| Course Title: Multispecies Justice: Entangled Lives and Human Power' |
| Start Date: 01/27/2026 End Date: 05/12/2026 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2026 |
| Description: Human effects on species other than our own (and also our own) have been devastating in the "anthropocene." We leave a wake of destruction, brutality, and extinction behind which makes us plummet into an 'Age of Loneliness'. But is it the "human" as a species that does that, or is it the human under the command of Empire? How to rekindle the flame of life in order to realize the inherent meaningfulness of the biosphere? To respond to this question, we will study different scenarios of human-animal entanglements such as training, rescue, the animal industrial complex, the pet, the politics of extinction, hunting, infection, predation, biomedical research, breeding/reproduction and others. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Christian Gundermann | 413-538-2410 | cgunderm@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/27/2026 - 05/12/2026 | Seminar | Monday and Wednesday | 03:15PM - 04:30PM | TBA | TBA | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Students may take this course for 200-level credit with instructor permission. |
| Course Tags |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 5 | Available: 13 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| To be determined. |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |