Animal Bioethics

1.5 units · Graduate

This course serves as a theory-intensive overview of the major topics of animal bioethics. Students will study the foundations of the field by examining arguments about moral status, normative frameworks, and the metaphysical characteristics of non-human animals. The course emphasizes the application of these motifs in the clinic space, the laboratory, and the larger context of animals in society. This course is graded S/U.