ECTS credits
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Language(s) of instruction
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Course content
Content We analyze different theories in ethology and try to show how much animals and scientists are connected to cultural, political and technical webs that modify their identities and what we know about animal beings
Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)
Goal Students should learn to apply epistemological questions and problems to the firld of epistemology and to read different stakes that pervade and sometimes enrich the knowledge of animals.
Teaching methods and learning activities
Teaching Method oral teaching
References, bibliography, and recommended reading
Biblio "Quand le loup habitera avec l'agneau" (v. Despret) Some articles will be given according to the subjects chosen during the current year
Other information
Contacts
v.despret@ulg.ac.be
Evaluation
Method(s) of evaluation
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Assessment -Written examination (oral teaching plus readings) - opportunity to choose to write a scientific paper about an animal and to compare, for 2 different periods, theories that had been used to describe it.