HIST231 Animals and Society

HIST 231 Animals and Society examines relations between humans and animals over the past 250 years. Through a combination of lectures, discussions, and in-class activities, students will review scholarship, resources, and cultural perspectives that address a wide range of human-animal relationships and the changes that inform them. In the process they will learn about a variety of ethical, political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental factors that have impacted those relations.