Animal Studies Cluster
http://www.wesleyan.edu/animalstudies/
CO-COORDINATORS
Animal Studies is an emerging field that builds on scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences to investigate past and present relations between human and non-human animals, the representation of those relations, their ethical implications and their social, political, and ecological effects in and on the world. It is a field of critical importance today as the complex, but fragile interdependence of all life becomes increasingly apparent, and as scholars, artists, and activists seek ways to understand and enhance the lives of all animals. Wesleyan Animal Studies fosters scholarship on human-animal relations from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Courses Associated with the Cluster
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Popular Culture and Social Justice: An Introduction to American Studies | ||
| Junior Colloquium: Biopolitics, Animality, and Posthumanism | ||
| Eat, Grow, Save: The Anthropology of Food and Justice | ||
| Classic Studies in Animal Behavior | ||
| Animal Theories/Human Fictions | ||
| Mass Extinctions in the Oceans: Animal Origins to Anthropocene | ||
| Environmentalism in a Global Age | ||
| Economies of Death, Geographies of Care | ||
| Witnessing Animal Others: Mourning, Haunting, and the Politics of Animal (After) Lives | ||
| Race, Science, Gender, and Species | ||
| Performing the Posthuman: Music and Auditory Culture in the Age of Animanities | ||
| Humans, Animals, and Nature | ||
| The Ethics of Captivity | ||
| Animal Law and Policy | ||
| Animal Minds | ||
| Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination | ||
| Cognitive Psychology | ||
| The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination |