Jul 04, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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SOC 2210 - Animals and Human Society
This course explores 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 perpetuate hierarchical human relationships. Moral, philosophical, and scientific debates regarding animal-human relations are examined critically, and students critically discuss the future of the animal-human relationship in the context of a changing climate.
Credit Hours: 3
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 2SS
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 be able to explain primary concepts, theories, and methodologies that social scientists use to understand the animal-human relationship.
- Students will be able to critically analyze their own assumptions about the animal-human relationship, and discus how this relationship is represented in different contexts.
- Students will be able to discuss the various ways that animals are used in human societies.
- Students will be able to identify the reasons for, and consequences of, animal domestication.
- Students will be able to critically discuss and explain the biocultural implications of the human-animal relationship.
- Students will be able to critically discuss and explain the development of the human-animal relationship.
- Students will be able to analyze and evaluate empirical findings about the human-animal relationship.
- Students will be able to identify and explain ways that human societies have used the representations of animals in art, religion, and literature.
- Students will be able to critically discuss the complex role played by pets in modern human society.
- Students will be able to identify and assess the range of moral, philosophical, and scientific debates in which animals play a major role today.
- Students will be able to critically discuss the future of the animal-human relationship in the context of climate transformation.
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