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
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.