Applied Animal Welfare Science
ENVS 217
Spring 2015
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| Certificates: Environmental Studies |
| Course Cluster: Animal Studies |
Animal Welfare Science is an applied scientific field that developed to address concerns of non-human animals at the individual level. The science of animal welfare draws upon information and methodology from veterinary medicine, neuroscience, physiology, psychology, and animal behavior pertinent to domesticated, research, zoo, and free-ranging animals. Students in this course will learn how the principles and research methods of animal welfare science can be applied to solve practical problems in the care of farm, companion, research, wild animals, and in animal training and human-wildlife conflict. This course is intended to provide students a first taste of hands-on animal welfare research. Using relevant methodologies, students will coordinate a local research project (possible projects could include evaluating the welfare concerns of dogs and cats at local shelters, of chickens at the Wesleyan farm, of animals housed and sold at pet stores, of dairy cows at local farms; other projects might be an evaluation of roadkill risk at specific roads). In addition to hands-on research experience, students will critically evaluate the scientific literature, write a research proposal, and give oral and poster-format scientific presentations. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
NSM ENVS |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ENVS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 90% or above |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
David Fraser, UNDERSTANDING ANIMAL WELFARE: THE SCIENCE IN ITS CULTURAL CONTEXT
Michael C. Appleby et al.(eds), ANIMAL WELFARE (2nd edition)
Marian Stamp Dawkins, WHY ANIMALS MATTER: ANIMAL CONSCIOUSNESS, ANIMAL WELFARE, AND HUMAN WELL-BEING
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Examinations and Assignments:
Research proposal, scientific literature review, oral and poster presentations |
| Instructor(s): Baker,Liv Times: .M.W... 11:00AM-12:20PM; Location: SCIE405; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 25 | | SR major: 4 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: -1 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 5 | JR non-major: 6 | SO: 5 | FR: 0 |
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