College of Social Sciences and International Studies
The Horse-Human Dyad
Module ANTM110 for 2018/9
Module ANTM110 for 2018/9
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ANTM110: The Horse-Human Dyad
This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- Horse Evolution, domestication and coevolution with human-animals
- Human selection of horses for traits and the creation of distinct breeds: natives, thoroughbreds and everything in between
- The archaeological, historical and anthropological traces of horse-human interaction
- Beliefs, mythology, rituals, symbolism, ceremonies and burials - ‘Epona’ the horse goddess, centaur, unicorn and Pegasus
- Horses in the twentieth century: the decline in agricultural horsepower and the rise of the leisure horse-keeper
- As family or food: the commoditisation of the horse: some we ride and some we eat
- Quantitative, qualitative and descriptive methods for horse study
- Horse behaviour, ethology & ethograms
- Equitation science
- Equine learning theory and training by human-animals
- Horse-technology interaction (from the bit to gigabit) and measuring behaviour
- Horsemanship: ‘natural’ vs. traditional methods and the importance of the language that we use to describe them
- Horses and the dynamics of human-animal gender identity
- Therapeutic uses: equine assisted therapy and the ethics of using horses to ‘fix’ humans
- Use, exploitation, misuse and abuse of horses - competitive, recreational, agricultural, war, assistance animals and hunting
- The ethics of riding, breeding, guardianship and vegan horse-keeping
- Horse advocates, allies, activism and direct action: protecting free-roaming herds, horse-racing and protesting against bullfighting and hunting
- Horse-human interaction in fiction, fantasy and the imagination: talking horses, steam horses, robot horses, horse cyborgs, gaming and VR horses
- ‘Real world’ horse simulators and the speculative robotic equine athlete
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
---|---|---|
20 | 130 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
---|---|---|
Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 10 | 10 x 60-minute podcast audio lectures with accompanying PowerPoint presentations (if offered in Term 2, or if in Term 3: 7 x 80 minutes podcast lectures) |
Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 7.5 | 5 x 90-minute discussion/seminar participations via Adobe Connect (fortnightly) |
Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 2.5 | 5 x 30-minute oral presentation slots within seminar groups in weeks 5 and 7 via Adobe Connect |
Guided Independent Study | 35 | Preparation and reading for weekly lectures, seminars & ELE forum discussions |
Guided Independent Study | 15 | Preparation for oral presentations |
Guided Independent Study | 80 | Research and writing of summative assessment |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
ELE - ( vle.exeter.ac.uk )