Human-Animal Relationships Minor
The Interdisciplinary minor in Human-Animal Relationships (HARE) provides students theoretical and practical expertise in the crucial, diverse, yet often overlooked roles animals play in human society, culture and well-being. Moreover, the minor helps students understand how humans impact the lives of other animals, both wild and domestic.
Students seeking the minor must complete 18 hours.
Requirements
Perspectives on Human-Animal Relationships | 3 |
Select the remaining 15 hours from courses that carry the HARE attribute.
Introduction to Physical Anthropology | 3 | |
Into the Small: Little Animals in Art, Culture, and Museums | 3 | |
Animals, Religion, and Culture | 3 | |
Anthropological Approaches to Nature and the Sacred | 3 | |
Native American Religions and Ecology | 3 | |
Studies in Anthropology | 3 | |
Exploring Animal Imagery | 3 | |
Into the Small: Little Animals in Art, Culture, and Museums | 3 | |
Zoo Animal Enrichment | 3 | |
Special Problems | 1-21 | |
Natural History | 3 | |
Illustrated Storytelling: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, Art and Film | 3 | |
Contemporary Environmental Issues | 3 | |
Mammalogy | 3 | |
Wildlife Ecology and Management | 3 | |
Zoo Animal Enrichment | 3 | |
South African Biodiversity and Human Development Part 1 | 3 | |
Urban Wildlife | 3 | |
Junior Honors Seminar in Human-Animal Relationships | 3 | |
Senior Honors Research Paper in Human-Animal Relationships | 3 | |
Veganism, Sustainability, and Plant-based Food Studies | 3 | |
Mind, Consciousness, Self | 3 | |
Comparative Psychology | 3 | |
Animal Cognition | 3 | |
Challenges of Global Food Production | 3 | |
Contemporary Topics in Sociology | 3 | |
Animals, Culture and Society | 3 | |
Sociology Internship in Public and Non-Profit Agencies | 3 | |
Animal Assisted Therapy and Social Work | 3 | |
Non-Human Rhetoric and Representation | 3 | |
Language, Rhetoric and Culture | 3 |
Additional Requirement:
No more than 6 hours may be taken throughout the minor program in any one major or program.
No course may count for both the student's major and this minor.
course, course, course, course, and course only count as approved electives when their topic is appropriate. Courses applying toward the HARE minor will be identified by the “Human-Animal Relationships” class attribute in Class Search each semester.
Other courses may be applied with the approval of the minor director or co-director.