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Jan 02, 2025
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SOC 2040 - Animals and Human Society
Students will learn about relationships between humans and animals historically and cross-culturally, how the meanings attached to animals structure human-animal and animal-human interactions within several institutions, and how these meanings work to perpetuate hierachical human relationships such as racism and sexism. Several of the major philosophical positions regarding animal-human relations will be examined critically.
Requisites: SOC 1000
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will demonstrate an understanding of the domestication and evolution of the human-animal relationship.
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of the institutional landscape of the human-animal relationship, including the institutions of the economy, family, medicine, education, and gender.
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of the the biocultural implications of the human-animal relationship.
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