PHLA 3001

This course will survey the main ethical approaches to the human treatment of non-human animals. It will apply these approaches to human interactions with food animals, companion animals, laboratory animals, zoo animals, and wild animals. The course will look at the capacities of various species of animals for sentience, emotion, conation, cognition, self-consciousness and cooperation as a way of giving appropriate ethical consideration to the interests of different types of animals. Students will discuss case studies, complete projects, or make presentations concerning the treatment of animals in agriculture, scientific research, and veterinary practice.