Animal Studies Cluster
Department website: 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 | ||
| Biopolitics, Animality, and Posthumanism: Junior Colloquium | ||
| Eat, Grow, Heal: The Anthropology of Food and Justice | ||
| Classic Studies in Animal Behavior | ||
| Animal Theories/Human Fictions | ||
| Humans, Animals, and Nature | ||
| Animal Law and Policy | ||
| Animal Minds | ||
| Cognitive Psychology | ||
| The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination |