Postgraduate Module Descriptor

ANTM101: Animals, Health and Healing

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

The module will cover a range of theoretical debates and case studies concerned with the following topics:

the use of animals in biomedical research (which could include animal rights/ethics, nonhuman models, history of vivisection, environmental enrichment programmes, genomics, xenotransplants, cloning)
the use of animals in therapeutic contexts (which could include Animal Assisted Therapy, assistance animals such as Guide dogs, power relationships etc.)
ethnoveterinary medicine (which could also include alternative/non-allopathic therapies such as homeopathy, as well as spiritual communications with nonhumans such as shamanism and animal psychics)
zoonotic disease (which could include focus on transmission, responses, attitudes towards carriers etc.)
zoopharmacognosy (which could also include ethnobotany)

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 1 hour podcast audio lectures with accompanying powerpoint presentations
Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities	10	10 x 1 hour discussion/seminar
Guided Independent Study	20	Preparation for formative assessments
Guided Independent Study	100	Research and writing of summative assessments
Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities	10	10 x 1 hour contributions to VLE forums

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

ELE – https://vle.exeter.ac.uk/