Below is a description for a new 2nd 8-week upper level anthropology course available for students searching for alternatives and/or passionate about the topic of animal-human-environmental inter-relationships.  Please feel free to alert students who may be interested!

There is a 1-credit option for those adding a course of interest.

Those students seeking 3-credits will meet with the instructor to develop a project related to the course themes.

Laura Davis

New 2nd 8-Week Course Open for Registration

Sustainability, Animals and Humans:  Contemporary Issues

ANTH 399 JD3  CRN 63139

6 pm -7:50 pm  Tuesdays

Starts March 17, 2015

109A Davenport Hall

Instructor: Prof J Desmond

This course introduces students to key contemporary challenges in global sustainability issues as seen through the lens of human relations with animals.  Includes assigned readings, discussion, guests, and screenings.  From over-fishing to pet over-population, and from eco-tourism to industrial farming and its alternatives, we examine human-animal relations on the land, in the sea, in the air, and on the ice.

This course can be taken for 1 credit or 3 credits.  The registration default is 1 credit, so you will need to click on the blue 1 credit to toggle 3 credits.

No specific prerequisites, but students should have some background in social sciences or humanities as that is the combined approach the course will be taking.