First-Year Seminar: Dogs, Past and Present.

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As workers and companions, dogs have shared human history from its origins. Human society constitutes their natural habitat. Understanding dogs therefore requires analyzing their relationships to and meaning for people: What problems result from the daily close proximity of people and dogs--and how have societies coped with them? How and why have people projected onto dogs their assumptions about humanity? How have the answers to these questions changed as human societies have changed?