This course provides students with conceptual, methodological, practical, and theoretical training in multispecies ethnography. This qualitative research method facilitates contextual examinations of the human-animal interface and considers (i) how animals shape human actions, experiences, and identities, and (ii) how they fit within cultural, historical, and other contexts. By exploring these dynamics and critically considering the processes that underlie them, this class encourages the development of new and richer perspectives on a wide range of contexts (including cultural contexts, ethnographic field sites, zoos, aquariums, research labs, veterinary clinics, conservation areas, animal sanctuaries, etc.). It also develops comparative and critical considerations of human-animal intersections in diverse sociocultural contexts while encouraging students to consider their own experiences and assumptions in the context of a broader multispecies world. Prerequisite: AZ 200 or permission of the instructor.
- Profesor: Kathryn Hudson