Writing and Reading Animals

Catalog description

This hybrid literature and writing course considers the representation of animals in a range of texts and explores how the depiction of animals as companions, gods, guides, objects, heroes, or monsters reflects changes in relationships between humans and nature. Students will also use the literary forms we study (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) to reflect on their own experiences with animals (pets, animals in captivity or in the wild, and in books and films).