Module ANTM100 for 2017/8
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ANTM100: The Animal Mirror: Representations of Animality
This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
The structure and thematic content will include some or all of the following:
- The representation of animals in ‘culture’ and the media
- The representation of animals in literature (including an overview of how to approach working with texts)
- Animals and Colonialism
- Representing self and other
- The animal aesthetic: Animals in Art/Animals as Art
- Anthropomorphism
- The post-modern animal and post-humanism
- Hybrids
- Exhibiting animals
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 1 hour podcast audio lectures with accompanying powerpoint presentations |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 10 | 10 x 1 hour discussion/seminar participations on the VLE discussion forums (Including formative assessments) |
| Guided Independent Study | 45 | Weekly preparatory reading for lectures and seminars |
| Guided Independent Study | 30 | Preparation for formative assessments |
| Guided Independent Study | 50 | Research and writing of summative assessments |
| Guided Independent Study | 5 | Attendance at an exhibition |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Atwood, M. 2003. Oryx and Crake. London: Virago.
Atwood, M. 2010. The Year of the Flood. London: Virago.
Baker, S. 2000. The Post-modern Animal .London: Reaktion Books.
Baker, S. 2001. Picturing the beast: Animals, identity, and representation .Urbana:University ofIllinois Press.
Bergthaller, H. (2010). ‘Housebreaking the Human Animal: Humanism and the problem of sustainability in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood’ English Studies . 91 (7): 728-743.
Burt, J. 2002. Animals in Film .London: Reaktion Books.
Chris, C. 2006. Watching Wildlife .University ofMinnesota Press.
Coetze, J. M. 2004. Waiting for the Barbarians .London: Random House.
Connor, D. 2006. ‘The Menagerie of the Senses’ Senses & Society . 1(1): 9 – 26.
Daston, L. & Mitman, G. 2006. Thinking with animals: new perspectives on anthropomorphism .ColumbiaUniversity Press.
Derrida, J. & Wills, D. 2002. ‘The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)’ Critical Inquiry 28, no. 2: 369-418.
Descartes, Rene. 1912. Trans. John Vetch 1934. Discourse on Method. Everyman's Library. London: Dent.
Drobnick, J. 2006. ‘Oleg Kulik: Zoophrenic Odors’ Senses & Society . 1 (1): 141 – 148.
Fudge, E. 2000. Animal .London: Reaktion Books.
Fuentes, A. 2006. ‘The Humanity of Animals and the Animality of Humans: A View from Biological Anthropology Inspired by J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello ’ American Anthropologist Volume 108 (1).
Haraway, D. 1991. Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature . Free Association Books.
Kristoffersen, Siv. 2010. ‘Half beast–half man: hybrid figures in animal art’ World Archaeology. 42 (2): 261-272
Malamud, R. 1998. Reading zoos: representations of animals and captivity .New York:New YorkUniversity Press.
Rachels, J. 1991. Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism. Oxford:OxfordUniversity Press.
Rothfels, N. Representing Animals .IndianaUniversity Press.
Russell, C.L. and Ankenman, M.J. 1996. Orangutans as photographic collectibles: ecotourism and the commodification of nature. Tourism Recreation Research. 21(1): 71–78.
