfare of Animals (ANS 285)
Instructors: Ruth Newberry, Center
for the Study of Animal Well-being, Department of Animal Sciences, College of
Veterinary Medicine, 509-335-5059, [email protected]
Summary: Examines the ethics and philosophies underlying human/animal relations.
Defines and assesses animal welfare using knowledge of animal health, productivity,
physiology and behavior. Examines the controversies and current issues relating
to the use of animals in agriculture, recreation, cultural events and research.
Evaluates the impact of current and future legislation on animal use and management
practices.
VETERINARY MEDICINE AND MEDICINE
Institution: Washington
State University, Pullman, WA 99164
Course Title: Professional Orientation
and Ethics
Instructor: Francois Martin, [email protected]
Summary: This first-year required class examines the connection between
veterinary medicine and related fields (pet loss and grief, cycle of violence,
ethical decision making, legal issues, animal rights and animal welfare, etc.)
This course features several guest speakers.
LITERATURE
Institution: Webster University, Saint
Louis, MO
Course Title: Perspectives: Humans and Other Animals (English2110)
Instructor: Karla Armbruster, Associate
Professor, [email protected] , 314-961-2660,
ext. 7577
Summary: Almost all works of literature include animals,
no doubt because of the many ways that human lives are intertwined with those
of other animals. But we often don't pay close attention to how these animals
are represented in the literature we read, particularly if they exist on the peripheries
of the human story rather than serving as the focus. In this course, we will put
what we might call "literary beasts" in the spotlight, reading a wide
variety of fiction, poetry, and essays that somehow address the relationship between
humans and other animals, whether the animals function as symbols, realistic "beasts,"
competitors or allies in the human struggle for existence, fellow creatures with
acknowledged moral standing, or even the narrators of stories and the speakers
of poems. We will ask what these varied representations of animals can tell us
about the different human cultures which produced them, what--if anything--we
can learn from them about "real" animals, and how they might affect
our own relationships with the animals who touch our lives in so many ways.
Course offering information: This course was first taught in Spring 2005.
It will usually be taught every two years. It will probably be taught again in
Fall 2006 or Fall 2007.
PHILOSOPHY
Institution: Wesleyan
University, Middletown, CT 06459
Course Title: Humans-Animals-Nature
(Philosophy 150)
Instructor: Professor Lori Gruen, Department of Philosophy,
860-685-2008, [email protected]
Summary: Due to unprecedented ecological degradation and enormous inequalities
in the distribution of the means of flourishing, human beings all over the world
are being forced to reconsider their relationship to each other and the nonhuman
world. In this course, we explore the character, conditions, and concerns that
shape these troubled relationships. The first part of the course will discuss
the philosophical basis for membership in the moral community. Do animals matter?
Do future generations matter? Do trees matter? We will spend most of the course
exploring how these things matter, if and when they do, by analyzing specific
cases/problems: vegetarianism, cultural hunting of whales, environmental racism,
and wilderness preservation. The goals of the course are to help you to think
critically, to read carefully, to argue well, and to defend your reasoned views
about the moral relations between humans, animals, and nature.
ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY
Institution: West Chester University, West Chester, PA
Course
Title: Special Topics: Animals in Health and Human Service (HEA435/581)
Instructor: Lynn Carson, Ph.D., CHES
Summary: To validate the significant purpose that animals serve in people's
health and well being, this course will provide students with a thorough understanding
of the role of service and therapy animals in improving the quality of life for
disabled individuals and others in need. Course content is specifically designed
for health and human service professionals who are considering introducing animal
service and animal therapy into their work environments. Students will be introduced
to the various types of service animals and a major emphasis will be placed on
the types of services these animals perform for physically disabled, hearing impaired,
and sight impaired individuals. An overview of the role of service/therapy animals
and practice settings (homes, employment sites, nursing homes, hospitals, schools,
and prisons) will be presented to demonstrate the wide diversity of service opportunities
for animals. The use of animals as therapeutic agents will be highlighted with
a focus on the roles of dogs and horses in practice settings (i.e. physical therapy,
speech therapy, occupational therapy and psychotherapy). Other service roles (search
and rescue and criminal justice) will be included. Guest speakers, visits to training
facilities and discussions with trainers, owners, volunteers will help studnets
understand how service/therapy animals are versatile reliable assistants serving
an important role in supportive and therapeutic care.
PHILOSOPHY
Institution: Western
Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT 06810
Course Title: Ethics
and the Nonhuman
Instructor: Kristin Aronson, Department of Philosophy
and Humanistic Studies, 203-837-8784 (no email)
Summary: Students
learn about the treatment of nonhuman animals by humans, and learn how to argue
logically and evaluate moral arguments for and against practices and positions.
The emphasis is on critical thinking and development of proficiency in arguing
the issues.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Institution:
Western Illinois University, 1 University Circle,
Macomb, IL 61455-1390
Course Title: Anthrozoology
Instructor:
Patricia K. Anderson, PhD. Office phone: 309-298-1108. Email:
[email protected]
Summary: This course examines how different cultural values, attitudes
and ideas influence human perception of, and behavior toward, animals. It examines
key topics such as the domestication of animals, the use of animals for food production
and entertainment, the role of animals in religion and many other aspects of the
relationship between animals and human society, such as the role of animals in
art and literature, while addressing contemporary issues relating to animals.
HISTORY AND HUMANITIES
Institution: Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
98225-9118
Course Title: pending
Institution: Worcester State College, 486 Chandler
Street, Worcester, MA 01602-2597, [email protected]
Course Title:
Instructor:
Summary:
PHILOSOPHY
Institution:
Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435
Course Title: pending
Instructor:
Summary:
Xavier
University
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Institution: Xavier University,
Cincinnati, OH 45236
Course
Title: Theology and Animals
Instructor:
Elizabeth Farians, Theology Department, [email protected]
, 513-884-8062
Summary:
This course will center on Christianity, violence, and animals. It will explore
the relationship between people and animals with violence as the focus. The course
will examine the moral and ethical implications of the way animals are treated
in our society, including the commercial, agricultural, pharmacological and entertainment
industries. How this treatment is
accepted, promoted and/or justified by both secular and religious society will
be studied. Whether this treatment redounds to us in spiritual, psychological,
and physical ways will be examined. The food we eat will be critical to this analysis
because killing and eating animals is often our most intimate involvement with
them. We will also consider whether
the patriarchal character of religion and society influences the treatment of
animals and why especially women and children may be adversely affected. The possible
connections between the violence we inflict on animals and a resulting violent
behavior of humans will be explored. All
of this will be in the context of the Judeo-Christian scriptures and tradition.
To offset the violence a program of humane education will be considered.
Related scientific findings from disciplines such as psychology and sociology
will be investigated. Insights for professions such as education, social work,
ministry, criminal justice, nursing, science and law will be highlighted. The
material alsi is aligned with peace studies and women's studies and it also will
be useful for parenting and peaceful living. A religious basis for an alternate
and compassionate lifestyle and a dominion of care, rather than domination, for
all creation will be presented.
Course
offering information: The course was originally taught in a summer workshop
format entitled "Christianity, Violence and Animals." The new semester-long
course "Theology and Animals" will be offered during the Spring 2006
semester.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Institution: York University,
Toronto, ON, Canada
Course Title: Envisioning Animals: Animals and
Visual Culture (GS/ARTH 5140)
Instructor: Matthew Browe, PhD, Sessional
Assistant Professor of Visual Arts
Summary: This course deals with
the role of visual depictions of animals in aesthetic, activist, environmental
and biological contexts. It explores the role of imagery in constituting contempory
and historical conceptions of animality. The course objectives are to develop
an understanding of the importance of imagery in human-animal relations.
Course offering information: This course is a new graduate seminar being
offered for the first time in Fall 2005.
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