HAS Courses in Psychology
California State University, Bakersfield
Carol Raupp
People, and Other Animals
Examines peoples' attitudes toward other animal species and the current psychological research describing our differing relationships with companion animals, animals used for food, animals used in research, sports, or entertainment, and so-called "wild" animals. This course is now available online to students everywhere.
California State University, Bakersfield
Carol Raupp
Environmental Psychology
Anne Perkins
Introduction to the Human Animal Bond
The Human-Animal Bond Program at Carroll College is the first degree program of its kind in the nation. Carroll College's Human-Animal Bond Program (HAB) is designed so that students attend three core classes that provide them with foundational information regarding theory, research, and services applicable to human-animal bonding.
Christopher Newport University
Sherman Lee
The Psychology of the Human-Animal Bond: Exploring our Relationship with Animals
Animals play a central role in the lives of their human companions. This course will explore the complex relationship between humans and animals in a variety of contexts. Topics will include research methods, pets, animals for food and clothing, animals in human culture and health, psychological disorders, welfare and cruelty, and death and dying. Although the study of the human-animal bond draws from a range of disciplines, the topics in this seminar will be framed from a psychological perspective with an emphasis on the cognitive, emotional, and motivational components of the human experience.
Niagara County Community College
Kathleen C. Gerbasi
Psychology of Human-Animal Relations
Human-Animal Relations will introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of Anthrozoology. Since this is a psychology course, the main focus of the course will be Anthrozoology from the psychological perspective, however we will also touch on other academic fields in addition to psychology. Topics covered in this course represent an overview of current issues in Human-Animal Studies. This includes human's relationships with pets, psychological and physiological benefits of companion animals, concern for animal rights and animal welfare, the link between cruelty to animals and violence toward humans, individual differences in people's relationships with animals (including sex differences), a study of the similarities and differences between human and non-human animals, especially as related to language, communication, cognition and problem solving, and a review of moral and ethical concerns about eating meat, wearing fur and the use of animals for research and entertainment.
Perrin Cohen
Psychological Research and Personal Values
Considers historical, psychological, philosophical, sociological and spiritual perspectives regarding animal experimentation. Includes evaluation of research projects through written and oral reports.
Perrin Cohen
Experiments in Learning and Motivation
Presents alternatives to using laboratory animals for teaching purposes and thus provides an ongoing forum for discussing issues concerning the use of animals in research and teaching.
Perrin Cohen
Ethics in Research Psychology
This graduate seminar is required of all psychology graduates. It addresses ethical concerns and dilemmas that psychology students and professional research psychologists face in acquiring and using scientific knowledge.
Matthew Chin
The Psychology of Human-Animal Interaction
The Psychology of Human-Animal Interaction. This course introduces students to many types of human-animal interaction including "pet adoption," "animals and our health," "animal training," "animal abuse," "animal consumption" and "wild animals and zoos." Several guest speakers provide "question-and-answer" sessions about animal training, working with wild animals and animals in zoos, and shelter work. Students also complete two projects for which they must collect empirical data about how humans verbally interact with animals and views of vegetarianism.
Janet Frick
Humans and Animals in Society
Frank Ascione
Abuse, Neglect and the Psychological Dimensions of Intimate Violence
This course has evolved from a child abuse and neglect course to a course covering all forms of intimate violence across the life span. During the semester, we will address issues related to child abuse and neglect (including physical, sexual, and emotional maltreatment), animal abuse, dating violence, domestic violence, and the abuse of elderly individuals. We will examine theory and research addressing various forms of maltreatment and will incorporate developmental, historical, and cross-cultural perspectives whenever possible.
