History 107E/Environmental Studies 107E
History of Animal Use in Science
Professor Anita Guerrini Winter
quarter 2007
Office: HSSB 4253, phone
893-8827 HSSB
4020
e-mail guerrini@history.ucsb.edu T-TH
9:30-10:45
website http://www.es.ucsb.edu/curriculum_info/es107e/
Office hours Tuesdays
11-1 or by appointment
Click here for Guidelines for the book review assignment Click here fo Powerpoint presentation on writing book reviews (.ppt file)
Texts
Mary Midgley, Animals
and Why They Matter
Anita Guerrini, Experimenting
with Humans and Animals: from Galen to Animal Rights
H.G. Wells, The Island
of Dr. Moreau
Reader for History/ES
107E, available at Grafikart on Pardall Road in IV in week
2
Course requirements
Class participation
and attendance 20%
Midterm (bluebook),
Thursday February 8 20%
Book review (due March
8) 30%
Final (bluebook), Wednesday
March 21, 8-11 AM 30%
The reading for each
week should be completed before class on Thursday of that week. You should be prepared to discuss the
reading every week, not just when a discussion is scheduled. There may be short in-class writing assignments
on the reading which will count toward the participation grade. I will take attendance and more than three
unexcused absences will have an impact on your grade.
Guidelines for the
book review assignment are available on the
web or in hard copy on request.
There will be opportunities
to earn extra credit. Some
of these are noted below, others will be announced in class. Alternatively, students may visit either
the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History OR the Santa Barbara Zoo
(note that each of these places charges an admission fee). . The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History is located on 2559
Puesta del Sol Road in Santa Barbara, off Mission Canyon. Phone is
682-4711. The Santa Barbara
Zoological Gardens are located at 500 Ninos Drive (off Cabrillo Boulevard).
Phone is 962-6310. In each case, to get credit you will need to write a
short (500-word) report in which the lecture, event, or place is clearly
related to the themes of the course. Only
ONE extra credit assignment may be counted. You may hand these in at any time up to and including
the day of the final, March 21.
Lecture topics and
reading assignments
Week 1: January
9 Course
introduction; defining science, defining animal use
January 11 Classical
and Christian views of the animal-human
relationship
Assignment:
Guerrini, chapter 1; Midgley, chapter 1; Reader, part 1 available at
http://www.jstor.org/view/00368075/ap003953/00a00050/0
Week 2: January
16 ÒMartyrs
of scienceÓ? Animals in
the Scientific Revolution
January 18 Discussion
of first two weeksÕ readings
Assignment:
Guerrini, chapter 2; Midgley, ch. 4; Reader, part 2
Week 3: January
23 Discussion
of book review assignment: TITLES DUE
Classification and Natural History
January 25 Evolution
and AnimalsÕ Place in Nature
Assignment:
Guerrini, ch. 3; Midgley, ch. 11; Reader, part 3. Begin Island of Dr. Moreau
Week 4: January
30 Animal
Experimentation in the Nineteenth Century
February 1 The
Origins of Anti-Vivisection
Assignment:
Guerrini, ch. 4; Midgley, ch. 12; Reader, Part 4; complete Island
of Dr. Moreau
February 2 EXTRA
CREDIT OPPORTUNITY
Steven
Pinker, Harvard University
ÒLanguage
as a Window into Human Nature,Ó
Corwin
Pavilion, 4 PM
Week 5: February
6 Discussion
and review
February 8 MIDTERM
EXAM
Week 6: February
13 Animals
on Display: Zoos, Museums, Films
February 15 Disney
video; discussion
Assignment: Midgley, ch. 9; Reader, Part 5
Week 7: February
20 From
Anti-Vivisection to Animal Rights
February 22 Laboratory
Animal Research in the Twentieth Century
Assignment:
Guerrini, Chapter 5; Midgley, ch. 5; Reader, Part 6
Week 8: February
27 Field
Observation and Ethology; Jane Goodall video
March 1 video
on laboratory rat and discussion
Assignment: Midgley, ch. 10; Reader, Part 7
Week 9: March
6 Primates
in Research: A Special Case?
March 8 Brave
New World? Cloning and Xenotransplantation BOOK REVIEWS DUE
Assignment:
Guerrini, Chapter 6; Reader, Part 8
Week 10: March
13 Whose
rights?
March
15 Discussion
and review
Assignment: Guerrini, Conclusion; Reader, Part 9
FINAL EXAM WEDNESDAY
MARCH 21 8-11 AM
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