Module ANTM107 for 2017/8
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
ANTM107: Anthrozoology Residential
This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.
Module Aims
The primary aim of the module is to provide distance-learning students on the MA Anthrozoology with the opportunity to participate in an immersive, interactive, face-to-face learning environment with their peers and established scholars. Through attendance at the residential and active participation in and contribution to academic and non-academic debates in Anthrozoology students will develop a good understanding of the interdisciplinary scope inherent to Anthrozoological research. The format of the residential will enable students who usually study at a distance to experience more traditional approaches to the dissemination of academic research and to engage directly with the theoretical, methodological and ethical issues encountered by practicing academics from a range of disciplinary backgrounds. Participating academics will present their research in the form of lectures, workshops and conference papers which will be followed by interactive, student-led group discussions.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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| Module-Specific Skills | 1. demonstrate a thorough engagement with and understanding of a range of multi-disciplinary approaches to human interactions with other animals 2. discuss and critically assess the implications of approaching human interactions with other animals from a range of disciplinary perspectives 3. show a good understanding of the different theoretical and methodological approaches which scholars studying human-animal interactions utilise in order to understand these varied interactions |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which different academic disciplines approach and analyse human interactions with other animals 5. engage with and critically assess some of the current debates (theoretical, methodological, ethical) relating to human interactions with other animals 6. make reflexive, theoretically informed comparisons between the work of practicing scholars from a range of academic disciplines and your own research and/or experiences relating to human interactions with other animals |
| Personal and Key Skills | 7. demonstrate critical, analytical thinking and synoptic skills 8. demonstrate the confidence/ability to discuss in a critically analytical manner the arguments presented by other academics 9. express complex ideas in a clear, coherent and reflexive manner through the formulation and dissemination of cogent arguments (both verbally and in writing) 10. demonstrate the ability to participate as a productive member of a team during group discussions |
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.
DeMello, M. 2010. Teaching the animal: Human-animal studies across the disciplines (pp. xi-xix). Lantern Books.
DeMello, M. 2012. Animals and society: an introduction to human-animal studies. Columbia University Press.
Herzog, H. A. 2007. Gender differences in human–animal interactions: A review. Anthrozoos: A Multidisciplinary Journal of The Interactions of People & Animals, 20(1), 7-21.
Irvine, L. 2012. Sociology and anthrozoology: Symbolic interactionist contributions. Anthrozoos: A Multidisciplinary Journal of The Interactions of People & Animals, 25(Supplement 1), 123-137.
Kalof, L., & Fitzgerald, A. J. (Eds.). 2007. The animals reader: the essential classic and contemporary writings. Oxford and New York: Berg.
Kirksey, E. 2014. The Multispecies Salon. Duke University Press
Lloyd, N., & Mulcock, J. 2006. Human-animal studies in Australia: perspectives from the arts, humanities and social sciences. Australian Zoologist, 33(3), 290-294. http://www.rzsnsw.org.au/Volumes%20of%20RZS%20papers/2006%20vol33%283%29/Lloyd%20N%20Mulcock%20J%20Human-animal%20studies%20in%20Australia%20-%20perspectives%20from%20the%20arts,%20humanities%20and%20social%20sciences.pdf
Ogden, L. A., Hall, B., & Tanita, K. 2013. Animals, plants, people, and things: A review of multispecies ethnography. Environment and Society: Advances in Research, 4(1), 5-24.
Rose, D. B., van Dooren, T., Chrulew, M., Cooke, S., Kearnes, M., & O’Gorman, E. 2012. Thinking through the environment, unsettling the humanities. Environmental Humanities, 1(1), 1-5.
Shapiro, K., & DeMello, M. 2010. The state of human-animal studies. Society & Animals, 18(3), 307-318.
Smart, A. 2014. Critical perspectives on multispecies ethnography. Critique of Anthropology, 34(1), 3-7.
