2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CRJ 342 - Species Justice


This course will consider the global issues impacting animals & species justice, including: definitions, causes, and extent, with a focus on solutions. It will examine theoretical orientations that explain the psychological, social, political, cultural, and economic forces that drive our relationships with non-human animals as well as the legislation and legal frameworks that criminalize practices that harm animals and their enforcement or do not.Discussions of issues impacting non-human animal issues will include agribusiness, poaching, experimentation, hunting and trapping, companion animal concerns, and more. The course explores different philosophies regarding the treatment of sentient beings, exploring rights, responsibility, care and liberation.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered in Spring Semester