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On completion of this module, students should be able to:
- Understand the central role of animals in human history
- Assess the notion of animals as historical agents of change
- Demonstrate understanding of the historiography of animal histories
- Understand the historical construction of ‘human’, ‘animal’, and ‘vermin’
- Write scholarly essays appropriate for a Level One student of History
Lecture 1. Introduction: Why look at Animals?
Lecture 2. Food, Labour, Love, Leisure: Hunting and Domestication from Prehistory to Antiquity
Lecture 3. Aristotle to Aquinas: Animals and Natural History to the Middle Ages
Lecture 4. Becoming Vermin: Animals, Disease, and Plague
Lecture 5. The Columbian Exchange: Animals and the Transformation of the American Continent, 1492-1700
Lecture 6. Beasts of War and Empire: Conquest and Colonisation, 16th-20th centuries
Lecture 7. Animals and Science: Experimentation, the Beast-Machine, and the Role of Animals in Modern Medicine, c.1500-c.1800
Lecture 8. Animal Pain: Veterinary Medicine, Animal Rights, and Intelligence, 19th-20th centuries
Lecture 9. The Sixth Extinction: Animals, Environment, and Climate Change in the Anthropocene
Lecture 10. Conclusion: The Connected Histories of Human and Animal
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Specified Learning Activities | 45 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 45 |
Lectures | 20 |
Total | 110 |
Not applicable to this module.
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Autumn | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
- Feedback on the Mid-Term Assignment is given in writing on the returned hard-copy - Feedback on the End-of-Semester Essay is given by appointment in one-to-one meetings
Name | Role |
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Dr Edward Collins | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |