Taught by: Christine Altinis-Kiraz, Chemistry and Chemical Biology Her style of teaching incorporates real-life examples and encourages student participation. She has many different types of pets, both livestock and companion animals. Taylor Ross has extensive experience working with companion animals. Upon completion, students will be able to understand and apply basic principles and concepts in the physical or biological sciences, and they will also be able to explain and assess the relationship among assumptions, method, evidence, arguments, and theory in scientific analysis.ĭr. This course meets the SEBS Core Curriculum requirement for Natural Sciences. The synchronous, online format of the summer offering will allow students interested in companion animals to access the course without commuting or being a resident on campus.

Students will study the biological and economic structure of various companion animal industries (dogs and cats, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and lagomorphs). In this course, the scientific underpinnings of modern companion animal science are presented, with emphasis on nutrition, reproduction, animal domestication, evolution, and behavior as well as health and disease management. In previous courses, the instructor has included topics explicitly and more implicitly linked to abolitionist thinking. The instructor has taught for over three years in the department and is trained to teach Black studies and Black feminist theory, both of which have been central to the ongoing work of abolitionist thought. This course will provide students with readings, theories, and space to ask more radical questions about how we have chosen to contend with harm in our society and to imagine alternatives to the strictly carceral ways of thinking we are socialized to operate in. In this online, asynchronous course, students explore a critical genealogy of the theories of change that abolitionists have offered and challenges students to apply those theories to contemporary events. Following the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020, calls to defund the police led many to begin exploring abolitionist thought. The course comes at an important moment where abolition is a constant and contentious topic in local and national politics.

Taught by: Milton Achelpol - Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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