History 450 - JYW Seminar in History
Spring
2019
03
4.00
Anna Taylor
M W 2:30PM 3:45PM
UMass Amherst
15604
Herter Hall room 108
annat@history.umass.edu
This seminar trains students in historical research techniques and the writing of history, and fulfills the University's Junior Writing requirement. See the History Department course description guide for various sectional sub-titles and descriptions.
Open to Seniors & Juniors only. "Animals and History"
Animals are an integral part of human culture and civilization and yet largely omitted from history. When they are studied it is often as metaphors or purely in terms of their economic impact. Newer approaches, however, informed by interdisciplinary animal studies, seek to understand their role in a shared animal-human culture. We will look at a number of animals (wild, domestic, and feral) in different western cultures from the ancient to the modern era and will consider how archaeology, ethology, and other disciplines can help us recuperate their lost history. Your grade will be based on class participation and writing assignments including a 20-page research paper.
Animals are an integral part of human culture and civilization and yet largely omitted from history. When they are studied it is often as metaphors or purely in terms of their economic impact. Newer approaches, however, informed by interdisciplinary animal studies, seek to understand their role in a shared animal-human culture. We will look at a number of animals (wild, domestic, and feral) in different western cultures from the ancient to the modern era and will consider how archaeology, ethology, and other disciplines can help us recuperate their lost history. Your grade will be based on class participation and writing assignments including a 20-page research paper.