HAS Courses in Germany
Berlin Institute
Institute for Animal Protection and Animal Behavior
The Institute has courses on Animal Experimentation, including Alternative Methods, on Animal Welfare Laws for Veterinarians in Germany, as well as Animal Welfare Legislation Worldwide, on Indicators for Welfare Problems in Livestock Husbandry and practical courses in Surgery and Anesthesia.
T�¼bingen University
Eva Marie Engels
Ethics, Theory and History of Life Sciences. (Translated from the German) The lecture is a component of the module introduction to basic questions of the ethics, theory and history of life sciences in the BCs course of studies of the faculty for biology. It introduces to main areas of the bio ethics and obtains a founded knowledge of its problem definitions, theoretical bases and methods. With the spectacular developments in particular their ranges of application and research are opened action clearance, which confronts us with new questions and places us before the necessity to make decisions over it as we want to go around and be supposed with them. In the module questions of the biomedical ethics (transplantation and reproductive medicine, embryo research, cloning of humans, gene therapy and gene testing, bio banks etc.) become, which ethics of the neuro sciences, which animal ethics, the ecological ethics (environmental protection), among other things.
T�¼bingen University
Philosophy, Stefan K�¼bler
Animal Minds. (Translated from the German). If animals have a spirit, of which kind it can be then? Can animals have the ability to think or only notice them? Do they know of their perception? Knowledge it also the fact that they notice and has it thereby a consciousness of itself? The analysis of consciousness of animals is over far distances an analysis of minimum requirements for consciousness at all. The goal of the seminar consists then also less of deciding whether Animals a spirit have, but above all in understanding better what consciousness is actually.
T�¼bingen University
Philosophy, Cornelia Klinger
Figures of Differentiation in Modern Thinking: Strangers - Women - Animals.
University of Bremen
Cultural Studies, Mieke Roscher
Animals and Cultural History. This course is designed as an introduction to Human-Animal Studies. Students will get to know the theoretical and conceptual foundations of a cultural historiography of animals, propagated by HAS. Thus, problems as well as benefits of examining human-animal relationships from a cultural historical perspective will be analysed. Drawing from recent research in the cultural representation of animals, some key topics of animal history will be addressed. It will be discussed whether or not the writing of such a history implies a fundamental shift in the animals? representation and if the theoretical and methodical framework provided by animal historians will suffice to incorporate the animal in this narration. Major themes include the historical reflection of the nature and form of the animal-human relationship in the process of domestication, in animal husbandry, pet-keeping and in animal exhibitions in zoological gardens. Also, the changing representation and portrayal of animals in media and literature will be looked at.
