The Lives of Animals, Part Two
My capstone students and I have come up with the post-Spring-Break schedule for my The Lives of Animals course. Trying to incorporate all the major areas of interest in the room, we sort of orbited around a couple major overlapping segments: animals in captivity (March 29-April 7) shading into animal fantasy (April 5 and April 7) and animal cognition (April 7 and April 12) shading into Kurt Vonnegut’s apocalyptic anticipation of the Anthropocene, Galápagos (April 14 to the end of the course):
Mar. 29 | Kathy Rudy, “Where the Wild Things Ought to Be: Sanctuaries, Zoos, and Exotic Pets” [D2L]
possible trip to the Milwaukee Zoo or Jo-Dons Farm |
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Th | Mar. 31 | John Berger, “Why Look at Animals?” [AR]
Randy Malamud “Zoo Spectatorship” [AR] |
T | Apr. 5 | Blackfish
Finding Nemo and Finding Dory
after class: Résumé Doctor and Interview Bootcamp! Details TBA |
Th | Apr. 7 | Blackfish and Finding Nemo discussion continues
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Susan McCarthy, “Grief, Sadness, and the Bones of Elephants” [AR] |
T | Apr. 12 | Tim Flannery, “The Amazing Inner Lives of Animals” [Web]
Daniel Dennett, Kinds of Minds (excerpt) [D2L] Marc Bekoff, “Wild Justice and Fair Play: Cooperation, Forgiveness, and Morality in Animals” [AR] |
Th | Apr. 14 | Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos, chapters 1-18 |
T | Apr. 19 | Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos, chapters 19-34 |
Th | Apr. 21 | Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos, whole book |
T | Apr. 26 | RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS |
Th | Apr. 28 | RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS |
T | May 3 | RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS |
Th | May 5 | RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS |
Th | May 13 | FINAL PAPER DUE VIA D2L DIGITAL DROPBOX BY 10 AM |
I’m pretty excited for this.
If they’ll — I imagine — get a little to heated over Blackfish and start throwing things in class, then segue with a Luc Bresson clip. Or save it for movie night with the wife: But either way: “Luc Besson’s cult movie “The Big Blue” – (French: Le Grand Bleu) is a 1988 English-language film” that Gerry Canavan will use to make an argument that we are ‘this close (”soooo close”) yes, this close’ to being at home again with our animal nature.
Erez
February 5, 2016 at 3:55 pm
I still need to watch it! On my list for next week.
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February 5, 2016 at 6:06 pm
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