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By Dr. G (Carol Glasser)
The Spring 2017 cohort of Animals and Society students have a diverse range of experiences with nonhuman animals and come from a variety of majors. We found early on that we all think and speak differently about nonhuman animals, so one of our first tasks as a class was to agree on how we would speak about nonhuman animals in our writing on this website. To prepare for making these decisions I assigned excerpts from Fear of the Animal Planet and Liberate your Language. We spent the week reading, thinking and engaging in dialogue about agency of other animals and the representation of nonhuman animals. Here are the rules that the class mutually agreed upon. By Students in SOC 285W, Spring 2017 In a class discussion in Animals and Society (SOC 285W) we tried to figure out if there were any qualities that set humans apart from all other nonhuman animals. Students brainstormed a list of qualities that might only belong to humans, then spent the week researching if any nonhuman animals had these qualities also. Here is the list of the qualities we thought of and what we learned.
These are the companion animals of students in the Spring 2017 Animals and Society Cohort. Meet the nonhuman animals who we share our lives with.
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